#if anyone wants i can do a breakdown of what exactly Shakespeare said but yea.

[pirateswhore]

YES YES YES YES

listen I love the "foretold in the stars" type of TL but but but. "never meant to succeed but never giving up either" TL is SO MUCH BETTER. SO MUCH

and not to,,, bring Shakespeare back into the cs discourse, but I'm thinking. I'm thinking of "Phoenix n the Turtle."

it doesn't talk about the usual "two parts of one soul that was split apart" concept of TL that you so often see, BUT RATHER 2 souls, made separately and independently of one another, CHOOSING each other and choosing to fuse into one. defeating the odds so that even reason itself was amused and surprised by their love. BENDING FATE AND REASON FOR THEIR LOVE. CHOOSING TO DO SO.

SEE I LOVE 5x20 because. ouat leans so heavily on the concept of true love as the GREATEST magic of all. two people who love each other so strongly that impossibility itself is reduced to ash, just because of how much they want to be with each other

but the concept of true love, in a romantic way, is often thought of in modern stories as of. two people predestined to be with each other. and it's something ouat has leaned into as well, with oq most prominently (but other couples as well)

and that interpretation of tl can be fun but idk. i think there's something about two people choosing each other regardless of what a predestined story might have had in the cards for them. and that being JUST as valid as all other kinds fo tl

so i really liked that cs's tl confirmation was uncertain. emma and killian really didn't know if their love was one of the pretold greatest of all time or the like. they just knew they loved each other and were willing to bet everything on that.

and so that was their test. choosing each other no matter what. and i think that's it.

emma and killian weren't a couple who against all odds were destined to find each other. they were two people who managed to love each other so deeply, that they twisted and bended fate itself to allow them to be together.

so what if they weren't destined for each other? so what if they were doomed to be apart, even? how could two people who love each other that much have their bond be anything but true?