Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4050367-20140717023819/@comment-5106672-20150310234435

TheSamTrickster wrote: Rumple can see the future not the past. He met cora after she gave birth to Zelena, hence, he only foresaw regina, ergo, he only considered her the first born. He didn't know Zelena was cora's first born which is why he had to do magic maternity test. For the record there is such thing as firstborn. It doesn't matter whether they had different fathers, technically, Zelena was conceived first, hence, first born. With the twins, the first come is the first born, hehe first means the first one to come out.

Yes, but no. Rumple was alive well before Cora was born, and seemed to know a big deal of the future events that would befall her family. But perhaps he didn't know about Zelena because, as many said, his future sight is not all-inclusive and she wasn't relevant to what he was looking into, namely how to get to Baelfire.

But if you think, it's consistent to the first born clause that, upon finding out about Zelena, he changed his mind and tried to have her cast the Curse, only to change his mind when he reaalised that the thing she loved the most was Rumple himself.

As for Zelena's relevance in his life through her bringing him back from the dead, I think his foresight stopped with the moment of his undoing. What could come next was never in his vision, as evidenced in his talks with Belle before Neverland and his doubt on the island. And also by the fact that he seems not to forsee much these days: most of his Hat plan was a shot in the dark and had to be rearranged several time due to sudden circumstances, until it ultimately failed.