Emma + Baelfire = Swanfire

[Slurpeez]

Here’s a pretty SF drawing:

At some point during this hiatus we should update that with Eriel and Cylice parallels

Okay, I’ll map out some points for Eriel. Could you please map out some points for Cylice? Let’s divide and conquer. 🙂

Eriel/Swanfire parallels:

– In 3×6, Ariel was afraid to tell Eric the truth that she’s a mermaid because she was afraid he’d reject her. This parallels Neal’s fear of rejection and Emma’s fear of getting hurt again.

– Both Ariel and Emma confided in Snow White that they’ve never stopped loving their respective men, Eric and Neal. Snow White is a confidant and a friend to both women. Also, if there is one thing Snow White is basically an expert in, it’s intuitively understanding other people’s feelings and also True Love. Snow has a lifetime of losing and finding Charming to know what it’s like.

–  In 3×6, Snow told Ariel to “do the hard thing” about opening oneself up to love, because “it’s so worth the risk.” Likewise, Snow challenged Emma that she owes it to herself to have hope Neal could still be alive, because “happy endings start with hope” and Emma “deserves a happy ending.” Later in 3×10, Snow and Charming again challenged Emma to meet Neal for lunch, again because Emma owes it to herself to see if doing so would be a happy moment for her.

– Ariel chose to save her friend, Snow White, ahead of her own desire for a happy ending with Eric, just as Emma chose to put Henry first ahead of her own desire for a happy ending, which could possibly be with Neal.

– Ariel and Eric spent 30+ years alone thinking they’d never get a second chance to be together. They were separated across worlds, Ariel in NL, and Eric in SB. Likewise, Emma and Neal spent 11 years alone thinking  they’d never get a second chance with one another. Later, Emma and Neal were separated across worlds when he fell through a portal to EF and she was in NL. Now they’re serrated again with Emma being in NYC and Neal being in the EF.

– Ariel finally got a second chance to tell Eric the truth, to do the hard thing, and her patience was rewarded with the kiss from Eric she’d been waiting for for 3 decades. Emma confronted Neal with the hard truth that she she’s always loved and probably always will, but right now, she’s afraid of losing him again. Emma and Neal’s story is still on hold, but she was about to do the hard thing of having lunch with him, of seeing what future possibly could exist for them, up until the dark curse separated them again.

[RumplesGirl]

Could you please map out some points for Cylice? Let’s divide and conquer. 🙂

LET’S DO THIS

Cylice (probably going to miss a lot…let’s see how this goes)

–Both couples are symbolized by a necklace

–Both couples consider each other “home” and “family”

–Alice and Emma both thought their male counterparts were dead at one point

–Alice and Emma never felt like they had a family until they met Cyrus/Neal

–Emma broke into Neals’ “home” (the car) and Alice broke into Cyrus’s “home” (the bottle)

–Both Cyrus and Neal were encouraged to leave Alice/Emma “for her own good.” But Cyrus stayed with Alice because Alice had no family or home outside of him; Neal helped Emma find her home and family by letting her go.

–Both Neal and Cyrus were kept from their respective loves by being kept in a cage

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[Slurpeez]

LET’S DO THIS

Most excellent! I’ll paste these to the front page. Anybody reading this feel free to add points as you like.

"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

[kfchimera]

Nicely done Slureez.

I think its interesting though that Eric and Ariel didn’t exactly feel all that time passing.  We don’t know how NL time works still (or does it work….my theory is no time means..no time passing for you relative to the rest of the world where it still moves on) but Eric spent a year without Ariel after the curse broke.  Neal and Emma had 11 years of normal, nonmagic separation, no shortcuts like forgetting potions or curses.  That’s bound to create a problem of feeling less sure of each other  in itself even if you parted on essentially good terms, which Neal and Emma, and Ariel and Eric did not (he thought she stood him up!)!   That’s what Neal probably thinks now, that Emma chose not to go rather than was about to go and was prevented by fate more or less and her fears.

They’re both going to have nerves about it, and I hope we see some of the angsty stuff fade and more of the cute sort of butterflies stuff happening.   There were hints of that right after their collision in Manhattan but then Tamara showed up and Emma slammed down a wall.

Ariel and Eric didn’t have to put up with that kind of scenario!  And now there’s another interloper so to speak in their midst, with Hook and his relentless pursuit of Emma.  Neal and Emma have such a unique relationship that even when it does “parallel” another –it’s still fresh and different and keeps me guessing where it will go (yet still hoping they work it out!).

 

 

“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

[RumplesGirl]

This passed my way on Twitter

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[RumplesGirl]

http://onceuponatime-confessions.tumblr.com/post/73864226401/i-am-really-excited-about-seeing-nealfire-in

I AM ALSO EXCITED.

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[heatherc1275]

http://onceuponatime-confessions.tumblr.com/post/73864226401/i-am-really-excited-about-seeing-nealfire-in I AM ALSO EXCITED.

This confession for the win!!!!!! 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀

#MoreBOOMLessGloom

[RumplesGirl]

RumplesGirl wrote: LET’S DO THIS

Most excellent! I’ll paste these to the front page. Anybody reading this feel free to add points as you like.

*applause*

The first post of this thread is fantastic. Lovely parallels and that amazing GIF set.

We’re awesome, guys.

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[RumplesGirl]

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"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[RumplesGirl]

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That one has been posted a few times, but every time I see it on Tumblr, I just HAVE to put it here. I love it.

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

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