Board Thread:Wiki-Related Discussion/@comment-3393671-20141109223833/@comment-5925413-20141201075534

GothicNarcissus wrote: We have to consider four things.


 * The Merrymen didn't get "a home", they just set up a camp in the woods with stolen goods (such as the crossbow), like they did back in the Enchanted Forest.

They may have kept their original names, but they did get an assigned home, the camp.


 * The second Curse was not meant to take away the memories. That was a side effect put there by Zelena, and even though she used the potion not to forget the last year, she was still cursed and transported to Storybrooke like everyone else. She only escaped her own forgetting spell which was a surplus to the Curse itself.

And Aurora & Phillip did not loose their memories. Because they were monkeys. Coincidence ? :o


 * Non-human characters (Dwarves and Fairies) were turned into humans as in the first Curse, but I don't think that applies to this specific case. Zelena's victims were humans under a spell which, again, was totally unrelated to the Curse. I think it was probably kept intact because Storybrooke did have magic from the start this time around.

Uh, the Dark One's skin is due to a curse as well, or Jiminy's bug aspect. Invalid.

Aurora & Phillip were just not affected in any way. It's even more likely that Zelena took her little army with her.