Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25758988-20150103142846

I really think the writers missed out on a storyline with this Curse of Shattered Sight. It is a curse to bring out the worst traits a character has and makes them temp evil. So why didn't Ruby get hit with the spell and turned into a wolf, have her abandon Storybrook for the forest until the curse was broken. Howvever the curse breaking for some reason did not turn her back into a human, she stuck now in wolf form. She visits the blue fairy and when it is revealed that she can not change her back either and Mr Gold doing his own terrible thing she wishes to the Blue Fairy and asks her for a spell to make her at least communicate with people again. The Blue Fairy manages to create the spell but warns her this spell has down sides, the longer she remains in wolf form she will lose a part of her mind and will become more vicious and this will occur in stages. So now we have a reason for Ruby not being in the show. I mean they can even create a CGI wolf and have it do exactly what they want. Potentially we could see rise to an old story and most well known story: Imagine "Ruby/wolf" is running around Storybrook and she passes a builder and as soon as he sees her he runs off screaming, leaving a very confused wolf. She runs after him to try and explain that she will never hurt him and that this is just the result of a side effect of this curse. The builder runs to a cabin cottage in the suburbs and sees two other men there too. He explains to them what he saw and the two other men begin to panic. Ruby approaches and knocks on the door... Do you see where I am going here? We culd have a flashback of Red in her wolf form without her cloak hunting the humans who were the base of the three little pigs. I think the story could go either way, she could kill one or more of them either their in the forest or later in Storybrook and she has to live with this shame, or this could be the thing that she does as a selfless, honest and brave thing and turns her back. The story could be open ended for a while though too because you never quite know if the actress will want to return or not. What do we think?  