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Hello
I have some questions about Stiltskin and the fact that he is known to be a coward/craven :

1- He fled during the war. Is that corwardly or braveous ?
Well… In the past, woman without husband had problems to fleed their children.
Children about 14 had to make the war too : without his father, Bae had no chance to survive more than 14.
Every people tell this : they cannot win. The only thing he has to do was to death breavely.
Well, do you think that he was the coward or the most intelligent ?
As for me I think he acts with more intelect than cowardly.

More : after he did not left the village, even thought he was despised by all. Is this cowardly or foolish bravery ?

2- He did not try to use his child as leverage with his wife. Is that not courageous, knowing that he went to seek her knowing her reply ? (“He is no one, it’s my husband” – I think it was not the first “love word” she said him before all the others)
[He is surprised when he sees Bae in the tavern and tell him that he had to stay outside)

3- He tried to flee with his child just before his 14 – because he found no other means to save him.
A coward would have flee some years ago – more : knowing he has no more his woman at home, thus just his son. Is that not true ?

4- He is weak, yes, but it’s physical weakness : and if we take the example of Hook, when this capitaine has the courage to ask the weak-man for a duel, who is the coward ? The weak-man that went on the boat, even knowing he cannot fight ? Or the handsome-strong man that is sure to win ? And what is more, who do not fears to kill the (husband and mainly) father* of the son of the woman he loves and take with him ?
Is this not bravery, trying even when there is no hope?
(*and thus the only person who will take care of her boy)

5- To save his children, he has only a “little” thing to do – something that seems impossible to succeed.
But he decides to make it. He use what he has, what he knows, he works together with his son.
The previous “dark one” is a true evil – or a true desesperate soul – as in exchange of the money-gift that makes him a man almost as poor as himself (disguised as a beggar), he offers a curse.
Did the previous dark-one choose Rample, as he can feel his despair ? (For me, the biggest flaw of Rample is to see him only through the eyes of others)
Thus, did Rample has fallen into the same trap that he later tend to his deal-partners ?
Don’t know. But the more important here, speaking about bravery, is that he has the courage to find the dague and the courage to kill the previous dark-one. I would not have this courage.
Even if the previous dark-one could not fight Rample (as he has the dague), take someone’s life is something.

And well, why the king did not ask the previous dark-one, instead of helping to enlist childs as soldiers, to win the war ? He could, as it’s the firts thing that Rampling-dark-one makes.
I have the reply : to let us have the pleasure to watch this new great work of R.C.

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