#swanfire

[clairesbeauchamp]

ONCE UPON A TIME — 3.15 Quiet Minds

[sulietsexual]

"When I heard you might be here, and that you might still be alive, I knew I should be happy, but I wasn't. I was terrified. I didn't understand why until now. From the moment I saw you in New York, in the instant you stepped back in my life, I knew. I knew I'd never stopped loving you."

Emma & Neal | Once Upon A Time [2011 - 2018] Requested by Anonymous

[dinneratgrannys]

2.14, Manhattan 3.12, New York City Serenade

[leiafandoms24]

Neal Cassidy is Mischaracterised

I was on Tik Tok and saw an anti Swanfire edit, an old one, and in the comments people were complaining about how Neal left his pregnant girlfriend, but here are some things those people don't understand or take into account.

Neal didn't know Emma was pregnant. Emma herself didn't know she was pregnant until she was already in jail. So saying Neal left and let a pregnant Emma go to jail is wrong because as I said HE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW!

If he did know I don't think he would have left because he never wanted to be like his father.

Neal is Selfless. Neal left Emma because he knew how much she wanted to meet her parents. August basically told Neal that if he stayed with Emma she wouldn't go to Storybrooke and wouldn't break the Curse and in doing so would never meet her parents.

This could have gone two ways for Neal. (or three if you have read the Fanfiction "Wishing On a Shooting Star and Thinking that a Heart Can’t Lie" by Dragonbat on AO3)

1. He stayed with her and they leave get their money, go to Tallahasse, have a son together and Neal would never have to think about Storybrooke or his father who would never come back into his life because Rumple would never remember and the Curse would have never been broken. (but Emma would never know that her parents didn't want to abandon her)

or

2. What happened in Canon. Emma got to find her parents. All the people cursed broke free due to Emma coming to Storybrooke. But most of all Rumple remembered, Rumple came after him.

Something Neal didn't want but knew would be inevitable if let Emma go. Which he did because he knew how much Emma wanted to find her parents, how much she wanted to know why, why did they abandon her on the side of the highway?

And of course all those people caught in the crossfire of HIS father's curse, a curse that was made to find HIM.

We don't know Neals Age. Now no one said anything about his age in the comments of this specific video but I have seen other Anti Neal and Anti Swanfire edits on Tik Tok saying that Neal statutory r*ped Emma. Even though we are talking about a fictional character who was in Neverland, a place that doesn't age one physically or mentally, for who knows how long. We kinda know the age he goes to Neverland at. (I think it was around 15 or 16, I don't know for sure) but we don't know how long he was in Neverland or when he leaves. In other words we don't know his age and I wouldn't put it past him to fake credentials when he go back to this new world were you need an ID to live.

Neal Cassidy is mischaracterised and I'm tired of it so I wrote this structured rant. Thanks for reading! (if you did)

[heddagab]

ONCE UPON A TIME Swanfire in 2x16 "The Miller's Daughter"

I didn’t mean for Tamara to be a surprise

[i-hate-flying-jellyfish]

[vivianthepigeon]

Baelfire shouldn’t have died as early as he did! It was such a waste of potential. It’s been pretty much confirmed that the reason he was killed off was so that Emma and Hook could be together, but bro! You don’t have to kill the other guy off for that. Like don’t pmo.

His and Rumple’s relationship was one of the absolute BEST parts of the show, and his and Hooks relationship was BARELY touched on (would it have been super complicated? Yes, but we don’t watch ouat for its simplicity). The writers were sitting on a gold mine, and instead of digging they blew it up.

Imagine how interesting it would have been to see him, Emma, and Regina figuring out how to parent Henry, together. And how Rumples parenting would have had an effect on how Neal would parent.

And the emotional weight of a lot of the later seasons and arcs would have been much heavier! Like imagine if Neal had went to the underworld to help save Hook, just to meet with his mother again. That could have been peak! Especially since I feel a lot of Neal’s character was left so unfinished! We never see his real feelings towards his mother, or fully how he felt about Hook (even more so since I still think Emma would have ended up with Hook). Imagine what would have happened with the Dark Swan arc!! Neal’s history with the Dark one could have made for such an amazing story!

Omg and I haven’t even mentioned what his and Belle’s relationship could have been! Them being the only two people to love the Dark One, THE POSSIBILITIES WERE ENDLESS!

Him dying wasn’t really what I have an issue with, don’t get me wrong I love Neal and will defend him till the day I die, but it could have been more impactful if it was later. I think one of the reasons fans don’t like him/hate him is because of how little time we got to know him as an adult.

I need a fanfic about this stuff.

Every day I mourn the ouat that we could’ve had, if they had just kept Neal.

[anewkindofme]

I still think if you have to kill off a character to legitimize another ship, it wasn't a very good ship in the first place. Like, if 2 characters would only "realistically" be together if another character died that means your ship wasn't good enough to stand on it's own merit.

So...it wasn't strong enough in the first place.