The next morning, Pinocchio said good-bye to Geppetto. What matters is that you will go to school tomorrow!” He did not want Pinocchio to know he had traded his warm coat to buy the schoolbooks. With a wave of his hand Geppetto said, “No need to worry about that. Later that day, Geppetto came back home with schoolbooks. But he did not have the money to buy schoolbooks. One day Pinocchio said, “I want to go to school, like other boys.” “Pinocchio, my son!” he said in great happiness. Then he said, “But who cares?” He rushed over and swept the wooden puppet into his arms. “How can this be?” said Geppetto in shock. “Here I am, Father!” said Pinocchio from the other side of the room. When Geppetto woke up the next morning, he said, “I will go take my puppet out of bed.” But the bed was empty! His alias, August Wayne Booth, may be a reference to Wayne Booth, a literary critic.And with that, the Blue Fairy went swoosh and was gone! Out of the window and up into the night sky.He claimed to be a writer, and added the story of Pinocchio to Henry's storybook.Pinocchio is based on the living wooden puppet from the story The Adventures of Pinocchio.Pinocchio attends Regina's coronation with his father, although he is somehow once again in child form.Ī wooden Pinocchio is seen with Geppetto when Queen Regina arrives at their village, looking for Snow White. However, from pages of Pinocchio's written work, Killian realizes that it was he himself who murdered Robert. When David and Killian seek information on David's father, Pinocchio tells them of the time he met Robert and James on Pleasure Island. After recovering, he tells Emma and the others that the Sorcerer's Apprentice can help them.Īfter returning from the Wish Realm, where Emma met a different Pinocchio, she visits the real Pinocchio and realizes that a boy who once spoke to Emma during her childhood about The Ugly Duckling and changing fate was actually Pinocchio, who kept tabs on her despite initially running away. He reveals that The Author has something to do with The Sorcerer, and while Rumplestiltskin is gone, Pinocchio is rescued. Rumplestiltskin transforms Pinocchio back into an adult and threatens to torture him for information about The Author. He is later kidnapped by Maleficent and Regina and taken to Rumplestiltskin's cabin in the woods, where Rumplestiltskin, Ursula and Cruella De Vil are.

Regina and Henry turn to Pinocchio for help identifying ' The Author', but since as a child he has no memory of his life as August, Pinocchio is of no use.

However, due to being selfless, brave and true, the Blue Fairy once again arrives, and turns him back into a boy, but Pinocchio doesn't remember Tamara at all. However, Tamara stops him and electrocutes him to death with her tazer. He tries to warn Emma and the others when Tamara arrives in Storybrooke, as he found out that it was Tamara who killed The Dragon back in Hong Kong. He is still made out of wood, but is now alive due to the magic in Storybrooke. With the curse broken and magic introduced into Storybrooke, August wakes up and runs away into the forest where he lives in an abandoned caravan, eventually found by Snow White. However, by the time Emma believes, August has turned into wood. Retaining his mysterious demeanor, he eventually reveals that his goal is to get Emma Swan, the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming, to believe in the curse in order to break it.

He seeks a cure from The Dragon, but the Dragon is supposedly killed.Īugust goes to Storybrooke, where he stirs up some concern from Regina. Under the alias August Booth, when he is an adult and in Hong Kong, he discovers that he is slowly transforming back into wood. Both of them appear on Earth and are put in an orphanage, where Pinocchio makes a few friends and despite promising to look after Snow and Charming's daughter, he runs away with them. Fearing his son's wellbeing, Geppetto gets Pinocchio to go through the wardrobe, leaving only one spot left, which Snow White and Prince Charming's infant daughter goes through. However, when they hear of the evil Queen Regina unleashing the Dark Curse, Geppetto crafts a magical wardrobe that can transfer only two people to another world. Due to Pinocchio's bravery, she turns him into a real boy. Geppetto washes ashore and cradles Pinocchio in his arms, when the Blue Fairy arrives. After being found by Geppetto, he and Pinocchio sail back towards the Enchanted Forest until they are chased by Monstro, a man-eating whale. As a child, Pinocchio is a liar - whose nose grows when he lies - and a delinquent, and flees to Pleasure Island to escape having a boy's responsibilities. When Geppetto carves a puppet from an enchanted tree, he sees the puppet as his son and calls him Pinocchio.

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