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Farerb wrote: Mary Margaret in season 1 != Mary Margaret in season 2 onward, so I don't really get your point.

Belle is a special case. But Belle from season 1 is Lacey. It's like you would say that David before episode 3 is not David but someone else. That's not true. Regina made Lacey with the Dark Curse, but she also gave her Amnesia.

Moreover, if you want to get technical about the surname, the newspaper says "Mr Gold to marry Belle French". Which means it was written before they had wed. Afterwards he clearly calls her Mrs. Gold. So her surname is supposed to be Gold, not French. Belle's name is just so confusing. With David, it's ok, because David was his name in the EF, too (that reveal was such a cop-out, they made it seem like it was going to be important for some reason...) but Belle has her EF name, her Storybrooke persona's name, her father's surname and her husband's surname, and even though we know she personally went by Belle French from some point during the Curse all the way up to her marriage when she became Belle Gold (Golden bell lol)

That's not the same as having that be her legal name in the Storybrooke Census Records. Don't forget that everyone's Cursed name (and this is speculation, but presumably their counterpart's name as well as other information on both personas) are in these Census Records. Surely, so would Storybrooke Belle's real name.