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Creative idea, but I see a major problem. Even if we assume that Rumplestiltskin’s story isn’t in there, Jiminy’s early story is. Jiminy’s story began about 30 years (or more) before Belle was born.
[adrotate group="5"]There are some other things to consider as well…
If things in SB haven’t really changed for 28 years until Emma came, there has been a hazy sort of stasis (think Cinderella pregnant all those years) then, it would not make sense that Belle was imprisoned after coming to SB.It could be she was not imprisoned yet in the scene at the end of Skin Deep, it could be that Regina was playing a “card” so to speak in order to see Rumpel’s reaction, and then went out and captured Belle, although IMO I think she already had her at that point, since our writers cut to the final scene in that show to show us where she was. The FT stories usually parallel quite well with the SB ones. Regina and Rumpel are antagonists of each other, frienemies, if you will, always trying to have one up on the other. I don’t know that Regina captured Belle and kept her with the curse in mind, and the possibility of using her against Gold one day, I just kind of thought she took her for collateral against him in FTL. All that to say, I don’t think Belle wrote the book in FTL. I don’t think that is how she spent her time working for Rumpel, from what they have showed us so far.
The pluses for August writing the book is that in this world he has a typewriter, he somehow knew about the book, when Mr. Gold is in his room we see a stack of pages that would lead us to believe he is working on more to add to the book, but if MM has had the book since as long as she can remember in SB and August has never been there, he said he traveled to a place that was 12 hours away on the other side of the world until Emma came, I don’t see him being the original writer of the book, especially since he was 7 when he traveled from FTL to this world.
I will say though, that it seems to me the book may have been written by someone in FTL and it is one of those objects that moved with the curse to this world. So, it could be that it was SW’s book, a history of FTL, so to speak kept in the castle. She still has her true love ring, why not the Storybook?
So what about Rumpel? It may just be me, but I don’t see Rumpel sitting down to write a Storybook to be used after the curse. In his spare time he was swinging deals, collecting ingredients for the curse and spinning on his spinning wheel to “forget” and make gold for payments for information.
That gets us to the Blue Fairy. For me this is the most plausible theory so far. The faeries have existed longer than Rumpelstiltskin. They have an order of sorts, and so for there to be a faerie who keeps the histories and that faeries might “report in” so to speak makes the most sense of how there could be so many years and tales covered. I however, don’t necessarily think the BF wrote it herself.
The fact that August went to talk with her and obviously he knows who the characters of SB are, means she could have informed him about the Storybook. Although that still wouldn’t explain why he brought the typewriter with him when he rode into town. You don’t just decide to be a writer one day and have a stack of papers like he did on his desk. So it is possible he began writing sometime during his growing up years in our world. Perhaps writing for pleasure. But he couldn’t have made the SB or added to it if he was around the world. So, it is interesting that when he came he added his story and the Golden Bird.
Has anyone considered that there are many authors to the book but only one person put it all together. It may be that everybody wrote down there own story like August wrote and put in his own story…..not Cinderella’s, not Red’s, his. Everyone’e story was wriiten down and someone put it all in one volume. What do you all think???
Perhaps the fairies wrote the book as part of their final preparations–a history for the descendants of the FTL heroes and heroines– but diminished Rumple’s role in the book so readers wouldn’t make an anti- hero of him (or maybe the fairies just don’t think much of him.)
Maybe Rumple wrote the book and left his personal stories out so no one would realize his motives and interfere with his quest to find Bae.
Or maybe the fairies wrote the book in full and Rumple got a hold of it and removed his personal stories, again to protect his quest, or to prevent enemies like Regina from attacking him through Bae.
From the segment we heard MM read to Henry, I think the purpose of the book is to promote true love. And based on Rumple’s speech to Charming about the necessity of protecting true love, he seems like the man most likely to write a sales pitch for love…but also likely to leave his own tales out since both ended in heartbreak. If the storybook suddenly appears with a Rumple-finds-Belle-again chapter, we’ll know who did it (perhaps co-authored by Belle).I think the book was a collections of stories that the fairies wrote down over the years. Rumple got a hold of it and edited his story out of it but there is still an original version of the book with everything. The book Henry has is the Rumple edited version that was recovered from him and passed onto MM then Henry.
I can’t wait to see Henry’s reaction when he learns that Gold is Rumple. That will tell us if it’s true Rumple’s stories aren’t in the book.
If I am not mistaken Henry did say to Emma in one of the first episodes that he has not figured out who Mr. Gold was in the Book.
Rumpel didn’t know who he was before he met Emma in Granny’s Inn so he could not have known to edit the book or pass it to Henry.
The Storybook has definitely been an oddity hanging in the wind, but now the book seems useless. I wonder if we will ever get any in-show explanation of where it came. Maybe we might get a one-off mention given by Rumpel or the BF to get a definitive answer to this question.
I can really only see four possible writers for the book:
* Biggest clues thus far point toward Blue Fairy and the “covenant” of fairies.
* Rumple might have written the book at some point before his capture by Cinderella, and like it eventually drifted into a collection of books that MM came upon.
* The Curse magically generated the book to ensure the break clause had a chance of success. It is rather strange how MM only noticed the book to give to Henry near the 28th year. Maybe the curse created it near this time and placed it in a location that MM might notice it.
* Some new character that has a lot of knowledge of FTL events or the book is somehow something that was being worked on/collected by the kingdom at large before or after the EQ’s threat.
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