Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26261400-20150518183531/@comment-24674051-20150528145256

Actually, they were off to a little bit of a good start earlier in the season, when Henry went to work for his Grandpa. While the motivations might have been suspect, the fact that they recognized that Henry could be more responsible was a good thing. And making him the Author, and also showing his maturity when he snapped the Quill, says a lot. Hopefully they will continue down that line.

They do need to have some teenage companionship for Henry. Not love interest, necessarily, but a few close friends.

A fun scene would be to come into Granny's sometime, and have Henry, Hansel, Gretel and Grace sitting at a booth and talking about teenage stuff, maybe even working on a school project or something. Or maybe even having the other kids be more than slightly impressed (and jealous?) of Henry's new standing as the Author. Even if it was just the background during a scene, it would add to the believability of the story.

Honestly, we have the adult ships (for good or bad), we have the adult friendships (we see Emma/Regina, some Snow/Regina, Robin/David, Killian/David). What we don't see is Henry having the same types of relationships. It ain't natural.