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AppleTree23 wrote: ROSSELLA1 wrote: Even if they were convinced it was a dragon baby (which I think they were grasping at straws and trying to convince themselves instead of absolutely certain), the idea of making a huge, fire-breathing dragon even more likely to be evil...how is that a good thing for anyone? The fact that it was in egg form doesn't exactly feel like "grasping at straws". While, it was obvious to the viewer because we know that Mal lost her child, it could be easy to suspect that the half dragon fairy (or witch? She's a fairy in Sleeping Beauty, I'm not sure if they clarified on Once) gave birth to an egg dragon.

And ensuring the righteousness of your child does seem more importanat than the righteousness of a dragon.

With all that being said, what they did was awful. The same way Regina took 28 years away from Emma and Snow/Charming. Guess the Charmings have her beat by 2. I don't know. I still feel like fact that Mal can transform forth and back had to have signaled something in their brains that the child could do the same. However, lets agree to disagree on that point.