Emma Swan

Emma Swan-Jones is one of the two main protagonists of ABC's Once Upon a Time. She is the daughter and eldest child of Snow White and Prince Charming, older sister of Prince Neal, the granddaughter of Queen Eva, King Leopold, Ruth and Robert, niece to Prince James, wife of Killian Jones, the mother of Henry Mills and Hope Swan-Jones. She was also the grandmother of Lucy Mills, the daughter-in-law of Brennan Jones, sister-in-law of Liam Jones and Liam II, and the former lover of the late Neal Cassidy. 
Originally from the Enchanted Forest, Emma became an independent woman who also fell into the real world, giving birth to a son she gave up for adoption. On her twenty-eighth birthday, Emma's wish of not being alone was answered when her son comes to take her back to her family. Finally breaking the curse after giving Henry true love's kiss, Emma fell through a portal with her mother and returned to her birthplace. In the final battle, Emma and Rumplestiltskin restored the balance of good and evil after the Black Fairy's demise. 
She was portrayed by Jennifer Morrison as an adult, Abby Ross as a teenager, and McKenna Grace as a child.
== Personality ==
As a product of true love, Emma had a pure heart, both physically and metaphorically. She was a deeply damaged and conflicted woman. Growing up, Emma had become conflicted. At the start of season 1, she was a loner and had no friends until her son showed up after ten years to help her save their family. Despite the fact she did not believe her son's theory, Emma still cared about the people around her. Like Snow, she grew to realize she was her family (with both of them unaware of their relationship as mother and daughter at the time). She grew to be protective of her son Henry and played along with his curse because of her belief that he had an overactive imagination. Emma also made it her mission to make sure that everyone gets their happy ending, including Regina Mills, the former Evil Queen. She was one of the purest heroes in the Once Upon a Time universe, believing she had to sacrifice herself for others to live. She willingly sacrificed herself to the Darkness when it attacked Regina and never truly embraced it, wishing herself to be rid of it. During the final battle with Gideon, Emma chose to sacrifice herself because she was the Savior so others could live. Despite dying, Emma was ultimately given true love's kiss Henry who ultimately revives her and also turns Gideon back into a baby before the Black Fairy abducted him so his parents could raise him this time, giving them both a second chance. Sometimes, she was distrustful of those around her because Lily Page had lied to her while they were friends hiding away. She does not like being lied to and isn't sure if she can trust her other friends because of her incident with Lily and her adoptive father.
However, Emma learned to let down those walls she built up, especially after her and Hook's time-traveling adventure. She became more open about Snow and David, even calling them "Mom" and Dad." She finally realized her feelings for Killian, willing to enter a relationship with him after learning he traded his ship, the Jolly Roger, for a magic bag to get back to her. Emma can develop a close friendship with Elsa because of the isolation they feel when it comes to their roles as the Savior and the Queen of Arendelle, respectively. Despite having a rivalry with Regina, they eventually managed to become good friends, even far enough for Emma to save her from the darkness.
