So I’ve been thinking about that VW bug with those cute cookie picture. That swanfire pendant necklace isn’t the only thing of Neal’s that Emma kept that he gave her. They met in the car. They probably lived in it. It was, for a time, their home.
That was the dream Emma and Neal had, to find Tallahassee. That was what Emma and Neal saw not as a fairytale happy ending, but a happy life together–a home.
Emma’s poster isn’t, believe she can find her son, or a true love, or parents, or to be the Savior and hope again for others.
This season, Emma’s arc is to find her home. Too bad the VW didn’t fit in NL, but she does have Neal’s sword.
That is the same thing that has motivated Neal too. That is a theme I see in their love story–to find home with each other.
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” -- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass