I'm Liz, Swan Thief princess <3 as of May 2012 I have a BA! I will be a teacher come next year, and I still love to read and write. I'm still roleplaying <3 My current obsession is Once Upon a Time, and my main OTP's for Emma are Neal and Graham as you can see.The wonderful GIF is credited to the wonderful jennifermorrison
That we take back the tags, because all I see lately are either non Swanfire related things or things about how Neal is going to be the one who the spoiler is about. Come on guys. WE USED TO BE ALL OPTIMISTIC ABOUT OUR SHIP. Where's that optimism now? WE WILL PREVAIL.
You should continue your "True love breaks any curse" story! PLEAS!
aww nonnie. I would but my muse seems to have flitered away, I do have the next chapter half finished, so I'm hoping it'll be up at some point in the future.
Seeing that there are some new swanfire shippers - and a couple people following this blog that aren’t on my masterlist - please consider sending your birthdate (just month and day) to be added to our announcements.
It might not seem much right now - but I’m still hoping this can take off and be a positive thing for our shipping community!
Reblog, reply, or message me your birthdates to be added to the masterlists.
And please remember that our next birthday is on September 6th!
The other day I reached 5000 followers, which is absolutely crazy! So I decided that in return, I am going to do a giveaway of my extra circle necklace that Emma Swan wears throughout the show. You can purchase the necklace right here if you desire! I wear this necklace every single day, and it is amazing quality. Plus it looks identical to the one Emma wears.
There are just a few rules, nothing crazy!
Since this is a giveaway thanking my followers, you must be following me. :P
This is international! I don’t care where you live. I’ll ship it to you!!
No likes, only reblogs.
I will randomly choose a winner in two weeks, on July 29th.
Thank you again for being so wonderfully amazing. I appreciate every single one of you!!! Love you guys! <3
The thing that breaks my heart so much about Bae/Neal is that — just like his father — he really just wants to be loved. He wants that unconditional, fight-to-the-death, give-up-everything-for-you love that he demonstrates so well (trying to save his father despite the horrific things he’d witnessed, giving himself up to save the Darlings, even letting go of Emma in ‘Tallahassee,’ and definitely falling through the portal in ‘Second Star To The Right’), but he doesn’t think he’s ever received it. His mother left him for her own selfish happiness, his father let him go for power and fear, his adopted family allowed him to sacrifice himself, Hook betrayed him from the very beginning to the end of what we’ve seen of their early interactions, and through it all, he’s come to want that love even more desperately, so he covers up that want, that desire, with snarky comments and sarcastic chuckles and slow smirks, just so that no one sees what he wants and lets him down.
And then Tamara comes, and maybe he doesn’t love her as much as he thinks he should and maybe some things seem a bit off, but it doesn’t matter because SHE CHOOSES HIM. She chose him above anyone else and she’s — he thinks — standing by him, and so he tells Emma that he needs her, because he needs to see someone who chose him, who loves him, needs that reminder that he can’t dream about Emma anymore and he has to ‘put childish things behind him.’ Even when she finds out about the messed up place he came from and the even more messed up town they’re currently staying in, she — he thinks — chooses him again. She accepts it and still wants to marry him, and so maybe Emma is there, but he can’t think about that because he let her go and he turned into her father where she and Henry are concerned and he has someone who chose him for once and he can’t let that go.
So this moment, when he realizes that she didn’t choose him, that she NEVER chose him, that once again he is a pawn for bigger forces than himself, that he’s been used and discarded just as before…he can do nothing but ask over and over again, like the abandoned child he is, if she ever loved him (so reminiscent of Rumplestiltskin’s explosion after Belle’s first kiss, and again, gotta love the parallels).
But when it comes down to it, Bae/Neal ALWAYS chooses the ones he loves over himself, so even when he’s shot by the woman he thought was his something new, even when he’s bleeding out and hurting — and surely terrified by the sight of this green portal he’s been running from for centuries — he makes the leap for Emma. And I am so beyond happy that before he fell, before he gave himself up once again for family, he saw someone REALLY, TRULY choose him — and not for the first time, but for the second time. She still loves him, and he still loves her, and they both chose the other’s happiness over their own, and that’s why I love their story so much — and yes, I even love the Tamara angle, because it makes sense to me that Bae/Neal, trying to decide if he should throw off his assumed cynicism and hope he could make amends with Emma though it meant facing his father…he clutched desperately at this ulterior woman who offered him what he wanted. Tamara is Bae/Neal’s Cora, but Emma is his Belle.
