Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-26542139-20171120165123/@comment-24304025-20171120181326

Eskaver wrote: I think I've realized the misconception (didn't feel like it needs a thread).

WR is not at all about the dark curse, but a realm where Emma never became the Savior. Ignoring Hook's random statement, the dark curse is just a major plot pivot, but it's clear that things were changed beforehand (which was a given, especially with young Robin and Nottingham, no Roland, no Marian, Snow and David somehow stealing her magic and banishing the Queen to another world). Not just that.

What matters for the wish is Emma, not the realm.

So, Emma is not a savior in this realm. Period.

It's not that this world has a story based on the fact that Emma is not the savior. The whole story is different, Baelfire apparently never went to the LWM, so why did Rumple give Regina the curse? And why does Hook think that going to the LWM would help him defeat the Crocodile? Who knows. It's pointless and it doesn't matter. What does mather is that this world exists and has real people and Emma ended up here because of the wish. Anything else is speculation and might be headcannoned as an unwanted and unpredictable consequence of dealing with genies aka The Price.