Reply To: Emma + Baelfire = Swanfire

[kfchimera]

Magic is wonky, so when people try to argue about it sometimes,  there’s logical problems.  Emma’s magic nature is not just her parent’s love flowing into her. She is special beyond that due to the prophecy but also just who she is.  We don’t know exactly all the “logic” in the show behind her magic, but she has it, just as Regina has it.  Yet Snow and Charming don’t seem to, and it was implied their parents had true love.  I doubt Aurora’s baby is going to do anything big, but we’ll see, Ashley’s didn’t.  So when people try to argue about Henry, I don’t think that is the way the writers would want to resolve the triangle.  It would feel like a cheat to me, telling me rather than showing me the love or lack of it.

Hook and Emma have what I’d call moonlight romance–it works by the light of the moon, when its just the two of them, no one’s watching and they forget a lot of things about themselves, because its hard to see in that light so it all looks better.  Neal and Emma are  sunlight romance, because nothing’s forgotten, there’s no special atmosphere, they will come back together with full awareness of each other and their goals/dreams and it won’t matter who is around to see.  The moon has no light of its own, no matter how bright it might appear, for it is but a reflection of the sun.  As J.Mo said, her attraction to Hook was complicated by his reminding her of Neal.
We’ll see how the writers move the story but to me it is disingenuous to have Emma hurt and angsty with Neal but blissful and forgiving of all the things Hook did less than, within the story, two weeks ago.  It is a matter of survival now, so she has to work and trust both on one level  but emotionally it does not have to translate into trusting either with her heart.  I just think Neal still has her heart as she has his.