5) The home office is only 1 person
I’m not too sure about this one. I think THO has PP as the head, but it obviously has branches in many worlds, including ours. And I think KFC is right: GOAT really don’t know anything about THO. They are very low on the food chain.
6)Who knows if Rumple magic’d the book (like the globe) and other stuff before they left. They were visited by Belle, all blue’d up, so they can have any plot device stuff they need to have if it becomes important. We didn’t see them get supplies, doesn’t mean they didn’t get them.
This idea could also help with some lingering questions we’ve had like clothing in NL. Rumple, Regina and Emma can just magic stuff for the JR crew. If Emma really needs the book then she can magic it to her, I suppose. But PP wouldn’t be in there unless he is originally a FTL character.
13) Rumple wrote the curse–or did he? Maybe the curse is something Rumple found and twisted to his own ends, but it came from PP, for his own ends.
I like the way you wrote this because we know Rumple did not create the Curse, but he did put it together. The mystery of the Curse is for a later season, I’m sure.