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I should really take a step back because I haven’t rewatched the episode yet. Confession time. This is the first episode I’m really excited about rewatching in 5B, because it had so much stuff that I just love, and as someone who pretty much is allergic to flashbacks, I am so happy there were none this go around.

This is really more of a comment that I know someone like @thetaleofcaptainswan will appreciate, and at this point, I don’t think the writers are being subtle at all with what they’re doing.

There were 2 situations last night. Moe/Rumple, and Killian/Arthur that the writing paralleled, or anti-paralleled with different results.

In both situations Belle and Emma’s well being is at stake.

Rumple goes to Moe for assistance, and threatens him into helping Belle, which he refuses to do, and God knows what would have happened to him had Emma not shown up.

Killian asks Arthur for his help, and gives him a choice. You can help. And you know, considering that Emma was the Dark One, and that he was lied to about the intentions of the Nevengers from the word go, YMMV, but I personally don’t think he owed any of them anything.

But this is the difference, right?

Arthur is given a choice, and Moe is about to be beaten into submission.

Also, I cannot point out enough that in an episode where Killian is sent back to Emma, and his life in Storybrooke, is also the episode Rumple finally voices that he is Storybrooke’s king, and that he basically owns it.

I think this is likely the overarching arc for season 6.

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#look at this beautiful hero #no wonder he gained the approval of the gods themselves

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more than willing

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They finally sleep.

They don’t even make it to bed. Her head falls against his shoulder, eyelids fluttering closed. His head rests on top of hers as he pulls her body even closer.

The sofa is surprisingly comfortable.

Or maybe it’s that neither of them have slept since Camelot.

They’re oblivious to the sounds of knocking at the the front door, the insistent buzzing of her cell (and his).

They wake up here and there, her hips rolling into his, latent desire growing in the heat between their bodies. There’s a pleasant ache between their thighs, a knowledge that it will be time, soon, to address that need.

But sleep, first sleep.

She wakes first.

His hand is tangled in her hair as she nuzzles into his chest, his scent almost fresh and clean (and she wonder at that, at what must have transpired in that glowing land of Olympus to make him feel so clean, to be so shiny.)

She wakes him with the soft trace of her fingertips on his skin, as if to convince herself that he’s real, and that, yes, it is his heart, his real heart, beating in his chest, underneath hers.

She listens, she feels it as his heartbeat speeds and his eyes flutter open.

If she could keep that smile of his forever, she would.

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I realize that I’m just adding to the piles of post-last rites fic, but I couldn’t help because feelings.

you wait a lifetime to be found…now my feet won’t touch the ground

She regrets it now, how sparing she had been with kisses before. Affection still a concept that is just the framework, not actual substance, not the parts that comprise the whole. But now, now she gives him every press of her lips that she can afford, every ounce of openness she can offer.

There is still intense loss, intense fear, but this single moment of surrender to what he is to her, it’s all she can live in - his laugh, the air that moves through and out of his lungs and he’s so warm in the rain.

“I don’t care, I don’t care how you’re here,” she cannot stop the swing of her heart - the cresting of absolute relief and joy and disbelief or the careening, terrible remembrance of how he was lost. He was lost and gone and she was going to have to live with that, without -

Her hand hasn’t stopped touching him, his skin warmth and reality, and even as he runs his hand along the edge of Robin’s coffin she can’t let him go.

There is still a valley of grief in her chest that isn’t from Robin, that is for Killian that won’t be repaired for some time. How great is love and loss, how one can grieve and celebrate, how fear and hope tear and mend.

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#emma be like: ’ZEUS WHO #ahahahahaha the most powerful god among the olympians brought you back to life #what is even my life #on the other hand #i should probably send him a flower arrangement as a thank you #or whatever gods are into anyway #also you can explain everything later buddy #your lips on mine are much more important’

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Episode Analysis--5x21: Last Rites--What Happened to Robin

Ever since we learned more or less definitively that someone would be dying in 5x21, I’ve been maintaining that Robin Hood would not be killed off in a permanent way. Other than @flslp87, who I was chatting with last night, nearly everyone I’ve seen is convinced Robin’s gone for good. That makes me wonder if I’m just letting my eternal optimism get the better of me…but I honestly don’t think so. Robin being gone, gone just doesn’t feel right—and I don’t mean that from an emotional “I don’t want to lose a character I really like and a ship I very much ship” perspective. I mean that from a writer/storytelling perspective.

After sleeping (for a couple hours) on all of it, my “something is just not right here” detector is going off more than ever. Let me see if I can organize my thoughts here enough to make my case for Robin eventually coming back.

