@PriceofMagic wrote:
I think Rumple didn’t fight for Milah because the odds were stacked against him. He had Bae to think about. If he died duelling Hook, who was far more experienced with a sword, who would’ve taken care of Bae? Rumple didn’t want Bae to have the childhood he had of growing up without a father? Bae had already lost one parent that day, he didn’t need to lose the other.
Reminds me of sentiments expressed during a recent portal scene in SB. Rumple wanted his son to be looked after by a parent just like Nealfire wanted his son to be. Really, Rumple’s heart was in the right place when it came to Bae, which makes it even sadder that the parasite of the Dark One curse corrupted him to the point that he let Bae’s hand go, subjecting the kid to the same fate he’d suffered of growing up alone.
I think the fact that Milah and Hook discussed taking Bae with them when she deemed him old enough actually makes her look worse then she did before. She chose to let Bae grow up without a mother then she would have just crashed back into Bae’s life and taken him away from the father who loved him. Rumple wouldn’t have had any say in the matter, Milah would have probably just took Bae and left again.
I can imagine conversations where Killian would tell Milah that they should go back now for Bae, that his age didn’t matter, because they could give him a good life. If what he told Bae about he and his father having dreamed of sailing the realms had any kernel of truth to it, then he could have seen Bae as his chance to live that dream that he never got to with his father.
Milah would have been the one insisting that they wait. Maybe she didn’t want to face Rumple because she was ashamed of leaving like she had. Maybe she feared what Bae’s reaction to her would be, and it was better to be left wondering rather than have it confirmed that he hated her, (shades of Nealfire being afraid to look for Emma in that). At the end of the day, Milah made her own bed. She was all kinds of wrong to leave Rumple and Bae the way that she did.
@RumplesGirl wrote:
@winlea78 wrote:
I’m sure Bae will forgive hook for his betrail, look at how he forgave rumple. And with the knowlage of what he did to his mother. Bae may also regret leaving hook.
But did he forgive Rumple? Their relationship as of ASOTM wasn’t anything like either one of them hoped it would be.
Nealfire wants to be able to forgive Rumple, but their relationship is WAY complicated. There’s no quick fix for that hot mess.