Heh heh heh…you guys inspired me to write a fanfic, contrasting Bae’s experience–arriving alone, unprepared, with his memories of FTL intact–with the experience of characters who had the blessing of forgetting. Makes my heart bleed for Pinn and Jefferson–I couldn’t write their stories; it would be too painful.
Ooh, I just had a horrible image: Rumple trying to protect Bae from some hood. In his anxiousness Rumple forgets he has no magic–a centuries old habit is hard to break. He raises his hand to slap away a gun, and it’s all over. OK, I just convinced myself that not only was the forgetting a blessing, so was Storybrooke. The FTL folk are isolated from the worst of our world. Regina’s a pussycat compared to our real-life baddies.