Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5205908-20141215153323/@comment-460264-20141216003230

Chameleon-Guy wrote: It's the same thing, they were always looking for happy endings, first it was finding Bae, now it's power AND love for Rumple. The difference is that now the villains want to find the author who is the cause of their problems - but I always think that, even if the author exists, fate is always up to the characters, they just don't get it.

Completely agree. I think the Author can only write history and not the future, thus what has happened can't be changed (unless you have a time travelling spell of course, but even then that's still history). As for the page of Regina and Robin's potential first meeting years ago that didn't happen, that probably came about because the Author has some prophetic ability and could see the possible paths Regina might have taken. Once she chose not to go into the pub, the page didn't need to exist until such time the Author felt Regina needed to realise it was her own choice.