Reply To: Rumple and Milah

Why? Emma left her son. Snowing left their daughter. Rumple left his son. Why does nobody give Milah the benefit of the doubt and assume that maybe she was suffering so much, that she HAD to leave for her own sanity? As you say, she had to have been in a very dark place. Also, are you saying that this action is worse than mass murders? Because other characters have been forgiven for those.

I disagree. Emma was in jail and Snowing had no choice but to leave their daughter or let their entire family be cursed for possibly all eternity. Milan chose to leave her kid behind to chase a better life. She didn’t have to. That’s entirely different. What Rumpel did was also bad but he spent centuries trying to get back to Bae. The entire setup of the show is because of Rump trying to find his son again. I understand Milan being in an unhappy relationship. I will never understand how she as a mother could live her child to go live a pirates life. I mean let’s pretend Milan was a real life woman in a real relationship where Rump was actually physically and emotionally abusive. Imagine if she had the chance to escape (with her child) but just booked it out of there alone. Her situation is bad but damn, girl.

and I’m not saying it’s worse or that it’s not worse than mass murderer. Both are terrible. But I think I’d be more willing to forgive Milah if we knew for a fact that she actually was going to come back for Bae.  I believe Hook told Bae that they THOUGHT about coming back for him. For me it seems like Milah had moved out and moved on toward a new life with no regard for her child. And given the connection between a mother and her child that does seem way worse than killing someone you have no connection to at all. I’m not saying she can’t be forgiven but at that point it doesn’t seem like she really feeling bad about what she did. Sure she wanted to come back but would she? If her life was so terrible that she had to flee it, then she’s condemning her son to that life without his mother. It’s very Cora-ish.

Does she deserve to die? Well I wouldn’t want many mothers like her walking around.