@Beauty & the Beast wrote:
Bring the convo from the Belle thread to this thread. 😀
Midnight Dreary suggested that Rumpelstiltskin gave the Evil Queen the wrong ingredients for the curse. I think she may actually be right. Rumpel said that in order to enact the curse, you must sacrifice the heart of the person you love most. Well, if that’s the case, how Rumpel even know that? Everyone Rumpel ever loved was either dead or missing by the time he began working on the curse. His son was gone, his first wife was gone, Belle was gone. How would he know that the curse required the heart of the person you love most when he himself didn’t have the key ingredient? I think Rumpel gave the Evil Queen the wrong ingredients to accomplish two things:
1. He honestly didn’t want to give Regina the real curse and the only way to both satisfy her demands and save himself at the same time was to give her the wrong ingredients. So, Regina did in fact cast a curse, however, I believe it was a different curse or the “wrong” curse. If this is true, then no mater what Regina does in Storybrooke, Mr. Gold will always have the upper hand because he’s the only one knows that Regina cast the wrong curse.
2. I also believe that Rumpel gave the Evil Queen the wrong ingredients out of petty revenge. Even though Rumpel believed that it was Belle’s father that caused her eventaul suicide, I could easily see Rumpel placing blame on the Evil Queen as well. In his eyes, if it wasn’t for the Evil Queen’s intervention and manipulation of Belle, then the tragedy would have never happened. Belle would have returned home, she would have never kissed him, and Rumpel would have never accused her of working with the Evil Queen. I know, it sounds loaded and petty, but the death of a loved causes a person to blame everyone who was involved. And unfortunately for Regina, that includes her.
So, as punishment, Rumpel lies and tells the Evil Queen that the heart of the person you love most is needed for the curse, when in fact, the main ingredient was probably true love. So, Rumpel gets to keep his curse, defeat Regina and ruthlessly punish her by forcing her to sacrifice her own father all at the same time.
Man this guy is scary. 😯
Wow! Great points, Beauty and the Beast.
That’s why I tend to place all my bets on Mr. Gold. Even though, the introduction of Belle could possibly make Mr. Gold’s position more unstable.