Re: Missing it…. WHAT EVIDENCE ????

[Slurpeez]

I posted this under the August/Pinocchio character analysis, but I’ll also add it here. I think August is a very complex character who struggles with an inner desire to do the right thing. At the age of seven, with the help of Jiminy Cricket, he was able to do good. However, he hasn’t had anyone to guide him in our world. Like Emma, he has grown up without a mother or a father. He was influenced by peers who were up to no good. Yet, he has an essentially sincere core part of his being, much like Rumpel, which desires to find love. August wants to make up for not fulfilling the promise to his father in a way which parallels Rumpel’s desire to make good on his deal with Bae.

Since August IS Pinocchio, I think that resolves a lot of lingering questions about his character. He does lie, even though he wishes he could be good. However, he came to our wold as a 7-year-old real boy but without a conscience or a father to raise him correctly to be good. He left baby Emma and followed the crowd, because that is what Pinocchio did in the original fairy-tale. Since he escaped the effects of the curse originally, he has spent the last 28 years as a human seeking pleasure, like the puppet Pinocchio did on Pleasure Island. Also, Jiminy said that when Geppetto chose not to heed the Blue Fairy’s warning and not tell Snow White the truth, he was teaching Pinocchio a bad lesson. In our world, Pinocchio/August has lied a lot.

As a grown man, August has returned since he is in fact turning back into wood. He said it happened at the exact moment Emma decided to stay in SB. That was the trigger that started magic in SB. August is reverting back into a puppet form because that is his true original substance. It is comparable to how Jiminy, who was originally a man before being magically turned into a cricket in FTL, is now a man again in SB. August was simply a puppet before the Blue Fairy’s enchantment made him a real boy after he showed himself to be honest, brave, and unselfish. In our world, however, August/Pinocchio hasn’t had good modeling and has been lazy, selfish, and a liar. He is suffering the consequences now that Emma has brought magic to SB.