She disliked secrets and being lied to, leading Emma to holding grudges holds anger towards who keeps a secret from her, something Sage shares with Snow (during the time her mother was angry at David for keeping the secret that he had to remain on the island to not die of the dream shade poisoning). This was, once again, mostly born from her past friendship with Lily, who lied about being a runaway orphan just like her. However, this hatred of secrets got worse when Lily lied about how she met Emma to her then-foster parents and had Emma steal her necklace back from her ex-boyfriend's house. After Emma's foster parents Bill and Kate learned the truth of Emma and Lily's past, she decided to run away from home and believed that Lily intentionally let this happen when she suggested they run away together. Despite this, she still fell in love with Neal but when he let her take the fall for supposedly stealing watches he stole, she believed he had abandoned her when in reality, Neil broke her heart so she could go through her hero's journey to break the curse. In Season 4, she was angered at her parents for keeping the secret of how they rid the darkness she was almost born with and into Maleficent's daughter (without realizing it was Lily). However, Emma was still hypocritical because she lied to Henry about his father. However, after seeing August dying and being transformed back into Pinocchio, Emma apologized to Henry when she lied about his father. After swearing that she would never lie to him again, Henry trusted her again, making their mother and son bond stronger than ever. Henry was the only one who believed her when she had suspicions that Neal's fiance Tamara was up to no good. Henry helped expose her. After seeing her . Snow gets injured by the dragon version of Lily and Emma's talk with Hook, she forgives her mother for lying to her, knowing her parents never really meant to hurt Maleficent or Lily. However, Emma was guilty of this as well, as she lies to Henry about his father. She realized that it was wrong to do this and apologizes to Henry, promising never to lie to him again. Henry takes her weird in this, as he backed her up when she suspected Tamara was the "she" August was warning them about before he turned back into Pinocchio. This mellowed down since season 6 because when Hook revealed he kept the Sheers Of Destiny and lied to Emma about it, she was more accepting of the answer but told him they would find another way to prevent something bad from happening.
Emma also gets temperamental from time to time, sharing her temper with her father, as mentioned by Rumplestiltskin. She was always determined to get the job done and will do anything to protect the family she loves.
== Physical Appearance ==
Emma had wavy blonde hair and hazel olive eyes. Her skin was as pale as her mother's white skin but crossed over with her father's skin tone. She was beautiful. Her signature clothes are a black tank top, a red leather jacket, blue jeans, and boots, Emma had her mother's facial structures, and she inherited her hair from her father and eyes from her mother As the Dark One, her skin was paler than her natural, and she also had white hair. Emma also had worn dark clothes, and he had hardly any physical change. After the darkness was removed from her, Emma then reverts to wearing her blonde hair, red jacket, white shirt, and jeans.
== Abilities ==
== Powers and Abilities ==
* True Love Magic/Magically Enhanced Physiology: Being the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming, whose purest love exists in the realm, Emma Swan is one of the most powerful magic users in existence, especially when it comes to magic. Due to her magically enhanced physiology, Emma's magic appears to have enhanced her longevity. At full strength, Emma is capable of reaching feats that no person has ever gone before. At first, her magic was not as strong as her protective barrier over the pawnshop was easily broken by Cora and Regina, even if Emma was under Rumplestiltskin's tutelage. After being trained with magic by Regina, Emma gained better control of her power. After being possessed by the Darkness, Emma's magic has enhanced tenfold, as she is able to teleport herself, Snow and Killian to another part of the Underworld without much effort.
** Belief: Emma had the ability to mildly alter reality (usually in Neverland) by believing strong enough. It is also what fuels true love as both parties must believe in true love for it to actually work. 
** Foresight: Emma could see the future and the past in bits and pieces. However, like Force visions from Star Wars, her visions are unclear as the future is constantly shifting and evolving with new possible futures. When attempting to break into Hades' lair, Emma has a dream were she attempts to remove her, Regina nad Mary Margaret's names from the headstones. However, in the vision, a storm suddenly comes in and a monster emerges from it, killing her mother. As Emma's vision unfolded in real time, she was worried the dream was going to come true. However, in reality, her vision was warn her about Ruby's arrival to the Underworld looking for Zelena and help her find out what happneed to Dorothy. She later had a vision of an unknown entity killing her. In truth, they were also trying to warn her of the oncoming Final Battle. The vision comes to pass when she lets him kill her in order to save the light. However, Henry revives his mother with true love's kiss. 
** True Love: Emma had the ability to kiss one's True Love and break a curse.
** Witchcraft: Emma had the ability to cast spells and/or curses.
*** Age Manipulation: Emma had the ability to accelerate or reverse the aging process or a pregnancy.
*** Conjuration: Emma had the ability to conjure objects unexpectedly.
*** Energy Blasts: Emma had the ability to create magical blasts to harm the enemies and the objects most effectively.
*** Healing Spells: Emma had the ability to heal injuries and/or diseases magically. When she uses her healing powers, her hand will glow with white and after having approached the wound, it will heal completely, leaving no visible sign. She can even repair damaged clothing.
