Mr. Gold/Rumpelstiltskin Character Analysis

[Keb]

Some tweets from Adam re Rumple’s character & choices in the finale!

https://twitter.com/AdamHorowitzLA/status/334002901993263105

Rumple don’t cheat 🙂

https://twitter.com/AdamHorowitzLA/status/334002573315018752

And yep, still trying to protect Belle.

[Marty McFly]

I think Rumple will be “undone” by peter pan. peter pan probably doesn’t want a good “dark one” Rumple is a very good person, and very loving. he loved Mila and was excited to start a family with her, he loved his son Belfire, he loved Cora and then he fell in true love with Belle. he falls in love way too easily for a dark one.

Rumplestiltskin loved his wife and son, that’s what drove him to injure himself so he would come home and raise his own son, it drove him to become the dark one, it drove him to get the power to see the future from that girl and to try and get a curse made. he even used “true love” to bring magic to storybrooke (that can’t be dark magic)

maybe zozo chose him for that reason. he could have chosen ANYONE to become the dark one. who wouldn’t want to have so much power?? He chose a good guy because he was hoping that Rumple might be able to contain its’ (the dagger’s) evilness by countering it with some of his (rumple’s) good. even as the dark one he managed to love and be a generally good person (except for the times that he let that dark power take over) and it was only those split-second decisions (like letting go of Belfire or killing Mila) that he did because the dark curse got hold of him. (the decision to let go of Belfire was regretted immediately even though it was too late to change that)
not only that but he used his dark powers to stop the Ogre Wars which were ripping children from their parents and men from their loved ones for generations! no other “dark one” ever did that!
his undoing might mean that Pan will pull all of that goodness out of him so that he will be a proper “Dark one” maybe he will undo his good which even the dagger couldn’t undo

[tiara_rose]

A Small side question: Rumple is now on the way to Neverland. Will his body change then or will look like Mr. Gold. I mean this is a magical realm, but for Robert Carlyle it would the horror always to look like Rumple the Dark One. I mean the duration for this change is 2 hours (oltough without the boots 20 min less), but he sid it takes also a long time to get it off too.

Heros don't get their Happy Ending!

[Keb]

Well, the curse fundamentally changed everyone it affected–so much so that the BF needed someone who had both been uncursed AND had returned to his true state to create the potion. We are Both means that they really do have the physical and mental traits of both their cursed and uncursed selves, forever, I think. I don’t think Jiminy would revert to cricket form if he went, and I don’t think Gold will revert either.

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[RumplesGirl]

That wold be rather taxing on RC to be in the Dark One’s makeup all the time in S3. I wonder if he’ll lose the limp though. Neverland is an island, it’s not going to be paved like SB is.

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

[Keb]

We might find out why he never bothered to cure it, actually. He did the first time he had magic, obviously, so was it a conscious choice or something about We are Both or something to do with the way magic works in SB?

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[tiara_rose]

Didn’t we should get Rumples first name in Storybrook in season 2?

Heros don't get their Happy Ending!

[Keb]

I kinda hope we never get a first name for Mr. Gold. There’s no way it could be epic enough. I mean, it’s a little like the thing August showed Neal–it was cooler before the reveal. I want the curse to have never given him a first name.

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[RumplesGirl]

@Keb wrote:

I kinda hope we never get a first name for Mr. Gold. There’s no way it could be epic enough. I mean, it’s a little like the thing August showed Neal–it was cooler before the reveal. I want the curse to have never given him a first name.

I don’t think it did. It’s a nod to the original Rumple story.

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

[Keb]

Exactly, RG. Besides, if he -needs- a first name, he’s got Rumple now.

But when Regina demanded his name in 112, he said, “Mr. Gold.” Nothing else. And she didn’t argue with that appellation one bit–she just wanted his FTL name. That was the one time when a full reveal would’ve been appropriate had the curse given him a first name. Between his architecturing of the curse, the power of names, etc etc, it just makes more sense for the curse to have never given him a first name. Unless it’s Mister.

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