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On the other hand, putting together August’s love of water and the gender role reversal quotation, maybe August is the Little Mermaid
[adrotate group="5"]If he pulls out a fork and starts combing his hair with it the next time he’s at Granny’s, I think you might be on to something darcyfarrow.
Now that I think about it – the EQ did tell Rumple she needed to talk to him about “a certain mermaid” in Skin Deep, and then she told Emma that August looked familiar . . . 😯 😮 😆
@infinitypalm wrote:
I think there’s a good reason why Henry can’t seem to figure out who Mr. Gold is…yet (as he said to Emma in episode 4).
Rumplestiltskin is the only character that apparently knows or has been involved in practically everyone’s story, right up until Emma is saved from the curse. This is why I’m inclined to think that Mr. Gold is the writer of the book, not August. That would certainly help keep him busy while waiting for Emma to show up in Storybrooke.
Wow! Your whole post makes so much sense to me, and I had forgotten that Henry didn’t know who Mr Gold was. It would make absolute sense that he wasn’t in the book. And with Gold still loving to strike deals across town, you would think it would have been an easy link for Henry to make. Rumple not being in the book is an awesome theory!! Great thinking!
I really like the peter pan idea, conceptually. But I don’t want Peter Pan to be the grown up August, with a BEARD. That is just so wrong! The real Peter Pan would be horrified just to loose one baby tooth!
So I’m leaning more toward InfinityPalm’s Baelfire theory, which I must say is very well thought out! I really like that one. The only questions I have are 1) how do you explain his age only changing a bit over so many centuries and 2) why exactly would Baelfire escape to our world?
Peter Pan would be interesting. If you watch the movie HOOK, Peter Pan is grown-up and has 2 children of his own, but he doesn’t remember who he was. However Wendy does (The children’s grandmother in a way.)
Peter Pan flew house to house like August rides from place to place on his motorcycle. Peter Pan also liked games and stories; August seems to enjoy playing mind games with people in StoryBrooke, mostly Emma and Henry as well as messing with Henry’s book of stories.
The water connection is something I didn’t notice but in NeverLand there is mermaid Lagoon.
Well just a few thoughts.
Is there is Fairy Tale character that ever got drunk and had a bad outcome? I haven’t gone through and re-read all the Fairy Tales like a lot of you have – and some of the Fairy Tales are very different in their original versions than they are in the well-known Disney versions. I just wonder because of the water thing with August. He made this big thing about buying Emma a drink which made both Emma and the audience assume it was going to be an alcoholic beverage and it ended up being water from a well. And then at Granny’s he ordered a water. So I wondered if there was a character that had a bad experience with alcohol as part of his (or I guess, potentially, her now) story. Or maybe a character who made a point to never drink alcohol in the first place??
@belleoftheball wrote:
Perhaps Peter was in Never Never Land when the curse was intact, so he avoided it. Allowing Peter (or maybe August) to travel to our world and grow up to save everyone in FTL.
You know what belleoftheball I would have to agree with you. One, I like the theories of peter pan growing up to save them but the one thing that struck to me the most was peter pan being in Never Never land while the cruse was enacted. See when I read yours I wanted to write something but I didnt because i thought i would not have anything good to put so i went to another form to see what they said about the next episode and there was a website that talked about it and it said ” While searching for a missing Mary Margaret, Emma is kidnapped by a man whose affinity for hats has him teetering on the edge of madness. Meanwhile, viewers will be transported outside of the fairytale land that was for the first time when the Evil Queen persuades a skillful man of magic to come work for her …” I wont say the rest. But when they said outside FTL that made me think well there must be other lands that maybe the curse did not hit like you said Never Never Land!
@Riddleraven wrote:
The only questions I have are 1) how do you explain his age only changing a bit over so many centuries and 2) why exactly would Baelfire escape to our world?
Exactly. I’ve considered those questions before, and so far I have no answer that is clear or makes sense. Fountain of youth? Fairy magic protected him and he was saved from the curse like Emma? 😐 The Baelfire theory is a tricky one, and one that I am well aware may not happen. I guess there’s just something about it that appeals to me for some reason. ❓
Even if August was spared because came from somewhere outside Fairytale Land–what happened to all the other people in Never Never Land or wherever? Seems like there would be too many people remembering their past.
Another possible identity I find interesting is the 7-year-old boy who found baby Emma on the side of the road. In fact, this is what Emma was reading about in her files moments before August first arrived in Storybrooke (Ep. 9 “True North”). What if the boy actually saw the baby appear out of nowhere, got curious about what he had seen, and became determined to figure out what had happened?
The math seems to add up. 7-year-old boy + 28-year-old Emma = 35 years, which is the age of Eion Bailey, the actor who plays August.
Also, August did refer to himself as a “believer.” Did his faith in what he had seen lead him to become interested in magic or other worlds?
If August did find baby Emma, could this have something to do with how Gold found baby Henry for Regina? Could August have been in contact with Gold before? Did August help track Emma/Henry down? Did he work with Gold to make the book?
Could this help explain how August learned so much about Fairytale Land, Storybrooke, and Henry’s book? But then why did he look familiar to Regina? She said he was “someone new” and did not say anything about seeing him in Storybrooke before. She said no one else seemed to recognize him either. Even if he had somehow been to Storybrooke, why did he check with Emma to make sure where he was and and ask where he could find a place to stay? Could he somehow be pretending to be a stranger?
I think they want us to put spoiler tags around anything that is about a future episode just in case there are people who don’t want to read it.
I still really like the idea that the outside of fairytale land place that the Hatter is sent in the next episode is to the real world. Probably not because there is the caterpillar and the Red Queen, but i am still hoping,
some more august ideas, Pinocchio is sounding really good, since wood needs water, and august loves water… maybe the magic water from the lake brought him to life, maybe he’s one of those freaky plants..lol on a side notehe also went to see lemurs, which are on madagascar, which is an island, and pinocchio goes to pleasure island in the stories.
Again here’s another theory. Is that, August is Honest John, from pinocchio since he never lies. the name John being a Lost tie in as well.
and Finally… possibly Jack… as in “Jack and Jill went up a hill to fetch a pail of water” I.E. the well…. jack also shows up in other fairy tales, “jack in the bean stock” and “jack be nimble”. Jack would also be a Lost tie in.
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