The six of them have a battle at Lake Nostos, where they use the lake's magical properties to open a portal back to Storybrooke. However, they face dangers like Regina's mother Cora and charming pirate Captain Hook. There, they meet Mulan and Aurora, who decide to help Emma and Snow return to Storybrooke. With everyone's memories and magic back in town, Emma and Snow are sucked into a portal which takes them to a 'post-apocalyptic' Enchanted Forest. Back to the hospital, Emma kisses Henry on the forehead whilst in tears which wakes Henry up, and breaks the curse. She gains the potion, but it is stolen by Rumplestiltskin and Henry is declared to be dead. In order to gain a potion that could save Henry, Emma goes underneath Storybrooke where she battles a dragon - the potion is inside the dragon.
However, in an attempt to make Emma believe that the curse is real, he takes a bite out of the apple turnover and falls under the Sleeping Curse. Regina eventually tries to put Emma into a death-like sleep with a poisoned apple turnover. When Sheriff Graham is killed, Emma becomes the sheriff of Storybrooke. A rivalry quickly grows between the two mothers. She takes him back to his home in Storybrooke, but quickly grows concerned for the boy's well being when she meets Henry's bitter adoptive mother, Regina Mills. On her 28th birthday, she receives a visit from a 10-year-old boy named Henry Mills, who claims to be her son. After serving her prison sentence, Emma becomes a bail-bondsperson in Boston. She decides to give her baby son away for adoption, deciding that she cannot be a mother.
The two plan to return from crime and live the rest of their lives together, but when Neal is confronted by August Booth, he betrays Emma and she goes to jail, where she discovers that she is pregnant. She eventually grows up with a few foster parents, including a woman named Ingrid, but when she is a teenager she turns to a life of crime, eventually meeting and falling in love with a fellow thief, Neal Cassidy. Emma also crafts herself a surname, Swan, based on the story Pinocchio told her. As a child, Emma is told the story of The Ugly Duckling by Pinocchio, who accompanied her from the Enchanted Forest, who starts going by the name of August Booth. Emma's gallery is available here.Īfter Snow White and Prince Charming put their baby daughter Emma into a magical wardrobe, it transports her to Earth and she escapes the Dark Curse.
She is portrayed by Jennifer Morrison, with her younger self portrayed by Abby Ross and Mckenna Grace. Her son Henry, previously given up for adoption, brings her to Storybrooke to end the Dark Curse. A bail bondswoman, Emma is the long-lost daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming and, as the product of their true love, was destined to break the curse that the Evil Queen cast over the whole Enchanted Forest. The Miller (maternal step-great-great-grandfather) Emma Swan-Jones (before marriage Swan born Nolan), also called The Savior, is a character on ABC's Once Upon a Time and Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. Xavier (maternal step-great-great-grandfather) Cora Mills (maternal step-great-grandmother)