Just had an idea, bc of something that Jo said some pages ago about the grave stone, that is takes months, and since this is all about new viewers, my idea is that, since GA dont care about timeline, and how many time has passed, the stone is there for the GA to think that many months have pass, so is normal that everyone no longer mentions Neal, or feel sad about him, and simply move on, so would be weord that he had died 5 days ago and simply no one is grieving, so no one will question why.
I would go along with that if 1) the episode didn’t pick up in SB the same night as Emma and Hook got back to SB 2) Belle wasn’t in her wedding dress 3) Rumple hadn’t said that they’d been married less than a day So from Neal’s death – episode 401 is about 3-5 days.
He died on 315, on 316 was funeral , and then the grave stone was seen on 319, so when i say months have past is bwt those epis, and of course they wont associate that Snow was pregnant of 9 months, bc they wont remenber 312, so in their mind bwt 316 and 316 maybe 3 months have pass, so many time to people get used to neal being dead. Also the GA has the memory of Dory only last seconds, and i bring Dory just bc finding nemo is my fav movie now , and they cant touch bc there are fishes.
I’m just going to assume Rump conjured it up.
He was with zelena back then, and if was Rumple, he would have put baelfire, Who knows maybe was Regina, just bc of henry, maybe is bc of that is so rush, and with so lack of sentiment , and no beloved son, bc he didnt remenber who neal was. I dont see anyone else making that stone. All the others even hook would have put beloved father , friend or something, and since the grave wont be seen again, there is no need to change.
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