Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-24846659-20140813193020/@comment-24936039-20141028181827

GothicNarcissus wrote: Andrew.scott.503 wrote:

I think that the Snow Queen was taken with the first dark curse to the LWM, but Rumples was able to shield her sufficiently so that 1) she retained her memories and 2) she ended up OUTSIDE of Storybrooke, thus not in the town records.

Okay, but why didn't he shield himself and go find Baelfire 28 years before Emma arrived, then? He would have spared himself lots of trouble, including having to bring Magic to Storybrooke to turn him young again.

Maybe it has more to do with the Snow Queen herself. From what it seems so far, her (and Elsa's) magic appears to be somewhat different from regular witchcraft (inborn and not learnt, specifically cryokinetic), and is also implied to be stronger. Perhaps, because of that, the Curse wouldn't have completely worked on her by erasing her memories and binding her to Storybrooke, so Rumple could assign her to watch over Emma.

If this is the case, she could have brought some magical items from the EF in order to sacrifice them and produce whatever small amount of magic could be needed in any case, like Regina did.

Good point... if Rumples had a way to keep his memories for those 28 years, then I suspect he would of done so and not just protect the snow queens.

Two ways this could of happen... 1) Rumples only had enough memory potion to shield a single person (much like what happened just before the second dark curse), so for some reason he thought it would be more important to keep the snow queen's memories intact.

2) Or the snow queen memories of Avondale/Mist haven were suppressed like everyone else's but had specific false memories such that she was compelled to want to become a foster mom of Emma... And furthermore, when (in the Pilot episode) Rumples regained his memories when meeting Emma, the Snow Queen ALSO regained hers and thus went to Storybrooke soon after Emma arrived.  Being a sorceress herself (with her EF memories regained), she was able to pass through the barrier that Regina put up around the town and thus set up shop.   Or maybe she slipped in just before Regina put up the barrier as seen in the Welcome to Storybrooke episode...