Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-11058666-20150826195114/@comment-11058666-20150903234941

Sorry, what I said made no sense. Actually, the only person I really think changed that much is Rumple. You can't convince me that he didn't. Imagine being non-human for 300 years and obtaining this devil-could-care, giddy, strange personality. Then a curse condemns you to a town in a new realm, and you're human again. Possibly forever. You're gonna change. It's not just that he looks different, he acts different. And I don't think he just buckled down and got serious--it's not like he never did that in the Enchanted Forest. Being told to let Gold protect her was much better for Belle then being grabbed by the shoulders and yelled at for trying to convince him that she loved him. XD