Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25375217-20161222213035

In Season 4B, an ongoing plot arc (well, as ongoing as any plot arc could be considered in Season 4) was that Isaac and Rumple needed the darkened blood of the Savior to use as ink for the quill. Since Emma proved near-impossible to darken, Regina came up with a new solution:

Lily's blood.

So... what exactly does that mean? Taking it literally, that means Lily has the blood of the Savior running through her veins - presumably the same "blood" that Emma and Aladdin have. So does that mean she is a full-fledged Savior?

Going by Eskaver's theorized laws of Saviorology, Lily has no known prophecy or great evil. Except... what if she does? The implied reason that it worked in Season 4 was because Lily contained Emma's darkness. If that also transferred Emma's Saviorhood, then Lily's prophecy and great evil would be the same as Emma's - the Dark Curse and the Evil Queen. We don't know about her powers, but she's also yet to accept her role. And we know that she has trouble finding happiness.

But wait, there's more. In the alternate universe, Henry also found a solution to creating the ink so that he could write the AU out of existence:

Regina's blood.

Which is completely different. She has no connection to Emma, and thus the blood that was used was her own. But even with Henry directly telling her she was a Savior, and then her attempting to be a Savior in 5A, she never got any powers. But what we do know is that Isaac's AU was able to give people magic (Snow). So I guess the implication here is that the quill is able to redefine who is and who isn't a Savior, though only in the undoable fiction. There was no prophecy, but we didn't get a ton of information on the AU since the episode was told mostly from Henry's POV, so it's possible that in the false history (like James's death) there was also a prophecy. The great evil, then, would be Isaac. She was never seen using magic since she was dying when she accepted her role, but we do know that she would have ended her story unhappily.

What do you guys think? Does this mean we have two more Saviors around (even though one is an ex-Savior from an alternate universe)? 