Ten questions

Great idea, Josephine!

1. The character you first fell in love with…
Mr. Gold/Rumpelstiltskin.

2. The character you never expected to love as much as you do now…
Mr. Gold/Rumpelstilskin. At first, I just thought he would be a fun looney villain with crazy make up, but after “Desperate Souls” and “Skin Deep” aired, I was head over hills in love with him.

3. The character everyone else loves that you don’t…
I guess I’d have to go with Graham. I don’t hate him. I actually kind od like him. But I don’t miss him that much. He was a necessary sacrifice for the show.

4. The character you love, but everyone else hates…
None that I can think of at the moment.

5. The character I used to love, but don’t any longer…
None so far.

6. The character I would totallly smooch…
It’s a tie between Mr. Gold and Jefferson. 😀

7. The character I’d want to be like…
Red or Belle. 😀

8. The character I’d like to slap…
The Blue Fairy and Cora. Two completely different characters with two completely different motivations, and yet they annoy me all the same.

9. A pairing that I love…
Belle and Rumpel. Which is strange because I was totally not expecting to love them as much as I do now.

10. A pairing that I despise…
Golden Swan. I hate ships that consist of two characters that essentially hate each other.

1. The character you first fell in love with…
Mr. Gold/Rumpelstiltskin.

2. The character you never expected to love as much as you do now…
Maleficent.

3. The character everyone else loves that you don’t…
Graham- I don’t hate him but I never got attached to him.

4. The character you love, but everyone else hates…
Maleficent

5. The character I used to love, but don’t any longer…
August- I liked him but I didn’t love him. However, after the stunt he pulled in the Return, serves him right that he’s now turned back to wood. On a side note, do you think the process of turning back to wood may have speeded up as August told his lies especially the big one where he pretended to be Bae. Weren’t the conditions of him being a real boy that he had to be truthful, brave and selfless or something like that?

6. The character I would totallly smooch…
Archie- He seems like a nice guy.

7. The character I’d want to be like…
Belle though every character has had problems one way or another.

8. The character I’d like to slap…
The Blue Fairy and August- August because of what he did in the Return. Blue Fairy because her interference led to Rumple and Bae being separated.

9. A pairing that I love…
Belle and Rumple.

10. A pairing that I despise…
Gold and Emma- He should be with Belle. Also Regina and Emma- They hate each other too much to have a love affair.

1. The character you first fell in love with…
Henry: hands down.

2. The character you never expected to love as much as you do now…
Rumplestiltskin: never thought I’d be so invested in his happy ending. Things just started to click when we met Gold in Storybrooke and I realized the creeper in the cell was Robert Carlyle!

3. The character everyone else loves that you don’t…
Regina? Maybe? As much as Evil Regals’ defend her, there has to be more in the Young Snow chronicles to get me to buy her goals/motivation. Having a love’s heart ripped out by your emotionally abusive mother is harsh, but there has to be more to the story…

4. The character you love, but everyone else hates…
Henry? Honestly just read a rant about what a horrible child he is, that he should be grateful to have had Regina raise him (even her buying him a video game was used to illustrate what a good parent she was and what a HORRIBLE CHILD Henry is) Apparently, money buys blind love! Also, read some complaints about Jared being a bad actor…

5. The character you used to love, but don’t any longer…
Strangely enough, King Leopold. Maybe not love, but I kind of liked his character for…maybe a second. Wing Wing fan, so seeing Richard Schiff as a king was exciting! And then…he wasn’t a very nice guy. Sure, he wanted everyone within his kingdom to be happy (but Regina). I already admitted to not liking Regina, but I don’t think she deserved being ignored: in the great hall speech scene and when he asked her to marry him (clearly, she wasn’t willing, but mommy was AND HE DIDN’T care). Seems like the character was play-acting the noble king, going on about her beauty and bravery, but really just wanted a female around for when Snow started menstruating……

6. The character you would totally smooch…
Archie! Maybe this new character Jack???

7. The character you’d want to be like…
I really admire Abigail and Kathryn. At first she seemed like such a spoiled cliché of a princess, but I really admire her devotion to Fredrick and how her counterpart realized her marriage wasn’t working and had the bravery to attempt to start a new in Boston. If she had only been more ‘hands on’ with retrieving the water to awaken him, she’d be my hero!

