heatherc1275 wrote: That Neal post is amazing too and I’ve also re-read it a few times. He seriously needs some happiness at the end of S3 and I am hoping really hard that this is something in their plans. He desperately needs to have something good happen for him because IMO, you make a show a lot harder to watch when you have one character who keeps getting the crap beat out of him
He is totally the punching bag of ONCE right now. Cute kid looses mother in an affair. Cute kid looses father to dark curse. Cute kids looses his “real” family in act of heroism. Cute kid is traded by mother’s ex-lover to evil minions on dark island. Cute kid is forced to be 14 for 200 years in a cave. Cute kid meets the love of his life. Adorable guy must give up love of his life cause destiny. Adorable guy is alone for 10 years. Adorable guy makes ONE MISTAKE and is HATED by fandom. Adorable guy finds out he has a son and almost looses father in one week. Adorable guy is shot. Adorable guy has to go back to dark island of mismatched toys. Adorable guy had fight with papa. Adorable guy is put in a cage. Adorable guy is rescued by love of his life who says that the pain they went through is super painful. Adorable guy almost looses son. Adorable guy is stood up. Adorable guy looses father. Adorable guy looses love of his life and his son and is sent back home. Seriously. The heck.
You know who Nealfire reminds me of? Rocky Balboa from the Rocky film franchise! I can’t believe I didn’t put my finger on it earlier, but having read this description of Neal, it hit me. He reminds me of Rocky, the boxer who kept getting knocked down, but who kept on fighting and kept coming back stronger throughout the 4 films! Both Rocky and Neal have an underdog quality about them, both wear hoodies, which suggests they’re both streetwise. Yet, both Rocky and Neal have hearts of gold who try to do right by the women they love, even though the women in their lives don’t always see it that way. Rocky and Neal keep being dismissed by people outside of them, turned down, doubted, and even disparaged, and yet both Rocky and Neal kept their eternal optimism and turned away from self-doubt to self-belief! I think Neal’s story, like Rocky’s, will be one of an underdog who fought back, persevered, overcame internal and external obstacles and won the heart of the girl he loves. There is just something incredibly captivating about the story of overcoming. I have hope!
Whole-heartedly agree with all of THIS ^^^^
"We were happy."
"Because... it was born out of true love."