Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27842894-20160502213929/@comment-24674051-20160503162334

I agree that assuming that if 1/2 of Snowing dies the other dies with it is pure speculation. We have seen nothing to indicate that their hearts work any different than a regular heart at this point. They are True Love (the rarest form) which is why the heart split even worked in the first place (again somewhat speculative, but also reinforced by things in the story). But we don't actually know what happens once the half heart is placed.

Although, in writing this, I think I found the problem with Snowing since 3B. Everything that they've done has been done half-hearted. XD

But I don't think there is any reason to speculate on Snowing being the target. The writers went to a little effort to make sure that Baby Neal had at least one of his parents (by getting Snow out of the UW), and I can't see them messing that up now by killing the either parent.Working down the rest of the list of the Main characters, the only reasonable options are Robin and Belle. They won't kill Henry, Snowing is off the table (as stated above), and they won't kill Emma, Regina, or Rumple. Killian is (at least for the moment) already dead, so killing him again is kinda pointless.

with Robin, the option would be a direct (and hopefully heroic) death. With Belle, they could kill Moe which leaves her in eternal slumber. and the bit of forshadowing from Ruby Slippers makes that outcome a real possibility.

And to reply to the person that questioned whether this should be in the spoilers section. At this point, we are conjecturing on information contained in the Promo for next week (which aired at the end of "Firebird"), which aluded to a potential (note: potential) death. So the discussion can remain here, so long as we keep any other spoilery information away.

Finally, a little speculation. The 2 mains that are vulnerable are directly related to 2 powerful, and honestly most volatile, magicians in town. If either were to lose their significant other, it could get ugly. Particularly if Rumple is on the losing end, that might finally push him over the darkness edge. Regina might hold up better with Family and friends.