Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26830263-20160302221846/@comment-1916997-20160326051758

The problem is, if those truly are the names, I cannot find many things in literature that corespond to Jacob or Nathaniel, and nothing where they are together. If we look at the names themselves in regards to literature (as in authors), Jacob is the name of one of the Grimm Brothers, but his brother is named Wilhelm. Other interesting names of famous authors that come up are W.W. Jacobs and Nathaniel Hawthorne, but none of these things directily relate to brothers or an asylum. If we look at literary characters, I'm also not finding much. The only things that popped up that gave me pause (because they are iconic enough that Once could do them) is Scrooge's partner in A Christmas Carol is Jacob Marley (and based on the casting call's description on Once, it seems it could be him, as he was a greedy and cruel man), but there is no Nathaniel in A Christmas Carol. As for Nathaniel, Disney's version of Treasure Island (called Treasure Planet) gave Captain Flint the first name Nathaniel, but again Treasure Island or Treasure Planet, don't have a Jacob. This means we are either getting characters from two different stories (and rather obscure ones at that), we are getting characters that are traditionally nameless, or we are getting original characters. Because all of those seem somewhat unlikely, I am concluding that these are only casting call names. Actually, their is one other way these get to be the names of iconic characters on the show, but yet are not: the first curse. Regina assigned everyone false names for the first curse, so it is possible these are the characters false names, and their real names are revealed in the episode (or if Adam and Eddy are really mean) in Season 6. This actually fits with the season finale title of An Untold Story, because if these characters have been around since the first curse, their story has not yet been told. Anyway, I think I gave everyone alot to ponder, so I'm going to stop now. XD