Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25896389-20160225042002/@comment-25926288-20160225124621

Well, Rumple would have had to wait until Snow and David met and other stuff. So, it would be an awkward number of years waiting as by the flashbacks, Snow was in her early teens/ still a preteen at that moment in time.

Zelena doesn't seem the type to adopt, but fate will find away to have Emma come to Storybrooke and then it gets tricky.

Zelena is smarter than Regina (imo), but she's also more lonely and we never saw how she ruled Oz, so we wouldn't be accustom to her style. Zelena and Emma wouldn't have much to fight over and I wouldn't have any clue how Emma would break the curse.unless it was via Graham or August or some weird relationship with Mary Margaret. Chances are Zelena would break it herself by literally killing Emma and then the show would come to an end. Zelena's a tad to smart for that, but I have no other way to have Emma break the curse and Rumple would probably let Zelena by with finding Belle and stuff.

In simple terms, it would be a mess.