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Eskaver wrote: Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Eskaver wrote: Leopold wasn't bad, just naive.

Don't hate on the guy when we've seen so little of him. I see him as the busy guy that hires a nany while he's busy and when he returns home, he spends the time with Snow. I don't think Leopold knew, he could just hire someone rather than marry them, but I doubt anyone would work for him as a babysitter. I mean he cearly had the search the land for responses.

Plus, if the baby sitter got married, then the'd be stuck at home dealing with their own family issues. He wanted a wife and mother for Snow. If he just wanted a nanny, that's what Johanna was for.

And what little we saw of him, he ignored Regina for Snow, he wanted the man she claimed to love dead despite not loving her (and the fact that royalty very commonly had discreet extramarital affairs) and he forbade her from seeing her father, which had no logical explanation in-episode. He basically wanted a trophy wife that would love his kid unconditionally but with nothing in return. Well we only saw him mentioned like three times. One was his birthday, the other was him trying to keep order (He already had Cora break his heart with some extramarital affair(, and the last was him off on a trip.

We don't know if he forbade her father from seeing her or if Regina made that part up. Or maybe he saw that her father would probably take her away and let her run off (which is a Henry type of thing). He didn't know the situation, but I'm sure he wouldn't have kiled the man, just a threat because people perceive him as soft and weak.

He was looking for someone to care for Snow and I doubt he'd find a noble woman that would want to live with him, take care of his child, that didn't want marriage. Johanna doesn't count (since she wasn't there in the plot, lol), but she's likely just a servant on the side.

I'll rewatch the episode, but picture what Lady Tremaine, or Ana's mother would do if a king asked for her or her daughter to babysit Snow............I'm sure it'll be marriage or no deal. Either way, I will never think of Leopold as anything but shady. But you're allowed to have your own opinion on it, too.