Reply To: Emma + Baelfire = Swanfire

Keb said –

Swanfire is/was TRUE LOVE. No matter what else happens. That’s canon.

Is it, though? I feel like the show has danced around it. We have Belle’s statement – she spoke from her heart, but does that make it canon? We have the realm-traveling objects, which seem exclusive to canon TL couples. We have the lights at Henry’s birth, matched up with the lights at the Snowflake’s birth, which seem to indicate a TL baby, but they’ve stopped short of outright saying that. I feel like they have given us “softball” TL.

On Once, the canon indicator of TL is the TLK that breaks a curse. We’ve seen it with Snowing (a couple of times,) Rumbelle, Philora etc but they’ve stopped short of doing it with the triangle. SF have never kissed outside of “Tallahasee” and CS has had non-TLK kisses but they can excuse those if they so desire. Until/unless someone gets a TLK *or* they give official explanation of flickering lights at birth, they’re not *quite* canon – no matter how much I personally believe it to be true.

Interestingly, Other Roomie has referred to them as TL – “Well, he’s her TL, right?” – so it may play differently to GA. But they have implied a lot without going totally canocal, and we know how these guys love their semantics & loopholes.