Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25355646-20150103235209/@comment-5106672-20150124020349

1. I would see no reason for Belle and Rumple not doing it any time in Season Two. She loved him, he loved her, and what do you do when you're alone with the person you love? :) Besides, discounting Regina and Graham, which was downright abuse, it's not like Emma and Neal, Regina and Robin, or Mary Margaret and Dr. Whale were married either. Why would Belle, a young lady who loves a man, act differently?

2. Leopold raping Regina. Please, don't. Really, don't even start. They might have consummated the marriage, but there is no sign whatsoever of Leopold being abusive to Regina or forcing her to do anything (especially because, you know, magic: she could push her mother through a portal without any training, I think that would do with Leopold too; and then Rumple taught her the rest). Besides, it was heavily implied that, apart from her feud with Snow White over Daniel, one of the problems Regina had with her marriage was her husband's lack of passion and consideration for her, which she took advantage of when she had the Genie kill him. They had marital issues, but that would be him getting a young trophy wife and then not giving a damn about her. And as we saw, Regina is an extremely passionate person (often to a destructive extent), with quite a sex drive (hello, Graham), so her frustration might have very well come from a passionless marriage rather than from sexual abuse.

3. Sorry, self-righteous ones, I'm not here to parent other people's children. Besides, I myself knew all there was to know on how to do it by the age of 9, courtesy of my best friend's cable television. In the Nineties. Today's kids have the internet, so I guess by age 13 there's not much we can say to traumatise them with a discussion on a wikia. :)