@the wiz wrote:
You would not believe how long my nose grew while I wrote this! 😆
Ah, so THAT’S why you don’t believe he’s Pinocchio, because YOU are. 😛 😉
Though on the water thing, spoiler pics suggest that puppetPinocchio will wash up on the lakeshore where Geppetto finds him & while he's holding him, that's the moment he's turned into a real boy, so I can totally see August's views on water being a powerful, magical force stemming from that moment.
@mujie wrote:
Ok, let’s entertain the idea that August is Pinnocchio, then. When Jiminy Cricket came to our world, he returned to his original form, (i.e. human). If Pinnocchio’s original form was a puppet, he would be a puppet in this world (assuming it’s not Rumplestiltskin who turned him into a human, which I doubt, because did anything really go on? So no one argue about Gepatto’s parents!). So I believe he wasn’t a puppet at the beginning.
If August is Pinocchio, it means he escaped the curse, so all the curse rules like reversion to a previous form, non-ageing, loss of identity, August would have been immune to all that, (unless for some reason he had to become a puppet again to travel to our world, in which case he changed forms twice in that process, but I’m not sold on that theory).