@Midnight Dreary wrote:
I would be angry at August if he abandoned Emma when he was a teenager or young man, but he was only 7. 7 years old people. He was in a strange land and given responsibilities that no child should be given. He had the weight of taking care of a child on his shoulders when he himself was still a child. I’m sorry, but I can’t be angry at him. Especially after seeing what kind of foster home he was living in. My mother grew up in a foster home and she ran away 3 different times. And you know what, I don’t blame one bit.
Ok but he’s not just some 7 year old he’s freaking Pinocchio! He had to earn his human form by being brave, truthful & unselfish. He knows what it is to be brave when he sacrificed himself to save Geppetto. I won’t pretend to know what it’s like in a foster home but I’d bet that some where when he was thinking how hard is is for him that it was gonna be just as hard for Emma. Whatever they were gonna have to face at least they would have faced it together. That aside ok he’s a kid so he dips, but still he only came back when he himself was affected. That’s when he came back when his personal well being was threatened. If he’d have come back earlier then I’d be more inclined to let him slide on leaving as a 7 year old. There’s a time between when Emma was still a kid who needed if nothing else some one to be there so she wouldn’t be alone on her birthday and when Henry showed up so she wouldn’t be anymore that I can’t see how to justify. Sometime between abandoning Emma and his leg starting to turn into wood he much like the victims of the curse lost who he was, somewhere between 18-35 he didn’t do enough.
