Betsybelle

I'll never stop wanting more........not now, not a year from now, not a decade from now............

Seamstress90

Me neither.. They're just so good!

crazy_diamond

That they are




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Betsybelle

Aww, look at them..... somehow they are adorable and fluffy........yet insanely hot and sexy. Lucky them, and lucky us!

DangerZone90

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crazy_diamond

aww heartbreak

Betsy - I love them in book mode

Betsybelle

Me, too, CD! I'm a bookworm/nerd myself, so for that reason alone I would..........but I also think it's great how with Belle especially, ONCE showed that you could be equally heroic using your BRAIN instead of your fists. In fact, Belle has been the hero of the town on more than one occasion and never got the credit for it... With Rumple, his intelligence, craftiness and subtlety were always great fun to watch; one of my favorite lines of his is "I like small weapons you see–the needle, the pen, the fine point of a deal." Watching Rumple and Belle together use their smarts was heaven for me..... like when they hid the dagger (and fooled Regina, etc..) right before he left town in S2........

There's a GIF set somewhere out there showing these two as dorks/nerds....... I'll see if I can find it!

Seamstress90

That scene is such a heartbreaker

They are so adorable in this one Rumple struggling with letting their son go, and Belle being his sunshine

crazy_diamond

I when they are in book mode, I wish we saw more of that

Betsybelle

In the library scene, Rumple was afraid of letting Gideon go because he’d “already lost so much” that he’s loved. I think he thought he was losing Gideon forever just because he wasn’t going to be at home. Poor thing - but I loved how Belle reassured him that they HAD raised him right, with love, and had given him a life full of adventures, that they hadn’t just chased the letting go of the dagger (which Rumple WAS fearful of) at the expense of their son.

Looking back at her death scene, I recall that she explained to Rumple that she didn’t tell him about the prophecy because she wanted them to live their lives; she knew he’d never let go (and implying that they couldn’t ever just live their lives and be happy) if he pursued the Guardian. I love this parallel.

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Seamstress90

Another lovely parallel.. Sort of

Betsybelle

Two questions about Beauty that make no sense to me:

1) What was the point of bringing the chipped cup into it except to prove that it was insufficient as a talisman, insufficient symbol of Rubmelle’s love, to help wake Rumple up? He was wrong - the cup failed to wake him up, failed to bring him closer to finding her again.

2) What exactly did Rumple expect by having Alice shoot him? Ok, he knew he wouldn’t die, but he had no idea that he’d dream about Belle or that she’d come to him - which seemed to help him wake up. For all he knew, he’d regain consciousness as Weaver, not Rumple..

crazy_diamond

Rumple didn't know it wouldn't work, that's why he brought it over, he thought it would.. The shooting was the last failsafe, he can't predict things...

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Betsybelle

I never said or implied that Rumple should be able to predict the future - I'm speaking about Adam and Eddy. Were they trying to tell us that the chipped cup is simply not a strong symbol of Rumbelle's love? If not, then I want to know what the point was of them having the chipped cup fail.

The shooting still makes no sense to me. As I said, what was the point? It's not like he had any reason to believe that being shot would, somehow, wake him from the curse. The only thing he knew was that he wouldn't die - he should reasonably expect to regain consciousness as Weaver, not Rumple. If he wanted to have a fail-safe plan as backup to the chipped cup, he should have had a plan that was guaranteed to work.