Board Thread:Wiki-Related Discussion/@comment-3393671-20141109223833/@comment-5106672-20141201164709

Rwo wrote:

GothicNarcissus wrote: We have to consider four things.

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

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

Uh, the Dark One's skin is due to a curse as well, or Jiminy's bug aspect. And both were undone by the curse. So your point is invalid.
 * 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.

Aurora & Phillip were just not affected in any way. It's even more likely that Zelena took her little army with her. Point 1: They had to find the things they needed to build the camp. But that's irrelevant to the point, because Zelena got a home from the Curse, a big a farm with possibly all the space for her "pets". Aurora and Phillip might very well go back to living there, now that she's gone.

Point 2: And we know that how? Point invalid.

Point 3: Rumple was still the Dark One, as he had all the powers and stuff. Besides, people were turned into Flying Monkeys in Storybrooke too. Many went missing. Even if the Curse restored them to humans, Zelena might very well have turned them back into Flying Monkeys the moment they arrived in Storybrooke taking advantage of the general confusion. The fact remains that they are in the LWM, which means they were taken and ripped away from Fairy Tale Land. That's what the Curse does.

CoolDudeAl wrote: Rwo wrote: I rather think Zelena took her, as a good of hers. Would explain why she stayed as a monkey, as Zelena owns her minions. She already sent Glinda away from Oz to the Enchanted Forest, remember? What? They are still living things, Zelena didn't turn them into a purse and umbrella, she turned them into living breathing flying monkeys. And if Zelena could just go with her monkey army to LWM whenever she wanted, why would she wait for a curse to be enacted. She didn't need to get to the Land Without Magic at all. She was brought there because she was cursed, and actually for what Snow, Charming and Regina knew, they were bringing her (and her pets by proxy) to her downfall (they thought that was Emma).