Will Scarlet

"Give a man the proper motivation, you never know what he might be willing to do."

- Will to Alice Will Scarlet (better known as the Knave of Hearts) is a major character in Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, and is a recurring character in Once Upon a Time season 4 and onwards.

Before the First Curse
In his early life, he was a member of the Merry Men in the Enchanted Forest. Upon stealing the looking-glass from Maleficient, he first travels to Oz as he was upset over losing his sister, then later to Wonderland with Anastasia, hoping for a better life. When Ana leaves him to be the Red Queen, he asked Cora to rip his heart from his body and later becomes the Knave of Hearts in her army. He later befriends Alice while supposedly hunting for her under the Queen's order. With Alice's help, he steals his heart from the Queen's vault and prepares to leave Wonderland. When the Dark Curse was enacted, Will was sent to Storybrooke and given false memories.

After the First Curse
Upon the breaking of the curse, the White Rabbit approaches him, claiming that Alice was in trouble. He travels to Victorian England and rescues Alice The two locate her in an asylum, before a procedure that will remove her memories of Wonderland is undertook. The Knave and Percy reveal to Alice that her true love Cyrus is still alive, and the three of them escape, journeying through a rabbit hole back to Wonderland. Upon arriving, the Knave tells Alice that he never wished to return to Wonderland, and he would rather not continue on the journey. Alice offers him three gem wishes in exchange for helping her; he agrees and the three begin their search for Cyrus. On their journey, Will is captured by the Red Queen who is told by Jafar to kill him as he is of no use to their plan of getting Alice to use her wishes. Because of their past together, the Red Queen originally refuses to kill the Knave, though sets him up for execution upon his taunts. Just before he faces public beheading, Alice saves the Knave and the two escape, only to be found in the maze by both Jafar and the Red Queen. When Jafar nearly strangles the Knave to death, Alice makes her first wish that if the Knave dies, she should die also. Instead, Jafar turns the Knave to stone. The Red Queen later saves him with magical dust that she has Alice retrieve. Later, it is revealed that his heart was taken from him and that Alice helped him get it back, though he declined to put it back because of the pain Anastasia caused him. As Alice and Cyrus are reunited upon his escape, the Red Queen takes Cyrus to meet Alice, together with the Knave and Percy, while Jafar casts a curse to kill the Red Queen. Alice reluctantly orders White Rabbit to dig a hole to take the group away from the curse, though a lightning bolt rebounds from the Red Queen's genie bottle and injures the Knave. Because of Alice's first wish, she temporarily dies in Cyrus' arms until the Knave makes Alice's final wish by wishing for her suffering to stop. Alice awakens and learns that the Knave has freed Cyrus from his genie status, though the Knave trades his place within the bottle.

The bottle is found by Lizard who's amused to find the Knave now a genie. They travel together, Lizard using a wish to have a wonderful gown and soon confessing she's always loved the Knave. He tells her he can't love anyone and when she wishes he could feel the way she does, she suddenly dies with the Knave feeling the agony of her pain. His bottle ends up with the Red Queen but Jafar and the Jabberwocky torture her to force her to use her wishes to free the Knave up. He gives the Knave back his heart so he can feel the agony when Jafar stabs the Red Queen to death before his eyes. Jafar forces the Knave to steal from Alice and Cyrus with the promise to bring Anastasia back to life. When Jafar rewrites the rules of magic, he does resurrect the Red Queen but makes her fall in love with Jafar to torture Will. The Knave is able to break through the spell by kissing the Red Queen who helps Alice defeat Jafar. When his magic fades, the Red Queen dies once more but Cyrus uses water from the Well of Wonders to bring her back to life. Will and Anastasia are thus able to finally be together. Will, alongside with Anastasia and their other Wonderland friends travels to Victorian England for Alice's wedding and returns shortly after.

After the Second Curse
Sometime later, Will was brought back to Storybrooke again by the Dark Curse when Snow White enacted it in the Enchanted Forest. He meets Robin Hood and apologies for his actions years ago. They then team up in search for "The Author" when Regina asked help from Robin. When the Spell of Shattered Sight was enacted by Ingrid, Will ended up in a fight with Hook and resume to his normal self when the curse ended.

It has yet to be explained what happened to Ana, but when asked, Will told Robin that she was 'gone'. He initially was heavily depressed and drunk all the time, but cleaned himself up sometime after the spell of shattered sight.

Six months later, Will has sobered up and begun dating Bell, who he views as a kindred spirit, but the origin of the relationship has yet to be revealed.