608 Title – I'll Be Your Mirror

1) Oooookay. That’s odd. Is it obvious (Sydney?) or possibly literary allusion to another character from the land of forgotten character island?

2) New writer, yes?

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My first guess was Sidney, since he’s the most associated to mirrors on this show, other than Ingrid. It would make sense to see him return, given his pre-established connection to Agrabah. And yes, Leah Fong is a new writer. The same writer that leaked part of 608’s outline on her Instagram, which spoiled that Rumbelle’s unborn child is a boy. Leah has since deleted the post.

Here is a link to a re-upload of the leaked outline page. I’m not embedding it due to language, but here’s the transcript with the language cleaned out:

But for now, Belle’s only concern is getting the [redacted] out of Storybrooke with her unborn son. Zelena waves the wand.
INT. – GRANNY’S DINER – NIGHT
The TINKLE of the DOOR BELL as Violet walks in, still in her dress, corsage still on her wrist.

(and of course it’s a boy) (sigh)

If it remains a boy, that is. Since it leaked, Adam and Eddy may decide to change the gender, if there’s still enough time to do so.

*sighs* again.

Really? Giving Rumbelle a girl would be too much to ask? I mean, Snowing already did the replacement baby thing with Emma and Baby Snowflake so sure. Why not? Give Rumple a new son who will magically be able to make his papa transform into a better man. Guys who was Nealfire again? I have this feeling this might have been his story. Maybe I’m crazy.

In other news: so 8 episodes in and Belle wants to get away from Rumple still. Yes, this is going swimmingly.

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If they do stick with making the baby a boy, what are they going to name him? Charles or Christopher, with Chip as his nickname? So long as somebody else doesn’t drop dead, and we get another baby named after a dead person.

Rumple dies and we get baby [Mr Gold’s first name] which is how the writers reveal Gold’s SB name if he actually has one.

Ooooh, that’s actually a very intriguing option. We’ve never heard Gold’s first name, and only refer to him as Rumple most of the time, so it honestly wouldn’t be as shrug-worthy as Baby Neal and Baby Robin.