Reply To: Emma + Baelfire = Swanfire

[Slurpeez]

Slurpeez wrote:

Will: Love is messy. It means arguing and making up and laughing and crying and struggling. And sometimes, it doesn’t seem worth it, but it is. In the end, when you’re in love, no matter what happens, you forgive each other. I forgive you, Ana, for what you did to me, because I love you.

RG wrote: One of my very favorite quotes in either series. It was exactly what was supposed to happen between Emma and Neal.

Mine too. It gives me hope and comfort to know that Adam and Eddy wrote those words themselves (they co-authored episode 13 of OUAT in WL).  So A&E must know what real love looks like. They know it can’t be forced or coerced (as Jafar tried to do to Ana by changing the laws of magic). My hope is that Emma knows deep down what she wants and that it will be her decision, whatever the outcome may be.

I just want to see her being the one to decide her own destiny and her own feelings, rather than being told by Hook or her parents what will make her happy. Neal gave her that room to choose. He said he only wanted her to be happy, even if it were without him. Emma’s heart doesn’t need to be won; it needs to be freely given to the person of her own choosing. And if that person happens to be her son, rather than a potential lover, then it is my supreme wish is that A&E make that painstakingly clear in the dialogue between Emma and Hook.

If they want Emma to choose Hook, then so be it. But there had better be some really excellent development for them to the point where is so evident it’s not Emma resisting him or him pushing anything, but rather it’s HER choice. So far it’s been the opposite. I don’t know how they’re going to pull it off, but stranger things have happened. I just want it to be Emma who is true to her wishes, hopes, desires, and heart. It’s EMMA’s fairytale for goodness sake. Emma should get to make the decision.