How will Emma React?

[oncer]

While most little girls grow up Daddy’s girls by age twenty-eight they don’t depend on their dads like they used to. I just got to wonder how will Emma react to James going into Daddy mode right off the bat? I mean the last he saw her as James she was his baby girl. She needed him but now she’s a grown woman who never had that growing up. Rants, raves and opinions welcome!

[obisgirl]

I don’t know but good question. I hope they would get more interaction next season. It was great seeing Emma bond with Mary Margaret but now that I think about it, it’ll be interesting to see a relationship between Charming and Emma. He can’t exactly have “the talk” with her because of Henry.

[lilred]

Can’t wait to see this dynamic next season! Possibly more than Emma and Snow, since Emma already has a family-like dynamic with Mary Margaret. My first thought was Emma being irritated, but then it’s not like she’s ever had a positive male role model who’s protective of her before. She might try to pass it off with a shrug at first, but I can kind of see her as a daddy’s girl (within reason for someone who’s almost 30: no begging for a pony, etc.).

The pictures from the set seem to have a lot of Henry and Charming going on. Because of this, and how Charming was so adamant in the first episode that Emma was a boy (Rumpe's first scene), I'm kind of worried about a rift occurring between Charming and Emma, that pre-curse Charming had been dreaming of a son and will be living out everything he wanted to do with a son with Henry. If this happens, I can see Emma feeling very bitter: like she is being replaced as a parent and a child.

[Phee]

I’m really interested to see how this relationship develops. She’s already gotten close to her mum as a friend, and they’ve had mother/daughter type of moments, so I wouldn’t expect that transition to ACTUAL mother/daughter would be too much of a leap. But it’s not like Emma has been BFFs with David, so they don’t really have any basis for a future relationship to develop from. Though hopefully once her mum tells her about the one armed sword fighting so he could save her as a newborn, and how he almost lost his life in the process, that’ll convince Emma that dad is kind of awesome, and not the flake she’s known him as in Storybrooke.

[obisgirl]

@Lil’Red wrote:

The pictures from the set seem to have a lot of Henry and Charming going on. Because of this, and how Charming was so adamant in the first episode that Emma was a boy (Rumpe's first scene), I'm kind of worried about a rift occurring between Charming and Emma, that pre-curse Charming had been dreaming of a son and will be living out everything he wanted to do with a son with Henry. If this happens, I can see Emma feeling very bitter: like she is being replaced as a parent and a child.

I like that dynamic.

[Slurpeez]

I have a feeling that Emma’s reunion with her dad will be one of shock, which will soon become one of friendly acceptance, followed by them building a true father-daughter love through shared experiences. They’ll have to ally together to fight Regina for the sake of custody over Henry as well as fighting off her evil magic, followed by them possibly finding a way to restore order. Now that Prince Charming is back to himself, he is going to fight to make it up to Emma for missing her first 28 years of life. It’ll be hard at first, but over time, they’ll share a great bond. They are so alike. They both have amazing skills with a sword, are adventurous, brave, and are great at finding people.

"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

[hjbau]

I think it will be easier for Emma and Charming in some ways because they were never friends whereas that in some ways will be a difficulty for Emma and Snow because they have both lost their closest friends. Though there is the difficulty of Emma dealing with the fact that David was so horrible to Mary. I mean Emma is the one who had to sit through Mary’s crying after what David did to her. It is weird because in some ways things will be easier for Emma and Snow because they at least know each other a little bit, and yet at the same time the fact that they knew each other so well and now it is different is also a difficulty.

I don’t think Emma is ever going to be a Daddy’s girl. Whatever that means. I think they will be able to trust each other and work in the fight together, but no like Charming treating her like a baby stuff. I don’t see that happening.

[elle]

I think the relationships is going to be a bit difficult more for Emma. Firstly, she remebers what Charming did–it is not his fault–and how Snow White was crushed by his actions. Though they did seem to have a neutral understanding–she never was harsh with him in the whole season–they were not very close, with occasional sympathetic look Emma seemed to have. I could see them slowly bonded over fighting skills–both of them are very good fighters.

And then with Snow White (who was already acting like a mom with Emma) it will very difficult because when Emma talked with her, she confided in her as a friend. Not a mom, and I am sure she acted in a way that she would have not wanted her mom to see. There is bound to be embaressment.

It is hard to picture Emma being all open to being cuddle. True she always wanted to find her family, but I am sure she never really had a plan for what she would say or do. She is still going to feel resentment, bitter, and she might be tempted to keep her distance from her.

[Aliasscape]

I don’t know about Daddy’s girl stuff? Stereotype I’ve never seen in real life I guess. I had a great relationship with my dad but mostly by being more independent and tomboyish, rather than because I relied on him.

I like to think Charming will be proud of Emma for growing up and being so courageous and independent.

I’m hoping Emma feels confused, angry, overwhelmed, excited, fearful, and every thing else by knowing who her parents are.

I’m not sure we’re going to see a whole big father/daughter dynamic at first. I’m having a hard time imagining Emma being very attached to him, I guess. Even as much as she’ll realize Mary Margaret wasn’t fully the real Snow (and miss her somewhat), I think she’s very invested in her and would still feel this attachment to a woman who at least still LOOKS like her best friend. She had no major emotional attachment to David (and actually more reason to dislike him than like him.)

I find myself thinking if David’s original plan to leave town had worked out, then when MM told Emma about it she would have been like “I’m sure you’re better off without him and now you don’t have to worry about running into him around town.”

I think Emma saw David as an acquaintance but not much else. I’m not sure she’d be eager to learn more about him but I guess as she starts to see him as the REAL him, she might be a little surprised/pleased to learn he was not the annoying guy David was.

[hjbau]

And i think that for Emma and Snow the difficulty is that they know each other, so when they are in the room together especially alone without people watching them that they would be able to talk. That would be easier for Emma, because that is normal. It is just the whole family thing at large that is going to be too much. And when Emma thinks about the fact, at least at first, that Snow is her mother, that will be too much.

I mean they have both told each other things like about Snow and Whale or what happened with David. It isn’t just Emma that has told Snow things. Actually Snow comes off worse if you think about it, but that was the curse. And it is all extremely awkward, but i think they just have to relearn knowing each other especially because Snow is going to be a little bit different. In some ways she is like Mary Margaret or can be in certain moments, but in other ways she is not like her. Though people change.

And i agree that at first i imagine they are not going to focus on the Emma/Charming relationship at least until something happens where they are forced to interact a bit more. It all depends on what they do in the finale. What sort of danger they are in. If Charming helps with the danger. If he helps protect Henry. There are things that they can do there with Henry that will help the relationship with Emma, but i think at first that will not be a focus.

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