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So we learned a little more about how Henry’s fairytale book works. It only appears when someone needs it, or someone believes.
And I remember that I theorized back in 3×11 thread about the book:
I think the curse created the book too. It wasn’t a who but a what, and the curse would be a what.
I know a lot of us were theorizing that someone physically wrote the book, August, or Blue Fairy and her fairies. But I think after this past episode, I don’t think anyone actually wrote the book. The curse created the book. And the curse, regardless of Rumple’s prophecy, the original Dark Curse still needed a failsafe to make sure Emma came back to Storybrooke. Henry needed to believe, he needed to have a reason to come looking for Emma and jump start the breaking of the curse.
And Henry remembering, followed the same way Emma remembered (in the season one finale) and in The New York Serenade, with the flashes.
[adrotate group="5"]I am going to agree with you. I think the curse created the book and it only comes into existence when Snow somehow manages to “call” it into existence.
Which makes me wonder, is the book only created in Dark Curses? Does that mean it can only be destroyed by a Curse?
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"This makes sense but…. Seems kind of anticlimactic. Idk, I just hoped there would be a story behind the book, a person within SB who was behind it all, or the book being some hidden kind of magic with the spirit of Chernabog hiding within it or aoemthing. We’ve waited this long just to find out the curse was behind it? I’d through a kangaroo.
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"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Which makes me wonder, is the book only created in Dark Curses? Does that mean it can only be destroyed by a Curse?
I think the book only appears when it is needed. That’s what it looked like to me. Emma didn’t see the book but once Snow started looking, it suddenly appeared. Emma at that point in the episode, still wanted to go back to New York and forget about everything.
To answer your second question, I don’t think the book is ever destroyed. The book is magic. It disappears and reappears when it’s needed. I like that better than someone made it actually. Because if a person made the book, it makes the book less powerful.
To me, the book represented a bit about Snow’s magic. To me, Snow has always had magic, but it’s very subtle magic. Her magic is that she makes things happen by believing. Snow summoned the book without knowing it. The look of confusion on Snow’s face, trying to figure it out why she found it when Emma said it wasn’t there. She knew something magical had just happened. But then she shrugged it off and said Emma didn’t want to find it She got the book because she instinctively knew that box needed to be searched again. Somehow, she knew she would find it. She will always find it.
I always figured Rumple wove it into the curse in some way. Rumple was the Dark One, and as such, did any number of horrible things, but as Belle showed us, he still had his humanity buried deep within.
It was a Dark Curse, and stemmed from the use of dark magic, but when you think about it, Rumple’s motivations for wanting the curse cast are good and pure – he wanted to find his son, and this was probably the only way to do it. He needed a catalyst for the savior to break the curse – and found a way in, essentially, creating a history of his land and his people and including their stories, as well as stories from other realms he’s been to. It’s a rather poetic means of breaking the curse, and I felt it came from that source of good inside him, that he included in his creation of the curse – his love for his son. Creating the book as a means to break the curse was the beginning of his redemption.
To me, the book represented a bit about Snow’s magic. To me, Snow has always had magic, but it’s very subtle magic. Her magic is that she makes things happen by believing. Snow summoned the book without knowing it. The look of confusion on Snow’s face, trying to figure it out why she found it when Emma said it wasn’t there. She knew something magical had just happened. But then she shrugged it off and said Emma didn’t want to find it She got the book because she instinctively knew that box needed to be searched again. Somehow, she knew she would find it. She will always find it.
I think I like the idea that it’s connected to Snow more than just *magic*. That book and Snow have a very close connection.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"
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