Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25345262-20160724231934/@comment-26967699-20160728002146

Scarydragonvamp wrote: I agree with the idea that Maleficent lied. I find it hard to believe that she mated in dragon form without ever seeing who he was. Also, in 4B we never got a full backstory of Maleficent (how she became evil, what changed between her and Regina, etc.)

Maybe the reason the writers didn't do this was because they had something planned for when it came time to go over Lily's father. As for the King Stefan idea, it's possible. It was heavily implied during 4x14 that they had a past before Briar Rose. I wonder if in the end he chose Briar Rose and dumped Mal, kind of like with Ana and Will.

However, the timelines do not agree at all. Maleficents pregnancy was after or just barely before Regina stole the dark curse, which is years after the implied love between Stefan and Mal.

So overall, there are several possibilities, The egg that contained Lily helped Cruella and Ursula to prevent them from aging. Maybe this was the same for Lily. I mean, maybe Stefan and Mal did something in past, but Mal chose to make Lily stay in that egg and not age. Plus, I agree that Mal probably lied. We need her origin story. And we can't get that story by seeing two dragons doing something awkward. It was the first time that we didn't see how a villain became villain. Our writers presumably had some other ideas about her.