Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-24845770-20140512122141/@comment-3560615-20140513022810

Given that Tink's Pixie Dust works, then Regina and Robin are destined for each other. I'm not sure about the timeline, but Tink showed her "the man with the lion-tattoo" during her lessons with Rumple, when Leopold was still alive and Regina even did not plan to kill Snow. So Marian was alive at that time, too. Regina fleeing her destiny with that man caused her growing bitterness and somehow he ended up with the "wrong woman".

What if somewhere else someone else made a similar decision? There must have been someone for Marian, too. And what if this someone happens to be in Storybrooke, too? Personally I'd love to see that sometime back in the past a young man rebelled against his parents and ran away from home, when his parents came up with the idea to marry him to the young daughter of a family not that far away, who happened to have the name Marian. The man however ended up to become a woodcutter somewhere else where he fell for a young woman, married her and they got twins. Unfortunately their relationship was not meant to be for eternity and the woman died, while the father did his best to manage his work and being a single dad until the day his children got lost in the woods and met a certain Evil Queen who sent them to steal an apple for her...

Michael Tillman is actually the only single in Storybrooke I can remember who happened to have a similar fate than Robin after Marian died, and call me nuts, but I love the idea of similar destinies with True Loves. So when Regina decided not to meet the Lion and "Michael Tillman" decided not to meet the girl his parents chosed they started a chain of events leading to the ill-fated lives for the people involved in their destinies...

I always think back to some of the stories from Season One who just seemed unfinished to me, and the Zimmers are one of these stories in my opinion, just like Ashley and Sean and Leroy and Astrid. Of course Ashley and Sean were near to their Happy End, and now after the curse an everyone regaining their memories I'm sure they have, but I still feel that something is missing since they never actually showed it on screen, just like Kathryn and Jim, would it have been too much in the Season Three-Finale to let Kathryn go to Mary Margaret and David and let her say something? Just two sentences like "Grats you two. Jim's sorry he couldn't make it."

I really hope they will visit some of these Plotlines in Season Four, even if it is just in the background (Ashley and Sean with Andrea in the park or something like that).