Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34657163-20180511014506/@comment-25375217-20180511022724

I feel like Alice was intended to be Hook and Emma's daughter before Jennifer Morrison declined to renew her contract, so I've actually spent a lot of time devising what changes might have been made.

Yours would definitely work. In this version of the storyline, Gothel would probably kidnap Alice as a potential Guardian and either A) find another way to escape the tower, or B) never get locked in there in the first place.

Alternatively, we could keep some of what really happened -- after Gothel locks Alice up, Hook and Emma manage to sneak in and visit her on occasion. Hook could even have a similar thing with Captain Ahab which results in him and Emma both getting poisoned. I could see Hook leaving the Resistance to find a cure while Emma sticks around with Henry. Hook would still be around, just not directly interacting cuz. Y'know. He can't stand within ten feet of Emma. The curse, then, would keep the poison from working, but Emma, Hook, and Alice don't remember that they're family.

The only question is, when does this happen relative to the Resistance? Because obviously Alice had already escaped and traveled realms when Henry first showed up. But, theoretically, Emma and Hook would have come to the NEF with Regina sometime around 702. That doesn't give her much time to escape and travel the realms, so she would be more Rapunzel-y than Alice-y. Maybe she would have been Rapunzel? And Alice and Tremaine would have been something else?