Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-261373-20140515193604/@comment-15736398-20140516173242

FrancisPaul wrote: A counterpart is when someone is transported to a new world via the Dark Curse.

So far, the only two exceptions we have are Neal (because people agreed that it would be wieird to create Neal (Storybrooke) just for the events in Quiet Minds) and Aurora (because we can't say for sure that she got cursed, because she was in minkey form.

That makes no sense whatsoever.

What should determine whether or not a character has a counterpart/dual identity is whether or not they're referred to by one identity in one place and a different identity in another and whether or not they have memories that correspond to both identities (because that's exactly what the show itself does).