#neal Cassidy

[chipedteacupchat]

I am still mad that they didn't explore their relationship more. Just think of all the awkward conversations we missed out on🤣😭

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

au where emma keeps henry and then ten years later she tracks neal down because henry has some unidentifiable genetic problem and he realizes it's some bullshit from the enchanted forest that his father cured with magic and now he's gotta track that fucker down without letting emma know magic is real

[florida3exclamationpoints]

Once Upon A Time as text posts

[heatherfield]

@giftober 2024 | Day 8: home

Crappy home life? I get that. No, but it wasn't always. That's the problem. It was... it was really great once.

Once Upon a Time, 3.22 “There's No Place Like Home”

[knight--error]

Ah man, on Season 3 of OUAT rewatch, and the best word for poor Neal really is just... unceremonious. Youch. I'm not a big Swanfire person but offing him like that is so lazy and cuts out so much good drama and other relationships. Neal and Henry! Neal and Rumple! Neal and Hook! Even Neal and Belle! I also love his energy. He is just a fairly average dude, no magic, no incredible skills, just his wit and his determination, and yet he consistently keeps up with our main cast.

Also, they put background actors who I think are supposed to be the Lost Boys at his funeral; imagine how cool it would have been if he took them in and became a group foster dad! That just feels like it would have been a lovely move forward for his arc.

Bah. The cracks in the writing deepen.

[dinneratgrannys]

You know, there’s not a ton about my father that I remember that doesn’t suck. But he used to tell me that there are no coincidences. Everything that happens happens by design and there’s nothing we can do about it. Forces greater than us conspire to make it happen. Fate, destiny, whatever you want to call it.

[swanfireprincessmydear]

I don’t know why I have never thought of this before. I don’t know HOW it never crossed my mind but another reason why Emma and Neal work so well together within the narrative of the show is because they’re both ORIGINAL characters to the show. They’re not retellings of characters we already know, they’re new, original characters that only exist within the show. They both fit in the same place.

No one else besides Henry (and a few minor characters) fit this category.

[clairesbeauchamp]

i wanted to go to jail for you. neal... it kills me that i let august talk me into letting you go. i don't wanna hear it... okay, but i have to say it.

[nicnacsnonsense]

Low key still so mad that Captain Swan was the more popular fan pairing than Swanfire. Obviously everyone can ship what they want, that’s fine, but you will never convince me that Emma/Neal wasn’t the original planned pairing but then they changed their minds and killed Neal off because all the girlies thought Killian was hot.

And like, tbc, I was one of the girlies who thought he was hot, I just didn’t like him at all as a romantic prospect for Emma. I didn’t want to see him and Neal fighting over Emma, I wanted to see Hook and Rumple fighting over being a father figure to Bae, a grown ass man who severely resents both of them.

[believingispowerfulmagic]

OUAT Week 2024 Day 4: Favorite Plot Twist -> Baelfire is revealed to be Emma's ex and Henry's father

It certainly was a twist to not only learn that Rumple's son was in New York but that he had dated Emma and was Henry's father. In the end, everyone was related it seemed, but this was fresh and surprising in Season 2.

[mysteryandnonstopfun]

Endless gifs of Neal Cassidy ( 32 / ∞ )

[anouatblog]

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

baelfire: dad your magic is what makes you evil!!!if we go to the land without magic you won't be evil anymore!!

rumpelstilskin without any magic powers for 30 entire years:

[florida3exclamationpoints]

ouat text posts: pt. 3/?

[knight--error]

It's really, really funny how the OUAT writers clearly have noooo idea what to do with Hook when he's fully on the redemption train. Our man goes from interesting bad boy love interest to Wife Guy Number 3 in six seconds flat. Switching to a normal leather jacket does not help this.

It's especially funny because the writers pretty clearly killed off Neal to make way for Hook/Emma, but Neal himself would never have had this problem, because he has bonds and desires outside of Emma to keep him interesting—Henry and Rumple particularly, and even Hook himself. Also Neal just seems more capable of making friends than Hook, like in his mini-adventure with Belle.

They just really shot themselves in the foot here. Even if you want to stick with Captain Swan, keeping Neal alive only helps you, because it gives Hook another emotional connection. Poor Neal. You deserved better.