*** Heart-ripping: Emma had the ability to rip someone's heart out to control/kill them, among other purposes.
*** Locator Spells: Emma had the ability to cast a spell that would aid in finding something or someone.
*** Magical Immobilization: Emma can immobilize somebody or something magically.
*** Mirror Enchantments: Emma possessed the unique ability to see through mirrors and travel through them.
*** Protection Spells: Emma had the ability to magically protect a location, an item, or a person through various ways.
*** Pyrokinesis: Emma had the ability to conjure and control fire. To get Emma how to empower her magic with anger, Regina bullied Emma until she ignited a campfire with her magic. Later, Emma used fire magic to ignite the candle half of Baelfire’s coconut when lighters couldn't work in the Dark Hollow. Unlike Zelena and Regina, Emma does not use fire to create fireballs, as she prefers hitting her target with magic blasts. 
*** Shapeshifting: Emma had the ability to alter the appearance of herself or others. Emma Swan also cast a shapeshifting spell to transform Merlin from a tree back into human form, using a tear from Henry Mills. This reversed the original process that the Dark One used on Merlin centuries ago.
**** Glamouring: Emma also cast a glamour spell on Excalibur, erasing the name "Killian Jones" so that no one could identify Hook as the Dark One. She also erased everyone's memories of the last six weeks.During her date with Hook during her time as the Dark One, Emma glamoured herself to change her white-blonde hair back to its natural blonde and turned her silvery skin back to normal.
**** Petrification: Emma used her dark magic to turn Mr. Clark into a solid statue in a successful effort to trick her family into thinking she had gone fully dark.
*** Telekinesis: Emma had the ability to control the movement of the environment.
*** Moon manipulation/Eclipse inducement: When Peter Pan and her son Henry left to Skull Rock to "save magic", the heroes found themselves blocked by Pan's protective shield that only allows people without shadows to enter. Emma and Regina used their magic to create an eclipse on the full moon so she, Neal and Regina could cross the line to save Henry.
*** Teleportation: Emma had the ability to magically teleport oneself and/or others from one location to another.
*** Firework Generation: Emma created ireworks after she celebrates her magic in "Smash the Mirror Part 2"
*** Impervious to Heart Removal: This was the first power Emma had ever demonstrated as she stopped Cora from stealing her heart in the tenth episode of season 2. However, she had to willingly give up her heart for it to work for other witches.
=== Former ===
 Powers of the Dark One
=== Abilities ===
Swordsmanship: Emma became a skilled sword-fighter over time. She managed to successfully slay Maleficent in her dragon form by thrusting the sword into her with relative ease. By Season 6, Emma developed sword-fighting skills, enough to hold up in a fight with Gideon and with there being no endgame.
Beauty: Emma was a beautiful young woman who had attracted several people, including Hook and Neal. At times, Emma will use her appearance to bait some of her targets when searching for people who skip bail. She did this by using it against a bail skip, Ryan, by luring him to a date. When Emma and Killian are both stuck in the past, Emma also uses it to successfully seduce a drunk, past version of Hope when
=== Weaknesses ===
==== Current ====
* Laws of Magic: Emma was limited to the Laws of Magic. The laws of Magic state you can not bring back the dead, you can't make someone fall in love with you, or time travel (though Zelena almost succeeded in breaking this law.
* Leaving Storybrooke: if she left Storybrooke, Emma would become mortal, and then she would be powerless and lose all her magic. However, Emma can still leave Storybrooke more than most people
==== Former ====
* Dark One's dagger: During her reign as the Dark One, Emma's weakness was her dagger. Anyone who possessed it could control her every thought or action. Whoever killed Emma with her dagger, lost her title, the Dark One, and she would be the predecessor of the new Dark One.
