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Aine1989 wrote:

-More Dark Ones, Authors, Guardians and Saviors- Again, not an unanswered question. Also we did see more Dark Ones in 5A and another Svaiour in 6A

Also, no offence, but I think a lot of these, like backstories for minnor characters and how does X know Y, can come down to "does it really matter?"

While I agree with you that "I want more about character #108" is not a question, to be fair the Saviors arc did raise many arguable questions.

For example, how are saviors chosen (Rumple seems to be chosen by destiny but Emma was chosen by Rumple)? How many saviors are there?

What is exactly their purpose? It was said that Rumple was to defeat a great evil and Emma was to break the curse, but then season 6 retconned this and said her destiny was to defeat Gideon. What was Aladdin's final purpose? To save Agrabah? But then what is exactly a savior's purpose if the three saviors we've seen had each a different destiny (break a curse, defeat a villain, save a realm)?

They all sound rather generic, so does this mean Regina (she broke season 3's curse and defeated Pan and Zelena), Rumple (he killed Pan and Zelena and helped in defeating Wish Rumple), Zelena (she killed Hades), Charmings (they saved the Enchanted Forest from Regina) are saviors too? So basically as long as you are a hero and do something good you may be called a savior as well, so what's really special about it? It made more sense when the name was unique to Emma and her purpose was to give everyone their happy endings.

Also, Jafar says all Saviors die, but Emma, Rumple and Aladdin didn't. Granted, Rumple and Aladdin were not saviors anymore because of the shears... yet they fullfilled their destiny anyway since Rumple killed Fiona and Aladdin saved Agabah so what are the shears for? What's the point of the "all saviors die" bs?