8. The character you’d like to slap…
Jefferson. STOP WORKING WITH REGINA! There’s only so many times a person can double cross you before things click, like wow! Sidney is at least pathetically in love with her. Jefferson knows she’s horrible, hates her, but goes back to work with her again???

9. A pairing that you love…
Abigail/Fredrick! (Would the pairing name be ‘Golden Knight???’) Snowing and Rumbelle obviously. And Baelfire/Emma for a non-current-canon hopeful…

10. A pairing that you despise…
I don’t really get Golden Swan, but I’m repealed by Swan Queen! As people have already said: they hate each other and will probably be trying to destroy each other from now on! Regina has killed or attempted to kill Emma’s family! Plus, Regina is technically her step-grandmother.

That was fun! Learned a lot about myself and this fandom! 😯

I agree this is fun. 😀

1. The character you first fell in love with…
Definitely Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold because of Robert Carlyle. I’ve been a big fan of his since the 90s, and I always expected to him to be a bigger star. I’m very happy that he’s sort of having a career renaissance with Once Upon a Time, so not only does he get a juicy role to showcase his talents but more people will know who he actually is.

2. The character you never expected to love as much as you do now…
I would say probably Henry. At first, I was a little worried that he might be a little too precocious, but by the end of the season, I realized that he’s truly the heart of the show in many ways, and that if they actually killed him off in the finale, which I do they weren’t going to do, but if they did, the show wouldn’t be the same show.

3. The character everyone else loves that you don’t…
I have to agree with the majority so far. I don’t hate Graham, but until his final episode, I thought Jamie Dornan was very pretty to look at but very wooden too. So I don’t really miss his character although I miss the eye candy.

4. The character you love, but everyone else hates…
Definitely Emma and Henry. They don’t get much if any hate here, but it seems like there’s nothing but hate for them elsewhere. Prince Charming would probably be third just because everyone seems to hate David, for good reason, but then that spreads over into hating Prince Charming too.

Oh, I guess this would be mostly in fan fiction, but Maurice. I understand that it’s just fan fiction, but it seems like he’s always written as the worst possible father in the world, when I actually think on the show, he was shown to be a pretty good and loving parent.

5. The character you used to love, but don’t any longer…
I can’t really say because so far I haven’t fallen out of love with anyone that I love yet.

6.  The character you would totallly smooch…
Mmm, this show has so much eye candy, but I guess I’ll go with Rumple/Mr. Gold, but only when he’s not all Dark One looking.

7.  The character you’d want to be like…
Snow White. She’s not as clueless, usually, as they sometimes made Emma. Plus, she’s a great combination of being badass but totally forgiving of her enemies too.

8.  The character you’d like to slap…
If she couldn’t retaliate against me, of course, I’d have to answer Regina. Then, I’d slap Sydney for being Regina’s lap dog. I’d slap Cora too, but I’m not sure if she’s still alive or not to slap. (Well that, and I’m actually more afraid of Cora at this point than Regina.) I sort of want to slap the first Henry too for indulging his daughter so much, but I’m not sure how much abuse that he occurred at Cora’s hands either so for now he gets a pass. Ooh, I guess I’ll have to add Jefferson too because he annoys me because he knows how Regina is, yet he still agrees to works for her. I get the feeling that if she offered him another deal, he would take it again while also trying to work with Rumple now, then get all pouty again when they both screwed him over.

Then, I’d actually slap Rumple for Bae because Rumple used his magic to destroy their world to bring everyone to this world just so that he could be reunited with his son, which is what Bae would absolutely not have wanted his father to do.

