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Arctucrus wrote: ^I think that if you consider Rapunzel's story to have happened in the past year as we saw last night that it did, we can safely assume that the show is disregarding the whole, "oh the fairy tales are already known to us so they must have already happened" thing, which, I for one, am thankful for. Leaves room for more space and variety for them to work with, and I honestly don't care if fairy tales showed up in our world before they "happened".

And that gives way for SB characters to double as classic Oz characters so, yeah. Well, Rapunzel said she was trapped in the tower for many, many years. So she could have been trapped before the first curse, and then frozen for 28 years, before Charming freed her. So that means her story did already happen and could have reached LWM before Storybrooke came into being, just that the ending of it was wrong.