Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26837468-20150311103729/@comment-5106672-20150329021618

Utter solitude wrote: Just because we haven't seen her doesn't make her dead.... she's not essential to the plot. She's probably hanging out in the woods with other werewolves. (Which is an awesome headcanon for me) That would be amazing. :D

The problem with Ruby, though, is she's not just any Whale, Archie, Marco or random anyone who can just disappear and then pop up when they're needed for some very specific case (medical emergency, psychological counseling, talking to Pinocchio). She's got the same problem as Blue: she's a major player. The gang have spent practically the whole Season 3B and 4A tracking down someone (Zelena, Neal, Rumple, Anna, Emma, Ingrid x infinity), and while we-the-fans know what happened "behind the scenes" with Meghan, an itty bitty explanation about why no one hands it down to the proficient, enhanced-smelling werewolf would be needed. I know the least you say about an absent character, the more options you leave open for their return, but storytelling-wise her absence doesn't make any sense.

Personally, I wish they hadn't showed her at all in Storybrooke in Season 3B, only as Red in flashbacks: for some reasons she could have been left behind by Snow's Curse, only to pop up via enchandes anything later on, when schedule and writing would allow it. But hey, none of us write for OUAT so, officially, she's just M.I.A. for no particular reason. :/