You see, what you don’t understand is,
I am the strongest version of us.
Because I…I’ve evolved.#Rumpelstiltskin #not a coward #i don’t understand why they kept trying to hammer this into the audience season after season #it’s not true #it’s never been true #he was manipulated by Zoso number one #and he ended up the Dark One because he was trying like all hell to PROTECT HIS SON
He didn’t even ‘end up’ the dark one. He literally walked through FIRE to get to the dagger that would give him the power to save his son. That’s not cowardice.
I think, and I’m aware I’m giving benefit of the doubt here, that Rumple thinks he was a coward, he’s never lost that inner hatred, it’s twisted him to beyond the point of recognizable at times. But here, pointing at the part of himself he hates and saying no more, not one step more, that is what is happening here.
Even though we know he was never a coward. Afraid, yes. Desperate, yes. But not a coward.
Self-hatred feeds itself, and lies to its host, and Rumple, to his dying moment, believed he was a coward, but one who overcame that. He found a way to love himself which, for someone who has experienced such a potent self-hatred, is truly remarkable.
Heart eyes
@theoneandonlylittlebird I understand that from a characterization perspective but from a meta perspective I can’t help but think that A&E didn’t really know what they were writing (and the sort of character Bobby was acting) when they wrote Desperate Souls and have been spending six years not really getting it in a way that seems to defy all common sense.
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