How do you explain this time line?

[MysteryKat25]

Well I was just saying that we know in 2×03 that she already is at the time of the first wedding (and knows the gender as well). She isn’t showing in the bigger wedding from the pilot but she does have her hand over her stomach at the end right after Charming throws his sword at the EQ. (It was very, very subtle, so much so that I never noticed it til after seeing Lady of the Lake).

We’re not sure how much time (though not much) passes between Lady of the Lake and the wedding. They had to take back the kingdom and destroy EQ’s hold on them so that she would turn to the dark curse and show up at the wedding to announce it, but it’s a smaller amount of time between the later events.

I would hazard a guess that Cinderella’s wedding is soon after this (as Snow wasn’t showing yet) which would explain why Snow goes into labor only a little bit before Cinderella (poor Ashley!). Cinderella & Thomas’ story may have played out almost parallel to the start of Snowing, as we don’t have any crossover references until Cinderella’s wedding where Snow wasn’t showing either.

The only point I was trying to make was that the time gap is a little bit closer for the later events and probably not quite as long (though maybe only by a little) as the 9 month time frame you gave. However it is a good guideline as it is clearly not more than that so that’s the maximum it could be. I keep going back and forth on how many events had to happen between the time she found out and everything it took to take back the kingdom before they got married so it just depends on how many things they want to cram in there. Some people don’t show for awhile.

[tombo671]

So after Regina visits Rumple and kills her father. Does she go and kidnap Belle and send Hook to wonderland right before enacting the curse?

[angiebelle]

I think she kidnapped Belle a few years before the curse.

[PriceofMagic]

I think Regina only kidnapped Belle 1-2 years before the curse rather than the 3-4 years that has been suggested.

Emma was born early which is why it messed up Snow going through the wardrobe.

All magic comes with a price!

Keeper of Felix

[obisgirl]

@SpinningGold wrote:

Rumple gets imprisoned renegotiating his deal with Cinderella (see 1×04)
Maleficent got the Dark curse from Regina as a trade for something else YEARS before that.
And between Snow and Charmings wedding and when the curse finally grabs hold is AT LEAST 9 months… seeing a certain someone needs to get born.

Not so confusing, you just need to keep up 😆 I think there is a youtube movie called “All the Regina’s” or “All the Evil Queens” that is put in chronological order.

Actually, there is but right now, it only has all the Regina’s in FT from season one. I’m sure a season two will be made once all the episodes have aired.

[gypsy]

MysteryKat –

I don’t think it was alluded to in 2×03 that Snow was already pregnant.
In fact, I think it alluded to the oppsite.
Ruth said the pendant could predict the sex of an unborn baby….it would swing N/S for a boy and E/W for a girl.
When she held the pendant up it didn’t swing, denoting that Snow was not pregnant.
We use that tradition in my family all the time – with a needle and thread – when it doesn’t doesn’t move, there is no baby.

[MysteryKat25]

I need to rewatch but didn’t it eventually move and she told Lancelot what the gender was (but didn’t tell Charming as there were more important things to deal with right then and it explained why he thought it was a boy in the pilot before Snow said the name was Emma?) It didn’t move when she tried it *before* she had some of the magic lake water that would restore what was lost from that stupid potion (King George *shakes fist*), but it did move later. That’s what I’m remembering anyway. Good excuse for a rewatch in a bit either way.

Edited to include link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8kLeiNZKlg

Snow was about to tragically tell Charming that they couldn’t have children when he tries to give her his mother’s necklace and tells her what it’s supposed to do but the thing starts swinging again before Snow can say anything and Snow knows that everything will be just fine (Charming even assumes it’s a boy in the clip, but Snow knows better).

Keeper of Hook's Trenchcoat.

[tombo671]

@AngieBelle wrote:

I think she kidnapped Belle a few years before the curse.

What makes you think this?

[gypsy]

MysteryKat –

I just think that if Snow was already pregnant, wouldn’t that make the poisoned drink that King George gave her to prevent her from getting pregnant null and void, and thus making Ruth’s death in vein?

[MysteryKat25]

Gypsy –

The way I understood it was that the water restored what was taken away including (I guess?) restoring Emma. It seemed weird to me too (I guess I need to look at the wording from King George about what the potion was capable of – preventing any future pregnancies or cancelling out in progress ones as well – though his knowledge could be limited as well) but in that clip from the end of the episode Snow was upset and about to have to tell Charming they couldn’t have the family he wanted. She almost refused the necklace and then it started swinging which means that she was pregnant at the time. It didn’t move before when Ruth tried to give it to her because it was after the potion but before she drank the water.

Not sure the extent of the powers of water from Lake Nostos but that was my understanding of the episode. It explains Snow’s change of being upset and not wanting the necklace to being at peace and knowing things were alright even though it does seem very strange. As I said before it was very subtle but she does put her hands on her stomach after Charming throws the sword at the Evil Queen in the pilot.

I doubt much time has passed between the 1st wedding and the 2nd, but it definitely appears that she was pregnant in Lady of the Lake since the necklace worked at the end (after she drank the water). Perhaps it has something to do with Emma having magic? (Besides being the product of true love, she’s kinda a miracle baby if this is what they meant to imply with Snow drinking the water and the necklace working immediately after that but not before).

Keeper of Hook's Trenchcoat.

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