Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25926288-20161115221120/@comment-26116863-20161128203848

What if they just forgave, forgot, and went to live in the LWM. He doesn't usually have any evil goals motivating him; he's always compelled to do dastardly things when he feels threatened by one of SBs many magical visitors. Belle wants to see the world, and he's said that he wants that for her too. He's tried to escape to LWM before. Belle basically said that she's is open to reconciliation short of his perfection as long as he tries, which would technically be a compromise. Reconciliation always seems to be one conversation away for these two, but they have terrible communiation skill.

And yet I don't particularly want to see them back together. This is actually my pessimism coming through, believe it or not. If the writers will it, they will find a way to twist it into that pretzel, no matter what painful emotional contortions it may cost the viewers to accept it.

From a writers standpoint, I think it would actually be fun to create a big mess like this and then see how well it can be cleaned up.