The pinnacle of Nealfire’s character is in this exact moment - when Tamara is holding a gun to his head. He isn’t even concerned that he might die; his biggest concern is that Tamara has been lying to him and has never loved him.
How come this happened on my dash and I didn’t even notice??
*looks around, confused*
Buddies, I am making a new post out of the original one because I think your wonderful arguments deserve to be in the Nealfire’s tag, so that people have a chance of replying to them, or even adding more stuff if they want to.
antikryptonite, everything you said… What a great analysis. Really, thanks for breaking my heart with it *quiet sob*. And it is true. I HATE, hate, HATE Tamara, and I hate Neal even more when he defends her so blindly, but it is as you said. WE, viewers, know she loves him not. Emma sees there is something iffy about her. But Neal? Why would he even suspect anything? The woman wants him, despite the fact his life is a mess. I suspect the reason he is wearing a suit in 2x01 is because the woman herself got him a decent job - one that he secretly hates, but would never think of giving up because Tamara is doing it for him, because she wants him to have a better life, and he is grateful: grateful for the faith she seems to have in him, grateful that she chose him, that she wants to have a family with him.
This is what he sees. So what if she keeps getting those strange phone calls? So what if she disappears for hours every day?
She is going to run a marathon, after all. It’s not as if she would have any reason to lie to him, right?
But here is when I think about what Schmacky said about Neal once: that one of the reasons he is always so willing to sacrifice himself for others is that he believes they deserve the best - and the best is never him. Or with him, for that matter. This is also something swanheartthief has delved into in her fab metas. True, when it comes to Wendy and Rumple, there was really very little he could do, but that night in Portland… In Second Star, Neal says that it kills him that he let August talk him into leaving her, and it makes me think that August pushed that exact button: she has a beautiful life ahead and you will keep it from her. She can be happy but not with you. She has a destiny and you will get in the way. You’re not good enough.
And in a way, I think he holds dearly to the “not good enough" part of that argument. His mother left him, his father left him… He was denied the strongest kind of love a person is supposed to have - parental love. Even if he does not acknowledge it, I think this has scarred him for life. It is almost as if every time he is faced with the prospect of happiness, that little voice inside him tells him he’s not worth it. That people are better off without him.
It is, then, a combination of the value he attributes to family and the lack of faith he has in himself that results in his decision of letting her go, and later on, at some point, it must have dawned on him that he didn’t need to walk away to help her get home, that there were other ways. But he had let that little voice discourage him, and then we’re back to Tamara: probably when she showed him she was interested, that voice must have yelled at him some more, telling him it was a lie, but because he had listened to it before and it had resulted in him losing the love of his life, this time, he decides to shut that voice away, along with all his other instincts. This time, he is going to give happiness a shot, and all the little voices inside his head can go to hell.
And then we go back to what baelfireinneverland said: that moment with Tamara is the pinnacle of Neal’s character, because he once again lost even though he changed strategies. Getting shot in the face is not even the problem anymore; what we can see in his face is his absolute disbelief that, once again, the rug was pulled from under his feet. His quest, in the end, is not about surviving, is not about being magic, is not about defeating evil. Or maybe it is, but all these things are secondary. His quest is about belonging, is about finding love – in the end, I guess this is true for all the characters. But in Nealfire’s case, it goes beyond: similarly to what happens to Rumple, at the end of the day his biggest struggle is to believe that he is worth finding love. That he is worth having his own happy ending. Maybe Emma’s words before he fell through the portal will give him the gentle nudge he needed to rise above his own fears. Maybe they will sink him even further down a spiral of regret and shame: for not having trusted her, for leading Tamara into their lives and in a way, allowing things to get as bad as they got.
wow, I've had twelve likes in total for my ff I started writing the other day O_O and a couple of reviews on ff.net. I'll try and work on the next chapter in the next few days, it's just crazy hot so the last thing I want is to sit on the computer in the heat.
