#rumples

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Those I consider to be the Best Dreamworks Villains (In the films at least)

[lordgroose]

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

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NewDarkOne!Rumple

[thewingedwolf]

Ok in the universe where Milah is Hook and Killian is a ghost, I imagine goes The Outsider, In the Name of the Brother, and Manhattan go like this:

Milah tricks Belle into the elevator, then sends her loyal quartermaster Ariel to ransack Gold's shop. She steals the blanket along with a few books on portal hopping and true love magic and gets them to Milah. Rumples catches up with her and turns her into a bug or something and contemplates stepping on her, but Belle's words about being a good man ring in his ears, so he just picks her up and puts her in a box and drops her off at the police station, probably with a note that says "oops sorry for the paperwork headache emma lol bye" and a potion to turn her back.

Belle goes off and winds up on the Jolly Roger, where Milah had informed Killian that Ariel was missing and she's worried so she's run off. The worry makes it easier for Killian to focus, gives him something to fixate on, so when Belle shows up, he's completely corporeal.

This is the first time the audience has seen him since his and Milah's intro episode.

Belle demands to know who he is, but he's p mum on details. "SHould have burned this when we had the chance" and when Belle asks why, he smiles just a little and says "it belonged to the boy." He attempts to lock her up or subdue her but Belle's quicker than he is. Still, he doesn't point the gun at her or get in her face until Belle accuses him of helping a cowardly woman who abandoned her family. It's only *then* that he gets angry and spits out "tell me - if a woman comes to you and sobs about her life, is it helping her run away or helping her find freedom?"

And Belle puts the pieces together during the conversation - that Milah left bc she was unhappy, bc she had found True Love in Killian, and that they stole not just the blanket but also the books bc Milah is trying to find Baelfire, but is unsure of where to start and on top of that, probably has no idea how she brought Killian's soul back. There's a brief struggle and Belle gets away, with Killian just sort of phasing thru walls to keep up. She gets up top and is a) horrified of what Killian is doing bc wtf kind of magic is that and b) runs practically right into Milah.

Rumples shows up and there's a fight between Milah and him, and lots of yelling back and forth (and lots of projecting their own issues on each other, bc hey, that's what these two freaks like to do). Belle jumps in and knocks Milah's feet out from under her, and Killian causes the ropes to bind Belle up and keep her away from Milah. Belle pleads with Rumples for him to not kill Milah and Milah spits out "Go on kill me, kill me like you did my Killian. Then we shall finally be free of this world." Killian on the other hand, who is not suicidal, whispers in Belle's ear that Baelfire will never forgive Rumples killing Bar's mother, no matter what she may have done in the past. He let's Belle go and she runs to Rumples and echoes Killian's words. Rumples walks away with Belle, while Milah lays there, despondent, and Killian sits beside her, flickering in and out of vision.

Belle confronts Rumples about how he neglected to tell her that Milah was unhappy and that he killed her lover and took her hand. He says it doesn't matter bc she abandoned Bae. Belle tentatively points out he *also* abandoned Bae and Rumples turns around angry before sighing and conceding the point. Belle also says she's p sure Milah is planning on finding Baelfire, which surprises Rum - he had assumed she was lying when she said she missed Bae and wanted to come back for him. Belle makes him promise to stop withholding important shit like this to spare her feelings and its here he confides that he hadn't gone to the ship meaning to murder Killian. But he was angry at himself and angry at Milah and while even the dark one curse couldn't take over so completely that he'd murder his ex wife, he took it out on Killian instead and he does regret that a little bit - how much is...............vague bc he's still evolving here but Belle thanks him for his honesty.

They leave to go to the town line. It goes the same way BUT - Milah doesn't try to shoot Belle, she tries to shoot Rumples. Belle hears the gun click and pushes Rumples out of the way, and staggers back from the hit across the line. There's a moment of horror on Milah's face but she tries to salvage the moment as a victory. The car comes, she gets hit and Rumples gets clipped, but he heals the bullet wound on her.

She recognizes him though, not as Rumples but as Mr. Gold bc - she turned into Lacey, who has cursed memories of a relationship that ended badly with Gold.

Rumples makes to go fireball Milah while she's screaming about how she'll get him too, she'll kill him and save Killian and find Bae and turn him against the mere memory of Rumples all on her own, before Emma has her taken out on a stretcher.

