Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24589671-20140329051413/@comment-9232373-20140409154038

Toma Cre wrote:

DZAV21 wrote:

Because then Snow & Charming wouldn't have met and Em & Henry wouldn't have been born. Snow and Charming are soul mates so they may have been destined to find each other one way or another. Plus, we have seen how Rumple was manipulating events in Season 1 to get them together so he would probably accomplish it even if Regina wasn't there to drive Snow out of the castle.

'''Emma and Neal would be a more complex case since they would presumably be in separate worlds. '''But then Zelena, or whoever Rumple found to replace Regina, might have still cast the curse in the alternate timeline. But the events causing Neal to travel to different realms happened before Zelena was even born, so Neal and Emma would still probably meet as they originally did. Also, if Zelena's plan is to change things so Rumple chooses her to casts his curse, then Rumple and Bae still must have been separated, as finding Bae was the entire point of the curse.