Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-8345449-20140513141958/@comment-5834856-20140518143044

Applegirl wrote: The fact that Emma took Marian out of a past timeline and into a future one makes me wonder if Marian's fate will still remain the same. Meaning that death, no matter the timeline, will still come in some shape or form to take away Marian's life. I guess that's something to ponder about time travel. Is it really possible to escape one's so called "fate" when someone's future is altered in the past, or will that "fate" continue to chase after Marian until she runs out of time for good? That's exactly the same question I asked myself.

Marian escaped her fate twice. The first time Robin healed her with a wand from a fairy. The second time Emma saved her.

There's a Brother's Grimm fairytale called Godfather Death. A man asks the Death to be his son's godfather. The son becomes a physician. Death gives a gift to him. He'll appear every time the son has to treat a person. If Death is standing at the foot of the bed the person will die no matter what the physician tries to do. Being a smart person the physician begins to cheat death. He turns people around so that Death is now standing at their head. In the end the physician dies himself because every time he saved a person that way he gave up a small amount of his own remaining life time.

Moreover there are the trolls. Comparing  Snow Falls and Snow Drifts the trolls died both times and they died exactly the same way. Both times dark fairy dust turned them into bucks and then someone (1. Snow 2. Regina) stepped on them.

Would it be a solution to send back Marian to the time where she came from? Pesonally I think this might be a possibility but I'd doubt it to be a chosen one. Marian would tell that she was locked up by Regina and Regina knows that Emma brought Marian with her. Regina is smart, she might figure out why Emma brought Marian. Depending on how much Regina is able to maintain her changed attitude (light magic) she would not be happy. Furthermore, Robin would have to go through mourning all over again.