Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26311512-20150512071859/@comment-4636650-20170515001941

86.221.8.84 wrote: TrumpetofTheSwan wrote: Is the star birthmark connected to the crescent scar somehow? I was thinking the same. More than that, I think Lily is the one that is supposed to fight the Savior : in the prophecie it says that he/she will be born on the same day as the Savior and she also has this mark. Lily and Emma weren't born on the same day, they were born at least several months apart; Lily was baptised sometime in August 1983 (going by the newspaper clipping in the episode 'Lily') and given the time that it takes to finalise an adoption etc she was probably already several months old at that point. Emma wasn't born until October 1983 :)

Also if the prophecy you're referring is the one about the 'great evil' that was mentioned in 'The Black Fairy' then it actually stated that that great evil would be 'born' in the same winter as the Saviour, neither Emma nor Lily were born in the winter. I'm still not convinced that the Saviour mentioned in the prophecy is Emma (not unless Fiona managed to completely change the prophecy or render it invalid when she severed Rumple from his destiny) :/

At this point in time I'm more inclined to think that the star birth mark was either just a way for the writers to ensure that the audience made the connection between Emma's childhood friend and Maleficent's daughter or, they did have something planned that involved the star birth mark but, since they've left that plotline unfinished, nothing came of their plans and by the time that they were planning the Black Fairy stuff they'd potentially forgotten about Lily's birth mark anyway :/