@SpinningGold wrote:
A crutch to lean on. As magic is a crutch too.
That’s exactly what I meant. We are talking about fairy tales here and fairy tales are designed to teach us lessons through metaphors. It would be completely logical to use the cane in this way: The magic is his crutch, the cane is a crutch, therefor the cane contains magic. Th
Think we’re talking about different ideas, or draw different conclusions. I was talking about a crutch in a psychological sense. So I used it as a metaphor, right, but as a picture, that Rumple / Mr. Gold thinks he needs something outside of him to rely on, to lean on, something to distance himself from his own actions and maybe feelings, something to help him copy with his feelings of guilt and failure. That is not a conscious decision, it’s a psychological mechanism and process, something Rumpel isn’t controlling. I see the limping as a habit (by now), thus he still needs a cane. In a similiar way magic has become a (psychologcial) crutch to him.
It’s not logical to me to make the cane a magical object. I don’t think it’s magical at all.
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