Emma attempts to get information out of a now human Ariel, who refuses to give any sort of information that would betray her captain and first mate. She takes Rumples to the Jolly Roger and they search it for clues on Cora, clues on what they're planning. Killian is there, unfocused and lurking. They find the books - There's a look of contemplation on Rumples' face when he sees the one about portal hopping, and a look of confusion when he sees the one about true love magic. They find two self help books hidden in Ariel's things - one is that 5 love languages book and the other is like weirdly specific like "How to move on from grief and reach out to the children you may have abandoned on the way." The convo goes like this:

Killian: *snorting* the day Milah follows good advice is the day I come back to life for real and Rumples here how to not be a self serving cowardly dick.

Emma: Ghosts on house arrest don't get to make snarky comments.

Killian: On what arrest??

Rum: Yeah! Shut it Killian!

Emma: You are on thin fucking ice too Gold, you can watch your mouth as well.

Killian: What was that about my house being arrested????? Don't touch my ship Swan!!!!!!!!

They can't find anything too big, except for what looks like one of those doohickies for potion making that has recently been used. They leave and Killian stands at the edge of the boat - Rumples makes a comment about how Killian can't leave bc whatever dark magic Milah used to bring his soul back seems to have tied him to the ship. Emma has two dwarves posted outside to watch for Cora or any other pirates.

The confrontation in Manhattan between Milah and Rumples goes essentially the same except for two key differences:

Neal makes it a point to not hurt Milah too badly when he pulls her off Rumples. He's conflicted about leaving her, makes it a point to carry her upstairs to his apartment and lay her on his bed - tho he does tie her to it and also probably does the disney version of like flipping her off when they leave.

As they're sailing away, Rumples looks at the horizon and sees a figure on the docks. He leads forward and focuses and sees it's Killian - standing on the shore, flickering in and out, but obviously there. He's got his sword on his hip again and Rumples punches the deck and makes the connection - Milah replicated his magic for the blanket and put it on Killian's sword.

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Spinner!Rumple

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Baby!Rumple

[thewingedwolf]

OK I CAN NEVER GET THIS GODDAMM STORY STORY STRAIGHT BC THESE WRITERS NEVER GAVE ME A PROPER FUCKING TIMELINE BUT OK

So it goes roughly like this:

-Milah leaves with Killian -Rum becomes the dark one -within six months Bae gets the bean, rum lets him go, Bae winds up neverland -A year later? Rum runs into Millian, murders Milah, Killian goes to Neverland -During this year, Bae spends roughly half a year on the streets before moving in with the darlings -gets dropped on the jolly roger, spends. …a few months? a year? on the ship before finding out about Milah and getting sold to Pan -few hundred years pass, yada yada (Rum meets the Seer again, falls in love with Cora, she has Regina, he starts creeping on Regina. meanwhile Killian is…getting drunk in sea towns? bc that’s gonna help him???) -THEN BELLE APPEARS AND MAKES THE DEAL AWW -Robin Hood lifts some shit, gets caught, Belle stops him from being murdered -Rumples is seen drinking when he goes to get David during the Shepherd? For some reason???? -Snow falls/snow drifts happens -Dreamy is born -Belle gets the library -Rum gives her the chance to run away -Dreamy and Nova fall in love -Snow meets Rum to forget David and Rum is all LOVE IS A POISON FUCK ANYONE WHO HAS EVER FELT LOVE INCLUDING MYSELF AND SPECIFICALLY AUSTRALIANS -Belle gets into some shenanigans with Mulan and Phillip -Belle meets Regina, they hang -Belle gets drunk, tells Dreamy to go for it -Belle goes for it -It does not go for her -OR dreamy for that matter. he becomes Grumpy -“AND ALL YOU’LL HAVE IS AN EMPTY HEART AND A CHIPPED CUP” *slam dunks Rumples thru a net while Grumpy cheers* -Snow meets up with the dwarves, takes the potion -Belle gets captured -THEN when charming and him meet up again he’s much more wistful about love -THEN he finds out she’s “dead” -What eva whateva, snowing gets married, stop regina, Regina promises to cast her curse -He gets himself captured and steals Thomas -Parks his ass in the dungeon so he can learn Emma’s name

……..is that correct am I getting this wrong I fucking hate this fucking timeline why does skin deep have to take place over like several years (over….like wut like two years at least?)