Co-authors of the books?

[faux pax]

I have a theory about who wrote the book. August obviously knew it existed, because he got the book from Henry’s spot before the dump truck.

I know you’ve heard that theory before but here’s the new bit.

For this i’m assuming Bae and August are working together–which seems probable to me given that the mystery man (Bae's) name has been revealed to be that of a famous con man and August had to learn about the dagger from somewhere.

What if August wrote the book but Bae illustrated it?

I mean in the crocodile, we see all these pictures that had to have been drawn by Rumple or Millah. Maybe he inherited that skill from whatever parent it was and he and August took on the project together. Maybe even with BF providing some of the stories August wouldn’t know.

[antbee]

I mean in the crocodile, we see all these pictures that had to have been drawn by Rumple or Millah. Maybe he inherited that skill from whatever parent it was and he and August took on the project together. Maybe even with BF providing some of the stories August wouldn’t know.

Wow! I was just thinking about this because on Tumblr, I read a new theory about the book, which I’ll go into more detail with later. The producers confirmed that Milah is who the artist of all the pictures, which makes sense because they were mostly places of where she wanted to go, but couldn’t.

Someone should ask them if Bae inherited his mother’s artistic abilities. I know that in some families that ability is passed on but certainly not always.

I tried to find comparison between the drawing of the Rumplestiltskin dagger, and the illustrations in Henry’s book, but I can’t come to a definite conclusion. The drawing of the dagger looks similar to the sword, imo, but that could be because the same behind the scenes person was responsible for both drawings not that one character on the show drew both necessarily.

I still believe that August had to have known about the book either from Bae or possibly the Blue Fairy in order to know what kind of equipment bring to add his story into it. I lean towards Bae though more than the Blue Fairy, even though I know there’s definitely some holes that would have to be filled in by the writers, to make Bae the author like how he knew about these tales if he left before they took place, and how the book got to Mary Margaret. I’m just not convinced yet that the Blue Fairy had her memories back before the Curse was broken. Plus, if Rumple’s origin story isn’t in Henry’s book, which could go either way right now, that seems like something Bae would do, if he didn’t want people to know how and why Rumple became the Dark One because then they would know Rumple had a son, rather than something the Blue Fairy would omit.

By the way, here’s a link to the theory that I referred to earlier, http://cinnamonhummingbird.tumblr.com/post/34223315094/just-a-quick-baelfire-neal-cassady-rant-of-mine

It’s about how maybe Bae lost his memory when he came here, but has dreams about FTL and writes them down. One day he meets August, and since August is a fellow writer, Bae shares his stories with August, who then tries to convince Bae that these stories actually took place.

Admittedly there are plot holes like how did his book end up in Storybrooke in the first place, but I liked the theory for several reasons. First, as cruel as Bae’s life has been when he was younger, I think his life would have been a little bit better off for him, if he really did lose his memories of Fairy Tale Land until later in life when maybe he could deal with it better because he’d also be stuck in a position where he couldn’t tell anyone the truth because everyone would think he was either a liar, crazy, or both. I know August went through something similar, but at least Gepetto had good intentions when sending his son to our world. Plus, he didn’t have all that other baggage that Bae had like his whole town first scorning his father for being a coward, then ostracizing Bae later on because he was the son of the Dark One. Not to mention whatever memories he had of his mom and then her being gone forever one day, and then having to hear rumors about how his mother’s reputation and everyone speculating he might not even be Rumple’s son.

Second, although not tied to just this particular theory, but I would like Bae to be involved with the book either as the author or co-author because of how it ended up with Henry, and how the book could help them bond and maybe help Henry forgive whatever Bae did in his past.

Third, I wasn’t really sure how Bae would have got information about these stories that took place after he left in some of similar theories that I was trying to think of, but dreaming of them works for me. It could be one part of the Curse or have happened for another reason, but I think it fits in with the dreams that we’ve seen that Regina and Belle had where their dreams are trying to warn them of bad thing happening. Maybe the Curse or something else was trying to send a message to Bae that all these people were trapped in Storybrooke by an Evil Queen through his dreams and eventually he starts to collect them because they seem so vivid and real.

[melliemd]

One problem with this theory: When August added the Pinnochio pages to the book, they were fresh. (There was no place to store them on his person and keep them in such a good condition when he arrived, we saw that he had no papers in his type-writer box) And remember that there were illustrations for that section as well:

I don’t think August wrote/drew anything outside of the Pinocchio section, I think he’s more of a forger (read: a liar as we expect from a Pinocchio incarnation), and so he was able to copy the style.

I agree with you about the dagger. Not necessarily about someone else having to draw it, but that August couldn’t have done it without help from someone who knew absolutely perfectly what it looked like. If he was telling the truth about the Blue Fairy having told him back in FTL (and likely without any images), the 28 years that have passed would have most certainly left him unable to draw a perfect representation… Which leaves: Someone who is more familiar with Rumple and the dagger, someone who is more familiar with the book itself (the original creator), OOOOOR… The story of Rumplestiltskin is in the book, so there is an image of the dagger that August could have copied in the time he had possession of it.

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