Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25536775-20170510235618/@comment-31564770-20170513030428

True, though I'd imagine that if the BF had enough dust already to cast the curse she would've done so, but maybe the fact that she was bound to the dark realm means she needed more in order to cut her ties as well. The only flaw I can see remaining is if the BF used the banishment wand to return to the dark realm then shouldn't she have been bound again? Maybe she altered the banishment spell so that didn't happen. Only other flaw is didn't the BF leave a bunch of kidnapped children in the mines when she came to SB? And doesn't 24 hr = ~30 years dark realm time? Shouldn't all these kids have grown up and spent years raiding the BF's "secret" magic vault that they all knew about for weapons in case she returned? Only 3 plausible explanations her are that 1: when the BF left dark realm time stopped for some reason, maybe it wasn't even a real realm at all ever but just a prison pocket dimension designed to trap Black so when she left time stopped or something 2: time didn't stop but continued at accelerated dark realm pace and the kids live as freaking slaves in a freaking mine in a world that seems to be totally underground so how the heck are they gonna get food, end result 60 years later dark realm time 3 days later SB time they've all starved or 3: they got food and proceeded with their lives prepping for if the BF should ever return, readying weapons from her vault, etc, but when she does return they learn the hard way that everything dangerous in that vault the BF was powerful enough to subdue in order to get it there in the first place and there's no way any of it could ever defeat her so she straight up slaughtered them all. Seems like a BF thing to do, right? I feel like any one of those explanations could work, I just don't like that we have to have this conversation in the first place because the writers left the whole thing totally underdeveloped and random and seemingly abandoned us to headcanon it out. Whatever, this isn't as bad as that massive discussion on Serum Queen theory and all it's inconsistencies- I feel like that came from the writers having an idea and running with it but not actually bothering to come up with a definition of what they were actually doing- that we had so I'm okish.