Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-5679696-20150427225803/@comment-5106672-20150505163629

Well, job perception is a bit tricky here. Sure, a nurse is perceived as having a "good" job, but a psych ward nurse might not because in popular culture asylums are bad places. Usually, stories set in an asylum have the patient as the protagonist and the medical staff as the antagonist, the former likely locked away for unfair reasons and the latter often abusing them, not knowingly or even deliberately. Just think of the beginning of Return To Oz or, to remain within the Onceverse, Alice's Bethlem Asylum from the spin-off. We are used to fictional psych wards being a place of unfairness and abuse where the one sane person might be permanently damaged.

So, considering Belle was locked away there because Regina needed her out of the way – which qualifies as unfair reasons – it is not surprising that the notion of the abusive psych ward personal has spilled onto the Severe Nurse, who may only be doing her job, but certainly does so with deadly glares and even that hint of a smile when she said no one had ever been down to see Belle.

And this, my friends, is how the myth of the villainous Severe Nurse was born.