Emma's fairytale identity

[MadEyedWookiee]

Emma is Emma, she isn't anyone else. It's absolutely impossible for Emma to have a FTL counterpart.

I agree. I believe it has been stated by the producers that Emma was an original character and doesn't have a fairytale counterpart.

[heroinesandfairydust]

Yep. It was mentioned in the Payleyfest interview too.

[Thomas Vivaldi]

Random thought I had while watching the season 2 promo: Emma is technically a Princess. I hope they make a joke about this.

[Nix006]

i agree Emma is herself, she never had time to live in FTL. thus she can't have a counterpart, she was too young. same as Henry is family (or well half of it at least as far as we know) is apart of FTL he himself is not one. i believe these to characters will just become apart of it and retain their current lives.

Also have y'all noted that everyone's names change completly tho relative to thier FTL personality, except for Regina, as that was her name before she was the Evil Queen. ( as seen in "Stable Boy" episode) so it could been seen as a counterpart or just and extension of her character in our world, as she remembers and knows about FTL while in Storybrooke.

just a thought.

[PunkMaister]

My theory is that she isn't from a fairy tale, or at least doesn't have an identity yet. She was only in the fairy tale realm as a child and therefore didn't really grow an identity -- except being the child of Snow White and Prince Charming.

yup that is pretty much who she is in fact she is the only one who retains her FTL birth name which is just that Emma.

By the way here's the ethymology or meaning of the name Emma.

GENDER: Feminine
USAGE: English, French, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Dutch, German, Ancient Germanic
PRONOUNCED: EM-ə (English), E-mah (German) [key]
Meaning & History
Originally a short form of Germanic names that began with the element ermen meaning "whole" or "universal". It was introduced to England by Emma of Normandy, who was the wife both of king Ethelred II (and by him the mother of Edward the Confessor) and later of king Canute. It was also borne by an 11th-century Austrian saint, who is sometimes called Hemma.
After the Norman conquest this name became common in England. It was revived in the 18th century, perhaps in part due to Matthew Prior's poem 'Henry and Emma' (1709). It was also used by Jane Austen for the central character, the matchmaker Emma Woodhouse, in her novel 'Emma' (1816).

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[once_upon_a_whatever]

Will have to read that poem Henry and Emma ..