1. As the main character, and as a character who has lived in our world rather than in the fairy-tale world, I think that Emma needs a more complicated love story than most, which Captain Swan provides.
2. Both Emma and Killian know what it's like to be abandoned and to grow up as orphans.
3. They both have turned to crime in their pasts.
4. Both have experienced a love interest die in their arms as a result of having a heart crushed.
6. Both have also had their own hearts metaphorically broken by a past love.
7. All of the parallels with Snowing, Emma's parents and THE true love couple of the series....
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