Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-4772791-20160218074223/@comment-24183764-20160218140448

Eskaver wrote: JMXD96 wrote: If I'm honest your argument seems pretty black and white and when you're dealing with humans, even fictional characters, that isn't what you should do. There's a lot of grey areas especially with Belle's situation.

Belle believes in rehabilitation and wants to believe in Rumple's love for her and to say she's evil for that is to say pretty much every human is evil for believing in loved ones.

To be honest I'm pretty sure Belle is actually the nicest character in the show without being a total hypocrite. She knows her values pretty well and has done very little to compromise those values.

I also want to say that the whole Lacey thing actually helps prove that, while most SB counterparts are mirror images of the EF characters, not ALL of the cursed counterparts correspond to their original identities. For example the cursed Ruby was very flirtatious and was hinted to be a bit more promiscuous in season 1; whereas she's slightly more reserved in other seasons. This contradicts Red's personality as she's much more reserved due to her... "time of the month" problem. Actually most of the cursed personalities were the worst versions of themselves. Snow was brave and hopeful, MM was meek and hopeless. David was brave, while David Nolan was a coward. Rumple was a weak conniving man, while Mr. Gold (who've seen for like 5 minutes tops) was content and bold. Belle is conserved and has a selflesss streak, while Lacey isn't conserved and is selfish.

I can give you those but that still doesn't hold up to much scrutiny. Cinderella/Ashley seemed quite similar; so did Hansel and Gretel/Nicholas and Ava; Granny's personality was the same; and Archie/Jiminy was basically the same person as well.

It would probably be more accurate to say the main players' personalities were inversed and many supporting characters had very little shift in personality.

Also Rumple's cursed personality seemed more like a positive thing than a negative. I'd take being content and bold over weak. xD