Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25491743-20181127152213/@comment-31231929-20181127204048

To be honest, I hate Swanfire and Neal and I have never loved a fictional couple as much as I love Captain Swan. I really don't get why SF shippers say Neal didn't have a choice when he let Emma go to jail for his crime because in actuality, he did. Neal knew that Emma was an orphan and that she had abandonment issues, but when August, someone he'd just met, confronted him about his relationship with her, he decided to not only abandon her, but let August set her up for his crimes. Both of them decided that going to jail was what was "best" for her and she didn't get a say. Emma has never had any choices in her life and now the person she's in love with up and leaves her in jail.

I would argue that her time in jail was detrimental to her becoming the savior because it broke the trust she had in people and left her emotionally scarred. Not to mention the fact that she was pregnant. Neal didn't know about the pregnancy, but from Emma's point of view, it doesn't really matter if he knew or not. To her, she was abandoned in the worst way possible and that fact that she's pregnant makes the horrible situation she's in so much worse. And when she got out, she went to Tallahasse for two years and looked for him, hoping he would show up, that he still cared about her. But he didn't and when she ran into him years later, he treated her like crap, brushing off her confronting him about what he did to her saying "we're all a little messed up" in a condesending tone, being dismissive of her feelings in general, trying to control the situation (suggesting they go to a bar and talk and heading to one even after Emma said they were going to do this here), and being an all around jerk in my opinion. And then in her Echo Cave confession, Emma pretty much said rekindling their relationship was not an option because he had hurt her too much. And what did he go and do? Continue to pursue her even when she made it clear she didn't want him to.

Now as for Captain Swan, they are, in my opinion, perfect for each other. The main driving force of Killian's character is that he's motivated by love (he became a pirate to avenge Liam's death, he stayed alive for centuries trying to avenge Milah's death, when Emma came into his life she became his "most important thing") and for someone like Emma whose has been unloved for almost her entire life, he is the perfect partner for her. Emma deserved to have her true love be completely dedicated to her because she's never had that before. Season 3 onwards, Killian becomes all about her, which people who don't like CS tend to think wasn't good for his character, but he became completely dedicated to her because she gave him hope, something he hadn't felt since Milah's death. There's also the fact that they're kindred spirits and are 100% supportive of one another. They built each other up and helped each other become the best versions of themselves. And every single piece of their story is amazing. Once Upon a Time is Emma Swan's fairytale and like any fairytale, she deserved a love story worthy of her character and she got that in a way I couldn't be happier with.

TL,DR: Neal was bad for Emma and CS are perfect for one another.