Reply To: Emma + Baelfire = Swanfire

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lunatiger wrote: think my thoughts on CS might change if we were shown that Hook is capable of doing that. Neal was willing to, even though August lead him astray. Neal was willing to sacrifice his happiest with Emma if it meant she could find her real family and save EF. I want to see Hook make that move and acknowledge that he is a villian. Regina called herself a villian to Henry. And Rumple acknowledge he’s a villain while stabbing Pan. They’ve both to some degree admit that what they did in the past was wrong, by calling themselves that.

Technically, Hook jokingly calls himself a rapscallion, which is synonymous scalawag, rascal, and villain. However….he’s yet to seriously sacrifice anything of great value to himself for the sake of others. To give him a little bit of credit, he’s risked his life by helping Charming get to the fountain and with the shadow and what not. Yet, he wasn’t in serious danger the same way Neal was with a gunshot and being transported to another world.  I think Hook has the full potential to do the truly heroic thing, but the more he remembers what true honor looks like, the more his conscience may tell him he ought to give up Emma. The reason I say so is because it’s not honorable to vie for the woman Neal loves if Hook truly considers him to be a good friend, not to mention the fact that Hook knows deep down that Emma loves Neal. There is also the history Hook and Neal have where Hook did in fact help destroy Bae’s family as a boy and handed him over to the Lost Boys.

@Josephine – I think we’re indeed in the rapids. I think this is the “year of CS” but that it’s finite. I think SF are indeed end game, but that CS was going to come first but will eventually run its course. I don’t even think it will be a full-fledged romance and that it will remain just a good friendship, with Hook feeling more for Emma than she does for him. I think by the end of S3 though, Emma will have realized with absolute clarity that her idea of home has always been with Neal.  There are too many clues to dismiss as coincidences: the way Emma said ‘home’ in 3×4 was exactly the way she did in 2×6, the fact that “Going Home” took Emma to NYC because of a fire (Baelfire‘s home city), the fact that she woke up to Neal’s song “Charley’s Girl” at 8:15 (which is a number heavily associated with Neal, Emma and Henry). Eddy and Adam are fantastic at misleading the general audience whilst planting little clues about the ultimate direction this story is going. Remember all the little clues that they put in about the identity of Henry’s father: Emma said in 1×9 he was a fireman, Neal was first seen in Broken by a fire-escape, August said in 2×6 that Neal got caught in the crossfire, and then, low and behold, Neal turned out to be Baelfire. So, the fact that Emma, even when cursed, then ended up in the home city of Neal just convinces me all the more that Emma’s revelation about Neal being her home, her destination, is going to be revelatory, beautiful, and everything SwanFire enthusiasts have been dreaming of and more.