[ SECRET POST #2242 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2242 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 022 secrets from Secret Submission Post #320.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I wasn't adopted. I desperately wished I could be adopted away from my biological parents, and had fantasies of my "real" parents saving me from my blood relatives, because "real parents," to little me, meant people who gave a crap about me, not people who contributed to my genetic makeup. Kids in shitty situations want out, and adopted kids don't have a monopoly on crappy parents.

Henry wasn't dealing with a mother who grounded him. Regina sent him to therapy for noticing that he was the only person who aged in a town where no one ever left, to try and convince him that he was crazy. As for what Baelfire has to do with Emma, if they end up together and Bae becomes (what passes for legally) Henry's father, what happens to Henry? For that matter, what alternative did Henry have but to seek Emma's help? Regina and Jefferson are, so far as we know, the only people in Storybrooke who know the curse is a real thing until Emma shows up. Until Emma shows up, Jefferson is housebound (and nuts). Henry can't just take a bus to the next nearest city, walk into a CPS office, and claim that his mother is abusing him by making him live in a town where nothing changes and no-one ages.

And I guess the biggest difference between us is that I'm looking Once Upon a Time as an interesting story that's playing around with fairytale tropes in a fun way (including tropes about Real Family which are skeevy when applied to the real world), where you're looking at it as a story that perpetuates harmful stereotypes about adoption. If it's any consolation, unless it's proven otherwise I have a sneaking suspicion that Rumpelstiltskin, arguably the most fanatically devoted parent on the show, isn't actually Bae's biological father.