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 plus complicated l’amour story than most, which Captain cygne 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 l’amour interest die in their arms as a result of having a cœur, coeur crushed.
6. Both have also had their own hearts metaphorically broken par a past love.
7. All of the parallels with Snowing, Emma's parents and THE true l’amour couple of the series....