Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-31412730-20180319013739/@comment-31412730-20180319132351

Bottondoro wrote: You can be confused becoming a mother. You can also think you don't love your baby, but you never never allow yourself to leave the baby alone. Gothel asks Hook if he wants to go with her getting her revenge, the baby would have died. She created Alice to leave her in the tower taking her place. She doesn't care about her. Never said she was a good mother. I'm not defending her, but she wanted to escape the tower and get her revenge. She had been trapped there for ages and felt like she had to escape. Again, she chose power and revenge over love. It's possible she felt like she would try to come back for her daughter when she got her revenge and/or whenever she could. The tower might've had some kind of spell placed on it to keep people fed and hydrated or it was stocked with plenty of food. Don't think Alice could've taken Gothel's place in the tower if she was dead. If Gothel did love Alice, it was obviously a dark, twisted love where she put her power, selfishness, and motives before love. Love can be dark and twisted and still be love.