Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24589671-20141201023147/@comment-24674051-20141203183940

Now, now. I know people feel differently about Belle, but let's not go and predict her death.

I, for one, like her character. There is something endearing about her willingness to believe the best about Rumple, even when she knows, deep inside, that he is a scoundrel and constantly up to no good (hence the self-conversation in Ingrid's mirror). She fell in love with him when he was full on Dark One in the EF, so she knows the man under the mask.

What she needs, though, is a little dose of reality, and something that will give her a sense of independence. Something that finally lets her be the hero that she always wanted to be. Maybe a small injection of Lacey (though not necessarily the part that raided Ruby's closet).