August Wayne Booth/Pinocchio Character Analysis

[mickey]

It wasn't his job to raise her. He was seven years old. Adults made the decision for him to bind his fate with Emma's. And I think it was unfair to place so much responsibility on his shoulders and expect him to make sacrifices for Emma. He was just a kid.
And I'm not sure he made it worse. Emma is so panicked right now because she is on the verge of believing.

[Phee]

I agree with mickey and Midnight Dreary.

Can I join the party too? I was already an August fan before this ep, and now I'm even more drawn to and invested in the character.

I was wavering on what I thought of August until the end ... when he approached Marco/Gepetto. That scene got to me, and I think it was sincere.

This is why I don't get it that people think he's unrepentant and selfish. He clearly states that he broke a promise and has tried to make good on it but he's too late, and is not the man his father had hoped he'd be. Then when Marco said, "But you kept your promise. You realised your mistake and you tried to fix it. That's important. If I had a son, that would be enough for me." It must have taken ALL of August's willpower to not break down and hug him right then. Was a heartwrenching scene for me.

He shouldn't have had to "confront" Emma (it was his job to raise her knowing about the curse & her role in everything- everyone is in the positions they are in because he didnt- weather people like it or not- that's the fact of the matter) about the curse- he's made things worse not better for her by doing what he did last night-

He is now realising the implications of his actions, (or rather his inaction), and the implications are kinda huge, so he's getting desperate to find a way to make it right. Making a poor decision that snowballs out of control and then is hard to rectify isn't an unusual thing, it happens to perfectly well meaning people every single day, and that doesn't automatically make them evil.

[charming]

Yes it was not fair to have placed a 7 year old boy to guard the guardian. It was too much to ask to send a 7 year old boy to watch over an infant. The wardrobe was meant for 2 meaning Snow and Charming but Emma arrived early so it was then intended to be Snow and Emma. Geppetto was wrong to have extorted the safety of Pinnochio in order to even consider making the wardrobe.