Emma Swan

Emma Swan is a female television character who features in Once Upon a Time.

Biography

Emma Swan

Unsure whether their child will be good or evil, Snow White and Prince Charming touch the horn of a unicorn to glimpse their baby's future. While her husband sees his infant daughter in a basket, Snow White sees her teenage daughter in a pink gown. When Snow states herself to be her mother, the girl rips out her heart before crushing it. Desperate to get the potential for darkness out of their daughter, Snow White and Prince Charming visit the Apprentice who tells them he can infuse another vessel with their daughter's potential for darkness. Snow convinces Charming that they would use Maleficent's egg since she believes a child of a dragoness will be evil by nature. As the Apprentice enacts the spell on the egg, he reveals infusing darkness in it puts this land at risk, so it must go to another world. Realizing they have made a grave mistake, the horrified couple watches a portal open while the egg hatches into a baby. After the portal absorbs the egg, the Apprentice cautions Snow White and Prince Charming to keep their child on the right path in life, while their unborn child is thought to be pure as white. (Episode: Best Laid Plans) While Emma is still growing in her mother Snow White's womb, Snow makes a desperate wish on a blue star to have a way to give her daughter a happy ending. The Blue Fairy hears this wish and grants it by causing everyone to sing. The magic in all the songs are later imbued into Emma's heart by the Blue Fairy, who explains that she'll need the songs one day as she will fight a great battle on her own. (Episode: The Song in Your Heart)

Growing up in the foster care system, Emma moves from family to family. At one point, she is adopted and lives with a family, but is returned to the foster system at age three when that family has a biological child of their own. (Episode: Pilot) In 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. In the theater, Emma steals an Apollo candy bar from another person, and as she takes a seat, an usher tells her to not do "it." She begins apologizing for stealing, but he points out that he is actually referring to something else and then cautions her against doing things for the right reasons because bad things will happen. He tells her she will have the chance to pull the sword out of the stone one day, but that she must never do it. After giving her the message, he disappears. (Episode: The Dark Swan)

On the night of her birthday, she tracked down a smooth-talking fugitive named Ryan at a high-end restaurant, easily tricking him before turning him over to the authorities. Upon returning to her apartment to celebrate her birthday alone with a single cupcake, she was unexpectedly visited by a ten-year-old boy named Henry Mills. Henry revealed that he was the biological son she had given up for adoption as a teenager in Phoenix, Arizona. Though Emma initially refused to form a relationship with him, she agreed to drive him back to his home in the small, mysterious town of Storybrooke, Maine. (Episode: Pilot)

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Emma Swan was a young Caucasian woman with a slender, athletic build. She possessed long, wavy blonde hair that fell past her shoulders and framed her sharp features, which were complemented by light-coloured eyes and a naturally determined expression. In her professional routine as a bail bondsperson, she favored modern, form-fitting, and utilitarian civilian attire designed for physical movement and field work. Her signature look consisted of a vibrant, dark red leather jacket worn over a casual top, paired with dark, tight-fitting jeans and sturdy leather boots. She rarely wore jewelry, opting instead for a minimalistic, practical aesthetic that avoided any traditional fairy-tale ornamentation or formal clothing. (Episode: Pilot)

According to herself, Emma has been in many relationships that failed. When asked if she has heard about ogres, she responds that she is pretty sure she has 'dated a few'.

Powers and abilities

Emma Swan possessed an array of sharp analytical skills and physical capabilities developed through her career in fugitive recovery and her lifetime of self-reliance. She demonstrated excellent tactical combat and subduing techniques, effortlessly catching a fleeing fugitive by predicting his escape route and utilizing her environment to incapacitate him. Her most notable innate trait was a subconscious, highly accurate lie detection ability, which allowed her to instantly discern whether a person was being deceitful simply by listening to them speak. Additionally, she was highly proficient in automotive operation, tracking, and basic investigation, which gave her the investigative composure necessary to navigate hostile environments and track individuals across state lines. (Episode: Pilot)

Notes

• Emma Swan was created by Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis where she was portrayed by actress Jennifer Morrison in the setting of the Once Upon a Time universe.

Appearances

• Once Upon a Time:

External Links

• Once Upon a Time Wiki Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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