I’d rather see more of him in present day. But if he’s in the AU, I have to wonder if the WoodenSwan fandom could get some scenes that’ll make their heads explode. Assuming that Emma will still exist in the AU, they may want to show who she ended up with in that version of the story, and Pinnochio is pretty much the only candidate if they want it to be a character we know, who’d be around Emma’s age, and they probably would have grown up together and been very close
Well depending on how much of a swap this AU is gonna give us, Emma technically wouldn’t be alive. If Regina gets Snow’s happy ending, then that MAY mean that Snow gets Regina’s life, which would mean her True Love, Charming, is probably dead. Which would make Snow possibly evil. Or maybe I am over analyzing?
If Regina got her happy ending with Robin–as per the book page the Author gave Robin–then she’d leave Snow alone, right? So Snow would grow up with her father but likely never meet Charming and never birth Emma. Most likely Emma wouldn’t exist.