Re: New Role Being Cast

[Slurpeez]

Another “major recurring guest star role” coming our way just screams a major character. Could this be Baelfire? A lot of people have speculated that Bae’s character might have become corrupted over time, as a result of being abandoned by Rumpel. Baelfire may not be Henry’s dad, after all. I don’t think Barrett would be Henry’s dad, since we’re supposed to meet him in 2×6.

Could he be the writer of Henry’s book? We have no idea right now who wrote it or how it came into Snow’s possession. The author could be flawed, like have a drinking problem that he tries to justify.

Maybe Barrett’s another FTL character. Robin Hood might be a good guess, except that Robin only stole from from the corrupt Sheriff of Nottingham to feed the poor, which isn’t really a “dark side,” IMO. However, they could twist Robin’s character to make him have darker beliefs, like killing when necessary is justified.

Another possible candidate could be Aladdin, who was both a thief and a liar, in addition to being a really nice guy. Yet, again, I’m not sure that classifies him as having a dark side either. He was simply trying to survive and better his station when he pretended to be a prince.

One more idea I had it that Barrett might be grown-up Peter Pan. He was both fun and kind, yet he had a bit of a “dark side” in not wanting to grow up or let the Lost Boys do so. He constantly defended his care-free lifestyle as preferable to growing up. He seemed to think that keeping Wendy and her brothers in a perpetual childhood was no problem until Wendy convinced him otherwise.

With regards to Emma and her potential suitors, I’m thinking that she’ll be very closed off to romance, so that whoever tires to pursue her will have to be just as determined to reach her as she is to reject him. She’s a tough cookie, and now that she has Snow and Charming to look out for her, I doubt she’ll fall victim to the “love-is-blind” notion that Belle seems to have become entrapped in.