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L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle

Dante shall pardon me for using that quote as a title… It was so difficult choosing a moment from last night’s episode, but in the end I settled for this. It was a perfect hug…

Let me know what you think!

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Is it weird that I totally need this reluctant brOTP between Killian and Arthur to continue?

Arthur maybe finds a way to fix the haunting phone, starts annoyingly haunting Killian.

“Ah, I see you made it to your lady fair. Should I look to expect a thank you card in the post?”

“Bugger off, mate, don’t you have a broken kingdom to repair? By the way, think I dropped me flask down there, keep an eye out, will you?”

“Cruella sends her rewards, by the way.”

“Mate. No.”

“What? She’s got fire.”

“Mate. MATE.”

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ring ring

“arthur. you’ve got to stop calling, mate.”

“i wanted to check on dave, see how he fares.”

“he doesn’t want to talk to you, mate. you hurt him.”

“did you not give him my message?”

“I did, mate. he…said he needs to process things. he’s cut his hair, he’s trying to be himself. he’s freer, happier.”

“did you tell him i said it wasn’t him, it was me?”

“arthur, listen. he just needs time, i think. you have to stop calling.”

“but does he miss me?”

“sigh.”

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*ring ring*

“What now, Arthur?”

“So I was thinking about planning a nice town celebration down here in Underbrooke. Something to boost moral and all that. If you guys could drop in it would really help.”

“What?”

“You could make a day of it. Bring the whole Charming family. We’ll have a picnic, go horseback riding, maybe an adventure or two.”

“You gotta let go, Mate. We’ve moved on, both Dave and I. A quest isn’t going to change that.”

“THERE ISN’T ANYTHING A QUEST CANNOT FIX.”

seastarved

SHE KNOWS. SHE KNOWS IT’S HIM HELPING HER.

BECAUSE WHEN YOU LOVE SOMEONE.

YOU KNOW.

I AM DEAD.

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#i didn’t think i needed this scruffed duo so badly

just-tinkabelle

Nerd Moment: Captain Swan a tale as old as c. 385–370 BC.

I bet you are staring at the above dates in confusion but I swear they serve a purpose for this Nerd Moment. Those dates are attributed to the dates that Aristotle’s Symposium came to be. The philosophical text focus primarily on love and discussed by men at a “drinking party” as the praise the Eros, a god of love. One of the most famous and well known sections of the Symposium is where Aristotle has Aristophanes give his speech on love. Aristophanes says that his speech will explain why people feel “whole” when they have found their love partner.

In the beginning human creatures where spherical creatures with two faces and two sets of limbs but they were turned away from each other. The creatures were extremely powerful and Zeus did not like that. He thought of blasting them with a thunderbolt but liked their offerings too much so he split them. The men/men which came from the sun were split,the women/women which came from the earth were split and the androgynous, men/women which came from the moon were split. The creatures became a being with one body, face, set of limbs and a shared soul. It is said when a pair meets it’s actual other half they are lost and amazed at the love, intimacy and friendship they have. They are even unable to explain the desire to be with one another or the connection they have. He goes on the say that human nature was originally one as we were a whole being, and the desire and pursuit of the finding our whole is called love.

The idea of the soulmate has evolved but the foundation remains the same. We hold onto the idea of feeling whole when we find the other half but more has been added to the notion such:

The feeling of making ourselves and the other person better.

We can be our authentic self with them.

There is an immediate intense connection.

They can feel the other person.

We feel at “home” with them.

You can always be honest with the other.

Feeling awakened by the other person.

There is a desire to be with one another no matter what.

There are plenty more but we don’t need to go into to much detail as we have watched many of the added ideas throughout the seasons with Emma and Killian’s interaction.

Last Rites showed us one of the fundamental points of this idea, that those who are the person’s other half can feel connected. We have witnessed this before in season 1 with Snow and Charming and now we see it with Emma and Killian. While being realms apart, Emma and Killian knew that the other could only move on by helping each other out in their mission to destroy Hades. The connection while not as intense as Charming feeling Snow falling under the sleeping curse when she bite into the apple, Captain Swan could feel that the other soul, half, person, needed them to aide in their journey to the next step in their journey. To them it appeared as it was meant to be a solo journey but the end aka the CS reunion proved otherwise.

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“Goodbye, Captain.”

THIS SHOT IS MAKING ME SO EMOTIONAL. KILLIAN JONES SURROUNDED BY THE LIGHT, READY TO MOVE ON, A HERO AND A CAPTAIN, A MAN WHO LOVED AND LIVED AND BECAME SOMEONE HE IS PROUD OF.

I AM A MESS.

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