Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26116863-20150512000952/@comment-4689303-20150519020846

I'll be honest, I HATE RumpBelle. I respect that most of you do, though, so I'll get back to the topic at hand.

With his heart being dry cleaned, who knows what will happen? It's obvious Belle still has a kindling of care for him (if she still detested him, she would have just let him have a dark-heart attack), and if it won't be love, it may be a close affection. As many of my fellow writers say, Belle has always been weak and not exactly the sharpest dagger in the drawer (which really pisses me off as Belle is my favorite Disney royalty and they went and just *muffles self to prevent off-topic rant*),.

Rumple isn't heartless, either, but he had done too much already to damage a foundation. And he knows this. It isn't just his cowardice coming in to play, its him realizing what he did sucked. But the bad news is his history will haunt him, and even though people MIGHT see some light in him, this won't exactly be an easy road.