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2.  Hades or Death will come for Marian. To bargain for her life, Emma offers her own. However, the Snow Queen (who might be good, which is why Rumple chose to keep her imprisoned in his vault) might step in to save them. If the Snow Queen's power is uncontrollable, it makes sense that the Snow Queen would come to a point where she'd want to kill herself--what better way than through heroic self-sacrifice? Maybe for some reason, events unfold such that Death corners Marian & Emma and they have to sacrifice someone to Death at that moment. The Snow Queen appears and asks Emma to take her life instead. This could have major repercussions that would make a great storyline for 4B--Emma could end up taking the mantle of the Witch of the West if my 1st theory is correct.

Once is a show about fairytales. You know there's a Brother's Grimm fairy tale called Godfather Death. Your theory 2 reminds me of it.

A father asks the Death to be his son's godfather. The story continues.

''After the boy came of age his godfather appeared to him one day and asked him to go with him. He took him out into the woods and showed him an herb that grew there, saying, "Now you shall receive your godfather's present. I will turn you into a famous physician. Whenever you are called to a sick person I will appear to you. If I stand at the sick person's head, you may say with confidence that you can make him well again; then give him some of this herb, and he will recover. But if I stand at the sick person's feet, he is mine, and you must say that he is beyond help, and that no physician in the world could save him. But beware of using this herb against my will, or something very bad will happen to you."''

The physician is summoned to the king's sickbed. Death was standing on the king's feet.

''If I could only deceive death for once," thought the physician. "He will be angry, of course, but because I am his godson he will shut one eye. I will risk it." He therefore took hold of the sick man and laid him the other way around, so that Death was now standing at his head. Then he gave the king some of the herb, and he recovered and became healthy again.''

''Soon after the king's daughter becomes ill, death standing again at her feet. The physician saves her the same way. As s consequence of his actions his own life light is diminished and he soon dies afterwards.''

Godfather Death