Well I think that their love is definitely real and not manipulated because no magic can create that, but I could see the Blue Fairy working behind the scenes to manipulate them in place.
What i’m worried about is more along the lines of them writing it into the curse that the savour have a child or something like that–something to eventually draw her into Storybrooke.
I’m really hoping that Neal and Emma’s love is a wild card–something that for all Rumple’s planning and Blue’s preparations, neither of them could have predicted or manipulated into being. The alpha and omega, the beginning and the end of the curse together.
Perhaps that particular bit of true love has a magic all its own. Perhaps it (or the product of it) can do what Rumple never cared to factor into his plains and something Blue never dreamed could be possible: Restore the other realms.
Perhaps that’s Henry’s own special destiny…
Or maybe i’m letting my imagination run away with me, but it’s fun to think about. 😆