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8Rob wrote:

But yeah, Serum Queen and Regina are the same person. Heck we even saw Queenie coming out of Regina's chest. So, biologically they would be both the mother

I think even the W!Evil Queen would be also biologically a mother since they are clones for the originals I don't agree that the Wish Realm counterparts would also count as a parent. Mainly because I view them as separate people (if I recall there are even discussions on this wiki that treat them as separate people). It's because of different events and different timelines; WR characters experienced different things, never went to Storybrooke in the first place, etc. WR counterparts are essentially parallel universes of what would have happened to the characters. I view WR characters as more like twins or doppelgangers.

Think of it this way: WR Hook is the father of Alice/Tilly. Storybrooke Hook is going to be the father of Emma's baby, yet I wouldn't consider WR Hook to also be the father of Emma's baby, nor do I view Alice and Baby Jones as half-siblings. Genetically, they have the same father, but each father has had totally different experiences and memories in life.

Same can be said of WR Robin Hood. I would not consider him to be the father of Robin, rather a doppelganger that just happens to have the exact same DNA as her dad. Because he has had different experiences and memories in his realm that her father did not have. He's lived his own life, separate from Robin Hood.

Serum Queen has the same memories and life experiences as Regina, as they were the same person, up until they were split. WR Queen has no experiences with Storybrooke, Hyperion Heights or anything that has happened to Regina after the First Curse. She has her unique memories (particularly her defeat by the Charmings and subsequent exile/escape) and is probably living somewhere else in the WR, and is living a completely different life than Regina or Serum Queen have ever experienced. Also since there was no Storybrooke, WR Queen never adopted Henry, so she wouldn't be his mother, whereas Regina and Serum Queen would.

Essentially, I consider Serum counterparts as more closely related to the original and their offspring more than I would WR. Serum counterparts could be viewed as clones or twins, whereas WR would just be doppelgangers or parallel universe versions that have no relation to the original.