Day 6: Favorite Trope ( I may have went off topic but this is what swanfire does to me.)
My favorite trope between I think is slow burns friends to lovers. NOt just like one likes the other one and then the other one starts liking the one who already has a crush. No I'm talking about they are best friends and they really do want the best for each other even if it's not with each other. We really didn't get to see a lot of scenes building up to Neal and Emma from being partners in crimes to being partners and lovers in crime. But they choose each other over and over again. Even when they thought the other hated them or didn't love them anymore.
Even when Emma finds Neal in New York she chooses him over her deal with Rumple and Neal chooses Emma over his fear of his father. The father he'd been running from for centuries.
I do belive that in New York when Emma was trying to decided if she should let Neal go and she wouldn't see him again vs. taking him to his father. Because from that it seems he was giving her the choice, he could have ran when she was outside on phone with Mary Margaret but he didn't. So although I do belive when she came back to Gold and Henry and she said she let Neal/Bae get away, I do belive part of that was for her but I think the bigger part was for Neal, she saw how frighted he was and maybe she could see He nry fear of Regina in those similar eyes and so she tells him to give her 20 minutes to try and get rid of Gold and Henry away from his apartment.
Neal has a chance to leave and to wait it out while Emma deals with his father. We know when he comes to his apartment it looks like he's been running. LIke maybe he waited a few minutes and had been walking the other way and then as he tells gold "I didn't come back for you. I came back for her. I know what you do to people who break your deals." He chose her over his fear. He even metnons in Storybrooke that he was scared to LOOK FOR HER because he was scared she would never forgive him.
I really think not onldy did they miss each other intimatley but I think they missed their friend. Their best friend
Is this the friend to couples trope or is it a chosen family trope I don't know. But the whole choosing each other over their own happiness despite their own fears was inspired by this song: Poison and Wine by The Civil Wars.
Especially these lines: I don't have a choice but I still choose you
Below is the full song if you want to listen to all of it.
