Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32042217-20170518162408/@comment-31564770-20170523132205

So my ideas were mainly about what their personalities would be like, and I came up with them by trying to boil down their current MO on the show, their goals and objectives and hopes and what they've been working on, combine that with their personalities, and then flip it in a way that makes them suffer and have bad lives. I have to admit, when I reread what I wrote before I posted it- I always do that to spellcheck and see if anything I said was weird- I actually kinda scared myself with how dark I got... hehe... yeah... Anyways, my recipe was to take the good people they've become, tear them apart into their component pieces that I feel are the most significant parts of what the characters as we see on the show are, and then try to come up with their polar opposites. My challenge here was to make their bad cursed selves different from their past villain selves. For characters with a huge difference from their past selves, like Regina, it wasn't too hard. But for those who only recently completed their redemption such as Gold, I had to really think. Instead of a reversion I tried for something totally different but still plausible for the character in a way. I tried to mimic what the first curse did by inflicting misery by switching their personalities and forcing them to go against who they really are. The curse made people miserable because their lives never felt right, like they were never who they wanted to be. You can change someone's memories and personality, but you can't change their essence and that'll mean they always feel like something's wrong on some level. So I tried to achieve that with the new curse.

Anyways, I've discussed personality and now I'll discuss occupations.

For Regina, I'll throw in a heavy dose of irony. Either she ends up a teacher like Mary Margaret under the first curse, or she ends up the mayor's secretary. I'd put the mayor's secretary as more likely, because I can't see any version of Regina as a teacher. Ever. Plus the secretary is more ironic because it relates to her currently as opposed to the teacher relating more to s1. Like, she's near the top but it's only superficial. She doesn't have any real power, she doesn't have that sense of purpose Regina has always had. She can see the top but never reach it. That, my friends, is how you make Regina miserable.

Hook is involved with the ocean, but he's not ever on the sea. He's the guy who sits in the office and manages the port. I'm assuming this is a seaside town, anyways. Like, he's in charge of all the boating licenses and making sure people park their boats in their assigned spots and all. He's the administrator, basically. Oh, also he get's seasick super easily and hates his job. Thus on his free time he hangs around the bar hitting on girls because he has nothing better to do and is really self-absorbed. Yep. I love my irony.

Gold straight up doesn't have a job. Like I said, he's a hobo who got evicted because he wasn't paying rent because he spent everything on alcohol and gambling. He lost his job because he came in to work late and hung over one time too many. I'd say his job before he was fired was at the grocery store, like one of those guys who goes around restocking shelves or something.

Welp, that's me being super dark again! What do we think?