Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24589671-20141027013232/@comment-24936039-20141104062652

Cjtrules15 wrote: TheSamTrickster wrote: Maybe not. ( Maybey not) I hope we get to find out how the SQ came to LWM and how she came to Storybrooke during the first curse. Remember the curse Regina made was for all the EF characters to be trapped in Storybrooke and not remember who they are. That doesn't mean everyone is subject to that. SQ is not part of that curse so she could both cross the town lines and still have her memory.

Well, Jefferson\Mad Hatter was able retain his memories during the dark curse, although I assumed this was done by Regina on purpose to 'torment' him with the memories of his daughter and see her 'happy' in Storybrooke with another family.

Victor Frankenstein did not retain his memories, even though he was not from the EF, but the LWC.

However, Rumples was able to put a 'loophole' into the curse that allowed him to regain his memories once he heard Emma's name in the pilot episode but as was pointed out, still stuck in Storybrooke until the curse was broken (not fully eliminated) AND able to create the memory potion that allow him to cross the town line with those memories intact.

However, it has been established that the Snow Queen was Teen Emma's Foster mom (and I assume her Avondale memories were intact) well before Rumples regained his EF memories.

Also it was established that Rumples and the Snow Queen had dealings with each other at least during the first dark curse (Sara's Ice-cream Pallor was a neighboring business to Gold's pawn shop) and after Emma entered Storybrooke.

So maybe the Snow Queen had other means to enter the LWM (not known to Rumples, otherwise I would expect pre-curse Rumples to use the same method or force the SQ to give him access to the LWM). If this is so, I wonder why first season Gold did not wheel and deal with the Snow Queen in order to leave Storybrooke BEFORE Emma broke the curse?