Reply To: Where will they eventually settle: Storybrooke or FTL?

[kfchimera]

I think like a mix of Jo’s posts and PoM. It’s not really about where, but who, yet in the end, they all do have preferences.

I mostly agree with RG’s breakdown except for Emma. I’m not sure Emma wants to go back to FTL. Henry’s fascinated with it, and I think her reaction to him was not sharing his sense of wonder about it, but more like, kid wherever you are, but seriously? There?. I think deep down, Emma wants to be with her family, and right now that means Snow, Charming and Henry so its more that she’s outnumbered on the where to live question. If it were up to her and only her, she’d be happy with a peaceful Storybrook, safe from the outside world, but without any melodrama on the magical members of the town. She understands that Snow and Charming don’t “get” modern life like she does, and she wouldn’t want to see them unhappy. Yet the idea she could get out of town if she needed, that the safety valve is there should she want it (even if she never uses it), I feel like that would be something she’d want. I guess I don’t see her as the kind of kid who dreamed about living in a fairytale world, but rather, dreamed of the very simple things of a good life in this one. Just a much less lonely one.

I love that quote of JMO’s about how if season one is about who they were “Once”, and season 2 was how they are “both”, and then this season will show who they are “truly”. Maybe Emma does embrace her role as the savior, and her identity as a fairytale character who belongs in FTL. I feel like so far though, that’s not a real reflection of who she wants to be anymore than Regina wants to be the Evil Queen anymore.