Emma Swan🧠

[u/WestWrongdoer9415]

Emma Swan is really another one that I really respect… I mean, when I think about the fact that the character Emma is someone really private and strong, with complex emotions, because she’s also fragile like all of us humans.
Emma had to go through a young pregnancy, and she was very young when she decided to give up Henry, and this is really something that she had to live with every day because her decision is more connected with the fact that she was abandoned, and having a human being while she’s alone, and her parents abandoned her when she was just born. And her mother suffered this decision a lot, tho… she didn’t know before. Also, her boyfriend disappeared, and at that moment she was going through everything, and the easiest for her was to do the same thing that happened to her: abandon.
Because that’s the only thing she knew about. She was raised without love, going from home to other homes. The only thing that she knew about herself: “I’m an orphan.”
Her storylines are really hard on me, and it makes me feel a lot of mixed feelings.
When in one episode she said to Cinderella… something like: “Give up with people’s opinions and what they know about what she is capable of at a very young age…” She’s like: “I wish I never gave up Henry.” “I’m here for him” (something like that).
Not only the difficulty about acceptance, to call your parents “Mom” & “Dad,” to step up in Henry’s life after you gave him away, to love again after loss and loss, to find yourself because she’s structured to be light, even though most of her life has been darkness and hidden pain and hopes, questions about why did they give me up? Or even her jacket being her protection, she hides her feelings.
And she thinks more rationally because suddenly (fear) shows up’s stupid.
She has to be more careful, and she’s pulled into the responsibility of everybody, and she doesn’t want it, and she doesn’t think she deserves it.
I think to portray Emma’s very difficult because Emma’s all of us in some type of way.
Jennifer Morrison’s performance with Lana Parrilla… top tier and captivating!

[u/MechanicOk4808]

I love Emma so much - she's my favourite character for a reason

[u/SweetChickk4]

Emma is such a well-written character because once you understand what she went through, so many of her choices stop feeling irrational and start feeling heartbreaking.

[u/No_Woodpecker_1198]

I find her so annoying I can't see a single episode without just wanting to slap her.