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I hope his real name isn’t David however it would be quite interesting if it was for the reason that you said, he wouldn’t be able to bury who he was during the curse. Snow may forgive him for what he did but Charming wouldn’t forgive himself so easily for how he treated her. The fact that he and David would share the same name would be a reminder of that. Also it would make for an uneasy reconciliation with Emma. The David that Snow knows Charming as would be completely different from the David that Emma knows him as, yet Emma would still see the situation as David hurt her best friend/mother.
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Keeper of FelixI agree with you that Bae could see how the magic had changed Rumple and not for the better yet I still think he was naive in thinking how everything would be better if Rumple just gave up the power. Whilst Bae certainly wasn’t wrong about how the magic made Rumple worse, I don’t think he was seeing the bigger picture of what the consequences could be once Rumple gave up the power.Had Rumple been treated right by others before he became the dark one then I think he would have been more willing to give up the power once he’d stopped the ogre war.
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Keeper of Felix@Elle wrote:
He wasn’t just scared of the vortex–even before it opened, when he and Baelfire were talking, he was asking his son what kind of world is without magic.
I agree with you that Rumple did do wrong, he never should have let Bae go. However, Rumple had spent his whole life in a land with magic so a land without magic must have sounded a little absurd. It is basically telling Rumple to leave the life he’s ever known for the complete unknown. Even pre-dark one Rumple would be hesitant to agree to that.
Rumple did want to keep his power but I think (unlike other episodes where he needs his power to find Bae) in this episode it was less about the power itself and more about what having the power means for Rumple. Before he became the dark one, Rumple was the town coward and everyone probably looked down upon him. When he has the power, everyone is afraid of him and don’t dare cross him. Rumple is afraid that if he gets rid of the power he will be “weak” and everyone would go bact to treating him as they did before or worse. It’s unclear how much time has passed between Desperate Souls and The Return. When Rumple told Bae he needed more power to protect him, it could be that Rumple is aware his actions have made Bae a moving target and that should he ever get rid of his powers, people would likely come seeking revenge against him and Bae.
Bae is seeing the situation through the naivete of a child, that Rumple’s powers are the problem and if Rumple gets rid of them all their problems are solved. Bae being isolated by the other children is an unfortunate consequence of having the dark one for a father yet I don’t think Rumple is aware of what’s happening to Bae. He sends Bae to join in with the other children and then questions “your friend didn’t want to say hello?”
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Keeper of FelixIt was Rumple’s fault that he didn’t go through the vortex with Bae but it was a moment’s cowardice, one that he regretted almost instantaneously. Rumple’s main concern about the vortex was that it would tear him and Bae apart so it’s understandable why he didn’t jump head first into it.
It’s Blue Fairy’s reaction to it that annoys me. Rumple was never cruel to Bae, if anything he was too overprotective. The Blue Fairy didn’t do anything to stop the ogre war in which children were being conscripted, Rumple did. Blue Fairy didn’t help Rumple out when he was trying to prevent Bae from being conscripted in the first place, Rumple had to do it himself which led to him becoming the dark one. For Blue Fairy to then tell Rumple that he drove Bae away after all he’d been through just seems a little off to me.Maybe Blue Fairy has a superiority complex. She thinks that, being the original power and all, she has the right to interfere in other people’s lives and put them on the path she thinks they should be on. She did it with Nova and Grumpy, who’s to say she didn’t think Bae was better off without Rumple.
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Keeper of Felix
