Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-24674051-20170309161438/@comment-24674051-20170315185640

CoolDudeAl wrote: Hmcooper4 wrote: Possibly. Though, I will offer an argument the other way, and have the girl still be a young Robyn.

Regina does have Hispanic characteristics, and Roland does as well. While this could easily be explained by way of Henry Sr and Marian, it is also possible that both Robin and Zelena (and by extrapolation, possibly Cora) have some hispanic heritage as well, and this combination of  Robin and Zelena allowed the heritage to come through.

Also, when was the last time we actually saw baby Robyn. We've seen people carrying a bundle that is meant to be a baby, but I can't recall when we've ever seen the baby itself. Skin tone doesn't work like hair color and eye color though. People don't carry dominant and recessive skin tones. So it would be impossible for Robin and Zelena to have a baby with such a dark skin tone. The only way they could possibly do it, would be to have it be Robin and Marian's baby, because Zelena was glamoured as Marian at conception, but that seems really messy and confusing, so I doubt they would do that. Actually, the articles that I have read on genetics suggest otherwise. looking at some of the research done during early American history, it is possible for 2 people of mixed heritage (specifically black and white in the studies I was reading) to produce offspring that are darker than both parents. And skin tone is controlled by the amount of melatonin in the system, and that factor is genetically controlled (with a whole complex set of rules to govern how this all works).

Now, I'm not saying that this is in fact the case, but just wanted to point out that there is sufficient genetic information to support the theory of a hispanic looking Robyn to be born of Robin and Zelena.