Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1916997-20160229060949/@comment-27885419-20160229111719

No real person is single faceted and has only one set type of behaviour. While people might expect something along those lines in characters, I don't see anything wrong if their behaviour varies sometimes. Bandit Snow White and post-curse Snow White behave differently, Storybrooke version Mr Gold is more sophisticated than Rumplestiltskin, even after the curse broke, Hook the bad boy in season 2 becomes lovesick puppy from season 3. This is the kind of thing that can be called OOC, right?

But then sometimes introverts get out of their shells and open up, and extroverts may sometimes get discouraged and start remaining quiet, to give some simple examples. That's not going OOC. That's reality of change. It can be acceptable in fictional characters as well. Eventually even Snow can grow tired of being optimistic in the face of utter mayhem.