Didn’t Rumple check?

[PriceofMagic]

@The_Savior wrote:

True, they did a pretty quick cut scene of him crying over her, but who knows, perhaps he was actually looking for her before Regina broke the news, and it was enough to make him believe with him not being able to find her.

Like everyone else, I’m pretty anxious to see what happens between Rumpel/Belle/Regina/Moe.

There are some factors on Regina’s side that would make Rumple believing her more plausible.

1. We don’t know how much time had passed since Belle left the castle to Regina telling Rumple she died. If several weeks had passed and Rumple didn’t look for Belle within those weeks, news of her death would obviously make him feel guilty that he didn’t try and go after her sooner.

2. Regina mentioned Gaston had gone missing. Obviously Rumple knew this because he turned Gaston into the rose but this put an element of truth into Regina’s story therefore making it harder to tell whether it was a lie or not.

3. Rumple didn’t quite believe Regina immediately because he did accuse her of lying. However he was clutching at straws at that point. Regina’s response of “Am I?” neither confirmed nor denied whether or not she was lying but probably tipped Rumple into believing her. Add in the fact that her story had an element of truth (Gaston missing) and the time factor (enough time must have past for Belle to have realistically made it home and be tortured enough to commit suicide) then Rumple had no choice but to believe her.

[vasalisa]

I can see I’m really late to the party with this response. Rumple didn’t follow her immediately because he thought she had a better chance at a happy life at home with her father. After the EQ said she’d died, Rumple really believed Belle was dead. At one point (in another episode) he says his magic can’t bring back the dead, so there was no point in going after her then. I think the real reason he didn’t go after her was because he didn’t feel like he deserved her love. If she was dead and gone, he was certainly saddened by that. He could have done something more to save her–but he thought her best chance was away from him, too. All that self-loathing. A powerful guy, but pretty low self-esteem when it comes right down to it. He was living like a recluse in that empty castle, and had sworn off any notion of romantic love. Done and gone. Just not something he got to do in this life. Belle appeared out of the Blue; she was Hope to him. That brief flicker in a vast Ocean of Darkness.

And yes, I do think this response is in keeping with his character. If you don’t think you deserve something (like true love) you don’t go after it. I kept waiting for Gold to rescue Belle from the Asylum. But in the season finale, Bell went to him. Belle sought him out.

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