someone with no importance
I just had an idea about how the RH face change could actually make sense and the inspiration was this spoiler:
“Someone is not who everyone things he/she is. Everything comes with a price. The person is a wolf’s in sheep’s clothing. And a major downfall is heading in one fandom’s way.”
Lets assume that the author is actually more of a historian who just writes down the records that are born out of free will but who has the power to modify things when s/he feels like it’s necessary so that good wins.
What if someone had already tried to change the book/fate/destiny before, someone like Nottingham or maybe even Cora?
What if somehow they managed to force the author’s hand and Robin Hood nr. 1 has somehow fallen victim to this? What if when the author got back control s/he felt guilty enough that s/he wanted to fix what happened? Of course, even s/he can’t bring back the dead only Frankenstein and the Queen of Darkness can do that when it comes handy in the plot. So instead s/he found a man, a man who would be no important in the grand scheme of things, someone who was about to commit suicide for example, and made them an offer, an offer to live a known hero’s life and get their happy ending.
And he’d take it and no one would be wiser except for us because the author’s powers don’t work on us. Of course s/he would be keeping tabs on him, maybe even control him to some extent especially in the beginning, and RH nr. 2 would know this, had agreed to this because of who he was.
Like the page from the alternative book wasn’t about hope at all, it was a warning.
Now who knows what RH nr. 2 will do once Rumple will have control over the author and he can do whatever he wants unchecked?