Of course, I’d have to slap The Blue Fairy for being a liar or at least being a very good with holder of the truth, and then I guess August because he didn’t come back because of Gepetto, Emma, or the other townspeople, but only because he was about to be turned back into wood.

9.  A pairing that you love…
For the main pairings, I love Rumbelle and Snowing equally. I don’t get why it seems like certain shippers have to hate the other ship, not here, but again it seems to happen a lot at other places for some reason. I think both pairings plus whomever they pair Emma up will all get equal time on the show, so I don’t see the need for fans of either pairing to get nasty with each other.

For the secondary pairings, I love Abigail/Frederick and like Grumpy/Nova.

10.  A pairing that you despise…
Swan Queen would definitely be the ship that I dislike the most. I get why people ship it in theory, but I think for Emma and Regina, it’s not really a love-hate relationship because Regina really does hate Emma and while Emma may not downright hate Regina, the way Regina hates her, there’s no way they could possibly get over what’s occurred for any time of romantic relationship. Even in fan fiction, it still wouldn’t work for me, because it would be basically retconning the whole show and their characters.

The other ship right now would be Mad Swan. Again, I get why it’s popular, and I don’t want to offend anyone that likes it, but I’m just not a fan because I think there’s just too much there for them to get past right now. This probably makes me a hypocrite because if Bae turns out to be Henry’s father, then I’ll expect Emma and Bae to get past their issues to be involved. I guess for me it’s different because they already have a history together and because right now I think they have a lot in common to make a relationship work. Plus, I think that Grace’s mom is still alive, and that Jefferson, mom (Alice maybe?), and Grace will all be reunited eventually on the show, so I’d just rather skip Mad Swan on the show and just get to Jefferson reuniting with his family again.

1. The character you first fell in love with…
That would definitely have to be Prince Charming, who nearly died saving his newborn baby daughter. From that scene on, I was hooked (not to mention crying buckets).

2. The character you never expected to love as much as you do now…
At the risk of sounding cliché, that’d have to be Rumpelstiltskin/Mr. Gold, but not because of “Skin Deep” like so many others. He really had me from “Desperate Souls” on, in that I saw him as a sympathetic character who made the wrong choice but for the right reason. I don’t think he’s that attractive as a reptile-like creature, but I do think Robert Carlyle is one of the best actors on the show and cleans up nicely as Mr. Gold.

3. The character everyone else loves that you don’t…
Belle (and I say that with caution and respect for those who disagree). It’s not that I dislike her as a character, as much as I wish they’d found a more convincing actress to play opposite the amazing Robert Carlyle.

4. The character you love, but everyone else hates…
August W. Booth, because even though he’s an over-sized puppet, he’s still got an awesome motorcycle and vintage typewriter. I also don’t think his story is finished. He is somehow linked to the writer of Henry’s book, and I love the intrigue.

5. The character you used to love, but don’t any longer…
I never really “loved” the Blue Fairy, but she has certainly fallen in my esteem (mostly after 1×19 when she had a look of secret delight when Baelfire took the magic bean from her).

6. The character you would totallly smooch…
Hypothetically speaking, Prince Charming.

7. The character you’d want to be like…
Emma Swan. She is just a cool, modern heroine, who despite her past mistakes, has really stepped up to the plate to save her kid, and consequently, the parents she never knew. She has really shown an amazing amount of growth over S1, and she shares a lot of noble virtues with her parents (when they aren’t cursed).

8. The character you’d like to slap…
Regina. Though I think Lana Parrilla is incredible as an actress, Regina is one crazy lady. Even though she suffered a horrible loss which caused her to snap, taking out your revenge on poor Snow White, who was just a little girl who lost her mother too young, is cruel, vindictive and malicious. IMO, her anger was misdirected, and really she should have been the most outraged at her evil mother. That being said, I hope Regina finds redemption, and that her love for Henry will allow her to forgive his grandmother.

9. A pairing that you love…
Snow White + Prince Charming is the way true love should be. I love those two together.

10. A pairing that you despise…
I don’t despise Grumpy and Nova, but I don’t love them as a pair either.