And just to further share my confusion; am I the only one who suspects Regina cursed Belle with Rumplestiltskin’s own personality? As in Lacey is a female version of FTL Rumple? Alcoholism signifying his addiction to magic? Lacy is kind of all over the place, sweet, friendly, fun, sinister, greedy, dangerous…All Rumplestiltskin qualities, yes?
Interesting. But I see Lacey as being more akin to Cora than Rumple himself, though Cora and Rumple were an awful lot alike. And Rumple did love her *gags* But it’s Belle who is his true love and I think Belle will still love Rumple regardless of how she acted, but will she be ok with herself and her new mixed identity is my question.[/quote]
I would have said that Cora’s defining characteristic is ‘power-hungry’, and I’m not sure we’ve seen that in Lacey. Wanting to live forever comes close, but it’s not the same as wanting to make people bow.