Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5698213-20130930195403/@comment-5679696-20131025214346

AppleTree23 wrote: That's true, too! I still think it might have been Gold. I just don't know who else would know so much intimate details of everyone's lives : ) I personally think his curse had something to do. I know the curse was created in the EF after the fairytales/stories/myths etc. were written/told in the LWM, but the way the show expresses Fate (everything that happens is meant to happen, and will happen no matter what you do, for example, the Seer's prediction about Bae beeing fatherless because of Rumple's actions in the battlefield) make me think that the Curse was meant to happen, so those stories were created as part of the "punishment" the Queen was going to inflict to the people from EF, Wonderland, LWC, etc.

What I mean is, if you don't remember who you are. You do not age, but you do not notice either. You repeat the same day over and over again in a town where you are a prisoner of time and space with fake personalities and memories, the only think that could make it worse is to actually KNOW yourself without recognizing yourself. For example, cursed Mary Margaret obviously knew about Snow White and her story, but she had no idea it was actually her.