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[thesschesthair]

RUMPLESTILSKIN AND KILLIAN JONES SMUT

Erm... I think you've got the wrong inbox, love! 😂😂😂

I don't deal in smut- i'm no good at it!

And I personally prefer Rumps and Hook as enemies turned season 7 coparenting dads lol.

No disrespect. ✌️

But thank you for the ask!

[lanaparrillaismyqueen]

Favourite Character: _Zelena_ or _Regina_ ?

Regina all the way! Don’t get me wrong, I love all the Mills women, but Regina holds a special place in my heart. 

[timelordthirteen]

Hello! I always love your opinions on ouat, so I wanted to ask you this, since I’m quite ambivalent myself. Do you think Rumple’s behaviour during 6A was in character? While I might understand some of the reasons behind it, I’m not so sure his slightly abusive behaviour towards Belle was really true to his character (at least in regards to Belle).

Anon, I’m done rehashing S6. If you’d like to my responses to questions about OUAT, I have them all tagged #ouat ask

In hindsight, I really like S6 because it was like one of those angst with a happy ending fanfics come to life. Rumbelle really developed and you can see how it broken them down and then built them back up, leaving them in a place they had never been before, really wholly trusting and loving and supporting each other. It’s the entire setup for S7 and I dig it.

[askdavidprincecharming-blog]

If you could be any superhero, who would you be?

Thor’s friend.

[yourebeautifuleverylilpiecelove]

Question: is the musical episode going to include Captain Swan's wedding? Because that would be amazing 😍😆

[timelordthirteen]

Hi! Don’t you think there’s a difference between OOC behavior and behavior that’s terrible as part of a story? I see people just waiting for Rumbelle newbies to discover how terrible things become, how OOC, but IMO many of the things we saw in S4 A and especially 6A were part of the story. The point was that Rumple was not his real self, either addicted to magic/power as in 4, or almost completely overwhelmed by Darkness in 6A. He did thoughtless and terrible things to Belle that he’s never do

ordinarily, but that was the point - he was deliberately OOC to get him to 6B. The one thing I truly think was way out of bounds and which Rumple would never do in any circumstances was GQ.

I actually almost totally agree with this, yes. There were very few things that were truly out of character for Rumple throughout the entire series. GQ was the most eggregious and at this point they’ve all but admitted it was fanservice. I’ve just drawn a line through it and moved on. It was a handful of scenes and it really didn’t matter in the grand scheme. 

I think the reason that so much of the later seasons felt OOC (but weren’t really IMO) was that the writing didn’t support the transition enough from where Rumple was when he came back from Neverland through to the end of season 4. We didn’t get to see the slow build of all the trauma he’d been through, of his imprisonment with Zelena, Neal being stuck in his head and driving him insane, and then the death of Neal on top of all of that. We just saw the end result which was a guy who was not coping well and was making bad decisions to try not to feel so powerless anymore and to protect the one person he had left that he loved. The story kinda jumped right and it left a lot of fans questioning and wanting more. That’s the fault of the writers for having half seasons of storylines instead of one overall arc. I think that’s also why I like S6 so much, GQ nonsense aside, because it was much more cohesive end to end and the way Rumbelle worked back towards each other and towards a happy ending was lovely.

I’ve ranted about all this before, but fandom in general, all fandoms, need to understand the differences between plot holes, bad writing, and OOC characters, and shit you just don’t like. I’m over this type of fandom wank and bashing any show writers for these things when there’s much bigger fish to fry. Like if these things are your shows only real problem, good for you.

[timelordthirteen]

In your Rumbelle one shot "Dreams in Color" we see Belle's favourite/happiest memory. What's Rumples?

Oh wow, there’s a blast from the past! I actually had a few lines about this in the fic and then took it out last minute because it just didn’t feel like it fit. Rumple’s favorite memory is probably when they were in the woods by the wishing well and Belle remembered him. That moment when the curse broke in her mind and he got to look into the eyes of the woman he loved, that he’d thought was dead, and hear her say that she loved him??? And he got to say it back??? Yeah. That moment was so full of hope for Rumple (when he says: But hey, there'll be time for that. There'll be time for everything.). He got to right that wrong a little bit, he got to say it out loud that he loved her to, that he always had, and that there was going to be a future for them. I think he really thought he might get to be happy after all once he found his son.

Dreams In Color

[timelordthirteen]

I’m following the season from afar but why do you think they paralleled Rumple/Family w/ Rumple/Alice in 7x04?

I don’t think they really paralleled it directly. It was a Rumple/Rumbelle-centric episode and Rumple’s time in the EF2/Wish Realm is very much tied to Alice, so we saw a lot of her in the episode. More than that, Alice is the reason Rumple did something that made him go back to Sparkly Disco Lizard form, darken his heart with possible long term repercussions, and we are lead to understand that this is because of some noble sacrifice he made on her behalf. So I don’t see a parallel there so much as an outcome. Rumple sacrificing himself, his chances of finding the Guardian, and getting back to Belle, for someone else is a huge thing. A very huge thing. What we are seeing is the result of Rumple finally believing in himself and Belle’s love, and doing what heroes are supposed to do, things he never thought himself capable of doing. Amazingly, he doesn’t let this stop him. He has his memories back, he knows he did some things that darkened his heart enough that he might not get back to Belle now, but he’s still got hope and he’s determined to make it work. #CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

I do see a lot of parallels with wish!Hook and Alice to Rumple and Baelfire/Neal. In both cases fathers end up separated from their children, and also did a selfish, impulsive thing to cause it to happen. In one case it’s out of fear and in another it’s out of pride. Both are understandable and forgivable, but they had unintended consequences.