True love breaks any curse || Swan thief/ Swanfire FF
Title: True love breaks any curse
Pairing: Emma Swan and Neal Cassidy
Rating: Pg 13, as of right now
Summary: Set after "True North" what if Neal had been the one to visit town instead of August, and he took it upon himself to get Emma to believe in her destiny, all while avoiding being recognized by his father. (based off a graphic by rufeepeach for the Swan Thief Summer Challange. (this chapter is long I'm sorry)
Chapter 1- True North
Emma smiled at Henry as he said that she really was changing things, she felt as if her heart had grown to a size too large for her body. Here was her kid, believing in her, and it made her happy to know that he believed in her all thanks to her trying to reunite a family. That was when they heard a noise, curiously both Emma and Henry looked to their right, it was an engine. A single light, it wasn’t a car. A motorcycle. Emma looked towards the oncoming motorcycle, and it stopped right in front of them, across the street, but she could still see that it was a man.
She blinked as the man turned to face them, and she felt her heart stop. Neal Cassidy was walking towards her, panic shot through her insides, she had just told Henry his dad was dead, and here was the bastard walking towards them. He couldn’t know about Henry, he couldn’t, so she tried to act calm, pretend that she had never met this man in her life. That was the only way she could not tip off Henry as to the identity of this newcomer.
“Hey”, hey? That was all the bastard was going to say after disappeared for ten years. But no, she was to remain calm, she had to be calm.
“Hey” she responded, it was flat, unfriendly.
“So this is Storybrooke?” Neal asked.
“Yep, this is Storybrooke” Henry quipped.
“Any place to get a room around here?”
Henry’s head tilted, as Emma looked down at her son, their son, “Uh, you are staying?”
“Yeah, for a little while”
“Granny’s, it’s down the road. You can probably stay there!” Henry responded with a smile.
“Thanks kid, what’s your name?”
“Uh kid, let’s get you home. Your mom is bound to get worried, and the last thing I need is her to hate me for another reason” Emma said as she ushered Henry into the cruiser. There, that way Neal wouldn’t think the kid was theirs, even though he was.
“See you around” Neal called out as Emma turned the cruiser on and headed towards the mayor’s house.
Emma looked over at Henry as they drove down the street, “I thought you said strangers don’t come to Storybrooke”
“They don’t” Henry said with a small shrug.
~*~*
An hour later, after dropping Henry off at Regina’s she parked the cruiser right next to Granny’s. A part of her wanted to go inside, tell Neal to get the hell out of town before she arrested him, and drive him to the town line. But another part of her wanted to ask what he was doing in town, and how he knew she was here. Unless he didn’t come looking for her, but then why else was he here? With a sigh she walked into the bed and breakfast, and she spotted Granny at the desk, “Hey Granny, did you rent out a room tonight, guy named Cassidy?” she asked.
“I did” Granny said with a nod.
“Could you tell me which one, I need to have a small chat with him”
Granny gave her a look of concern, “It isn’t anything bad” I hope
“The room you stayed in when you were here” she answered.
Emma thanked Granny as she headed upstairs, and she paused at the door, before knocking rather loudly. Seconds later she heard shuffling inside the room, and when the door finally opened to reveal Neal Cassidy, he smiled.
“Emma” he smiled.
“What are you doing here?” she demanded.
“I”
“Why are you here? Why don’t you go back to that hole you crawled out of?”
“Emma let me..” she cut him off again
“I want you out of this town, you don’t belong here” she crossed her arms.
“Emma come on, let me talk”
Emma glared at him, “Talk” her tone flat.
“I didn’t know you went to jail for me, I was told to stay away from you, that you needed to get here, and that I would get in your way” He started but Emma cut him off by slapping him across the face, the sound seemed to resonate through the whole room, and her hand hurt.
“It doesn’t matter anymore, you screwed me over, I accepted my faith. But you will stay as far away from me as you possibly can, you will not approach me. Ever. If you do, I will arrest you, whatever the hell you are doing in this town, you do it, and get the hell out of here”
“But Emma”
“No buts, you will get out of here, or I will throw you in a jail cell, maybe then you’ll see what I went through when I took the blame for a crime you committed” with that she stalked off, slamming the door to the bed and breakfast rather loudly.
