@PriceofMagic wrote:
@TheDarkOne wrote:
And I’ll wait to see how Rumpel’s wife if portrayed on the show before judging her. If she really was just a bored housewife who abandoned her own husband and child, then I won’t have much sympathy for her. Hopefully, there’s more to her story than that. Because I can already see the horde of fangirls ready to tear her apart. 😆
I don’t think the audience is going to have much sympathy for her anyway. Compare how Snow’s dead mother is talked about in contrast to Rumple’s first wife. Leopold talks about Snow’s mother with love and fondness and you get the sense that she was the love of his life and Regina is just the substitute mother for Snow. Rumple’s wife is barely mentioned and what little we do know about her is that she left Rumple because of his cowardice and she may have conceived Bae with another man whilst still married to Rumple. Perhaps the affair was ongoing whilst Rumple was away at the ogre wars and his return was rather inconvenient for her. I think it said in an interview somewhere that Rumple was going to have a hard time believing that Belle could actually love him so maybe that would relate back to his first wife.
That’s my thinking as well. Rumpel probably didn’t feel that anyone else could love him because his first wife left him for another man,