Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-26141843-20141127122535/@comment-4273152-20141227043653

Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Hmcooper4 wrote: The only problem with calling it one land is that, from a story perspecitve, the Jungle Book is a different land from the Lion King or Tarzan. The Jungle Book is set in India, while the others are set in Africa (and different parts of Africa at that).

Also, I am not sure that having an Animal Kingdom would work, since how would the animals interact with the rest of Storybrooke. They would all most likely be in the Storybrooke Zoo. (I mean really, are you just going to let Lions and Tigers and Bears wander the city streets?!  Oh, My!) Well, remember that Elsa and Anna are from the Island kingdom of Arendelle, which is based off of Norway, and Mist Haven is North of them with Agrabah being approximately Northeast, despite Norway being North of Germany (Snow + Regina's kingdom), England (James' kingdom), France (Thomas' kingdom) and the Middle East (Agrabah) being Southeast of Norway, which is not an Island but rather a peninsula.

Let's not even mention the fact that George and Regina's kingdoms seem to be neighbors, when Snow White is placed in Germany while The Prince and The Pauper (David's tale) takes place in England. So real-world geography doesn't really seem to be taken into account in Fairy Tale World, especially when parts of England (Victorian England) and Eastern Europe (Land Without Color) are apparently lands apart on their own.

As for how the citizens of The Enchanted Jungle would interact in Storybrooke, they'd be like Ruby essentially. Werewolves, but with control over their respective transformations and not limited to full-moons. But only when they're in their kingdom. Outside the kingdom, they're regular humans, as they would be in Storybrooke, unless they came into contact with actual soil from the Jungle, which Scar (just throwing out a random animal villain) could've brought over during the second Curse. I actually just made those rules up on the spot, but I could see that working, honestly.

They could take a route like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqrBsMFRaLA

And make them human. Might be interesting. Besides, hasn't a mask from the stage version of the Lion King shown up in Gold's shop? I haven't found it, but the site says it's there. Makes sense for it to be humans if they decide to use that.