@AntBee wrote:
Yes, I think it’s definitely poetic justice for August for his part in making Emma into the person that she is now that is weary of trusting and believing people that she wasn’t able to ever believe that he was telling the truth about her destiny. If he had just left things alone instead of interfering, Emma would still have been brought to Storybrooke somehow because it was meant to be like no matter how hard Oedipus avoided trying to sleep with his mother or killing his father, but instead of being a cynical, world weary Emma, she’d more likely be in a position where she had Neal and Henry who could help her believe and accept her destiny much sooner and probably restored everyone’s memories a lot sooner, imo, and August wouldn’t have turned back into a puppet.
That could be a logical argument, that Emma may have been brought to Storybrook somehow if it was destined to happen. However, it could be more likely that everything August did was actually part of Emma’s destined path, that Henry had to be given up and thus ended up with Regina. After looking into theories of the Blue Fairy, I have come to believe that she may be the true puppet master 😆