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Could the Seer prophecy lead to Rumple’s obsession with finding babies ? (Cora’s…Cinderella’s…Regina’s…then Ashley’s)
[adrotate group="5"]That’s an interesting idea–kind of like Pharaoh/King Herod rounding up and killing all male babies in order to stop his own overthrow. Then again, I think it shows that he never wanted to kill any of the babies (at least immediately), since they would lead him to Bae.
@Spitweet wrote:
Could the Seer prophecy lead to Rumple’s obsession with finding babies ? (Cora’s…Cinderella’s…Regina’s…then Ashley’s)
But in those instances, all the babies were girls and the prophesy said a boy would be Rumple’s undoing. So, I don’t think that is what lead Rumple to traffick babies, but I do think he was looking for a magical apprentice to cast the dark curse for him, which is where Cora and Regina fit in. With baby Emma, he needed her, as the product of true love, to be the savior and break said curse. With Ashley’s baby, Mr. Gold needed baby Alexandra as leverage so that he’d get Emma to agree to do a favor for him. He could glimpse the future and so could tell how each of those girls would fit into the puzzle that is the future.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
Honestly, I think he just likes babies. Yeah, he jokes about skinning children with Belle, but that was just a quip–he knows his reputation. The only person he’s done anything for freely (besides Bae and Belle, whom he sees as his in a way) is Henry (and that was before he knew they were related). Though he did help Emma reunite Hansel and Gretel with their father. And when he cuddles baby Bae…awwwwwwwww.
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@slurpeez108 wrote:
I do think he was looking for a magical apprentice to cast the dark curse for him, which is where Cora and Regina fit in.
Oh and all of a sudden it makes sense why he would want Regina from the start. If you know this someone is gonna cast THE CURSE which you have been waiting on for 300 years, you are bound to want complete control. So raise them yourself. Only it did not work out that way, Cora got her back.
Well, the original Rumple’s story’s inclusion of “eating babies” came from a medieval racist idea called the blood libel, in which it was said that Jews kidnapped Christian children and used their blood and/or ate them. I strongly doubt that Once’s Rumple would actually eat babies or have any connection to that medieval idea.
Not all of the babies were girls. Remeber Charming’s brother James.
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@ScarletLady wrote:
Not all of the babies were girls. Remeber Charming’s brother James.
That’s true, but with James, the reason Rumple made that deal wasn’t to pre-empt any boy who might be his undoing. Rather, Rumple foresaw that he’d die, and David would become the next prince. That was a key step to him meeting Snow White and eventually fathering Emma, the savior.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
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