Captain Swan
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Captain + Swan, a combination of Killian Jones' title as Captain Hook and Emma Swan's surname.[1]
Proper noun
[edit]- (fandom slang) The ship of characters Emma Swan and Killian Jones from the television series Once Upon a Time.
- 2015, Merrin Dungey, quoted in Mars Tonic, "Once Upon a Time - It's Good to Be Bad", GayCalgary Magazine, May 2015, page 30:
- And the 'Captain Swan' fans would have been like, grr!
- 2016, Susan Henneberg, 20 Great Career-Building Activities Using Tumblr, page 43:
- In its annual “Year in Review” for 2015, Tumblr listed Captain Swan, a “ship” or relationship between Captain Hook and Emma Swan of the TV program Once Upon a Time as one of its most popular pairings.
- 2017, Shannon A. Suddeth, "(Dis)Enchanted: (Re)constructing Love and Creating Community in the Once Upon a Time Queer Fandom", thesis submitted to the University of South Florida, page 31:
- Additionally, wittyoncer states that Swan Queen is “compelling,” echoing the shared belief that Outlaw Queen and Captain Swan are anything but […]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Captain Swan.
- 2015, Merrin Dungey, quoted in Mars Tonic, "Once Upon a Time - It's Good to Be Bad", GayCalgary Magazine, May 2015, page 30: