Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20160418005754/@comment-25926288-20160421093553

True Love was assumed rare in quantity and that's pretty much the way it was for 5 and a half seasons. One can even have more than One True Love which I believe (which is odd that Rumple can't).

We've seen romantic relationships before but the thing about that fact is: they are either fairytale established or they have to be built or both. Snow and David were Love at first sight, but if we go through their history and what they went through, True Love's kiss wasn't something met within hours. If we look at Rumple and Belle, Belle was a servant of Rumple for months, slowly trying to inspire the man behind the beast. Both of them are also established in fairytale. Likewise with Aurora and Phillip, the only mainly shown couple that has shown TLK.

If we go to originally formed romance, Regina and Robin, although quick and poorly established and developed, haven't been shown to be true love with TLK. Emma and Hook, Emma and Neal, etc. Maybe Emma and Graham, but I don't really remeber that one, but I think it was at least a few episodes.

Even TLK between a parent and their child was built up over several episodes (practically over a (few) season(s). That's all the TLKs I can think about. Now, Despite the atmosphere, acting, and music, Red and Dorothy have been around each other for literally a few days at best (Zelena didn't go to SB until Our Decay, so it had been at least a few days past), but it's hard to tell in the eternal night they put all these other worlds in. Most likley it's been truly only a day and a night, but who knows. The point is, no TLK has been shown to take solely a day, not even Zelena and Hades did that. It's practically "you can't marry someone you just met" debate. Of course, they aren't getting married, but still, they had one conversation.