Gosh, your post speaks to me. Like the moment I saw the scene with Emma, I just sighed knowing certain people would try to make it a Thing™. I was not disappointed. It's so transparent.
It’s SO transparent. But to me it’s also just…really upsetting? Not even because I ship something else, but because even if I did ship it, that scene should not be viewed as sexual? In any way? Violence against women should not be sexualized. I think Flynn’s actions in the scene were totally justified because Emma is a skilled fighter and he was treating her like an enemy, as he should have. But it is so wrong to say there was sexual tension in a moment where a male character viciously threw a female character into furniture, threatened her life, and then pulled a gun on her.
Obviously, I ship Lucy and Flynn, but I have never and would never claim that him grabbing her arm at the end of 1x10 or the beginning of 1x11 involved sexual tension. I wrote an entire meta on the scene in 1x02 where he and Lucy fight (which I still don’t think was on the same level as what happened in this scene) to say why I thought it happened the way it did and why I didn’t find it a barrier to shipping them in the future, but I would never say that scene involved sexual tension and I’ve never heard anyone else try to claim it did.
Beyond which, I feel like there’s this undercurrent to it that’s like…well, Emma’s evil so it’s fine? No worries, we should all be a-okay with shipping her with someone who wants her dead, especially in a moment where he’s just been violent towards her? But Lucy is a good and pure angel, so if anyone suggests she should be with someone who has even looked at her the wrong way, god for-fucking-bid.