Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-34360784-20180116101248/@comment-25375217-20180117053603

CoolDudeAl wrote: DatNuttyKid wrote: I agree that we cannot list Alice and Brennan on the other Hook's pages.

How do you know that everyone in the Wish Realm has the same parents? All we saw is that Emma and Henry did. No one else was given a family tree. There is absolutely no evidence for that assumption except inductive reasoning (I think I'm using that term correctly) -- because it was true once, it MUST be true every other time.

Except we know inductive reasoning doesn't apply to the Wish Realm. Using inductive reasoning, Snow, Charming, Emma, Hook, and Pinocchio have all aged for the 28 years they would have been under the curse, so, therefore, everyone must have aged for those 28 years. And yet, Robin of Locksley exists, the same age he was after being frozen for 28 years. Furthermore, his history is different as Marian died before he became Robin Hood and they were never married.

It's always safer and more encyclopedic to not assume when there is no clear evidence. And in this case, all we have is inductive reasoning, and that's not enough. Ages are very different from people's biological parents, we know ages can be altered with magic, but we haven't seen anything about changing parents with magic. Furthurmore, we have clear evidence from the show that Hook and WHook have the same past, as WHook states it on the show. Hook, Regina, and even WRumple have also stated that the Wish Realm is fake, but we know that's not true. The show has shown us repeatedly and consistently that the characters do not understand how the Wish Realm works. And how would WHook know the name of Hook's parents?

The more reliable opposite of inductive reasoning is deductive reasoning. Deductive reasoning states that because we know some things in a given Wish person's history may be different from their counterpart's, that means anything in a given Wish person's history may be different from their counterpart's. With that in mind, we cannot assume anything that has not been outright stated. The name of WHook's father and Hook's mother have not been outright stated.