Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-31592902-20170630182255/@comment-28162607-20170716220916

ChocolatEyes613 wrote: Eskaver wrote: ChocolatEyes613 wrote: Eskaver wrote: I will mostly agree with this. Rumple establishes a desire to control everything in the lives of those he loves, due to his own parental abandonment. Even at his best, he tried to control the situation and that's the kind of guy he is. S5 finally established, that Belle was attracted to controlling men, from the start. No, it didn't. That's like contrary to who she is. Yes, it did.... the ironic about Belle is that she wants to be independent, but is attracted to controlling men. Not really.

Gaston was hardly controlling. A dick yes but I don't remember him trying to control her. And once his true nature was revealed she dropped him like a hot potato and admitted she didn't care for him in 1x12.

The only other two men she has been attracted to are Rumple and Will and Will wasn't controlling.

It's not so much Belle is attracted to Rumple being controlling- that wasn't the problem (in fact I'd nearly go far as saying that saying Belle gets attracted to controlling men is victim blaming). The problem was that Rumple hid it. He hid the 'monster' underneath the guise of a 'lost soul who had to be saved'. He let her believe he was a tragic lost soul when in reality every loss was his own fault because he hurts those around him