~*~*~*~
With a sigh, Neal touched his cheek at least she hadn’t punched him, if she remembered correctly Emma packed quite the punch. He was planning on explaining the whole thing with August, but she wouldn’t know August, the asshole hadn’t helped her out at all. He admitted it when the two talked in New York, it was why Neal was here instead of the puppet. He needed to make amends with Emma, and he also needed to make her believe, so she would understand that he had done what he did to bring her to this place, with her family.
He closed the door, throwing himself on the bed, he’d start the next day. Hopefully she’d be calmer the next day, and he’d let her explain. The one good thing about small towns was that people knew everyone, he was sure he could charm the location of the sheriff’s station out of someone. He had noticed the badge, and the car, she was sheriff of this town and she probably could throw him in a cell. Neal just hoped she’d listen long enough to at least let him be around her, he had missed her. Gods how he had missed her. Having her in front of him, after ten long years, she was still as beautiful as ever, and seeing her, he remembered just how easy it had been for him to fall in love with her. But this was not the moment to think about that, he needed to sleep and think of a good excuse to be in town if she asked, because saying he was here to make her believe in a magical curse would land him in the nut house.
~*~*
She was still fuming as she made her way into the apartment, Mary Margaret was in the kitchen and she hurried towards her, a look of concern on her face.
“Emma, what’s wrong?”
“The past caught up with me” she mumbled.
“What?” Mary Margaret gave her a confused look, and Emma took that as an invitation to explain what was going on.
“Remember how I was telling you about Henry’s father” Emma admitted.
Mary Margaret pushed the hot cocoa she had been making towards Emma while she prepared one for herself, “You said that you didn’t know where he was”
“Well he showed up tonight, when I was outside. He pulled up on a bike when I was talking with Henry”
“And what did you do?”
“I played it off, pretended I didn’t know him. Dropped Henry off at Regina’s, and then I went back to confront him”
Mary Margaret’s eyes grew wide, Emma had told her briefly about Henry’s father, but she hadn’t told her the whole story. But from what she could gather, Henry’s father had hurt Emma deeply and it had to be affecting her, having him just show up in her life again.
“But how, why?” Mary Margaret asked.
“I don’t know, I didn’t let him get a word in. I just slapped him and stormed off, I was so mad” Emma took a drink of her hot cocoa, hoping to find some comfort in the liquid chocolate. She did feel better, but she felt drained, hell Neal hadn’t even said more than two words, but still she felt drained. What was she going to do?
“Emma, you have to tell Henry. If his father figures out who he is, he might tell him, and that would be problematic for you”
“But he thinks his dad is a hero, not some sleezeball who sent me to prison in his place” Emma said quietly.
“He’s the reason you went to prison?” Mary Margaret asked.
“It’s a long story, are you sure you want to hear it?” Emma gave her friend a look, but Mary Margaret nodded, and Emma started to tell her everything, from the beginning. How they had met in the bug, and until the end, the night she had gotten arrested because of something he set up.
Mary Margaret was speechless, unsure if she wanted such a presence in her friend’s life. Not only had he broken her heart, but he had been the reason Emma had Henry in prison. Emma ran a hand through her curls as she looked at Mary Margaret.
“Say something” Emma said nervously.
“I don’t know what to say, Emma. That sounds, complicated”
“Complicated, try screwed up” Emma said with an eye roll.
“What do you want to do? You can probably run him out of town, but do you really want to do that?” Mary Margaret asked.
“What do you mean?”
“Emma, think about it, your feelings for him have they disappeared? That might help you decide what to do” Mary Margaret.
“Are you thinking I’m still in love with that asshole?” Emma asked.
“I don’t know Emma, but think about it. I’m heading to bed, I have to get up early in the morning” with that Mary Margaret left her to go to the bathroom, Emma walked to the sink to deposit her mug and trudged upstairs to her room, crap, what if she still did have feelings for him? With a sigh she fell on her bed, she had a lot of thinking to do.
So something I noticed, I noticed how people keep asking questions about Hook and Emma, and they keep answering, because Emma thinks Neal is dead. Is that the only way those two could happen, because she thinks Neal is dead. Like, if I were people who shipped them together, I'd be offended because I wouldn't want my ship to happen like that because Emma thinks the guy she is in love with is dead. I dunno, that's just me, just an observation. I just ship Swan thief/ Swanfire and Gremma. I'll go back in my hole.
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