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''You can't teach someone how to change themselves, but you can teach them to change how they react to what goes on around him.

Rumple will never stop being a coward, but Merida can teach him to react bravely.''

He won't be acting bravely. He'll be reacting out of self-preservation or for the preservation for someone he loves. That's not bravery. What on earth were Kitsis and Horowitz doing with this storyline?