Emma and Henry’s father

[merryleeplaying]

Well, if it turns out that that Henry’s father is Bae, then maybe the tables got turned on Bae. Whatever happened, he started to go to jail with her but the opportunity to leave came up and he took it. Maybe he is feeling the same pain Rumple felt and regretted not going with her.

[midnight dreary]

@MerryLeeplaying wrote:

Well, if it turns out that that Henry’s father is Bae, then maybe the tables got turned on Bae. Whatever happened, he started to go to jail with her but the opportunity to leave came up and he took it. Maybe he is feeling the same pain Rumple felt and regretted not going with her.

That’s a very interesting the idea. The parallels would be very interesting to explore if that’s the case. Baelfire spent his childhood trying to help return Rumpel back to the loving father he once was. It would be sad to learn that Baelfire made all of these sacrifices only to wind up making the same mistakes his father did. Tragic irony. 😥

[obisgirl]

@darcyfarrow wrote:

Here’s what Emma tells Henry in “True North”:

“I was pretty young. I had just gotten out of the foster system and the only job I could get was this 24-hour diner off the interstate. Your dad was training to be a fireman. He always got the worst shifts, so he’d come in and order cores and pie and sit at the counter and always complain that we didn’t sell pumpkin pie but he always came back the next day anyway.”

Henry: “Did you get married?”

Emma: “No, nothing like that. We hung out a few times outside of work. And life happened. His got better and mine got worse and I got in some trouble.”

Henry : “When you went to jail.”

Emma: “Yeah. Before I went I found out I was pregnant with you. I tried to contact him and I found out that he died saving a family from a burning apartment building. So when you think about the savior, Henry, he was. Your father was a real hero.”

I think the reason why Emma said that was because probably saving Regina from the fire in the previous episode was still fresh in her mind. I mean, the time between Desperate Souls and True North can’t be that far apart.

[charming]

@EternalღFlame wrote:

Emma’s description of Henry’s father is a little confusing. First she describes him as gentle and heroic, but then she describes him as nothing but trouble. I believe it’ll be a mixture of both. I do think that Henry’s father was a bit of troublemaker, but I don’t think to the extent that Emma makes him out to be. Emma was also a bit of a troublemaker and she has already proven herself to have questionable judgement about certain issues, even now in Storybrooke. So, I could easily see Emma making a few things up to make herself look a little more sympathetic. But we’ll just have to wait and see.

Maybe its confusing because she herself does not know too much about him. Youngs girls these days do get knocked up and not do know anything about the baby’s daddy.

[Josephine]

I’ve been thinking about Emma, Henry, true love, the Charmings, and Henry’s father and it kept circling in my head. The theme of the show is that true love is the most powerful magic in the world. It got me thinking in OUaT that true love begets true love. I’ll explain…

Snow’s father loved her mother deeply. We’ve even seen him talk about it in front of Regina. So Snow is a product of true love. Then there is Charming. His mother tells of how she dearly loved his father and that true love will follow the ring she gave him, just like it did for her. Next in line is Emma, who we know is the product of Snow’s and Charming’s love for each other, and hence why she’s the savior curtesy of Rumple’s curse.

So that leaves Henry. The last in a long line of true love. We know that Emma truly loves Henry, but unlike the others, he’s not the product of true love. He’s the result of some messed up, accidental, dysfunctional relationship. She was a teenager, he wasn’t told she was pregnant, then she got arrested. Not the outcome of true love. So what’s different with Henry? Why did the cycle stop with his conception?

Or will his parents ultimately be each other’s romantic true loves. The show preaches it and shoves it down our throats, so why for the main character does she not have what everyone around her, even Rumple in his wacked out way, has or had? Do you think they’ll eventually bring back Henry’s father, whoever he is, and redeem him in her eyes?

Keeper of Rumplestiltskin's and Neal's spears and war paint and crystal ball.

