I will cough it up and admit that it looks like August is Pinnochio, makes the most sense of any.
@King Arthur wrote:
When Bae first got the magic bean from the Blue Fairy, I thought he was going to grow a beanstalk.
My daughter and I did too! 😆
However, if the bean leads to a land without magic, I am having a hard time understanding how Baelfire could be alive centuries later and canoot believe that the portal opened by the bean is OZ or Neverland or anywhere with magic.
However, there is one theory, that although I didn’t like at first or even now, could explain it; and that would be if Bae were Jefferson, and somehow found a portal from a land without magic to other worlds through a hat that was brought there, or something. It’s a longshot in my mind, but for the moment it satisfies the idea.