Thank you to all the folks who have sent me asks/fanmail/messages/anons telling me how much you’ve loved the art. Even if I didn’t respond (because I suck like that), know that I’m so glad that my art touched you in some way.
And finally, to @phiralovesloki. My salt sister. My fandom soulmate. Without your words, these would be meaningless pieces of fluff. You’ve been there for me when I was high AND low. This one was all for you.
Read the entire story before you view this art, it is spoilery, hence the cut. Perfectly work safe.
If you haven’t read it, start here, or read it on Ao3/FF.net.
I want to encourage you to read it through before looking below the cut. It won’t make sense otherwise, imo.
Summary: When Henry is kidnapped by the Evil Queen, Emma rushes to save him. Along the way, she receives the help of a ship’s captain with a shared past, though she has no idea just how deep that shared past really goes. Rating: E Warnings: Kidnapping, language, explicit sexual content Beta-readers:@scapeartist, @zengoalie, @optomisticgirl, @swankkat Cover and art:@swankkat (@snokone-lady)
Thank you all so much for your love and support. I’m floored that this story won best Enchanted Forest AU in the CS Fan Fic Awards–thank you so much! I hope that the ending lives up to your expectations.
I already made a Snowing parallel in the past, but these situations just keep on growing, and so I thought it would be nice to do a new one. My personal favorite is the “as you wish” because it was the first time that Snowing paralleled with CS and not the other way around, it was such an honor seeing something from Snowing that brought the memory of a CS moment.
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10 (anti) parallels of Hook believing in Emma / Others doubting in her
Requested by Anonymous
Sure, Snow, Regina, Neal, Ashley and others presented here had believed in Emma through the show, but they all had these moments in which they were doubting her, her good nature, and her abilities. But what is amazing is that even if you try to think really really hard, you can’t find even one situation all through the show that Hook has done the same even once.
His belief in her is a constant fact that was never shaken even a little bit. I have to also add a comment about Henry and David here. Because as much as I didn’t think Henry was doubting Emma, I was happy that I didn’t find a situation like that for David as well (I wish I could have say the same for Snow…). No doubt that Emma’s men have a complete faith in her.
Send me a parallel/anti-parallel and I will turn it into a 10 parallels gifset
I mentioned deflection in my tags on this post featuring Killian, and was prompted to expand on that thought. This is a sort of mini-meta because my meeting got canceled. 🙂 I feel that the thing with Killian and his looks is twofold, and I think it’s an interesting bit of evolution for his character.
The first part is that he has always relied on being underestimated. That mattered a lot when he was a full-time villain, and to a lesser extent it still does. The emphasis on his “pretty face” leads other characters (or at least various of the Mills women) to discount his other qualities and regard him as no threat. This tactic is yawn-inducingly common for women characters, but not one that sees much exploration from the other side of the gender spectrum (that I know of), so I find it to be an interesting bit of characterization just on that account.
As Killian traverses S3, this tactic sees some changes. He still uses it on villains like Zelena in 3b, but he has other relationships to navigate now. It’s less important to make people think that he’s dumb, but sometimes it’s important that they think he’s shallow. He tends to use it as an avoidance tactic, a means of diverting or shutting down potentially hazardous emotional interactions – expressions of gratitude or sincere admiration, for instance. We learned back in S3 that these make him very uncomfortable, and I think that most of the post-S2 scenes in that set fall into this category.
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