Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-13019683-20140512201937/@comment-24757127-20140522214906

ChocolatEyes613 wrote: She was never meant, to reunite with her husband and child. Maybe she didn't die in the original timeline and escaped when Evil Queen was chasing after Charming and Snow after Charming escaped her castle. We don't kow for certain that she died, everyone thought she did beause no one saw her again.

Marian could of been banished to an escapable prison or just straight lost. We've seen that the Evil Queen is capable of torturing people by removing memories, putting them in nearly inescapable places (Hanzel and Gretel), and just keeping them locked up forever. Robin Hood didn't arrive in Storybrook during the first curse so we have no clue if Marian was there, but hidden and locked up like Belle.

Either fate will come for Marian or she'll come to that realization that she doesn't belong in that timeline even though she's reunited with Robin and Roland and then sacrifice herself.