Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25878580-20141216100555

Could she be Meg?

I only say that because Lily's casting call read: "a bright, self-reliant teen who boasts a charming, take-no-prisoners punk exterior and the heart of a secretive, insecure opportunist"

That sounds an awful lot like Meg. Lest we forget how insecure Meg was under her sassy girl facade. Lily even look like how I would imagine a young Meg to look. High ponytail and everything.

I cannot shake the potential Hercules plot. Especially after randomly seeing those Grecian artifacts in the winter finale during the Rumple and Belle flashback. There was a helmet and some other things on Rumple's shelf. It was so odd.

We know Lily can't be the sorcerer because A&E already said the sorcerer was not someone we already met. And we know the author is a he not a she because Rumple used the male pronoun when referring to the author at the end of the winter finale. So even if the sorcerer and the author were different people, Lily couldn't be either of them. And also making her Tiger Lily would be way too easy. Plus I don't think the show is going to start up the Neverland arc again when they have so many other characters to choose from.

I also cannot get over her star birthmark. Some people have been floating theories that it is connected to the stars on the hat making her the sorcerer but we now know that cannot be. However, it could apply to a Hercules storyline. The Cosmos and stars were extremely important to the Hercules story so maybe the birthmark is there because she has the Gods [the Greek Gods that is] on her side somehow.

Meg let someone into her life before and that person betrayed her which is why she ends up the way she is. Well Lily let Emma in and then Emma kind of abandoned her too which could lead to the formation fo the Meg personality we know. I read somewhere that someone thought Lily might be Esmeralda but that wouldn't fit that casting call. There are many other phrases that would describe Esmeralda before the ones that were used for Lily.

Emma and Meg aren't that different considering Emma used to be super against letting people in, a problem not restricted mostly to her love life and men [cough cough Meg too]. Then again, Emma and Lily also had a weird "Fox and the Hound" moment with the friends forever thing and then they got seperated [the metaphor only occurred to me when I rewatched some scenes showing the interior of the mystery mansion in Storybrooke because there were fox and hound book ends] but I think that is just a coincidence. Back to the task at hand.

I really do think Lily is Meg.  