* True love's kiss: Another one would be true love's kiss, but it will not work unless she enjoys the magic or if both Dark Ones are involved with each other.
== History ==
===Early Life===
====Birth ====
As Regina's Dark Curse approaches, Emma Swan was born on October 23rd, 1983, to David Nolan and Snow White of the Enchanted Forest. As the new parents hold their newborn, Snow believes that the wardrobe Geppetto and Pinocchio made can only transport one individual to the land without magic. Realizing Emma had to make the journey on her own, Snow convinces David to take their daughter to the wardrobe to give her "her best chance." As Charming makes his way to the wardrobe, he fights the Evil Queen's guards but was mortally wounded. He finally makes it to the wardrobe and places Emma inside, which successfully transports the baby Emma to the state of Maine, where Pinocchio finds her. He takes her to the diner, and they are both placed in foster homes. However, Pinocchio, now August Booth, abandons her, leaving Emma to grow up on her own.
===Foster life ===
Emma had a tough life growing up and could not believe that her family abandoned her on the side of the road (or she thought so). They didn't even bother taking her to the hospital. Her first set of foster parents when she was three years old only wanted her for financial support. At age six years old, n the year 1989, Emma and some children from her group home visited a movie theater in Minnesota to watch the Disney film, The Sword in the Stone.
Emma later spots a woman sitting down and steals the Apollo stealing the bar. She later sees Arthur pulling out the sword from the stone. An usher tells her not to do it, and Emma thinks he was referring to the bar she stole. Merlin says he was talking about the sword and cautions her to not pull Excalibur from the stone, no matter how tempted she was to do it. Emma looks at the screen and the usher again, only to find that he was gone. Thinking it was part of her imagination, Emma was still haunted by the mystery man's warning while scarcely watching the rest of the film as Wart takes the sword from the stone ("The Dark Swan").
Later on, a girl named Cecilia walks into her newly adopted parents, and Emma sadly watches the car drive away ("No Place Like Home"). 
Later, after many foster homes, Emma could not take it anymore, so she ran away to Hopkins, Minnesota, where she befriended a young girl named Lily, the unknown daughter of Maleficent The two of them promised to be best friends no matter what. Emma later loses faith in Lily when she learns she was lying to her the entire time. She later walks away, ignoring Lily. In adulthood, Emma regrets leaving her best friend.
Emma, at fifteen, was later living in a foster home when her foster brother Kevin steals her camera. Emma was angered by this and wishes to leave. Ingrid stops her from leaving when she says Kevin was afraid of spiders, even plastic ones. Emma says she'll stay awhile. After a while in a carnival, Emma shows magic once she wins the crane. She believes that she was being sent away to another foster home Ingrid says she was adopting her. One night, Emma wishes to have magical powers, but Ingrid goes too far and pulls her in front of a car, imploring the girl to use her magic. She believes Ingrid to be crazy and leaves her for good ("Pilot", "The Stranger").
===Relationship with Neal===
At age seventeen, Emma tried to steal a small yellow Volkswagen Beetle in the streets. However, she later discovers that Neal Cassidy, the son of Rumplestiltskin, was in the backseat. They are stopped by a cop, but Neal quickly takes the keys and pushes them into the ignition. The duo passes off as a boyfriend, trying to give his girlfriend driving lessons. The cop lets them off with a warning before letting them leave. Afterward, Emma realized that Neal was also stealing the car.
Later that night, Emma meets Neal for ice cream and had a date at a closed amusement park.
