#Rumbelle AU

[shiftingmuse]

continuation of x {Rumbelle; Arranged Marriage AU}

Gold would return with a secondary cup still steeping, as he would sit the item down on the table near her but not directly next to her. "No, my dear, no acceptance just yet." He tells her as he stands there next to the table, holding himself up by the cane in his hand. "We need to flesh things out properly, both your stipulations and my own." The way this arrangement was going to work, if it would work at all, was by understanding one another and working together as a partnership rather than two people in love.

"Remember, even if we don't agree on all the terms, we can figure out a way to make this work. That's why we both need to discuss this and make certain everything we both want is equal." 

[notonlymice]

I don't know if you've seen the show Lucifer but can u do a moodboard that features Lacey as the Devil instead & Detective Weaver? Please?

woven lace + lucifer au moodboard

[ace-cf-cups]

@notonlymice

if I may combine your two Cinderella moodboards/au versions, and inspired by them suggest a third AU / fic idea:

in which her mother's spirit with a little volunatary help helps Belle attend the royal ball of which she dreamed but prince Gaston turns out as dull as a stump after just a 5 minute conversation while Belle's curiosity is peaked by a mysterious stranger / neighboring realm's reclusive king

also feat. wish!Rumple as Rumple's sort-of nosy matchmaking twin (who has his own wish!Belle, the leatherclad adventuress that never ceases to amaze him with her sharp mind, kind soul and the ability to save a village, reunite True Love and make delightful pies for tea time and all of that by 5 o'clock, so he is more than happy to ensure his widowed twin-from-another-realm's happiness) and this Belle is OG Belle who has been written back into existence by Henry but for her to restore her full memories, leave the boundaries of her fairytale and truly become the Belle we know and love, she has to share a True Love's kiss with her beloved

[bookwormchocaholic]

Here is the second installment. Hope you like it!

[once-upon-a-rewrite]

My rewrite is actually so precious to me and it's been a huge impact on my writing and creativity. I just love it and the characters I started it for in the first place. My beloveds!!

[deepinthelight]

AU: Tess Harding & Nicholas Rush

[ace-of-spaders]

A silly little WovenBeauty AU where Tilly seeks Weaver out to inform him that there's someone new about to appear in his own family while he's... otherwise preoccupied.

( I was looking through @desperatemurph's rumbelle aus - which are things of beauty, in more ways than one 🥰 - and then this idea came to me, so here you go... it's nothing special but it made me smile 😅 )

[dealmxkerofgold]

Thanks to @bluebellestorybrooke and this, now all I can think about is an AU in which Princess!Belle meets Rumplestiltskin under different circumstances, ones that don’t make her his maid.

Perhaps, they form something along the lines of a friendship — Rumplestiltskin, with all his knowledge and love of books and an actually quite good sense of humor when he doesn't purposefully tries to scare you off is one of the most interesting and delightful companies Belle ever had and Rumple... he can’t quite explain even to himself why he's so drawn to her (perhaps, he saw her in a vision and knew she was important? I'm making this up because it's true, could be a good explanation as to why Rumple wanted her and gives me an excuse to have Rumple interact with Belle without any deals involved).

Perhaps, later on, when the war with Ogres reaches its peak, Belle suggests calling onto him precisely because they know each other well at this point and she knows, without a doubt, that he'll come.

Perhaps, Belle expressed her woe over being ignored by everyone at the castle, including her father, and feeling rather isolated and trapped as a result and over being forced to marry Gaston at one point and Rumple making her his price is actually him helping her escape the suffocating walls of the castle where no-one listens to her and a loveless marriage with an evil man and they discussed this prior her father calling onto him.

Imagine then him, being a gentleman ( and already head over heels in love with her ), telling Belle as soon as they are a safe distance away from her father's castle that she's free now to do whatever she wants and go wherever she wants and can finally fulfill her dream of seeing the world but Belle taking one good look at him, at this sad, lonely man who became a great friend ( and is beginning to become something much more than that ) for her and who has a big, kind heart under all the beastly exterior and smiling and saying that she'd promised him forever and that is a promise she fully intends to keep, leaving Rumple looking at her with astonishment and awe (and falling even deeper in love with her) because she actually wants to go with him? out of her own free will? and not because of some deal, not because her loved ones' lives are at stake but because of... him?

[bibliosauruswrecks]

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Abram Gold was a 16th century captain cursed to sail the seas for eternity in retribution for his hubris, only allowed ashore once every seven years.  Belle French was radio operator for the WRANS during World War II, wanting to do her part.  A ghostly encounter one night in 1944 would alter their fates forever...

[robcarlyle]

It's suddenly hot in here after I watched this Rumbelle AU...

Source (x)

This Sergei edit by @serenalyon reminded me this vid!

[smutwithplot]

This is SUUUUUUUPER LATE, but my primary on-the-go writing tool is a tablet that... Erm. Well, I lost my bluetooth keyboard for it randomly a couple weeks ago. And my laptop is a cheap piece of trash, and trying to format my notes from Notion onto AO3 via my mobile was a nightmare, BUT I JUST GOT A NEW COMPUTER, SO HERE IT IS!!!

