Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25375217-20161222213035/@comment-25926288-20161222215946

I don't think they are Saviors. They are honestly just characters wrapped up in poorly developed writing. 4B is arguably the worst arc, but to not recount I'll just say that they could have thought it through a lot better. So, if we try to not see Saviorology as a retcon (which it sort of is and retcon isn't a bad writing tool), then I'd label them as False Savior. You know, like prophet versus false prophet, pope vs anti-pope, etc. Let's break it down:

Regina in "Heroes and Villains": If we take the book as some form of prophetic work (which could be seen that way since the book was mass-published and read before Henry and Isaac entered the book), pretty much everything is fine. However, Regina was just Bandit Snow. She was powerless and overall just not much more. The Quill needed the blood of a Savior, but what it got was simply the blood of a hero.

Technical details: It really doesn't make any sense. If you need the blood of someone that "restores" the happy ending, either dark or light, in order to change events of stories, fine. But AU Regina didn't do much besides step in front of Henry. Headcanon: The Quill just needed ink. I mean why should I take Henry's exposition as fact when he knows nothing? The scene showed that doing this rewrite stripped Isaac of his powers. (I just figured the real limit of the Author's powers, guys!) Isaac said that the Quill needed ink. Emma offers, but Isaac somehow prevented her "Savior" status from coming into play. However, Isaac tried writing Emma out the story and failed. So, this seal on Emma's Savior-ness probably failed as well, but we'll never know because Henry started talking about light and darkness, blood and heroes. I just think he didn't want to waste fresh blood. XD

Lily: The Apprentice moved "darkness" from blank-slate Savior-to-be Emma into blank-slate Lily when Snow and David went to remove her "potential for darkness". Got that? Right! It makes no logical sense. I like to divorce this darkness potential into good karma and bad karma. Every blank-slate has good karma and bad karma in equal shares. As the fate-bound Savior, Emma had boatload of good karma (brings happiness, defeats evil) and bad karma (dies unfulfilled, unhappiness), more than normal people. The Apprentice just moved this bad karma onto Lily. Thus, Lily had a bad life having greater propensity to make bad choices and continued to make them over and over.

Technicalities: If the Quill used powerful "karma" to work, then it would explain everything. Then AU Regina simply had powerful karma because she's the protagonist of a young adult fiction book. (Note: I just used the word karma to invoke a certain thought. Exchange it with luck, hidden potential, etc, but I was not talking about the actual concept of karma.)

Other than that, nope.