Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-34360784-20180116101248/@comment-1916997-20180117050625

Eskaver wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Eskaver wrote: We can’t add both sides together because we cannot assume everything is the same. “Infinite Realms, infinite possibilities.”

Can we add Cora and Zelena and Henry, etc to Wish Queen’s tree? No, because we have no clue who and what happened.

Real Hook’s mom could be a twin with her twin sister being Alice, but her name is Dinah. Wish Hook could be the result of the other twin sister getting the very noble Brennan. This is as factual as hypothesiszing that they have the same family tree. Actually, no it can't work how you are describing. Nothing the writers said, nothing the characters said, nothing we saw, supports that. And yes, Wish Queen's parents would be Cora and Henry Sr. They are the same biological person, they can't have different parents. Not how biology works. Actually, yes. As we don't know how Wish Realm functions yet. Unless you have writer confirmation AND in-show evidence that the WR didn't spring forth from a wish and that everything is accurately equal, then it does work like that.

I can ask, "What do you know about Alice Sr.?" The answer is nothing. If Hook's mom had a twin sister, how would we know Real Hook's mom isn't the other sister? How do we know Hook didn't spawn out of thin air with some manufactured backstory? Henry Sr could be called Harry in this reality. Even if biological things are the same, there are factors like types of relationships and names, etc.

The answer is that we don't. Whether or not Alice and Brennan really existed in the Wish Realm or not is not the point. WHook has memories that they did, even if all the characters did appear from the wish. Otherwise, we shouldn't say any characters exist in Wish Realm exist unless we actually saw them. And no one has been shown to have a different name in the Wish Realm, so saying someone might is pure speculation, and doesn't go with what has been shown.