Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25926288-20150929010724/@comment-25701646-20151001002804

I think he should get a character arc, but doubt he will. Right now, he's being used as someone for Zelena and Regina to play tug of war over, and a prize for Regina for trying to reform. I think the closest we've had to some real character-development for him was the "very unwilling line" which delved into his feelings about being raped by Zelena.

I don't think he's that honorable of a man because stealing from rich people to give to poor people is still stealing and, while some rich people might have exploited people to get their wealth, others earn it and are generous with it. Doesn't really give him a right to take it.

He also sleeps with Regina while who he thinks is Marian is in an ice coma. I get he thought Marion was dead, he'd moved on, started a new life, then turns out (or seems to turn out) she's not. It's not an easy situation. But he seems to struggle with it all of one minute once his 'wife' is solid. I think he or Regina even said something about how it was only one time but if they don't go out the morning after, then morning after sex is still technically one time and they seem to be very jovial about that. Not exactly the mark of an honorable person to be having fun cheating on his/her spouse while she's an icicle.

I'd love to delve more into his background. Show how he came up with these morals of his. It would be great to explore his feelings on the whole Zelena/Marion and Regina thing. I mean, no matter who he ends up with seems to be someone who killed his wife in some timeline. Or at least meant to kill his wife. Yet, the writers seem to kind of brush it aside. And Zelena making him think she's Marion and raping him and now he's having a child with his rapist. And of course he had to be the one to tell Roland that the woman he thought was his mother is a villain (and if he didn't tell Roland already, he'll need to let him know that the woman who tucked him in for weeks and kissed him goodnight murdered his mother). Robin has so much going on in his life and the writers seem to be using him as a throwaway character. I hope they give him an arc.