Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1916997-20150312220054/@comment-24674051-20150324134755

But, if rumple added those things to the actual curse, wouldn't they have also been a part of Peter Pan's curse, or Mary Margarets? And yet they weren't.

No, I think what is was is that the curse that Rumple Stole was the foundation for his curse. The base part of the curse essentially teleports an entire kingdom to a different place, which is what happened with Mary Margaret's curse. but for the addition of the Amnesia potion, everyone would have arrived with their memories fully intact, and as it was it was just a year's worth of living that was wiped. Regina's original casting completely changed everyone. Who knows what Peter Pan's would have ended up doing, but it wouldn't have been pretty, I'm sure.

Where Rumple comes in is alterations in the way it was cast to meet certain conditions, and this is what he had to train Regina in. I mean, seriously, Snow was able to cast the base form of the curse with only a little help from Regina, so that part can't be that difficult.