Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25375217-20160628201235

We recently learned that the first episode of Season Six will be titled The Savior, which has led to a lot of speculation on how Emma would be connected to the plot or if there's a new savior. This is a theory conncting to the latter option.

As everyone should know, when Emma decided to stay in Storybrooke, the curse started to break. The curse breaking caused several things: the clock started ticking, Rumple remembered his past life, but most relevantly things started changing. Ashley gave birth. Graham and Archie stood up to Regina. Crickets returned. Ava and Nicholas were reunited with their father. Ruby and Granny started getting along. Etc. Why is this relevant? Because before this, their stories were untold. Adam and Eddy have stated that their definition of an untold story is a story that hasn't been given an ending. While time was frozen in Storybrooke and everyone kept repeating their lives, their stories were "untold".

Therefore, it can be safely assumed that the "Land of Untold Stories" functions similarly. But what did we see in the Season 5 finale? Jekyll and Hyde's story continued. Jekyll managed to finish the serum that allowed them to split into two entirely different people, and then he also managed to escape Hyde's grasp entirely (for a very short amount of time, but hey, you take what you can get.)

At the end of An Untold Story, Hyde brings several Untold residents to Storybrooke, where he believes their stories can take their course. But why does he think this? It could just be because of the nature of Storybrooke and how it was in the Dark Curse. But what if it's something more specific?

My theory is that Jekyll could never have finished the serum if the heroes hadn't shown up, simply because of the nature of the realm. The realm is cursed to never have happy endings, to always stay untold - which means there's a savior too, because we see that "curse" get broken.

Here's the thing though.

Emma didn't go to the Land of Untold Stories.

She was in New York with Regina and Gold hunting down Henry and Violet.

The people who showed up in the Land of Untold Stories, triggering the completion of the serum, were Snow, David, Hook, and Zelena.

If you take everything else I've said as fact (which it may or may not be), that means that one of thsoe four is our new savior.

The chances of it being Snow or David seem rather slim given their recent plots and the fact that having one of them being the savior without the other would be strange. So that leaves two options: Hook and Zelena.

I could see either of them being the savior. Hook because they seem fond of him recently and also because it may allow them to give him a development arc separate from Emma, and Zelena because it would help with her redemption.

What do you think? Will we get a new Savior, and will it be Hook or Zelena? 