@Keb wrote:
Well, I think by that rule they meant that dwarves are asexual beings. Being asexual does not mean you don’t love in other ways–and obviously, the dwarves do have brotherly love for one another, and great love for Snow White, too.
Grumpy got sprinkled by fairy dust, which made him different, and gave him a special connection to Nova (who accidentally did the sprinkling). His situation is entirely unique.
However, we have another layer! All the dwarves have Storybrooke identities now–and presumably these were normal human identities. It is possible then that they -could- love now. (But, sorry, Whale, fairies don’t date any more than nuns do.)
Seeing the dwarfs, and fairies (what about giants?) as asexual beings could offer an interesting perspective which rarely ever is explored in any stories about romantic love especially. Admittely wouldn’t have thought of it myself if not by coincidence just read a discussion on another side, a discussion struggling with defining what loves means, what attraction, what romantic love is. Question there was raised, how much a relationship which one would call love, romantic love, does have a physical side, or has to have to be called a romantic relationship (love, true love between non relatives – knowing that this forum is not rated I am cautious with terms here at the moment, so sorry if it sounds more complicate). Know it’s hard to imagine for most that for some people it’s not much about kissing, what doesn’t make their relationships platonic though (besides that this term is widely misunderstood anyway).
Ah, well one can hope, but guess that would be a tad too profound for a family show for Sunday prime time.
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