Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-24846659-20140813193020/@comment-24674051-20141021173916

Anubis16 wrote: LemonFaust wrote: The Snow Queen was recruted by Rumple for to control Emma's powers and/or Henry's conception. It's possible that she is the person who find Henry for Mr. Gold who arrange his adoption by Regina I remember 3.09 that Rumplestiltskin mentioned that Regina would have a void and would go to him, is it possible that he had orginally intended for Regina to adopt Emma, but then somehow she adopted her son instead Possible, but I don't think so. Remember all the way back to the pilot that Rumple stated that the Savior would come back on her 28th birthday. I took that to mean that she would be completly away from whereever the curse was until that time.

I do think it is possible that Rumple choreographed "finding" Emma's son. I don't think that he intended it be his own grandson, though. That was other powers at work as well. (particularly given that the Darling's were right there to scoop Henry up if Regina had gone through with returning him).

Possible scenerio: Rumple knew that Emma would have a child before her return to break the curse. He set conditions so that someone (for argument's sake, let's say Sara Fisher/ aka the Snow Queen) could watch over Emma, and at the right time take the baby for Regina to adopt. They are also there to make sure that Emma has the encouragement to go and break the curse at the right time. When Neal arrived back in the LWM, someone else (either Pan or some other higher power) arranged to have Neal and Emma meet, knowing that there would be something special about an offspring decended from both the product of True Love and the Dark One. Neither side expected that Emma would willingly give up her baby, leading to the chase to see who could get to Henry first.

There is still a hole in the whole timeline, and that is how Pinnochio knew Baelfire, where to find him, and that he needed to distance himself from Emma so that she could fulfill her role of curse breaking. The Snow queen could have helped with that as well, without tipping her hand as to who she was or who she was working for (since if Neal ever found out Rumple we behind something, that would start a whole different series of actions).