@Riddleraven wrote:
The only questions I have are 1) how do you explain his age only changing a bit over so many centuries and 2) why exactly would Baelfire escape to our world?
Exactly. I’ve considered those questions before, and so far I have no answer that is clear or makes sense. Fountain of youth? Fairy magic protected him and he was saved from the curse like Emma? 😐 The Baelfire theory is a tricky one, and one that I am well aware may not happen. I guess there’s just something about it that appeals to me for some reason. ❓
Even if August was spared because came from somewhere outside Fairytale Land–what happened to all the other people in Never Never Land or wherever? Seems like there would be too many people remembering their past.
Another possible identity I find interesting is the 7-year-old boy who found baby Emma on the side of the road. In fact, this is what Emma was reading about in her files moments before August first arrived in Storybrooke (Ep. 9 “True North”). What if the boy actually saw the baby appear out of nowhere, got curious about what he had seen, and became determined to figure out what had happened?
The math seems to add up. 7-year-old boy + 28-year-old Emma = 35 years, which is the age of Eion Bailey, the actor who plays August.
Also, August did refer to himself as a “believer.” Did his faith in what he had seen lead him to become interested in magic or other worlds?
If August did find baby Emma, could this have something to do with how Gold found baby Henry for Regina? Could August have been in contact with Gold before? Did August help track Emma/Henry down? Did he work with Gold to make the book?
Could this help explain how August learned so much about Fairytale Land, Storybrooke, and Henry’s book? But then why did he look familiar to Regina? She said he was “someone new” and did not say anything about seeing him in Storybrooke before. She said no one else seemed to recognize him either. Even if he had somehow been to Storybrooke, why did he check with Emma to make sure where he was and and ask where he could find a place to stay? Could he somehow be pretending to be a stranger?