Love and Romance on OUAT: What's the Message?

[nevermore]

For what it’s worth, this interview with RC is a bit dated (and I’m sure many of you have seen it), but to me seems to capture some of the main quandaries of Rumple’s relationship with Belle.

Carlyle: He definitely loves her. There’s no doubt about that and he wants to be with her. This other thing, [other] part of his life, is probably bigger. Because this has existed long before she came along and will probably exist long after she’s gone. This hat and this kind of quest for magic and power is so massive for him. This kind of addiction he has to it is huge. That’s what drives Rumplestiltskin more than love.

Question: Do you see him getting a happy ending?

Carlyle: I don’t know. I really don’t know. To be honest, it’s… I think if you start to think of the characters like that then you’re going to start to lose the essence of what they are. Ultimately, they’re not meant for that world. The other characters — Snow White, Charming or whoever it is — these are the happy ending people. So whether these other ones get to that place or not is up to the creators. For me, I just don’t think it would be honest to do that.

From the horse’s mouth, as it were.

[obisgirl]

Also, you have to consider, whenever Rumple is close to achieving his happy ending, he does something that messes it up.  It’s happened time and again. It happened with Milah, Baelfire, Belle.

Sometimes, he manages to fix it, like with Neal.

But Rumple’s relationship with his son, it’s different from his relationship with Belle. In Belle’s case,  he could have let it go after Neal died and settled into a quiet life with her, but he couldn’t help himself. As soon as he found that stupid hat, it put him on a selfish quest to ‘separate’ himself from that dagger. (I’m not saying the ‘C’ word because I know that drives, RG nuts).

It also makes me think, maybe there is no happy ending for Rumple.  He’s a tragic character that way. He gets close to that happy ending, then he does something to push it away because he’s scared, because of magic, or something else.

[RumplesGirl]

(I’m not saying the ‘C’ word because I know that drives, RG nuts).

Bless you.

It also makes me think, maybe there is no happy ending for Rumple.

I have to agree. There was a chance for a bittersweet one post-Neal but now…I don’t know how you come back from the stuff he’s done and get all the shiny.

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

[obisgirl]

I agree.

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