This story is a #RumbelleSecretSanta gift for @elanorjane, who gave me the prompt of "small business, evil corporation, Christmas", and my first thought was You've Got Mail (1998). And yes, I watched it, AND The Shop Around the Corner (1940), neither of which are much of a hardship, naturally. I mean, REALLY. You will never ever EVER hear me complain about watching the incomparable Jimmy Stewart in fucking anything. So, here it is! A steamy, #Rumbelle giftshop!AU. It's still a WIP, but I'm already a week into January and haven't posted it, thanks to some technical difficulties, WHICH I'VE FIXED WITH A SHINY NEW COMPUTER!!! so, enjoy.

Three chapters are up at the moment, I have two more already MOSTLY written (one of those, “Wanna go home and check my notes for another movie quote rendition” type things), but now that I have my computer, that’ll happen. But I want to at least get it published, because BOY HOWDY IS THIS LATE.

[shiftingmuse]

AU Wishlist; {The Spinner's Return}

Let's all be honest. One thing that could have been an interesting AU on OUAT would be Rumple becoming 'The Spinner' after his dark one curse is taken from him, and he loses his memories of Belle as he becomes the man he was before the curse.

Do you see how amazing and tragic this would be?

Belle is trying to convince this man of who he was to her and who he was during the curse. I feel like he would be terrified to know what he became… but also it would be interesting to see how he would try to regain the curse to accept that he was truly worthy of Belle. 

[notonlymice]

She's coming for you, coming for me She's nothing but trouble She's walking like me, talking like me She's my body double

— She by Winona Oak

[ace-cf-cups]

A year hasn't passed and I uploaded my Rumbelle ficlets to AO3 😅

[bookwormchocaholic]

The new questions for fic writers - 1, 8 and 16

Hello again!!! Thank you sending in these asks. :)

What fic of yours would you recommend to someone who had never read any of your work? (In other words, what do you think is the best introduction to your fics?)

Whenever someone in real life asks me to share something that I've written/published, I usually suggest My Brother's Keeper. It's free to read, it's a short story, there's nothing scary or graphic in it, and I have a soft spot for it. It's the most true to life story I've ever written.

8. What song would make a great fic (to either write or read)?

I feel like there's a story behind the song "Am I Losing You?" by Anika Paris. One that I'd love to read.

16. What’s an AU you would love to read (or have read and loved)?

I'm a sucker for any Rumbelle AU, particularly historical or contemporary. What OUAT did to canon Rumbelle just crushed my soul, the only way I could cope was turn to fanfic and fanart. Season 7 was better, but still heartbreaking since they killed my ship off. Yeah, give me Rumbelle fanon over canon any day.

[ace-of-spaders]

This was initially a starter set in an alternate timeline ( because f*ck the 6th season — these two deserve to experience this pregnancy, and another one or two to come 😌, together and be blissfully, blissfully happy while at it ) I wrote for my Belle over on my rp blog (I've got both Rumple and Belle blogs, actually, so if anyone wants to roleplay Rumbelle with me, just hit me up and I'll point you in their direction) in a spur of a moment after watching the last episode of Hamish Macbeth ( I dunno how or why but something about emotional young Bobby triggered this flood of emotion in me ) but then I decided to also post it as a ficlet on my personal blog, too, so that all my fellow Rumbellers could read it because the mental image is just too precious to not share it 🥺💗🥰

Alright, enough with the rambling 😅 On to the ficlet itself:

(Oh, and @thinkofscotland I blame your pfp for my urge to dive back into the marvel that is Hamish Macbeth, so I guess this fic also came into existence partly because of you ❤️ )

"He kicked," Rumple stated the obvious in a voice that's gone hoarse with emotion, his gaze slipping from his wife's beautiful face to her round stomach, where their hands were resting, intertwined, united forever in spite of everything that life had and will throw at them, his thumb stroking her belly through the thin material of her blouse.

"He kicked, Belle," he repeated, astonished, as if his wife was not the one who got to experience that significant moment first-hand, and when amber gaze rose to meet the sky blue one again, there were tears shining in his eyes.

"Oh, sweetheart," the endearment was no louder than a whisper, breaking with emotion, as Rumple raised his free hand to cup his beloved's cheek, but it was enough for her to hear it and, hopefully, the feeling welling up inside of him even before it spilt out of him in the form of tear-soaked words, "I love you so much."

He then leaned in to kiss her – sweet and firm at the same time, the unspoken proof of just how much he loved her and a way to let the overwhelming emotions out before they choked him – but pulled away after a few moments to kneel slowly in front of his wife, truly grateful for what seemed like the first time ever to have his ankle permanently healed, not just numbed. Lifting the fabric of her loose-fitting blouse just enough to place a kiss on her stomach, on the very place he felt their son kick against just a few moments prior, he did just that, whispering in the same tone, wrecked with emotion, as tears finally slipped down his cheeks:

"And I love you, too, son, with all my heart. I will always love you and be there for you, for as long as you and your Mama need me. I promise."

His voice broke completely on that last word, sacred for him, and he could speak no more, so he wrapped his arms around Belle's legs, rested his cheek against her belly and closed his eyes, trying and failing to rein in the storm of love and fear, anxiety and elation going on in his soul.