Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25375217-20171128195846/@comment-25926288-20171129160019

DatNuttyKid wrote: ...I'm sorry, what? How exactly is the Red Queen's story complete? We have literally nothing from her backstory, and we don't know what happened in Season 4 with Will. You'd have to pretend Jabberwocky's hints at her backstory and all of Season 4 never happened to say her story is "complete".

Lily and Maleficent are popular enough characters that her father is worth covering in whatever media it takes. Clearly, an episode isn't happening, so a book makes the most sense. And if they can make a novel about Henry and Violet sneaking off to hold hands and steal kisses in New York, I think they can pull off a novel about Lily and Maleficent traveling the realms in search of her father.

If we're looking at teens only, Anastasia's backstory would be the most obvious out of these two examples. But I'm not convinced that these books have to be exclusively teenagers. Ruby's book was filling in holes in her backstory which happened to take place while she was younger; Regina is a popular character but her story is pretty full once she grows up, so childhood was really the only option to write for her; and this book is, again, filling in a hole in Henry's backstory, which we know has to take place before he's 18. By complete, I mean completely irrelevant. XD

I'm putting it under the assumption of teen characters, then Ana's story is a weird conundrum. Her story doesn't lend itself to an interesting premise. Season 4 was about Will getting back to Ana and really was unnecessary. Ana's backstory, while something unknown, is a Cinderella story, and those are pretty much done. Saying we know nothing about her backstory isn't true. Complete doesn't mean we have to know every detail about these characters' lives.