Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-9241531-20150914160852/@comment-1916997-20150914170456

DarlingDavies wrote: I've been thinking through this a lot, as I just re-watched S4. It is hard for me to articulate, so bear with me. Hopefully I make some sense?

I'm thinking about Zelena's essence sinking into the time portal at the end of S3, causing her to be alive in the past, following around Emma and Hook in the EF. Then of course, being able to kill Marian and take on her image w/ the 6 leaf clover. Her whole goal of creating a time travel spell was to go back and take what was Regina's. While she never truly succeded as originally planned, she did manage to live in the past, come back to current day SB and create a baby w/ Robin Hood.

Will Zelena's assumed downfall (or should I say, my personal assumption that she'll be defeated) mean that she may die/dissappear/dematerialize and that the baby may have never truly existed b/c everything Zelena created was false? Was based on magic, lies and deceit?

Basically, will it turn out that Zelena and this baby may not be permanant, or will the baby somehow translate to be Regina's b/c Zelena was always trying to steal Regina's happiness/life?

(Excuse me and my own pregnancy-brain if this doesn't come off clear. I'm just wondering if anyone else has discussed or thought something like this?) Here's the thing: Zelena never really died. Remember what Glinda said when she gives Zelena the pendant, "Guard this with your life, because in many ways it now is your life". That is the key to this whole thing. Zelena's body was no longer the holder of her lifeforce, the pendant was. And Regina took the pendant and placed it safely in her vault. Then, Gold killed Zelena's body, which for most people would mean her lifeforce would have also been destroyed. But as I said, her lifeforce no longer resided in her body, so therefore she never really died. In Harry Potter terms, Zelena's pendant is a horcrux. The only way to truly kill Zelena will be to destroy the pendant, so if Zelena is ever killed off on the show, it will be because someone has destroyed the pendant.