[ SECRET POST #2118 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2118 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It's been for love, and acting for love, no matter how twisted, cannot make you a villain.

You're underestimating the human ability to fuck things up. Acting for love can absolutely make you a villain. (Well, I suppose you could twist the definition around to say that if it makes you a villain, you weren't actually motivated by love, but I think that invalidates the argument you were trying to make.) Some love is just toxic. Even a non-toxic love can lead you to do bad things.

Wanting to be loved is... actually quite similar to wanting power. (In some cases it falls under wanting power.) Both are natural human urges. Both are, strictly speaking, selfish -- it's about wanting something for yourself. Both can be taken too far.

[(Anonymous)]

I love this post. And I swore to myself I wasn't going to go into Rumpelstiltskin on this thread, but now I'm going to do it anyway.

He wants power, and he wants it for reasons that are motivated by love. (Originally to save and protect, then get back to, Bae.) Sometimes that's the truth, and sometimes that's just what he tells himself; however, I think giving the dagger to August was an ample demonstration that he was willing, at least at that point, to choose family over power.

I love him as a character, if not always as a person, and find him relatable as hell.

But he's a villain. In a real-life circumstance, if you locked him up and handed me the key, I'd throw it away.