@KFChimera wrote:
@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.
Ah, thanks for correcting me. I haven’t gone back to watch “The Crocodile” so I completely forgot about that. She seemed perhaps… not sad enough to leave much of an impression on me, I guess. (But maybe that’s just up against Rumplestiltskin who is a wreck about the whole thing and isn’t lucky enough to escape his troubles on a pirate ship. Every day he saw Bae was a reminder.) I can kind of imagine the struggle Milah must have had upon leaving. She just left without a word, thinking it better to let her husband and son think she’d died. She could have left something behind for her son, a note, an explanation etc- but she chose to let him think her dead rather than himself abandoned. Ouch.
"Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him."
