OutlawQueen Love Triangle

Phee wrote:

Also, if Robin knows how Marian died, and in the original timeline she was held prisoner and executed by Regina, how is OQ even a thing to begin with because Robin should HATE Regina?

There’s another angle to that: Robin blames himself for Marian’s death, and even though Marian is in the dungeon for supporting Snow, Robin thinks it’s because of something he did. Did Robin commit a crime against Regina? Will Regina have reason to hate Robin when she learns about this?

I have been seeing Regina’s past enchanted forest self and what I learned from that is Regina is a tough cookie but when it comes to matters of the heart she closes off and runs away. She loved Daniel and then lost him, the pain was so great she was scared to love again which is why she clung on to her anger and passed on Robin the first time. Like a baby deer she listened to Snow and went for it the second time only to receive pain again. Startled and frightened baby deer will run. Or at least try and stay away. My thought is it will be a triangle but only for Robin but Regina will close off. She clung to Henry because unlike Robin, Henry was the baby she raised, he is her son. Robin is something that she was afraid of for a long time.

Here’s the thing PoM. We don’t actually know what happened. If Regina killed Marian, how could Robin not have known about it? And why would he blame himself for her death? There is something else going on there. I see two possibilities.

1) Something happened that lead Robin to believe that Marian had died do to him placing her in danger. Ex. He stole from one of King Georges carriages and Marian was taken during the scuffle. Later word of her execution (by King George) reaches him and he blames himself. Unbeknownst to him, however; she escaped and on route back to Shirwood Forrest was captured for aiding Snow White and was executed by Regina’s black knights.

2) Marian escaped/was released from Regina’s dungeon, found her way back to Robin, and died some other way.

Option 1 makes the most sense because it prevents Robin from ever having known she was in Regina’s dungeon.

Now on the part about it being a deal breaker, he knows who she was (The Evil Queen). He knows that she killed countless villagers on her quest for Snow White and her vengeance. If he was able to overlook all of that already, why is this death a deal breaker, especially now that’s it’s been erased.

Having said all that, I think he’ll return to Marian, but be very conflicted about his feelings for Regina. Marian is obviously very in love with Robin Hood, but to him, she’s been gone for 3 years or so (Which btw, how the heck did Roland recognize her) and he’s moved on. He’s gunna be hella confused about his feelings.

Regina I think will just emotionally shut down. She’s been burned too many times to open her heart again. I don’t think she will go back to evil, but I do think she will adopt the No-Good-Deed-Goes-Unpunished philosophy and just wash her hands of anybody’s who’s name isn’t Henry. Elsa may be on her way, but Regina’s the new Snow Queen in Storybrooke because her heart is Frozen(TM).

Fact of the matter is we don’t know if Regina executed Marian in the original timeline, it was only implied by Marian that that was to happen. Something might have distracted Regina from doing it or perhaps she could have been payment to that sheriff guy, the one that was after Lacey. For all we know Robin could have saved her from that fate only for her to die in some other way. The fact of the matter is that we don’t know, that story was never told and will probably never be told since Emma has gone and changed that story. You cannot hold Regina accountable for something you’re not sure happened and now never did and never will happen. The fact is Regina’s heart has been broken once again and I agree there is now two new Snow Queens in Storybrooke.