Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3486995-20131124234755/@comment-11058666-20150208193720

Yes, let's blame Rumple for everything. *sigh* I swear, if the genders were reversed...

Imagine it. Rumplestiltskin, a young, impressionable woman is in a happy marriage with her husband, and is taking care of their new baby. The war is taking anyone as soldiers, so she signs up. She doesn't want to be branded as a coward's daughter forever. The husband doesn't want her to go, but she promises that she'll be back to take care of their child.

At the camp, she learns that you must suffer injuries so horrible, that you become handicapped, to leave. The Seer tells her that her son will die while she's away, so she cripples herself, in rather gruesome fashion.

She is sent home, and her husband is furious with her. His wife is now the town coward, which makes him look bad. He leaves to go drink at the local bar, while Rumple cradles her son in her hands, crying and saying that she'll never leave him.

Who would you sympathize with? The brave girl who hurt herself to get back home to her family, or the husband who only cares about himself and his reputation.