[ SECRET POST #2442 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2442 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

10. http://i.imgur.com/iTHNpyd.gif

[(Anonymous)]

... Sorry but what's FTL? All that's coming right now is Faster Than Light.

[ex_mek82]

I am going to hazard a guess and say this is related to Once Upon a Time, so FTL = Fairy Tale Land?

(The Mass Effect fan in me also thought 'Faster Than Light', too, ughh)

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Okay, so I'm not the only ME fan thought faster than light. Granted my brain added "Reapers eluded" in EDI's voice.

[ex_mek82]

Well, tbh, it's kinda hard for me to look at Once Upon a Time and not automatically think of Mass Effect anyways, b/c yanno... Raphael Sbarge.

(Side note: I'm surprised I haven't come across more ME/OUAT jokes, but then again, I'm not involved in the fandom anymore, so maybe I'm just not looking in the right places/following the right people. ngl, I'm a sucker for silly voice actor crossover humor sometimes)

[(Anonymous)]

I don't have any jokes, but I am working on a semi-humorous crossover fic, because I keep mentally comparing Archie with Kaidan every time he's on screen.

[pkbitchgirl]

Fairy Tale Land, this is a Once Upon a Time secret

[(Anonymous)]

funky time lizards

[insanenoodlyguy]

Unlikely. Just seeing that stuff wouldn't magically give you the prerequisite expertise to build it up.

this

[(Anonymous)]

they'd need to have studied all the engineering and science-y stuff behind it all

or else be like super geniuses that do have an innate understanding of how to make some things work

but it's hard to reverse-engineer a memory of something so small and complex that they only know how they work in the most abstract of ways

[(Anonymous)]

Storybrooke was a functioning town, though, and everyone still has memories of who they were there, so they've got plumbers and engineers and mechanics. You might not necessarily have anyone who ever designed a central heating system, for example, but you'd probably have enough people who have memories of being trained to assemble and repair them to extrapolate how some of it works. And as for the rest, magic.

[(Anonymous)]

Dude I can unclog a toilet but I damn sure could never build an entire plumbing system. Knowing how something works just enough to fix it when it's broken does not give you the skills to recreate that thing.

[(Anonymous)]

Indoor plumbing, central heating, I bet they could. The ancient Romans managed it.

Mobile phones -- any kind of computer -- and vaccinations, I bet they couldn't. (Maybe your cowpox-type inoculation, but you can't get that for everything.)

Electricity I'm not sure about.

[(Anonymous)]

Provided Whale comes back with them, they'll probably manage electricity. Plus who knows how many mad scientist/inventor characters are wandering around Storybrooke? Some of the writers and actors were joking about 'Red Riding Hood, Snow White, and Cinderella walk into a bar'--but it could just as easily be 'Dr. Moreau, Dr. Jekyll, and the Phantom of the Opera walk into a bar.' And originally the Sheriff character was supposed to be Sherlock Holmes. Get enough Victorian and pulp literature characters together and they'd manage electricity and vaccinations. Add in the curse-memories of computer and software engineers going back to 1983, and provided they worked together without killing each other, they'd probably have to worry about nuclear weapons at some point, because mad scientists and nuclear superweapons go together almost as well as Igor and Tesla coils. And it's a long shot, but as Disney now owns Lucasfilm, there may be Star Wars characters wandering around. Who knows? Not that I think the show will go there, but it's fun to speculate anyway.

[(Anonymous)]

Ever since Disney bought Lucasfilm my battle cry has been "Give me Snow White in an X-wing!"

[(Anonymous)]

OP here.

i've been researching Roman plumbing and heating and I think it's doable. They'd probably need magic to make up for all the slaves they don't have.

A cowpox type vaccination would help, so would a basic understanding of handwashing/sterilisation/cleanliness.

[(Anonymous)]

I bet they'll miss the hell out of indoor plumbing, electricity and so much food available, at least

Secret 10 - Once Upon a Time?

[transcriptanon]

[Picture is the cast from the TV show "Once Upon a Time"?]

Whenever I read anything where they go back to Fairy Tale Land, I get all distracted wondering if they then invent indoor plumbing, magic mobile phones, vaccinations, electricity, central heating, etc.

Or if they're happy to go back to the way things were, even though they remember modern life.

Re: Secret 10 - Once Upon a Time?

[(Anonymous)]

It is Once! Sorry Transcriptanon.

-OP

Re: Secret 10 - Once Upon a Time?

[transcriptanon]

It's okay, don't worry OP! Thanks for the confirmation!

[littlestbirds]

I just finished reading a book about a modern woman sent back to the roman empire for a year, so I've been pondering this very question. I think most people would be pretty useless at inventing any of those things. There's a few very specific technological needs, especially around metals. Not too many of us are trained smithies these days...

[(Anonymous)]

A Blue Fairy would take care of it.

And if she didn't then I'd sell my firstborn to the Dark One for a life time's supply of soft toilet paper and coffee.

[(Anonymous)]

da--provided there's an Africa analogue in FTL, coffee is doable without magic, though. Plus I know you were joking but I honestly think Rumpelstiltskin is either going to die or give up magic or both. And all his deals were to further his goals. Unless he starts running an adoption service like the Rumpelstiltskin from Patricia Wrede's Enchanted Forest Chronicles, he's not gonna need to deal for babies anymore.

[thelonebamf]

I think you're right about giving up magic, that will totally be the end of the trail for the character, but I don't think he's going to die. As beautifully tragic as that would be, I don't think they could kill off the most popular character on the show unless it was in the very last episode, and even then I think it seems a little too cruel for them to pull it off.

Nah, he'll give up magic and be in a scary world where he's the same as everyone else and have to cope with being just himself, which you could say is scarier for the character in many ways than a flat out death.

[(Anonymous)]

well if i was in their shoes I would certainly take out some library books for my trip to FTL and start putting some of those things together. sometimes it just takes the basic idea and foundation to build a crude system and then you can progress and refine as you get more people to help.