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Adam's tweets definitely make it sound like this was always the plan. It could be that he's just good at that, but I choose to have faith in him and the other writers. (That's like, the point of this show, right? Telling us that we should have faith in the writers?)

That said, this definitely limits the chances of Ana making an appearance this year unless it's late in Season 6.

Moving on from theorizing why she should/shouldn't be Cinderella's stepsister, what are some other places she could fit in that match the timeline and what Adam has said better? It seems unlikely that they would give Belle stepsisters, but what if we got an additional more traditional version of Beauty and the Beast, with a literal beast instead of figurative? The character of Beauty could have Anastasia and Drizella as stepsisters (instead of biological), as a nod to Cinderella.