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My god. Someone find me this person so I can give them an award for “the most accurate thing on the internet.”
here’s the thing about swanfire and character development. for emma, neal (in her life in any capacity) is the hard choice. because hard choices and nuanced, complex, emotionally difficult relationships don’t always come wrapped in leather and soaked in a hero/villian dichotomy. sometimes it’s knowing that if you’re capable of love and being loved so much, you’re capable of the opposite as well. sometimes it’s knowing that love doesn’t protect you from crappy things happening, that sometimes love can take away pain, but sometimes love and pain coexist. emma puts up walls to keep herself from getting hurt. it’s one of the first things we learn about emma swan. she’s been so hurt by not having people there— her parents, neal, having to give up henry— that it’s easier to just not let them in anymore. emma’s season 1 arc culminated in her fully accepting her role in henry’s life— going from barely being able to call him by name in the pilot to an i love you, and i think her overall emotional arc is similar— it’s Emma Swan Learns to Deal With Her Crap. Emma loves Neal. Emma will probably always love Neal. Emma was scared by the fact that not only did she never stop loving him, but he never stopped loving her, and they still went through all this crap. That hurts and it’s scary and him being back in her life means she can’t shut down as the past. For Emma, being able to reconcile the relationship they had, the hurt they went through, and any current relationship— friendship, romantic, even strictly co-parenting— means taking down those walls and dealing with things. That’s not a thing that’s easy, but it’s something I think is the cornerstone of Emma’s development in every major relationship in her life. for neal, emma’s a gamechanger. emma’s the thing in his life that makes him want to tear down the lesson we saw him learn as baelfire: you can create all the connections you want, but ultimately, you’re going to be alone. neal is very, very, very resilient. his father becomes this monster, he finds a way out of it. his father abandons him and he’s left alone on the streets, he’s taken in by the darlings and is able to consider them family. he leaves the darlings to protect their family, is taken in by Hook and is eventually able to trust him as a father figure. He’s turned over to the lost boys by Hook, and he manages to hold on to enough hope to find a way out of Neverland. He finds Emma and plans to make a home with her, and surprise, she’s got to break a curse that’ll lead her to the family she’s always been looking for—her real home. and this is what breaks him. the next time he attempts to move on, with tamara, it’s not the same type of moving on— he hurt emma, he lost that connection, he doesn’t get it back, it’s stupid to think he could want it back. i do think he thought he could have some kind of a good life with her, but i think it was a result of a much more jaded form of resilience. 3A broke that down. Neal opened s3 with the determination to get back to the family he should have had. and he closed it losing them again. But this time he says it’s not over. I’ll see you both again. And I think ultimately, that’s what his arc is about—learning to be 14 year old Baelfire fighting to stay with his family again. tl;dr, but for me this is why it works narratively— because they’re ultimately built into each other’s arcs and their relationship is based on actual, mutual, simultaneous character development.
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(edited for language issues) *insert a million GIFS of people clapping**applauds until her hands and arms hurt* 😀 😀 😀 😀
Lisa-I kind of hope that’s what Adam was hinting at too and not just for MRJ but for Robert and Emilie too since we also haven’t seen much of them in set pictures. I have a hard time reconciling that all of that is simply a coincidence and not part of some bigger story that they just don’t want to spoil for everyone yet.
I wanted to write up my “Why I Started Shipping SwanFire” post last night but got distracted by all the shiny new episodes of my other fave shows (Nashville = winning), but hopefully I can write that up tonight before two more of my fave shows come back on (Grey’s & Scandal = winning). I feel like writing that out would be therapeutic for me at this point, LOL 😆
#HopeforSwanFire #SwanFireAlways
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#MoreBOOMLessGloomI’m just gonna link this for a few reasons, but I love when Schmacky defends our ship (we love you Schmacky) READ
Schmacky for president!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😀
#HopeforSwanFire #MoreBOOMlessgloom
#MoreBOOMLessGloomHi Everyone,…..I made a blunder in my previous post. I tried to upload a photo of 2 swans, in a serene lake setting, they face each other, forming a heart. The background to this lovely scene is at dusk, ablaze in shades of orange/red, surrounding the swans in a exquisite mist!
Here ya go!
Oh wow that’s gorgeous. Really nice job! <3 😀
#HopeforSwanFire
#MoreBOOMLessGloomTaDa!
I’ve all ready retweeted this like four times, LOL 😉
Have to catch up on the rest of the thread now….
#MoreBOOMLessGloomHaha, I just saw the post and it’s awesome! Hopefully Schmacky saw my note though because my Tumblr name is actually not the same as my username here which I didn’t even realize until this afternoon because I’m THAT observant, LOL 😆
More #BOOM less gloom!!!!! 😀
#MoreBOOMLessGloomUm, I don’t know because I can’t see Tumlbr posts at work….maybe?!? It had words on it and MRJ and Colin joked about holding hands under the table while Jen fluffs Michael’s aura, LOL
HA!!! Yes that’s the one I posted. *fluffs aura*
Something adorable to remind us how much the cast loves each other
Love each otherYay! Thanks for letting me know. I’ll have to enjoy it when I get home and can actually see it on a bigger screen than my phone, LOL 😀
*accepts aura fluff and wants to hold MRJ’s hand under a table* 😉
#MoreBOOMLessGloomSomething adorable to remind us how much the cast loves each other
Love each otherDis one??
Um, I don’t know because I can’t see Tumlbr posts at work….maybe?!? It had words on it and MRJ and Colin joked about holding hands under the table while Jen fluffs Michael’s aura, LOL 😆
#MoreBOOMLessGloomAmazing theories. I need time to process things myself but I know I want to see that third panel like NOW.
1st panel = Feb 19 2nd panel = Feb 26 Difference = 7 full days Show returns = March 9 3rd panel prediction = March 5th
Why are you being all practical on me when I’m this anxious to see something, LOL 😆 😉 🙂
*waits patiently* 😀
#MoreBOOMLessGloom
