Reply To: Comic-Con Date 2013: July 20 (SPOILERS)

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201306 wrote:

201242 wrote:

What do you think Hook and Emma about the same thing only worst. Hook was with Henry, grandmother and Hook would have been Emma’s mother-in-law.

I don’t think Hook ever married Milah otherwise he would have mentioned it by now. I don’t consider Hook Emma’s father in law because Emma hasn’t married Neal and if she did Rumple would be her father in law. Regina married Leopold making her Snow’s step-mother and thus Emma’s step grandmother. Also, Hook said in the Crocodile that he’s “had many a man’s wife”. Since that was 300 years ago, what’s the odds that at least some of those wives could have gotten pregnant because of Hook before he moved on with his travels. What if there are present day relatives of Hook running around the likes of FTL and Storybrooke?

Here’s my my problem with that argument. You’re putting a higher value on the title of marriage without taking into account actual affection and love. Hook loved Milah and was prepared to raise Baelfire as his own son. He chose that family. Regina, on the other hand, never loved Leopold. She hated Snow, and if you asked her I’m pretty sure she would rather compliment Charming’s intelligence, than claim to be Snow’s mother. Yes she married him, but she didn’t want to be married to him. That to me negates any arguments about the step-mother thing. Also considering how much time has passed since both of those relationship and the fact the none of them are biologically related, I didn’t have a problem with either CaptainSwan or SwanQueen.

Nobody’s denying that Hooked loved Milah, he spent 300 years trying to avenge her death, the love and affection is not the issue. I’m going to use Rumbelle and Bae as an example of my point. Belle and Rumple love each other. However, Belle is not officially Bae’s step-mother because she has not married Rumple yet. Belle’s relationship to Bae is his dad’s girlfriend.

Hook loved Milah. However, because they weren’t married, Hook is not officially Bae’s step-father but was Milah’s boyfriend.

Regina did not love Leopold. However, they were married which makes her officially Snow’s stepmother and thus Emma’s grandmother.

Does the step-parent/step-child relationship cease to exist when the biological parent dies? Using Rumbelle and Bae as an example again, say Belle married Rumple and officially became Bae’s step-mother. Rumple dies (heaven forbid) does that mean Belle is no longer Bae’s step-mother?