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Belle may forever be sidelined. They had great opportunity with Belle in season 4, but she was sleep or with rebound Will doing hardly much more than before.

Well, I may despise fandom verion of Hook and how awkward and bad the redemption is going (which is the same for pretty much all the villains), but I will alwasy say that the main 4 are Emma, Rumple, Regina, Snow simply because that is the set up and the foils for one another. Hook, Belle, Robin, David, and Henry are all on the second tier. Hook was hardly sidelined like Belle, but his fans may see differently. But I'm certain that he had more on-screen time and more involvement than Belle has ever had this season.

Using ideas I saw on the web, many see OQ paralell Snowing, which is quite obvios and reason why they are the pair of characters in the main four. Robin needs to react to stuff and not whatever they are doing to him. Robin is a glorifed Belle--I mean cheerleader with little more than that. Robin doesn't react to Zelena being the mother of his child or Marian's real death or Regina's plan to kill Marian, or her plan to strip Marian of her happiness (Regina's plan to find the Author was going to take Robin and Roland from Marian at the time). Robin seems like he's a prop, oh wait, he is. Robin has no story arc or arc foreshadowed since he's happy with his rebound girl (jk).

So, none will die because they have so much to do. Unless they pull another Neal and screw the audience because "Gee, bold storytelling" (which was atrocious), everyone will live. It really lacks suspense, especially when noone died in season 4. When they said that I knew the temporary death wouldn't be relevant and the major death would only possibly be Rumple if any.