@PriceofMagic wrote:
Regina isn’t going to harm Henry. She loves him and Emma knows this. With Cora gone, Storybrooke isn’t such a dangerous place. Tamara is keeping a low profile so she isn’t such an obvious danger to the other characters yet.
While I agree with you there- it’s only to a certain extent now, yes she loves him & I never used to think she’d harm him either, but is trying to find away to kill his entire bio family so she has him to herself, not harming him? (yes this could change again soon, but right now- this is where things stand).
I also disagree with you on how Emma feels, remember Emma has only ever seen Regina in moderate EQ mode once before (when Regina used magic on her, having been confronted about Archie) & she didn’t really take that too well then, telling her ‘she’d have nothing to do with Henry again’, now that was with magic being used against her, over a friend of the family being killed… Regina just stormed Gold’s with her mother, to take a magical dagger in order to effectively ‘rule’ them all, kill Snow, Charming & Emma (so Henry’s only family becomes Regina) & it was all right in front of her …. how is that a safe/healthy person for Henry to be around right now? (don’t get me wrong, I really like/love Regina as a character), but the fact is she has been involved in some horrific bad deeds, some of which are recent, that by real world standards would = locked up & never seeing your child again or even death. Add to this, Regina is in mourning over Cora, once that passes, she’ll have nothing left but to plan/act on getting Henry back- is it ok/safe for Henry- what if happened to get in the way again? Is the fact she would happily take out his entire bio family in the blink of an eye, if she could make Henry believe it wasn’t her ‘safe’ for Henry… the women is border line unhinged atm.
@PriceofMagic wrote:
Ogres could breed like rabbits. Even one ogre can cause enough problems. Would Emma really want to put Hnery in that sort of danger especially with his tendency to run off when he thinks he knows best?
I guess they could, however I’ll take ogres over an unhinged EQ any day- they are predictable & while strong, not smart or magic; she is unpredictable in her actions (if not intent), strong, smart & magical- so therefore by far the larger threat.
Also Henry’s tendency to run off is down to him being pushed out being a FTL child & being excluded from life altering decisions- it started when his mother (Regina), made him think he was crazy for thinking FTL was real, Regina again fostered his running off, by trying to force Emma/his bio mum (who Henry had tracked down himself), out of his life for ever, it reared up again when Charming failed to include Henry in any plans to find his mother & grandmother/beloved teacher & again when he was pushed aside & thought his bio family was out to kill his adopted mum- I can understand why he has a tendency to run off, but he’s not stupid! If there where ogres in SB forest, I doubt he’d have run off into it by himself 🙄
@PriceofMagic wrote:
Emma spent her entire life in this world, it’s all she’s known. Her first experience of FTL land was a confusing and unpleasent one. I don’t blame her for being a little hesitant to uproot her entire life to a place she didn’t even like being. Not forgetting how Charming remembers FTL is a lot different to what Emma and Snow experienced. Snow doesn’t want to go back to FTL, she’s just using Emma as an excuse.
You missed my point- she doesn’t actually have an ‘entire life’ here to uproot- she already said that in S1; the only place she has ‘settled’ isn’t actually part of ‘our’ world, it is a place magically created to exist with-in our world & if they left, her ‘entire world’ pretty much leaves with them, sure she’d have Henry, but he has already voted for FTL not real world. Emma wants her family around her as much as Snow does (if not more! They are still all living in a 2 bedroom apartment), so I cant see her staying if Charming wants to leave, Henry wants to leave, Snow wants her family together & her doubts about leaving are centered on not being certain Emma ‘wants’ to go to FTL, given Emma wants her family to be together & Henry to grow up in a safe, loving environment (this she can do in both worlds in all honesty).
Yes it wasn’t the nicest introduction to FTL she could have possibly hoped for- but how has real world been any better? If anything it’s been worse for her:
In 28yrs here, she has never had family, only felt loved/cared for once, never feeling a sense of belonging,kinship or friendship, only feeling abandoned, unworthy & unloved- her experiences here haven’t exactly been all sunshine & roses.
In her short stint in FTL, she quickly had a sense of family & felt loved/cared for (the moment with Snow in the castle), felt a sense of belonging (in what should have been her room), kinship/friendship (at 1st, of feeling like she was out of her depth with Aurora, then with Mulan, Aurora & Snow, by being able to constructively help with their mission to return to their family)…. So in that short time in FTL, she found all the things she’s being longing for in real world + pretty much everything that happened in FTL (other than the ogre, which I’ll be honest- Snow took down with little effort) was the result of Cora’s hand.
Besides, if they go back to FTL, I’m sure things would change a little as they built their kingdoms/land back up, incorporating some of the mod con’s they’ve come to enjoy here- like flushing toilets for instance 😉