Reply To: Saving Marian

Emma: You gave up your freedom to ensure Snow White’s?

Woman: (nods) Yeah. I believe her to be innocent.

Yeah…see this gets me…as a mother and a wife…you’re willing to lay down your life for someone you don’t even really know, and barely considering the devastation it would cause to your family and friends. Martyrs are good and all, but there’s a line in every situation, and I feel Marian could have avoided this.

Marian didn’t even have to tell the truth to Regina….all she had to do was point in the opposite direction Snow ran in! Like…at least try to find a way out of this situation before you just throw your hands up and surrender.

This is not a woman who willingly left her family. She is protecting them, probably because she knows Robin would risk his own life to save hers if he knew where she was. She believes Snow is innocent, but she also knows what the alternative to Snow White is–The Evil Queen who threatens and kills entire villages (remember, this happens after the village massacre in The Evil Queen) because, in her own words, she isn’t happy. How could Marian not try to save Roland from living under that kind of ruler?

Yeah…here’s the kicker….the Locksley Family weren’t even under Regina’s reign…they were under King John’s. Two separate kingdoms…the Locksley Family just so happened to be in the Evil Queen’s territory. So Evil Queen’s rule wasn’t Marian’s issue, therefore Roland wouldn’t be living under it….they seemed to just be traveling through different kingdoms, and were just at the wrong place at the wrong time.

And again…she didn’t have to tell Regina the truth. Lie….you know you’re to die if you don’t say anything at all, so what’s the hurt in trying to lie to get out of it. I would have just had more respect if I saw her at least try anything instead of screaming “You’re A Monster! You’re A Monster!” Like that is gonna score you any good points….she had a family to get back to, she should have did whatever she had to do.

And honestly, twisting Marian’s actions into a rejection of her family so that it’s less horrible for Robin to want to leave her for Regina takes away from how Regina’s grown as a character. Marian never rejected her family. The clues we have (little as they are) suggest that she got into trouble doing a mission that Robin set for her–she was helping her beloved husband, protecting her son, and trying heroically to give her kingdom a chance. Marian is not a bad person, and completely deserves our sympathy–whether or not we want Robin with her.

I’m not twisting anything…I’m just saying the alternatives Marian could have taken rather than letting someone take her from her family. And who said anything about making anything less horrible for Robin to want to leave her….without a shadow of a doubt, he may have loved her, but he fell in love with Regina thirty years after Marian’s death. Death did them part, and he moved on…so there’s nothing horrible about Robin.

However….if the rumors that Robin had his wife, and the mother of his child out on a mission on him come true…I will say that it’s partly his fault as well because Marian already doesn’t really seem the type for that kind of action. Robin taught her a thing or two…but she’s just…I don’t know, she doesn’t seem cut out for that type of work. And Robin should know that! So if those rumors are true….I will cut him some of the blame….you don’t have your wife/baby mother on a mission for you.

Marian so far has my sympathy to an extent….really because Death is trying so badly to take her out, and being knocked upside the head, brought thirty years into the future to find your widow husband dating your murderess, who turns out to be his soul mate, aka, the woman he was destined to be with. And she earned my respect by seeing that Regina makes Robin happy, and was willing to step aside to let #OutlawQueen have their long overdue happy ending. So Marian’s in my good graces…I just wish some of her decisions were a bit different in the past. Then again…it may have been fate trying to unite OutlawQueen for the 1000000th time….so….I hope she does find her happy ending, but it won’t be with Robin Hood.