@slurpeez108 wrote:
The Dragon: It was this string your father used to animate you as a freshly carved puppet. In a way it first gave you life. It will serve as payment for your soul.
It sounds like Pinocchio made a deal with the devil since the Dragon wanted Pinocchio’s soul. Could the Dragon be a wraith in disguise? Mulan called the wraith the Qui Shen, that is a “soul-sucker, ” and so it has a Chinese tie-in. The wraith cannot be killed because, according to Regina, it is already dead. If the Dragon was the Qui Shen in human form, then he didn’t really die, since the spirit wasn’t really alive to begin with. Adam and Eddy said at Paley Fest that the first part of the season would tie in nicely with the last part. I have a feeling the Qui Shen could make a reappearance as Mulan and Aurora search the netherworld for Philip’s lost soul.
That’s interesting. Might be worth going back and rewatching S/B and T to see if the symbol of the Wraith from the medallion was anywhere in the Dragon’s room. The only problem I see is that August says a few days after Tamara’s run in with the Dragon, he went back to beg him to heal his woodeness. The Dragon was still lying there “dead.” So was the human we saw just a shell for the wraith inside? When Tamara zapped it, it fled the shell to return to its world where it waited until Rumple summoned it?