Could we possibly meet the Grimm brothers?

[TheLadyBelle]

I have been wondering if the Grimm brothers or any of the other original creators/writers of the fairy tales and stories from OUAT could show up at some point? Somehow the stories got out in the real world outside FL and SB. Otherwise Emma wouldn't know any of the stories, which she clearly does. It's at least an interesting piece of information, even if it's just mentioned in passing or they spend time exploring it. Also how the stories ended up in the form they did and not the form that we see them in OUAT.

[obisgirl]

I had the same thought too.

[mia]

If those writers ever appeared, I'd imagine they'd be realm/world/dimension travelers/jumpers/crossers. Whatever you want to call it … Or it could be that each story from each world somehow exists in the other worlds, some way or another. Like the fairy tales in our world. There could be stories that are real here, in FTL. Or just paintings, etc.

That's one theory I'd thought I'd never reveal, but since it came up …

[obisgirl]

I like that. I hope the writers figure out a plausible explanation for how we know the fairytale stories and nothing silly.

[hjbau]

I think they should have another way for the stories to have come through. All of the stories we have seen are not from the Grimm brothers so i think it must be something more then that.

[mia]

Well yeah. That's the second part of my theory. Which I actually like better, 'cause I don't want the Grimm Brothers or Andersen or Perrault, etc appearing on the show. I hope they just don't make that big of a deal out of it. There are better stories to tell. I could live with the only explanation being that each world somehow has clues of the others hidden in stories, paintings, objects.

[Josephine]

Oooh, like real events and things that really happened in our world are like the fairy tales of the Enchanted Forest. Maybe in their world, they've grown up hearing stories of lands with massive skycrappers and flying planes, things they thought were fantastical and never happened, but in our world it's just everyday life. A twist on everything. It's all perspective

[Phee]

Well yeah. That's the second part of my theory. Which I actually like better, 'cause I don't want the Grimm Brothers or Andersen or Perrault, etc appearing on the show.

Now that I'm thinking about it, they could have some fun with this idea. Maybe the famous fairytale writers of our world were all part of some secret society that knew how to jump between worlds, and that's how they collected the stories and wrote them down and brought them back to our world? Maybe in future seasons, some of the characters decide they need to find a way back to FTL, so they go hunting down the ancestors of the Grimms etc, because they're the only ones who know how to get there?

[mia]

Not another secret society! xD
It could be fun, I guess, but and with time I'd probably even like the idea, but … The show's already complicated as it is!

[Phee]

Maybe Grimm & Co used to sneak back and forth between worlds, collecting stories, and Rumple busted them on one of their trips, and when he found out they came from a land without magic, that's how he got the idea that Bae had come to our world. And maybe they struck some kinda deal with him where he made them promise to leave his REAL story out of the story they told about him, which is why we never knew the true extent of his power and the significant role he played in all the different tales. Maybe he wanted it that way because he didn't want our world to know how truly powerful he was, once he got the idea to follow Bae here. And as the story progresses, Rumple and some ancestor of the writers will meet in our world and either work together, or against each other.

The more outlandish this theory gets, the more I like it. LOL