Unfortunately, Neal abandons her and unknowingly, his son at the behest of an adult Pinocchio, now known as August Booth, so she can fufill her destiny of breaking the Dark Curse
==Relationships ==
===Friends ===
*Ruby/Red Riding Hood 
*Widow Lucas/Granny 
*Seven Dwarves
**Grumpy
**Dopey
** Sleepy
**Sneezy
**Doc
**Happy
** Bashful
* Regina Mills
*Rumplestiltskin/Mr Gold
*Belle
* Jiminy cricket/Archie Hopper
*Cinderella
*Prince Thomas
*Huntsman/Sheriff Graham
*Blue Fairy
*Victor Frankenstein
*Neal Cassidy
*Hansel/Nicholas Zimmer
*Gretel/Ava Zimmer
*Evil Queen
*Maid Marian
*Merry Men
**Little John
**Friar Tuck
*Milah
*Killian Jones
*August Booth
*Aurora
*Mulan
*Tinker Bell
*Lost Boys
*Tamara (formerly)
*Elsa
*Anna
* Kristoff
*Ingrid
*Maleficent
*Lily Page - childhood best friend 
*Pongo
*Ursula
* Lancelot
*Merida
*Hercules
*Megara
*Zeus
*Oracle
*Aladdin
*Jasmine
*Dr. Jekyll (formerly)
*Tiger Lily (indirectly)
*Killian Jones (Wish Realm)
*Robin Hood (Birth)
*Alice
===Enemies===
*Regina Mills (formerly)
*Rumplestiltskin (formerly)
*Genie/Magic Mirror/Sidney Glass
*Ryan
*Cora
*Wraith
*Mulan (briefly)
*Aurora (briefly)
*Killian Jones/Captain Hook (formerly)
*Cora
*Anton/Tiny (formerly)
*Greg Mendall
*Tamara
*Peter Pan (fake identity)/Malcolm (real identity)
*Felix
*Lost Boys (formerly)
*Zelena (formerly)
*Flying Monkeys
*Wizard of Oz/Walsh
* Black Knights
*Ingrid (formerly)
*Ingrid's Ice Soldiers
*Maleficent (formerly)
*Cruella de Vil
*Ursula (formerly)
* Isaac Heller/The Author
*King Arthur
*Queen Guinevere (formerly)
* Percival
*Nimue
*Dark Ones
*Hades
*Cerberus
*Lady Tremaine
*Dr. Jekyll
*Mr. Hyde
*Evil Regina (formerly)
*Black Fairy
*Spider of the Echoless Forest
*Gideon (formerly)
*Wish Realm Hook (formerly)
*Wish Realm Rumplestilskin (indirectly)
==Trivia==
*She was based on the Ugly Ducking from the fairytale of the same name written by Hans Christian Andersen, as like the protagonist of the short story, Emma was trying to find a home like the ugly duckling. However, the ugly duckling turns out to be a swan and finds his biological family and home, as Emma did.
**Her identity as the Dark Swan was meant to be an allusion to Odile (The Black Swan) from the Swan Lake ballet
* Like her mother, son, and possibly her granddaughter, Lily, Emma likes cinnamon with her hot cocoa.
** In addition, she enjoys grilled cheese sandwiches.
** She prefers onion rings over french fries.
* Rumplestiltskin thinks that Emma inherited her mother's chin but her father's tact.
*Emma was similar to Harry from Harry Potter, as both of them were orphans raised in a non-magical world, and an prophecy (Still Trelawney's prediction and the fairies' ancient prophecy) were destined to defeat a great evil even before they were born (The Black Fairy for Emma and the Dark Lord Voldemort for Harry) and finally found their family (Emma was United with her biological parents and Harry found a family among his friends especially the Weasleys). They also married (Ginny and Hook) and had children with their respective love interests. 
**Ironically, in season 4, Emma mentioned to Ingrid that she wished she could teleport home like Harry Potter could.
*it is revealed in "Murder Most Foul" that Emma owns a Spellbook and it's likely that Regina helped her acquire one. 
==Songs==
===Solos===
*Emma's Theme
===Group Songs===
*A Happy Beginning" (with Snow, David Killian, Regina, Zelena, and Henry and the people of Storybrooke
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