Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-34563899-20180218220444/@comment-31722073-20181015115634

Nightlily wrote: Aine1989 wrote: Re: the "jab you with my sword" line, it was probably a stupid thing for th writers to have him say (though on the scale of Dumb Things A&E Have Done Re: Consent Issues it's verrrry low down) but it's not proof of him being a rapist. As Nightlily said, he was saying he prefers sex to violence. And he was also stalling for time.

Re: Lacey+Gold, their entire relationship was at best, dubious consent as she was in no state of mind to consent, and he was doing things actual Belle would never approve of I don't think there was anything suggesting that they had a sexual relationship when she was Lacey. While most of Lacey’s relationships would likely involve sex, Gold is an old person, she wasn’t going after him for the sex and while it might have happened we saw and heard nothing on that side of the relationship, it was mostly them just being awful to everyone around town.