#Regina Zelena and Hook were pretty much just A&E’s creator pets who got handed redemption on a silver platter because they had pretty faces

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Rumple was always my favorite character on OUAT. I finally quit watching after S5 because I couldn’t stand seeing Rumple, Belle, Rumbelle, or Emma constantly getting thrown under the bus for H00k/CS’s benefit anymore.

I always pretend that the real show ended with 3x11 because that’s the last time characterization, development, or rules on this show made any kind of consistent, hopeful, dynamic, complex, realistic, organic, or satisfying well-written sense for all of my favorite characters and the storyline that didn’t make me want to bang my head against a desk.

I ship “Skin Deep” to the end of S3 canon Rumbelle, and then pretty much just canon-divergent/AU fanon Rumbelle after that point because the canon narrative after Bae’s death as written by A&E and their writers from 3B-S7 pretty much had systematically destroyed every element that originally made Rumple, Belle, Rumbelle, Emma, Snow, and even Henry such amazing, admirable, consistent, credible, emotionally complex, human, healthy, realistic, or relatable well-written characters/ships in the narrative by butchering their original characterizations to prop up H00k, CS, Regina, and Zelena’s undeserved benefit.

Like, even this Rumple who they’re saying got a “happy ending” in canon just because he got to be with Belle again in heaven...Did he really, though? Wasn’t Bae his primary happy ending that A&E and these writers cruelly ripped away from him with his redemption in 3x11 to make him the on-and-off again villain? Why wasn’t he a part of this quest for mortality? Was it really worth all that character assassinating back-and-forth team hero to team villain bs from 3B-S7 when he already got the same ending in 3x11 with a far more consistently, realistically, healthily, organic, hopeful, and satisfyingly well-written, and well-earned journey along the way in the narrative that was always on his side?

Would the original Rumple from S1-S3A with the realistic and complex characterization, who was written as the father first and the love interest second, be okay with himself dying for his wife when one of his children or other relatives were alive? No. Would in-character Belle? No.

I love Rumbelle, I’m glad they got something of a happy ever after, but they should have been more than just each other’s love interests on the show as characters at this point. Gideon should have had more significance in their storylines, and he should have been included in S7 right there. To be honest, I’m going to keep pretending OUAT ended with 3x11 because it’s the last time the show made any sense.

Also, don’t get me started on how they had him say that “taking on the curse was an act of a coward.” No, it wasn’t, not originally when he first took it on to save his son from the ogre wars. It was brave. If he’s talking about the more simplistic second time where he took it back on screen just because, then I guess that could be considered “cowardice.”

It’s just annoying because 3B-S7 Rumple is a convoluted, simplistic, inconsistent, poorly rewritten, recycled, retconned, and redone version of his far superior consistent, original, organic, layered, human, emotionally complex, dynamic, and realistic characterization and redemption arc from S1-S3A.

They wanted us to constantly pretend that the first two-and-half seasons of Rumple’s characterization, development, and redemption arc didn’t exist after so they could constantly resell it as “Finally you were selfless,” or “For the first time you were truly selfless.” Except it really wasn’t because we saw him doing the same redemptive things over and over again, and for anyone who’s a fan of his character it gets old after awhile because we wanted for A&E and these writers to just stick to one redemption arc, not undo it, and either leave his character alone by writing him out of the show after he got it, or taking the time to show us what happened after Rumple gets redeemed with him getting to settle down with his loved ones without constantly having to prove he’s a better man by losing them to give him another way to redeem himself.

In 3A, it felt like a beautiful, bittersweet, and organic Shakespearean ending to a fantastic character on the show. In S7, not only had they ruined both his and Belle’s characters so throughly in canon from 3B-S6 to prop up Hook/CS, past the point of no return basically, but it didn’t even feel necessary after his arc in 6B. Killing off Belle didn’t really “teach” him anything, anyway because he was already ready to give up his curse in the first ten years of their happy marriage together at the beginning of 7x04, long before she died, so they should have just let him have a TLK with her, and have them run off into the sunset with Gideon. It just felt so contrived, cheesy, OOC, ableist, misogynistic, and unhealthily romanticized with the way they ended up doing it, instead thought

Like, it’s not romantic to commit suicide to be with someone who you lost that you loved when there’s no need to, and you have other family members and friends who love you to live for. This show was so tone-deaf, ableist, and gross, tbh.

I  need clarity...

I have recently just finished watching the last season of OUAT. Why was rumple only ever invested in Belle? Where was his son thru the whole season, why did it seem like Regina was the only person upset by his death and why did his friendships lack a feeling of real deepness (Hook, Alice, Regina) .Rumple has always been my favourite character, but there are to many things that I still try to understand about him.

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I  need clarity...

I have recently just finished watching the last season of OUAT. Why was rumple only ever invested in Belle? Where was his son thru the whole season, why did it seem like Regina was the only person upset by his death and why did his friendships lack a feeling of real deepness (Hook, Alice, Regina) .Rumple has always been my favourite character, but there are to many things that I still try to understand about him.