Reply To: Emma + Baelfire = Swanfire

[RumplesGirl]

And perhaps what’s so maddening about all of this is that they could have told the current story, as-is, without him being dead

I totally agree. Killing him was an extreme solution to their “problem”

Let him be a Dad to Henry, which is an incredibly important thing for the overall message of the show (and even more angering to me than anything else.)

*sigh*

So much for breaking the cycle of abandonment

But no. We must instead have dead, because, Reasons.

MAGICAL reasons