#i cannot vibe with the baker/cinderella shop

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I am a firm believer that the Baker and Cinderella have zero romantic feelings for each other.

Cinderella’s arc is about her learning to stand up for herself and rejecting the traditional roles of womanhood that a leading lady in a fairytale is put into.

She’s not a servant. She’s not a princess. She’s not a wife. She’s trying to figure out who the he’ll she is.

The Baker is probably mid-late 20s (because he isn’t much older than Rapunzel), and I don’t think Cinderella is a child (maybe she’s 19-22), but she’s still so young. The Baker is quite literally “meant to have children.” He is very much an adult whereas Cinderella is still in the process of entering it.

I don’t want her to be the Baker’s lover because he doesn’t need another one, especially while he’s grieving his recently dead wife. And I don’t want her to be Red and Jack’s mother. Jack literally says, “I don’t want another mother, I want a friend (and a pet).” So I see her as more of an older sister figure to the kids, and a friend/companion to the Baker. They’re partners, but not romantically.

She’s still growing up. Let her find who she is. Let her find her “something in-between.”