Re: Neil’s fiance situation….

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@Keb wrote:

I don’t think he has anything against royalty that behaves itself (or furthers his own agenda), and clearly he finds them quite useful when it comes to dealmaking, but look at what he says to Cinderella when she wants to go to the ball–he thinks she’s better of where she is. He implies it’s because of the price of magic, but just perhaps he doesn’t see much value in marrying royalty. (Could even be lingering bitterness from what Cora chose? At least from the character’s perspective, since I doubt the writers thought this far ahead for ep 104. But half the fun is filling in the missing bits.)

Oh, that’s interesting! At some point this whole flashing back and forth is a bit of a plot hole trap for the writers. If they don’t write very carefully, characters might seem like they don’t remember things they should have, because at that point the writers had not written it yet. When it meshes well, like that scene in Skin Deep when Rumpel yells at a mirror (at a time when Cora was through the looking glass) it makes you wonder if they actually had planned some stuff far in advance. I want to go back and rewatch this scene now!

Back to the discussion though, I agree that Rumpel is not too caught up in the whole allure of Royalty. Does he ship Emma with Neal? His first reaction on finding Neal was that he wanted to make Neal 14 again and take away his memories. That kind of would put a crimp in the rekindling of a relationship! After Neal says are you insane, it is only then that Rumpel begins to consider how he can use Emma to at least get Neal to Storybrooke. Rumpel is also still wary of Henry and that “undoing” thing. I think Rumpel does not yet think of Emma the way she does him, as family. Everyone except Bae and Belle are still tools to him. On the other hand, not sure many women could handle Rumpel as a father-in-law quite the way Emma could, and I do think Rumpel has a grudging respect for her. I think Neal noticed that as well–that Emma is not afraid or resentful of Rumpel as many might be.

(Edited b/c I abbreviated Rumpel to Rump for some reason…considering the synonyms for that word it made me giggle, b/c there are times where maybe that is a better nickname for the character.)