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Marian's death is a tricky thing. Before Emma and Hook interfered with the time line Robin kept saying it was his fault that she died. He "inadvertingly put her into harm's way during the job". I know it was mentioned that Snow and Robin know each other back in the time when Snow was a bandit. Still, I believe Marian ending up in Regina's dungeon to be executed the next day because she didn't tell where to find Snow is an event that occured because the time line was already effected by Hook's and Emma's arrival. Or at least for me it's a disturbing thought that pixie dust brought Robin and Regina together despite the fact that she pretty much tried to kill his wife. (There'sno Place like home.) Not a good foundation to start a relationship.At the beginning of the episode (before changing anything) Snow Drifts Regina was so honest to tell Robin how she knows that he's her soulmate (lion tattoo) I think she would have rememberered if she'd once imprisioned Marian.

I noticed one thing in Snow Drifts: The trolls died exactly the same way they did in Snow Falls. Dark Fairy Dust turned them into bugs and someone stepped on them. The trolls died in both time lines exactly the same way. (103 Snow 322 Regina). Moreover in EP 214 a seer told Rumple that

„the future is a puzzle. In time you’ll learn to separate what can be from what will be.“

Deaths are inevitable. Bringing her to the future won’t save Marian. She’ll die. Probably later but she’ll die anyway.

I wonder if Marian will have any memories from her past. I hope someday (Season 4) Robin will ask his wife what happened to her during the time they didn’t see each other. Considering that Marian should have already  been  dead by the time she did this time jump I have serious doubts that Marian can give any satisfying answer to Robin.

Did someone die instead of Marian back in the past of 322? In Once if you want to revive somebody someone else has to give his life. (Cora-Rumple, Neal-Rumple)

Robin is a smart guy. Sooner or later he’ll sense that something went wrong somehow. Regina won’t be the only one to know that in Season 4.