@thelonebamf wrote:
Milah does make a sacrifice in leaving her son behind, although strangely we see no regret in her at any time. .
We see regret when she says there is not a day she isn’t sorry for having left Bae (but not so sorry that she came back, then again, it is not like she could work out visitation and a divorce. Sometimes I see a parallel to Belle if I think of Milah as a forward thinking woman hampered by the feudal culture they had. Only you know, more selfish and way less heroic than Belle.) If you want a plot bunny, think about what it must have been like to be Milah–pregnant and alone when the whole town turns against her because of rumors of what Rumpel did on the battlefield. Even after Bae is born, I imagine a scenario where she had a rough time and Rumpel’s return seemed like cold comfort since it confirmed the rumors. Ah angst….
Any way we get so little of her side of things, that she seems more awful.
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” -- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass