Reply To: Emma + Baelfire = Swanfire

[Slurpeez]

Josephine wrote:

You know, looking back on those SF moments we had not one freaking kiss in present day. Hugs, exchanged ‘I love you’s as he’s being flushed once again down a bean hole, but no kiss. No cheek kiss in greeting. Not even a tender touch of lips on his forhead as he is dying in her arms. I come from a family of kissers. You say hello and goodbye by cheek kissing at least.

This just for some reason suddenly frustrates me greatly.

–Insert infernal optimism & sarcasm alerts here–

I’m sure it has very little to do with the fact that Emma’s TLKs tend to do things like, y’know, break curses and such. Since there is usually some sort of curse prevailing, they couldn’t have them kiss and have it break curses they didn’t want broken, nor did they want to prove (or DISprove, for that matter) him as Emma’s true love. It’s the same reason she couldn’t attempt to save him in the woods, you know? Even a kiss on the forehead – that’s how she saved Henry – and I would presume the same of a peck on the cheek. I don’t think the lack of kiss at any point was unintentional.

I’ve also personally always wondered if a SF TLK would have something to do with breaking the final strand of The Curse – kissing Henry (parental TLK) restored everyone’s memories but there was always that question of why they were still in SB. It’s just kind of my personal theory, but yeah. I don’t think we’ll see a romantic TLK from Emma until around the end of the series.

(As Slurpeez is fond of pointing out, CS has had literally an anti-TLK, removing E’s powers. So… there’s that.)

–End infernal optimism and sarcasm mode–

Yeah Jo. It’s frustrating and kinda sucks. “I love you” and variations on multiple occasions but nada on the kisses. For a show that’s so big on kisses…

Yeah, that. Why have the swan necklace cross worlds because it was born of true love but not follow it up with a farewell TLK? Because it would have broken the second dark curse! Contrast that with the failure of Emma to break the curse upon Hook’s lips, which in turn robbed Emma of her true love Magic. Now why would the writers show this contrast between Hook and Neal if not to show the contrast between what Emma had/has with each man? I contend that while Emma and Neal had true love, whatever she has with Hook is not real love but is real lust. It is the opposite of true love; hence why Hook’s cursed lips stole what makes her special: true love magic.