Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25926288-20151211170125/@comment-26159109-20161016125823

Eskaver wrote: Since the thread has been reawoken.....

In 6x03, Emma goes to Archie about her tremors and impending future. She wonders if she should tell her family, but afterwards they only talk in regards to Hook. So, she questions telling her family, but doesn't want to destroys Hook's perspective towards the future aka happy ending.

The best case scenario: Emma worries about her family and Hook. She found her family, son, and lover and she doesn't want to let it go. For instance, she just brought Hook through a lot and it would be terrible to crush his spirits so soon. Henry has Regina. Snow and David have Neal, but who does Hook have? (Worse case scenario doesn't require much thought.)

Even with this best case scenario, Emma goes to Hook and Henry trying to spend time bonding and Emma legitimately asks, "What are you doing here, Henry?" I know that in the best case scenario it's more of a "No friends you want to hang out with? No School?" while she's working with her volunteer officer. However, it seems weird that Henry has to actively pursue "Mother-son bonding" and it to be somewhat a shock.

More even than the previous season, but with a slight deviation from the best case scenario, one can look at this and see Emma still being a more focused on Hook than everyone else in her life. Even so, the more confident Emma was more like season 1 Emma in being a strong outer shell, independent character with the delightful vulerability inside. The thing that bothers me is that the only thing Emma cares about with the knowledge of her dying is that Hook won't get his Happy Endings, not that she won't be alive anymore, not that her son will lose his mother or that her parents will lose their daughter again, but Hook. Everything about their relationship is about them and what he wants and never about her, even when the "sacrifice" happened and the Underworld field trip.