#swen family

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Happy 10th #SwanQueen Sweater-Anniversary my lovely Swen!!!

"One decade down, forever to go."

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Regina: Our relationship is strictly professional.

Emma sitting on Regina's lap: Absolutely, only business.

[queer-boo-radley]

[rockonlavender]

swan-mills + instagram ( part i)

emma swan ig regina mills ig regina and emma + instagram in a stable relationship (i) regina and emma + instagram in a stable relationship (ii) regina and emma wedding + instagram regina and emma honeymoon + instagram (part i) regina and emma honeymoon + instagram (part ii) regina and emma pregnancy + instagram henry swan-mills ig

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swan mills family in new york

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Moodboard: Kintsugi by wavesketcher

[victoriously-wicked]

is this a crappy drawing? Yes. But enjoy nevertheless.

[you-taste-likewhiskey]

Okay, so this might be extremely random and not at all significant, but does anyone else think about how Emma and Regina went from, "get the hell out of my life," to "hey, we should probably exchange numbers"?

I find myself thinking more and more about how the number exchange happened. Like who asked who? And when?

[withgirl-sq]

I made a post a while ago for what I think Emma’s Lock Screen would be on her phone, so now I present a low effort version for Regina’s phone lol

[mx-loar-tev]

Okay, I'm back after all, I had to share that scene I had in my head.

So there was that post I reblogged and I couldn't help but turn it into swanqueen.

I just can't help seeing Emma and Regina making out in the kitchen. They hear the door open, and they panic because they are not out, not even to Henry.

Regina shoves Emma into the nearest hiding place, the pantry. Henry enters the kitchen and greats her mom. Small talks ensue.

Henry goes to the pantry to grab a snack. Regina can't find a excuse quickly enough to stop him. He opens the door and peeks inside.

"Hi Ma."

"Hi Henry."

He rummaged through the shelves for his favorite snack.

"You're not too cramped in here?" asks Henry.

"Nah. It's roomy. I think I gonna move in."

Henry beams, but it's not clear if it's about the idea of his birth mother living under the same roof or if it's because he finally found the right snack.

"Got lots of homework to do, gotta go. Bye Ma!"

"Bye Henry?"

Henry emerges of the pantry at last. Regina is still stock-still in the middle of the kitchen. She can't even warn her son against putting crumbs everywhere.

After a minute, Regina finally gains back the controle of her own body and goes into the pantry.

"So... He knows. He must know, right?"

"I thought he would be more surprised."

"Maybe we should still sit him down and talk to him about... Us."

"Yes, we should do that before I move in."

"I'm sorry, what?"

"You didn't hear? This pantry is roomy and confy, I think I'll be fine here."

"Why live in this shoe box of a pantry when I have a queen sized bed?"

"Is it an invitation, Madam Mayor?"

"The requirement for being a denizen of my bedroom is a kiss every morning. Starting now."

"I think I can manage that."

"Welcome home, Emma."

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I think the same setting would be fun at the loft with Snow. Would Snow would be shell-shocked or would she act like it was a long time coming?

I like the idea of her going "Hi Regina, bye Regina!... Wait..."

The closet is such an underrated trope tbh.

[italymystery-swanqueen]

Regina: "Seriously!?!?!

Henry: *Whispering* "Ma, why are you smirking?"

Emma: *Whispering* "I was with your mom and Tink and David were on duty."

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Emma: Why are only roosters allowed to start there day screaming?

Regina: Because we sleep in the same bed and i will murder you.

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yet another SQ family new york moodboard

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She washes assiduously, taking time to rinse the shampoo out of her hair and apply a little of Emma’s lemon scented body wash. She could, in the echo of Henry’s laughter, pretend that the water running off her body and down the drain is washing away her sins.

- Regina’s POV; ch3, Kintsugi

She’d never been good at letting people in, before Henry, before Storybrooke in general. Safety meant insulating her world, separate from the chaos of people trying to take advantage. Everyone always wanted something from her; everyone always wanted her to be something.

When Regina had knocked on the apartment door, the only thing she needed Emma to do was to allow her inside. She did not ask Emma to be the Saviour or a daughter; she did not even ask for forgiveness. She looked at Emma and saw her for what she was: a mother learning, for the first time, how to be a parent. A mother learning to protect someone other than herself.

- Emma’s POV; end of Ch6, Kintsugi

Love had broken her apart - the death of it, holding it in her arms as the life seeped out - and love had burned her in its artifice - her mother, the King, the mentor and puppet master; how could it ever glue her back together, when pain, before Henry, after Henry, was all she’d ever known it to be?

- Regina’s POV, beginning of Ch9, Kintsugi

A few spoiler free favourite quotes/ character studies from my most recent, completed fic, It is also, likely, the last SQ I’ll write for a while.

I’m very proud of this story, and am so pleased I was able to complete it. If you do give it a read, please do consider leaving a comment. They make me the happiest!

[zaffiri-saffici]

Regina shook her head side to side, smiling. “I don’t know why I hadn’t seen it sooner.” “Seen what?” “This.” She drew out the word slowly as if she still did not believe it. “How it feels,” she began again. “To be with you. To have accepted what this was from the very beginning.” - X