Yes, maybe. But then his thought process is fairly…weird.
I think Rumpel’s point of view goes something like: Belle’s pulled another crazy passive-aggressive stunt, I’ve already had to rescue her from the underworld because of it, and my work rescuing her still isn’t done. Everyone I’ve cared about — Papa, Milah, Bae, and now Belle — keeps trying to manipulate me.
It doesn’t help that natural human lifespans are so short compared to Rumpel’s. The people in his life must seem like badly-behaved pets, and he has to start preparing to lose them to old age from the moment he meets them.
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