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I feel bad for saying this, but I kind of hope Bae turns out to be something of a bad guy, at least for a season or two. Just to see Rumple’s reaction to it. To know that Bae was the better man and that his abandonment brought him down to a pretty low level, would really tare him up. And maybe it would be a good incentive to be better.
[adrotate group="5"]And that is what makes him such an interesting character. He could do ALMOST anything and it still be in character.
Depending on just how jaded Bae turned out to be after his time alone in the real world, it may just come down to Rumple having to give up his powers as a piece offering. As a way to show that he really is willing to make it work this time.
The thing is that Rumple has always gotten his way, if not by magic, then by manipulating words (like when he found the loophole that got Emma the sheriff’s job). He can’t do that to Bae and Bell, not without pushing them away and he is smart enough to know that. And Bae has already proven himself to be rather stubborn and persistent.
I think it will be interesting to see who comes out on top with that one, because the truth is that in that situation, I think Rumple is the more desperate soul. He has been the one spending centuries trying to get back to Bae, but Bae has spent every day since he was fourteen (however long that was for him–since we don’t know his Real World age) living with the fact that his father abandoned him to a strange and frighting world because he was too much of a coward to live without his power and too much of a fool to realize that not all that glitters is gold.
True, but even if it doesn’t come down to “Magic or Us,” it’s not going to be easy for Rumple to have his cake and eat it too. Both Bae and Bell are very empathetic characters. They aren’t going to be able to stand sitting by while he manipulates people to his advantage, with no consideration as to what will happen to those he uses. (Think the entirety of the curse).
If somehow he is able to keep magic AND his family, the only way that will work is if he really does some soul searching. I’m not talking about him suddenly becoming like the blue fairy, but he is definitely going to have to learn some resistant.
Another thing to consider is that the blue fairy told Bae the “what ales your father is unique to this realm.” That kind of makes me think of the dark one’s magic as a sort of disease. If that’s the case, then maybe the magic is infecting him and literally corrupting him. Think about it: their is a quite a bit of difference between Rumple and Gold.
Following that logic, it might not be possible for him to keep magic AND be good enough of a person that his family can stand him. Maybe that’s something they’ll have to resolve during the last season.
Or maybe, with enough work and if he REALLY tried, he could reverse the polarity of his magic. Somehow turn the Dark magic into light (not likely and it wouldn’t be easy–but in OUAT, you never know).
Ahhhh… sorry.
On another note, there is one thing i’m looking forward to seeing and I think it’s something they are going to have to show eventually, whether or not any of our theories are right. I want to see the relationship between Bae and Bell. Now i’m not saying i want them to get together or anything (i’m far too much of a Rumbell fan for that), but i think it would be interesting. They are the only things that keep Rumple’s humanity anywhere close to in check.
Rumple has already chosen magic over them once, but that was when it was just one of them at a time. What did you think would happen if (when) they ever got the idea to team up to convince him that the magic wasn’t worth it?
I always thought that by, “follow it wherever it leads you,” she meant that she didn’t really know enough about that world to describe it. All she knew was that it was a world without magic.
and I wasn’t saying that Rumple wouldn’t have stopped the war the same day. What i’m saying is that, assuming Bae came strate here, he would have been really mad at Rumple and signing up the first chance he got could have been a nice form of payback.
As a little aside, am I the only one who kind of hopes Bae has spent at least some time in the military? I mean it would have been a perfect form of teenage rebellion. Rumple got magic to keep him out of war, so after he, in essences chooses magic over his son, Bae enlists as a big middle finger to his father.
I think the show could definitely keep a reconciliation from happening between Bae and Rumple until the final season if ever really
That’s interesting. I hadn’t really thought about the fact that they might not reconcile (who am I kidding, it’s TV it will happen unless the show ends early for whatever reason *shudder*) or at least take seasons worth of work at it. It would really kind of highlight the differences between this world and FTL. There happy endings were a lot easier to get…but in the real world there is no guarantee.
Then, obviously Bae and Emma will have a lot of issues to work out. Who knows where Henry will stand too? Is he going to be pissed at Emma for lying to him? How will he feel towards Bae? Did Bae have any inkling that he had a son out there, or is he going to be pissed at Emma for not telling him?
Of course, then you throw in Snow, Charming, Regina, and Belle to the mix, and the show has so many ways it could go with the mega revelation.
I’ll take “awkward family dynamics” for five hundred. lol.
