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As for Mr. Gold/Rumple, Horowitz teases, “The Rumple character poster says, ‘Believe you can change your fate.’ And whether you can or can’t, is kind of a core dilemma for him [this season]. He’s being ripped back and forth between this prophecy, which says the boy will be his undoing, and the fact that the boy is his blood. What are his priorities? What’s he going to do? How’s he going to wiggle his way out of this? Can he wiggle his way out of this?” Kitsis adds, “[Rumple] believes he has nothing left to live for. He believes he’s responsible for the death of his son. Neal is very important to many characters in the show right now, who are behaving in certain ways under the belief that he’s dead.”
So Belle and his grandson arn’t enough reason for him to live? *bangs head on desk* Adding to that is the fact that it was fucking Tammara that shot Neal, not Gold, and nothing to do with magic cept for the beans that the GIANT grew and REGINA stole. So anyways, Rumple is basically thinking suicide mission = redemption now? Did he perhaps think he misunderstood the prophecy the way he did before? EG “Ride into battle on cows” not being literally cows but saddles. “Be your undoing” could mean the undoing of the Dark One, stripping his powers, not necessarily death.
I love the Rumple character, his complexities and eccentrics and humor, but sometimes I wanna slap him for being blind.
Another s0oiler article from Hypable:
8) “Your belief of love wasn’t strong enough to overcome your fear of rejection.” .
Definitely sounds like something someone will say to Rumple, after rejecting Belle when she kissed him.