@Midnight Dreary wrote:
Does Rumpel even need to worry being an outcast? He’s the freaking Dark One. I don’t think he really cares. 😆 He’s never shown any concern for being accepted or liked. So, I don’t think Emma and the Charmings avoiding him is going to hurt his feelings. Their relationship will probably revert back to what it was in Fairytale land. They hate Rumpel, and yet, they allow themselves to get tricked by him constantly. I’m just hoping they don’t do what Snow did in “Heart of Darkness.” Snow knew that Rumpel was bad news, and yet she asked for his help anyway. I kind of see that same naivity remaining in tact, unfortunately.
Good point about how they hate him, yet they’re all willing to make deals with him all the time. I hope the “good guys”, specifically the Charmings, realize that at one point that either they have to stop running to him for everything when they don’t want to get their hands dirty doing it themselves if they think he’s such a bad guy, or they’re going to have to acknowledge that yes, he’s done some pretty bad things, but realize how much he’s helped them out at times. Not that he didn’t have his own motives for helping them, but still that irritates me that even when he wasn’t involved in trying to make the “good guys” go to him, they still do, then he helps them, and then they treat him like dirt afterwards when no one forced them to go to him for help.
Oh well, maybe they’ll explain more about what happened between “The Price of Gold” and “A Land Without Magic” because maybe his behavior did become even worse and that’s why they felt they had to lock him up, because otherwise it didn’t really make any sense since Rumple helped bring Snowing together in the first place.
Judging by the new spoilers provided by Emilie herself, I don’t think maing friends is going to be Belle’ main concern. She said that Belle would be a bit darker next season, thus possibly making her a little more sympathetic to Rumpel’s cause. So, I don’t think Belle will even want to make friends with the rest. The experience of being locked in a mental asylum and being in love with Dark One will make her much darker and a little more mature than her former Fairytale self.
Yes, while it would be nice to see Emma, Snow, Belle, and Red all be friends with each other, it might not happen that way because Snow and Red might be weary of making friends with Belle at first because of her association with Rumple. It would probably be hard for them to tell her anything in confidence without thinking that she might tell Rumple something about what they said until they learn to trust her. So maybe by the end of the season, they’ll be friends especially if they have to join together to fight an outside force like Regina.
Emma has never really had any friends besides Snow, and they’re going to have adjust to being mother and daughter, not to mention everything else on her plate, so I’m not sure how likely a friendship, at least this season, is between her and Belle either since she’s probably still pissed off at Rumple for running off with the potion while Henry was dying.
Oh I just remembered that her and Grumpy knew each other in the Enchanted Forest, so he’ll probably hang out together again, and perhaps he’ll help get the other “good guys” to trust her. That seems likely, although, because of the Bae mystery and her being one of the few people that knows about Rumple’s son, I want her and Henry to end up becoming friends too, and Henry finding out about Bae, especially if Bae is his dad, through his friendship with Belle. I’m not sure how likely the possibility now, but maybe they’ll end up bonding over his book or something.