Emma Swan/Synopsis

## Before birth

Fiona fears one day her son will die fighting a great evil. However, she later learns that she and her son were destined to destroy one another. However, after she cut off Rumpelstiltskin's Savior ties, it directly goes to Emma Swan. The Black Fairy eventually learns these events, and manipulates events so the Final Battle will take place.

### Rumpelstiltskin and the Seer

"*You will not cast the curse. Someone else will. And you will not break the curse. Someone else will.*"
—The Seer describing the future of Regina Mills and Emma Swan
Centuries before Emma's birth, Emma, Regina and Henry all appeared in a vision seen by an unnamed seer. Rumplestiltskin now a dark one, visits her. She transfers her powers to Rumplestiltskin. As the seer lies dying, she states that Rumple will be reunited with his son. The seer prophesied that Regina will cast the curse and Emma will be the one who breaks it

### Emma: Only Hope

"*The infant is our only hope. Get the child to safety. Get the child to safety and on its twenty-eighth birthday, the child will return. The child will find you and the final battle will begin!*"
—Rumplestiltskin to Snow and Charming
Rumplestiltskin follows the Seer's advise and makes sure that Emma and Regina will be born. He manipulates Cora into marrying with Henry and having a child. Later, Rumple plots out Emma's birth through the visions he has.

Emma’s mother and father fell in love with each other when Snow White stole David's mother's ring. Snow White was in a sleeping death, and because of Rumplestiltskin, he helped Charming and he rushes to kiss her and the spell is broken.

Snow and Charming, inhabitants of the Enchanted Forest, almost say their vows when Regina storms in, ruining their wedding. Snow says she isn't welcomed in their castle, saying she s a witch and not the Queen anymore. Regina promises that she will destroy everone's happiness in the end and there will be no more "happily ever afters" Since Snow is later depressed, David allows his wife to see Rumplestiltskin, who tells htem that Emma is destined to save them all. Just after that meeting, Snow makes a wish for Emma to have a happy ending. THe next morning,t h e kingdom are cursed to sing. However, Regina removes the song from Snow's and David's hearts, but the Blue Fairy places all the songs in Emma's heart.

When Snow and David are forced into helping Maleficent, Ursula, and Cruella de Vil, they visit a magical tree that answers to its true bravest heroes.

However, the tree rejects them because Snow is pregnant with their daughter and Emma has the potential to be a great hero like Snow and David, or the potential to be an evil witch like Cruella, Ursula and Maleficent.

## Early Life

### Birth

Emma was born on October 23, 1983 to Snow White and Prince Charming. It was unfortunate to say that the curse hit just when Emma was born for unknown reasons. Snow realizes that the wardrobe takes one and that they have to give their daughter "her best chance." Snow is sad to see her baby go and starts crying. Charming holds his daughter in his arms while fighting off the Evil Queen's guards. He finally makes it to the Wardrobe and places Emma in it. She is later crying when Pinocchio find s her. He takes her to the diner and they are both placed in foster homes. Later, Pinocchio runs away, 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 a 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 visit 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 in the stone. An usher tells her not to do it, and Emma thinks he is referring to the bar she stole. Merlin says he is talking about the sword, and cautious her to not pull Excalibur from the stone, no matter how tempted she is to do it. Emma looks at the screen and the usher again, only to find that he is gone. Thinking it was part of her imagination, as an imaginative six year old, she brushes it off ("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 befreinded a young girl named Lily, the unknown daughter of Maleficent. The two fo them promise 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 ignorin g Lily. In adult hood, Emma would regret leaving her best friend.

Emma, at fifteen is later living in a foster home when her foster brother Kevin steals her camera. Emma is angered by this and wishes to leave. Ingrid stops her from leaving when she says Kevin is afraid of spiders, even the plastic ones. Emma says she'll stay awahile. After while in a carnival, Emma shows magic once winning the crane. She believes that she is being sent away to another foster homebut Ingrid says she is adopting her. One night, Emma wishes to have magical powers, but Ingrid goes to far and pulls her in front of a car, imploring for 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 is later stealing the care from the streets. She meets Neal Cassidy, the son of Rumplestiltskin.
Unfortunatley Neal abandons her and unknowingly his son.

## Season 6

Emma and Killian both return home , intending on consummating their relationship. However, just as they are together, a blimp appears full of individuals from the Land of Untold Stories. However, during their helping the people from the other world, Emma begins seeing herself fighting a hooded figure and her hand continues to tremble. Later, she follows the red bird as Mr. Hyde advises her. She finds an oracle, who reluctantly showed Emma the full vision: she dies fighting the great evil. The young woman tells Emma that no matter how many times she tries to find another way, she cannot stop her future.