Original Skin Deep "rumbelle Dark Castle parts only"

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Thanks for this info, it was fun to see the extra bits and pieces. 🙂

@PriceofMagic wrote:

@Midnight Dreary wrote:

There’s also a scene where Belle looks at Rumpel lovingly, and Rumpel responds, “No has ever looked at me like that. Not even my wife.” So sweet. 😀

That says so much about the state of Rumple’s first marriage, his wife never looked at him with love. Which begs the question why they married in the first place?

Yes, I loved that line, but I can see why it didn’t make it into the ep because maybe it gave away too much, too soon.

@sdcurtis wrote:

It could have been an arranged marriage. If we remember from “The Shepherd” James (or whatever his pre prince name was), his mother came to him and was talking about the daughter of the grain merchant who had a dowry that could save their farm. Marrying for love back then was a luxury a lot of couples didn’t have. It was always hoped that a daughter would marry into a better position in life, than what she had been born into…at least for the lower classes.

Good point, we’ve certainly seen arranged marriage being talked about in the lower classes before.

@sdcurtis wrote:

We don’t know what kind of person he was like before the Ogars war that he fought in. There’s a lot of story we don’t know still to piece together a picture of what happened.

This is something I hadn’t really considered before, I’d always just assumed he’d always been lowly. But now that I’m thinking about it, that may not necessarily be the case. He could have been better off, not royalty status, but comfortable in life, enough that an arranged marriage with him could be seen as a step up in class for a girl from a poor family. Maybe it wasn’t until after the war incident that he fell from grace and they ended up living in poverty, and if she’d never truly loved him before, that was the final straw, so she left.

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