Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-34563899-20180202235154/@comment-34563899-20180205234707

Ok this thread started out as me trying to prove Rumple's innocence in the first four seasons of Once Upon A Time. Now it has turned into a debate regarding whether or not a domestic abuser (Milah) abused her husband (Rumple) in the show or vice versa.

I think I have made it very clear I believe Milah abused Rumple. And in this post I am going to summarise completely and utterly why I believe that.

Let's go:


 * When Rumple runs away from the ogre wars and goes home to Milah and newborn Baelfire, Milah asks Rumple why he ran away. Rumple explains that the seer spoke to him and revealed he would die if he fought in the ogre's war and that Milah was pregnant, so Rumple ran home to stay alive and not cause Baelfire to grow up fatherless. To which Milah responds that Rumple should have stayed and died rather than come home. This is undeniably abuse from Milah.


 * Milah often mocked Rumple for being a cowardly person and for running off from the ogres war


 * In episode 2x04 Rumple says to Milah "you dont really wish I'd died during the ogre wars do you?" meaning she told him she wished he'd died during the ogre wars.