Belle & Rumplestiltskin Relationship Thread

[RumplesGirl]

THAT WAS ADORABLE.

OMG I CAN’T STAND THE CUTENESS THAT WAS THAT THING.

[PriceofMagic]

That’s the sort of thing we need to help cope with the winter finale

All magic comes with a price!

Keeper of Felix

[Phee]

That cartoon is SO cute! 😀 😆

[astrawoid]

http://rumbelleriversong.tumblr.com/post/70846565161/thestraggletag-omg-are-you-cora

"We were happy."
"Because... it was born out of true love."

[RumplesGirl]

GAH that one hurt

*goes to corner to cry*

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[angiebelle]

Oh dear…just accidentally came across some forum posts on another site that were picking apart RumBelle and saying Belle was delusional and that Emilie isn’t very good. 🙁  I need to be with RumBelle fans again..

[RumplesGirl]

Oh dear…just accidentally came across some forum posts on another site that were picking apart RumBelle and saying Belle was delusional and that Emilie isn’t very good. I need to be with RumBelle fans again..

🙁 come join the positive-ness where ship threads are fun and happy and safe havens!

These threads are our brief flicker of light amidst oceans of darkness..so to speak

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[betsypaige24]

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate and to those who don’t, enjoy the season as well. All stay warm and safe!

What frustrates me about Rumbelle is that that whatever happiness they have lasts for minutes, literally…at MOST a day or so. We don’t get smaller moments with them, like with Snowing; I MISS their banter, their quirky humor. We don’t get to see any of that because they are never together and when they are, all hell is generally breaking loose. We don’t get any domestic scenes – much as I love Gold’s shop, man, that does not replace a home setting for certain things. Surely he doesn’t live there?

I desperately want Rumbelle to have a happy ending, but I don’t want to be a HEA stuck onto the end of the show when they don’t have any happiness at all in the middle of their journey.   If the idea is to make them suffer inordinately because that’s how the writers see them, then just give them an ending befitting  that – and that would mean NO happy ending.  That would feel more authentic, I think.

I fail to see any purpose to these constant separations and I just wish that these two could face obstacles together. To be fair, though I will say that the Charmings have a daughter and grandson, so while they personally are together, they face their share of angst via those two. Plust to be fair,  Snowing was separated in  S1 until the curse broke and then at the beginning of S2 when Snow and Emma went to FTL.  They keep Charmings  together while avoiding their HEA because of issues with Emma/Henry. Rumbelle doesn’t have children,  so any separation or personal angst has to come from these two alone.

Assuming yet another 11 episode separation for Rumbelle, I can’t possibly conceive how of how ONCE will separate them again in S4.  I HOPE that the writers remember a HUGE thing about Gold being de-cursed: he’s now mortal, like everyone else.   Since Bae is now in his life and there’s nothing more they can do to poor Rumbelle, how about dealing with the very real ramifications of this.

1) His physical condition. How much stress  have the years taken on him? Is his heart in good working order?

2) His physical age – he’s now about 20 or so years older than  Belle. That is a  big  age difference. There is a good possibility, though of course not guaranteed,  that he’ll die well before Belle. That has to be devastating  for both to think about. What about a family?  He’s not going to want to be an aging father; he’s going to want to be  able to play with his kids and do “fatherly” things.

3) Just  the fact that he now  knows he’s going to die. Now I’m guessing Gold is probably ok with that because  I’m not sure he really wanted to live forever……though living with Belle forever would be good. That was  never going to be possible, however, without lots of complicated machinations.

For me, there is no way that these two are going to want to wait to  start their lives. Let’s get them engaged an married within a season and a half, if the show lasts that long.  Angst? There can be plenty of realistic angst: Belle has a difficult pregnancy, Belle gets sick, the baby gets sick… there are so  many possibilities,

[Marty McFly]

well, betsypaige24, let’s look at what we have so far: Belle has a father who is a king to a small village and who was going to marry her off to some Gaston guy whom she did not love. we know nothing of her mother or any of her home life at all. all we know about her is that she is a book-worm who likes heroes and wants to be a hero too. we also know that she can tell things about people she can see inside people’s hearts (as she says many times on the show)
now what do we know about Rumpelstiltskin.. I don’t even know where to begin, but let’s just say that he was written to be the most crucified suffering soul that had ever lived. so for someone who’s life is so tragic, death seems almost a relief.
but then…. they met and fell in love and suddenly life seems better for them both.
as of now the show is keeping things as they started them – they never stopped torturing the Rumbelle ship and even more, their Gold character.
this is probably the main reason I do believe he’s dead. it follows their mean evil fate that they gave Gold, only it happened in the middle of a season not in the show’s finally.
THIS fact is what gives me some hope for a happy ending, because if they meant to create a character who is emotionally tortured throughout the show and just tell us a tragedy story it would make sense to have him die in the end, but since this is the middle, maybe the game changes now and he will stop being hurt all the time and start living a normal life with an actual chance at happiness.
*sigh* sorry for the rambling

[RumplesGirl]

While I have a wee bit more optimism than Besty (though I am a little nervous) you do bring up a point that I think could be used to discuss ONCE as a whole: external vs internal conflict.

All the possible plot bunnies you’re suggesting as internal conflicts vs say an external big bad. They keep throwing external roadblocks at us (fans, not just Rumbelle) instead of letting the stuff that is internal play out and develop.

While I think they should always build on their mythology of the ONCEiverse, I would like to see more internal matters being settled.

You’ve given me something to chew on Besty!

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

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