Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-25733960-20171029001047/@comment-24304025-20171029130945

Aine1989 wrote: I say she threw her life away because she decided to spend 50 years at the EoR with Rumple in order to help him rather than do something she liked, see her friends and family. The show never showed us enough of Belle. What did she like? Other than reading, wanting to be a hero, having a family with Rumple and traveling around the world, she was never given a proper motivation. Her happy ending fulfills everything the character was ever shown to care for.

Her father and "friends" are living off-screen. We don't see them that often, it doesn't mean she forgot them or never saw them again. Also, Charmings never (and I don't mean "hardly ever", I mean literally NEVER) gave a sh*t about Belle. Not to say they didn't like her, but Emilie was in the show for 6 whole seasons and had one dialogue with Snow and one with David now you want me to complain that Belle's happy ending didn't include her "friends" from SB when her whole story in the show barely included them?

I do believe they were friends, but most of that was off-screen anyway. It would feel 100% forced to insert "friends" in the scenes about her happy ending when that was never what Belle's story was about. Her mentioning Zelena, Killian, Charmings, Baby Neal etc. in the opening scene was enough to show that she interacted with more than just Gold by that time, but later on? She probably still had contact and/or visited, but it is most certainly something that does not need to be showed.

I do agree that her father might have had a tiny cameo paying her a visit or sharing a meal or something in the Edge of Realms, but I can live with that in my headcanon.

Afterall, though lovely and most of the time beautifully portrayed by Emilie, we cannot pretend that Belle was given a proper storyline or character development throughout her 6 seasons in the show. It's hypocryticial to demand that her final appearance revolves around something other than what it has revolved around for all those years.