[eternalflame]

@Josephine wrote:

I’ve been thinking about Emma, Henry, true love, the Charmings, and Henry’s father and it kept circling in my head. The theme of the show is that true love is the most powerful magic in the world. It got me thinking in OUaT that true love begets true love. I’ll explain…

Snow’s father loved her mother deeply. We’ve even seen him talk about it in front of Regina. So Snow is a product of true love. Then there is Charming. His mother tells of how she dearly loved his father and that true love will follow the ring she gave him, just like it did for her. Next in line is Emma, who we know is the product of Snow’s and Charming’s love for each other, and hence why she’s the savior curtesy of Rumple’s curse.

So that leaves Henry. The last in a long line of true love. We know that Emma truly loves Henry, but unlike the others, he’s not the product of true love. He’s the result of some messed up, accidental, dysfunctional relationship. She was a teenager, he wasn’t told she was pregnant, then she got arrested. Not the outcome of true love. So what’s different with Henry? Why did the cycle stop with his conception?

Or will his parents ultimately be each other’s romantic true loves. The show preaches it and shoves it down our throats, so why for the main character does she not have what everyone around her, even Rumple, has? Do you think they’ll eventually bring back Henry’s father, whoever he is, and redeem him in her eyes?

That’s a very interesting question. I have no idea why Henry (who’s arguably the only character on the show with any common sense) is not the product of true love. Judging by his belief in magic and the curse, and his unwavering faith in what’s “good,” you’d think he would be the product of true love.

Unless Emma isn’t telling us something. Sometimes a bitter break up can make us view our exes in a bad light. She may have been in love with him, but after they separated, she grew bitter. Who knows?

[elysabeth1]

@Josephine wrote:

I’ve been thinking about Emma, Henry, true love, the Charmings, and Henry’s father and it kept circling in my head. The theme of the show is that true love is the most powerful magic in the world. It got me thinking in OUaT that true love begets true love. I’ll explain…

Snow’s father loved her mother deeply. We’ve even seen him talk about it in front of Regina. So Snow is a product of true love. Then there is Charming. His mother tells of how she dearly loved his father and that true love will follow the ring she gave him, just like it did for her. Next in line is Emma, who we know is the product of Snow’s and Charming’s love for each other, and hence why she’s the savior curtesy of Rumple’s curse.

So that leaves Henry. The last in a long line of true love. We know that Emma truly loves Henry, but unlike the others, he’s not the product of true love. He’s the result of some messed up, accidental, dysfunctional relationship. She was a teenager, he wasn’t told she was pregnant, then she got arrested. Not the outcome of true love. So what’s different with Henry? Why did the cycle stop with his conception?

Or will his parents ultimately be each other’s romantic true loves. The show preaches it and shoves it down our throats, so why for the main character does she not have what everyone around her, even Rumple, has? Do you think they’ll eventually bring back Henry’s father, whoever he is, and redeem him in her eyes?

I <3 it. You are so right. It doesn't fit. They all have the same true love surroundings. We already know that Emmas response to intimacy and responsibility is to run. Maybe she was truly in love with him, and that's what scared her. Made her run. Somehow it went wrong (jail). I'm sure there are tons of us who are guilty of running from love out of fear of being hurt. Lol. That would explain her over-thought answer to Henry, yet we know how she really feels. Somewhere down the line they will reunite, and suddenly she'll have the ultimate true love; the FULL loving wonderful family she's never had nor could have ever imagined. <3

[onceuponadiva]

I like what yall are on to. I never thought of the “loveline” of it all until you guys brought it up, and I agree with the previous– maybe she was in love and it scared the mess out of her so she ran.. thinking she wasn’t worthy of it, or not knowing how to handle feelings like that (especially if they were the product of an instant moment of love at first sight or whatever). I firmly believe Henry’s dad is tightly associated with FTL/SB characters, so I know there is a real, very important to the story reason that she or he left.

[Slurpeez]

In a recent interview with Jennifer Morrison, she said that since season 1 was about Emma's developing relationship with her son, then season 2 is going to bring a love interest into Emma's life. My theory is that it could either be August (if he's restored from a puppet to a man), Jefferson (with whom there was chemistry), or perhaps even Henry's dad.

"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy

[PriceofMagic]

Didn’t the writers say in an interview a while back that Henry’s father wouldn’t just be some random guy?

All magic comes with a price!

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