#rumple analysis

[wastingstarsss]

Am I the only one who remembers RC comparing the clutch magic has over Rumple to a drug? Cause ya'll, we've all slept on this holy shit. Rumple desperately trying to ween off magic, shaking and vomiting in the bathroom, while Belle holds a cool flannel to his head and tells him it'll be worth it, just a few more days of this. Rumple's chronic pain in his ankle growing worse from how tense his body is as it craves the magic it so achingly needs. Rumple being disoriented and hazy, not knowing what day or what time it is. Rumple itching to relapse but the thought of feeling like that again sending nausea down his spine. Rumple throwing away his potion vials and spell books because they're too tempting. Rumple's anxiety spiking as he uses magic less, and him having to go to Archie more. Rumple celebrating a week, a month, a year being clean. Rumple helping others (Emma, Regina, fuck, even Snow) to be clean too, because he knows how hard it is. Rumple hating himself for Gideon inheriting his addictive gene, and having to watch his son struggle with it too. Magic being a drug, guys,,,, he was using it for 300+ years,,, guys,,,

[wastingstarsss]

Fucking LOSING it rn cause I cannot get over the imagery here. Rumple is stealing the dagger but he looks like he’s stealing from a church. It’s almost sacrilegious. It’s like he’s in a confession chamber, stealing from God- to be a God himself. It’s like he’s begging God ‘give me this power. If you won’t give it to me as a good man, I’ll take it to become a dark man, so give it to me’. Because why do people pray at times like that? Because they’re desperate and trying to save someone, because it’s their only thread of faith they have left. It’s like he’s surrounded by hellfire and he’s starting his descent to darkness,,, and he is. Rumple was supposed to be a saviour. He became the dark one instead. Wdym the dagger looks like a crucifix, and it’s the thing that is bound to his soul and controls him, like how Jesus was bound to the cross and it killed him? Wdym Rumple can summon fire in his hands,,, like hellfire,,, like how Jesus was nailed in his palms?? He can summon the very thing that accompanied his descent to hell, and he tries so hard to use it for good but that hellfire is stuck inside him. It’s been there from the very beginning. I’m going insane.

[wastingstarsss]

Just had a whole realisation about rumple and dust and idk if the writers MEANT for it to have a significant impact on his character YET HERE I AM.

So we all know the infamous “I will truly, truly become dust” line about Bae being drafted in the war. And what happens? He loses Bae. Now bear in mind- this is ultimately because of magic and what has magic done to rumple? Made him the dark one- and you could argue his skin looks like dust.

Moving forward to Belle who Rumple brings to the castle cause “the place was filthy”, a lousy excuse for company but it’s probably true in that all his relics collected dust cause why would rumple spend his time cleaning them? He had thousands. So belle was his maid, and with the castle she cleaned him too. She kissed him, the dust cleared away and he started to become ‘a man’ again. But then he pushes her away and the mask of the monster- that dust- is back. AND THEN when Weaver kills the dark one, the dark one literally becomes dust!!! And AND think of the implications of dust. It’s just dead stuff. Rumple views himself as a dead thing without Belle and Baelfire.

And of course we can’t forget the implications of pixie dust- fairy magic which does *not* work with what Rumple is. He could’ve been good dust- light magic. A saviour. But instead due to twisted fate he became the dark one. The dead thing he thought he was.

Plus also his whole thing with Cora who becomes the queen of hearts. And what does she do? Collect hearts, yes, but the whole thing about hearts in the show is crushing them to dust. Her dynamic with Rumple was just another link to dark dust, And in teaching Regina, her breakthrough with dark magic is crushing hearts to dust

All magic comes with a price indeed, you turned yourself into the very thing you had convinced yourself you were.