The Hot Seat: Once Upon a Time bosses answer your burning Qs

With Once Upon a Time on the precipice of a rebooted seventh season, EW put executive producers Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis, and David H. Goodman in The Hot Seat, where they have the option of answering your questions from Twitter and Reddit with “Yes,” “No” or “Can’t say.” Get the scoop below:

Is Hyperion Heights invisible to the outside world as Storybrooke was?
ADAM HOROWITZ: No.

Is the curse caused by something that happened during a past season?
ADAM HOROWITZ: Can’t say.

Was someone’s heart crushed for Hyperion Heights to be created?
EDWARD KITSIS: Can’t say.

In this new town, will Rumple/Mr. Gold, the EQ/Regina and Hook/Killian have different names?
DAVID H. GOODMAN: Yes.

Do the returning trio have any memory of Storybrooke?
HOROWITZ: Can’t say.

Is the evil or darkness that is after Henry someone/thing we’ve known before?
KITSIS: Can’t say.

Will the villain of the season be related to our original characters?
HOROWITZ: Can’t say.

Will the Dark One curse come back into play?
KITSIS: You never know.

Is Rumple still affected by the Dark One curse?
GOODMAN: Yeah.
KITSIS: Once you’re cursed, it’s like mono, you always have it with you.

• Will we get an update on Belle?
• HOROWITZ: Oh yes.
• KITSIS: Episode 4. In fact, we can say in episode 4, she’s coming back.
• HOROWITZ:Emilie is coming back.

Will the absence of most of the original cast be explained in the first episode?
HOROWITZ: It will be explained in the first few episodes.

Will there be references to the original story book throughout the season?
GOODMAN: Yes.

Any plans for Emma to return for more than one episode?
KITSIS: Nope.

Will Henry be visiting places from multiple new storybooks?
KITSIS: Yes.

Will we see multiple new versions of characters?
KITSIS: That’s a complicated question. The answer is we will see new iterations of characters we may have met, but there will not be like six Cinderellas going around. We are not going to go to seven different worlds where eight Cinderellas band together to fight eight different Lady Tremaines.
HOROWITZ: We’re also not seeing six Reginas. It’s our Regina.

Will we see original Cinderella this season?
KITSIS: Can’t say.

Does Henry remember his family?
KITSIS: Yes.

Is the Henry who’s Lucy’s father the same Henry we know and love?
KITSIS: I would say he is.

Will there be other main couples besides Henry and his wife?
HOROWITZ: Yes.

Since Henry is grown, will we get to see his uncle Neal or cousin Robin?
KITSIS: Can’t say.
HOROWITZ: You never know.

Did Emma regain her powers as Savior after the Final Battle?
KITSIS: Yes.

Will we see bonding between Hook and Henry?
KITSIS: Absolutely.

Will Regina have a new love interest?
KITSIS: Can’t say.

Will we see the Evil Queen again?
KITSIS: Absolutely. Wait, which Evil Queen?
HOROWITZ: Let’s leave it at that.

Will Regina get to meet Lucy?
HOROWITZ: Yes.

Does Henry’s daughter Lucy have the heart of the Truest Believer now?
KITSIS: You don’t know. Who knows?

Will we know what happened with Maleficent and Lily?
HOROWITZ: Maleficent and Lily are always asked! By the way, if we do five shows after this, I want you asking this in every show.

Will we ever meet the real Morpheus?
KITSIS: Probably at some point.
GOODMAN: Can’t say.

Could we meet another Peter Pan who is evil?
KITSIS: Yes.
HOROWITZ: We could.

Will we get a nod to Wreck-It Ralph?
HOROWITZ: That’s a great idea.
KITSIS: Probably. That’d be amazing.
HOROWITZ: Could we do that?
KITSIS: We should absolutely have a video game of Wreck-It Ralph. That’s a great idea.

Will we learn more about Evil Queen and Robin Hood in the Enchanted Forest?
HOROWITZ: Can’t say.

Will we see any new realms?
HOROWITZ: Yes.

Once Upon a Time returns Friday, Oct. 6 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.