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GirlMeetsWorldFan123 wrote: The better question should be how old was Merlin when he got stuck/trapped in tree form?(on the show not in the legend because the once upon a time writers could made the story for his character slightly different with when he was trapped in a tree)

Plus to those who think Merlin would be black might be right because he was kind of shown in the dark swan when he was talking to Emma his actor Elliot knight's favorite Disney Villian is Maleficent so I can kind of see how the whole Merlin/Maleficent being Lily's parents would make sense. But then again I do not think Lily's father would be from Camelot, plus in the dark swan Merlin looked young clearly younger then he would look when he and if he ever gets free from being a tree he might not look the same as he did when he was turned into a tree.i would think it would be safer to say lily has connections to Merlin probably because he is a friend to her father without actually being her father. Plus noone knows how he will look once he gets out of the tree,he might end up being recasted around the time he gets saved from being a tree. Plus we should add in the fact that we have no idea when or where Lily was born(but I highly doubt it was Camelot).

Noone really knows who the writers have in mind for Lily's father. What? No Merlin is not getting recast, Merlin does not age because of magic. Elliot Knight is playing Merlin, we know this to be fact. Merlin will be the same age going in to the tree as he is coming out of it. And we know exactly when and where Lily was born, we saw Snow and Charming steal her egg.