It is interesting to draw a parallel between SB and NL, Emma & Henry. We don’t know where Rumpel’s curse came from–but BF had an idea of the price of it. She could have seen a similar thing before, like when NL became NL. There may be something to it, that still has PP & lost ones as evil–like Regina was in SB though she created it. PP could be the victim of his own curse, yet not ready to break it.
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“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” -- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass