520 Title: Firebird

So Emma’s superhero cape came from a stranger we’ve never heard of or has even been alluded to? She’s our new MacGuffin, if the non-magical variety.

Seriously, THIS.

Any guesses as to who the stranger (who is a young woman) is? My own guess is the stranger in the red jacket could be a bounty hunter who taught Emma everything she knows and inspired Emma to also become a bail bondsperson and helped Emma turn her life around after prison. Perhaps the stranger then died in the line of duty, giving her red coat to Emma.

Either she’s an ordinary woman from the Land Without Magic, or she is yet ANOTHER character Emma met who originated from Fairy Tale Land or some other realm. Considering this show’s track record with figures from Emma’s past, I’d go with the latter. August, Merlin, Neal, Lily, and Ingrid. Walsh too, if you include Emma’s time in New York during the missing year. Chances are, she’ll encounter this person again in the Underworld, too.

I agree that in addition to my theory about her being the one to mentor Emma about being a bail bondswoman, the stranger is most likely from the Enchanted Forest or some other magical land.

Does anyone else think the stranger could be Meg? Meg was resurrected by Hercules, so a Meg-centric episode called Firebird would make a lot of sense (especially if the term Firebird is being used interchangeably with phoenix, which dies only to be reborn from the ashes).

Either she’s an ordinary woman from the Land Without Magic, or she is yet ANOTHER character Emma met who originated from Fairy Tale Land or some other realm. Considering this show’s track record with figures from Emma’s past, I’d go with the latter. August, Merlin, Neal, Lily, and Ingrid. Walsh too, if you include Emma’s time in New York during the missing year. Chances are, she’ll encounter this person again in the Underworld, too.

Agree. And i still say that the early scenes in the morning where she is with the UW clothes, is on some new part of the UW never seen, bc she lost the jacket or gave it to her owner in UW, and she will get herself a new one, so morning scenes present, night scenes past, in whatever city that is supposed to be, she meets someone from EF again, in this case a human version of a Phoenix that has as nickname FireBird,just like archie that was a cricket in EF and now is a human.

My crackpot theory du jour is that this is young Persephone

I was thinking something along the same lines. I’ve also got her pegged as another mother figure to Emma–and she’ll give some line about how she learned to be a good mom from *her* mother who never stopped looking for her.

Though how this might relate to firebirds, I’ve no idea 🙂

If we think about it as a phoenix and not the Russian myth, then Persephone descends and ascends with frequency.

Being Persephone, would make sense being a Hades centric and in fact would make sense that this is all in present time, lik Hades makes a deal with Emma that he let everyone leave if she goes to Land without Magic find Persephone, so she has UW clothes and has to use her bail bonds and goes wth her past look to try to find the person and take her back to UW. I know makes no sense, and i think we are think this to much for ouat, will be probably some retcon, mix with confusing timeline and some random person that will never be mention again.