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Applegirl wrote: I believe the baby Belle and Rumple had is supposed to be baby Neal. Seeing as Isaac wasn't able to write Emma out of existence, he could only trap her in the tower in the book, so with baby Neal, even though technically he (like Emma) shouldn't exist if Snow and Charming never had children, I guess he chose to just give the baby to Belle and Rumple. I think writing someone out of existence was a possibility that Isaac didn't use for some reason since Regina was going to make him write Zelena out of existence. But that also confuses me because it appears things would have gone smoothier for him if he did have the power to write Emma out of existence, yet either he chose not to (which just seems crazy in his perspective) or he somehow could not (for whatever reason). I don't think it literally writes them out of existence, but effectively does it instead.

Writing out a character could be kill/vaporize them (which usually undoes their magic), erase everyone's memories of that person, then voila! They are erased!

He could have done it to Emma, but I think he can not destroy the Savior, or product of True Love, and just stripped her of powers.