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Anoted wrote: @Utter Solitude

Idk...remember they all have a SB life and a FTL life. A lot of people are still finding themselves and people from their old life. Suddenly finding out that the person you work with or are friends with is someone you didn't get along with/were their mortal enemy (or vice versa) can cause kinks. There are probably lots of characters who are important in one or both worlds, whos lives have gotten shaken up, and who are restarting. Deviating from the routine that existed before, their old job, their old friends, etc.

I do however think that it's unlikely that the person who died is part of a close group, like the dwarves. Mr. Clark is still possible because he's not down in the mine with the other dwarves and he thinks that they've gone round the bend. The dwarves would stick with him even though he lost his memory, but he might not allow them. If all of your friends all of a sudden started going by new names and thought you were someone you weren't you might not hang out them anymore.

And appearances from worlds don't always transfer. Faries and crickets don't look like faries and crickets, they look like therapists and nuns. If it's someone important but who hadn't yet reconnected with people...then a changed appearance would help make them more insular. Someone from their past is looking for them, and easily missing them. If you don't offer the information up or go looking then people looking for you might not find you. Also, not everyone un-evil had a happily ever after ripped from them. The curse enabled Jefferson to find his children again for example. The curse is broken and they're not just in the same world, but the same town and yet reconnecting with them is not Jefferson's first priority. He avoids them and so they stay separated (the children don't even know he exists).

The town may have set-up reconnecting things, but they were dependant on people to exert effort. You had to look for someone. The barriers of looking differently and not knowing whether or not someone is still alive are real. And when you add in that not everyone is looking, then people could be separated for extended periods of time post-curse, perhaps even indefiniately.

'''I mean someone that known to the general populace of Storybrooke. A royal would likely be missed right away, by their subjects. A shopkeeper would be missed by several people as well. However, someone like a fisherman would likely only be missed by their family and possibly a few friends from FTL, and if those people don't know where you in Storybrooke... you're easily missed :('''

'''On another note, it's my opinion that Storybrooke is fairly large. We saw a certificate of Graham's in "Desperate Souls" that named him Sheriff of Storybrooke county. (Remember David's comment in "We Are Both", telling people to live in the woods?) Rural counties can be huge. If Storybrooke is the only city in the county, it could easily be large. They also have their own court system. "Small town" is a relative term. Storybrooke could easily have a large space/population and be "small" relative to places like Boston, where Emma is from. :#'''