Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-3038174-20130429210540/@comment-24674051-20150603161829

Eskaver wrote: This must have been asked, but I'll ask it anyway:

Why couldn't (they have had) Robin Hood be Snow's mentor?

They have Marian dying to defend Snow. They have Snow use Robin Hood's bow. She is an incredible marksman and if I'm not mistaken, Sherwood Forest appears to be right next to and bordering Snow's/Regina's/Leopold's kingdom. Which also questions how Robin wouldn't know more of the Evil Queen that was right next door. I mean Cora takes a stroll and here's Nottingham, lol. (Side-note: I think despite the lack of accent, that was the bar or similar to the bar Cora worked at). Having Robin be Snow's Mentor was the generally accepted theory for a long time, but when the gang was back in the EF during the lost year, the dialogue made a point of having Robin say that "At last we meet", which would seem to be an indication that these two had never met in the past, though at least Robin was aware of Snow and her reputation.

In fact, I think they even went on to say that Robin's awareness of Snow was due to having to share tree space between the wanted posters for both Robin and Snow.

Snow got the Bow from Rumple (season 1). Rumple took it from Robin when Robin broke into his castle (Season 2, Lacey I believe). And Robin got the bow in Oz (Heart of Gold, season 4). Now, how Walsh came to have possession of the Bow is not known, and I would imagine that the bow is probably somewhere in Gold's pawn shop currently, though I think Snow lost it (or put it away) well before the Curse, since we saw her practicing once with a normal bow (It had to be normal, since she was missing the target), and David was there to help her adjust her aim (I think that was Lost Girl).

As for the bar being the same bar that Cora worked in when she was younger, you might have a point. Though I kinda thought that bar that Ursula was in was probably more like the one that Cora worked in, but since they never say, it probably does not really matter.