Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-31564770-20170515163509

Alright guys, let's talk S7 adult Henry. Bring your theories and let's try to see what we can come up with!

A few opening questions/points, which I'll also answer for myself and my theories.

1) Henry is with Lucy in the EF. All we know about when is Henry's an adult and we know it's "A time of great turmoil." Henry also has the original book. He tells Lucy to go and protect it, before pulling out Charming's sword to fight some sort of massive beast that busts into his home.

- How much time has passed? Beyond the fact that Henry is obviously an adult and stuff. Basically, when are we? - Follow up, is that the future or the past? Is that even Henry or is it a past Author that looks just like him? - What's the beast that has found them? - Why did the beast need to find them? Why were they hiding? - What's the turmoil that's going on in the EF?

Here are my answers, in order, to that set. - At least 15 years. Henry has a 10 year old kid, and young Henry was 13-14 last I checked. That would put Henry at 18-19 when Lucy is born, which is kinda young, but that's assuming he is actually her biological father. We haven't seen her mother, so we don't know anything about ethnicity stuff. - Most signs say this is the future. Henry is older, he has a kid, e.t.c. However, Tiger Lily is a fairy as we see in the next scene with them. Unless she re-fairyified herself somehow, that points to the past. - My bet for the beast? Ogres. Given the shadow was humanoid but also massive, and that roar sounds like an ogre, I'd say ogres have returned. - As far as I know, ogres don't target and hunt specific people. They're more of a "destroy all life" type of enemy. So, maybe someone's controlling the ogres? They've teamed up with a new villain? And said villain wants to destroy hope and belief and goodness, all of which is embodied in the book, so they want to destroy the book? - Going off the new villain theory, I'd say that combo pack of another Ogre's War, plus a new big bad who has enough power to make the ogres work for them or has enough weight to get the ogres to form an alliance? I'd say that's turmoil.

2) By the end of S6, nobody has died. Not even the EQ, who sacrificed herself but was then brought back when the EF was restored. Everyone got happy beginnings. Yet we know that 2/3 of the mains are not returning and the only definitive answer we have is for Jared cuz Henry's old now.

- Where did they all go? Offscreen death, moving to other realms, or what? - Henry's old now. Time has passed. Regina, Rumple, and Hook are the same actors meaning they haven't aged. So, for them, somehow, time hasn't passed. Why?

My answers: - Mix of offscreen death and going separate ways. Note that A&E never said the mains who are leaving will never be seen again, actually they said the opposite. My bet is we see them in flashbacks every once in a while, since flashbacks are an integral Once thing that makes the show the way it is. We gotta have flashbacks! - New curse. My bet? Henry leaves SB for college or something, stuff happens, spends some time in the EF, then somehow loses his memories and moves to Seattle. Lucy shows up, takes him back to SB, everyone's cursed and has been cursed for quite some time and they haven't aged, and so the cycle begins anew. I really have exactly no clue how this is gonna work beyond the only way for them to use the same actors is that no one has aged cuz they were cursed.

3) Lucy needs to make people believe the stories. The fairies have foreseen that she will find her dad again, but the way Tiger Lily said it makes me thing the fairies are being shady again and are hiding the fact that after they're reunited bad stuff happens.

- Why did people stop believing? - How did Lucy get to the LWM? - Why is the book different?

My answers:

- No. Clue. I have no idea how this is gonna work, but I bet it involves the new villain/ possible ogres and all that. - Magic wardrobe portal? The fairies sent her? - It's a new book? Why does it end on everyone's happy beginnings? Maybe it's a spinoff book? 