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Lady Junky wrote: The very problem of the Black Swan case is that we mostly think  of it by association of ideas. Emma Swan + Dark One -> Dark Swan = Black Swan, for many people. But, is she really based on these characters?

First, Odette aka the White Swan.

"As the heroine of the story, Odette has been transformed into a swan by Rothbart and can only regain her human form at night. She has many companions under the same spell, who have made her their queen, hence her title 'The Swan Queen.' She is forced to live by a lake that was magically formed from the tears of her grieving mother after Rothbart kidnapped her. The only way for the spell to be broken is by the power of eternal love between Odette and a young man who will remain faithful to her, for if the vow of eternal love is broken, she will remain a swan forever. When Odette falls in love with Prince Siegfried, hope for her freedom has come at last, until Siegfried is tricked into breaking his vow by Rothbart, trapping Odette as a swan forever. To escape the spell, Odette chooses to die and Siegfried chooses to die with her; the lovers drown themselves in the lake and are reunited forever in death." This is sort of similar to Hook and Emma in 5x11 though. He chose to die in order to stop the curse and she killed him, only for them to find each other later in the Underworld/death. And transforming into the swan, could be adapted in the show as becoming the Dark One. She was in and out of her Darkness back in Camelot. As for Rumple and Nimue, they slightly allude to Rothbart, though more Rumple than Nimue, as they are the evil "wizards" who turn Emma/Odette into what she is. I just think we should point these things out somewhere, as opposed to just stating that her name and Dark One-ness alludes to it.