Board Thread:Off-Topic Fun/@comment-3127757-20130311172927/@comment-24002669-20131109171046

Actually, Blackbeard was often rumored to know some magic (like how it was done in Pirates of the carribean). His was more voodoo and and witch doctor stuff, which might be a cool idea. Maybe Blackbeard knows a more arcaic and old magic, powerful, not any more or less than normal magic, but it can do some stuff that we can't, like reanimate dead bodies (even if he can't "restore life") to make zombies or whatever. Maybe Blackbeard came from the LWC also as low-level witchcraft can exist there.

But really, BLUEbeard is a pirate i would love to see, especially since he wasn't really a pirate in his story. I mean, that could have been his title, but his story was more about the betrayal of trust. Maybe Blackbeard and Bluebeard could be one and the same, like he started as Bluebeard in the enchanted forest, and was cursed with blue hair or something (maybe it would be more serious and the "blueness" was just a side-effect) and after being betrayed by too many women in his life, he starts killing them.

Blackbeard was known to be a womanizer as well in some stories so it could be something. Maybe Blackbeard could come about and try to get Hook to join his crew and when he sees how hard-luck his love has been, he sees a bit of his old self in him and tries to get him to be his first mate.

Though to be honest, the true womanizing pirate is Yellowbeard (oh gawd that movie), so maybe Blackbeard could have some rainbow hair curse or something (stupid I know, but they've taken some weird ideas and made them work really well sometimes.

Maybe Blackbeard was born in the LWC and never new what color was. Living a life as a gypsy he learned some magic as well as stole a magic portal to the Enchanted forest (Maybe he saw how colorful the guy was and wanted to find his world so he could experience all those colors.) There he found himself in love with this world. That is, until he got older and became a pirate. He would get lonely and would often try to find a wife, but he couldn't find one that would stay faithful to him. Becoming a serial killer as well as a Pirate, he began to despise this world with so much color and began to dream of returning to just black and white.

When I hear of the headless horseman, i just think back to when Cora cut off Jefferson's head and he was still alive. What if he shows up in the Wonderland story as someone who survived the Queen of Hearts but lost his head and serves as the Red Queen's huntsman or something.

Actually, that might be kind of kool if, since the classic OUaT is getting crowded with Neverland, Enchanted Forest and LWM, we could include LWC in the wonderland story. Maybe Alice escapes to the LWC for a bit and the Red Queen sends the Headless Horseman to capture her.

I like the idea of Dracula also, and since Magic in and of itself seems to be limited in the form of low-level witchcraft here, maybe magical monsters have more power. Maybe Dracula could be the Dark One of this world. Like how Pan is the Dark One of Neverland and such.