Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25375217-20161026033802

I have a theory about who the true Big Bads of the series are, but I like to do clickbait, so I am making an unclear title and a very long intro so that you must read my post to find out what I think :D

Regina's ever-present plot is her inability to receive a "Happy Ending". She is doomed to be unhappy because she was the Evil Queen, according to her. And though many characters insist that she should be able to create her own Happy Ending, life constantly stacks the odds against her. Similarly, we now know that Emma (and Aladdin) cannot receive Happy Endings because they are Saviors, and all Saviors are doomed to die unhappily for no good reason.

In Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, Nyx hints towards something behind the scenes that decides whether or not someone's story has come to an end. While Amara intended to die, Ana was inexplicably not, and therefore could be revived some time postmortem.

And Jafar has now introduced an item with the power to edit this decision: the Shears of the Three Fates.

So let's see. There's a mysterious force able to decide whose fate has been sealed and whose has not. Our main characters suffer from unhappiness because their fates have been sealed. And the only item that can change this is a pair of shears belonging to the Three Fates. Hmm...

That's right. Once Upon a Time's true villains: Fate itself. Themselves? Whatever.

I think that Season Six is building up to this reveal. Just like Season 5A made many references to Greek mythology and the Underworld leading up to the arc within the Underworld, I think the Shears are the first of many nods to the Fates leading up to the reveal that they are (quite literally) pulling the strings behind everything. The Heroes have been fighting the Fates indirectly since Season 4 with their hunt for the Author. When Emma healed Robin Hood without paying the price, the Fates had Hook die, only for Emma to grant him immortality. So they sent the Fury to take Robin Hood back, but Regina, Snow, David, and the Dwarves took it out, too. So the Fates had Hook die again, but Zeus stepped in the way of that one, and the Fates' final blow was allowing Robin Hood's soul to be destroyed.

But now the heroes are back at it, and I think this is all the Fates can stand. The hooded figure who kills Emma? Atropos, the Fate responsible for determining when one's life has come to an end. Tired of Emma's attempts to stop fate, Atropos and her sisters decide to take matters into their own hands and send Atropos herself to force Emma to accept their decisions. The Heroes will eventually defeat the Fates in the name of Free Will and Happiness, allowing everyone their shot at happiness without a third party manipulating it for their own enjoyment. But to do so, Emma, the Savior, has to take all of the punishments that the Fates have arranged upon herself. The series would then end with Emma's soul being apparently obliterated, but she instead arrives in Mount Olympus with Zeus. Many people who were cheated by the Fates, including Robin Hood, are allowed to return to their home realms to live their lives unhindered, so Regina and Robin Hood end up happy together. The last scene would be Henry writing the ending of the Once Upon a Time Book. He smiles sadly but satisfied at the illustration, which is of Emma, happier than she's ever been before, welcoming people into Mount Olympus.

I dunno, I think this would be nice and it makes sense to me :P Feel free to brutally tear it apart now. 