[ SECRET POSTS #2128 & 2129 ]

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⌈ Secret Posts #2128 & 2129 ⌋

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

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[Time Lincoln]


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[Avatar: the Last Airbender]


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[Once Upon a Time]


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[Repo the Genetic Opera]


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[The Avengers]


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[Homestuck/Touhou]


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[ElfQuest/Wendy Pini]


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[Reservoir Dogs + HBO's Oz]


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[The Walking Dead]


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[Covert Affairs]


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[Ouran Host Club]


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[Jae Joong from DBSK and JYJ]


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[Elementary]


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[The Girls Next Door]


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[Steven Moffat]


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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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[Alan Cumming/Son of the Mask]


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[The New Normal]


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[Mass Effect]


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[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle/xxxHolic]


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[Resident Evil 6]


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[Revenge/The Social Network]


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[Cardcaptor Sakura]


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[Glee]


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[Khimeros]


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[Once Upon a Time]


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[Gregory House/Lady Gaga]


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[Glee]


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[The Walking Dead]


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[Madonna "Die Another Day" MV, BEG "Sixth Sense" MV]


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[Doctor Who]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 046 secrets from Secret Submission Post #304.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm confused. What did Rumple do to his wife pre-evil power? She is the one who left him and their child and let him think she had been kidnapped. He tried to rescue her. Not seeing the evil there. Later, sure. But not there.

[vestigialwords]

Evil? No, you're right, not evil. Pre-curse Rumple was far from evil, but nor was he even bordering on a good husband. He was completely unwilling to compromise for her. She tried to convince him to move, to go to another place where they could be together and not have his cowardice hanging over their heads, and he refused.

And the way that he talked about her was all in relation to her role in the family, her "responsibilities/duties/etc." to him, to Bae. Let's accept that this is a patriarchal society where women are expected to do as they're told, fine whatever. These societies ALSO tend to have rigid expectations for their men as well. In that case, Rumple should be held to similar standards about his societal duties (i.e., fighting). He has the audacity to chastise her about failing her duties while having fallen down on his own. His hypocrisy is astounding.

So, he was pretty much unwilling to do anything for her, but expected her to do everything for him. I'm not saying that Milha was 100% in the right in leaving, but only because of Bae (he complicates matters). But if you ignore him and it had just been her leaving Rumple? Absolutely, she would have been justified. Granted, I don't condone the way she did it (that wasn't cool), but I understand why she wanted out. She had given him a chance to make it right. He just didn't take it.

[elaminator]

How quickly he shot down their chance of leaving bothered me too. He didn't even consider it regardless of knowing she was incredibly unhappy.

And after what he did at the end of the episode... I have no sympathy for Rumple.

I find it sorta hilarious how the show keeps trying to make the villains sympathetic, yet I'm constantly liking them less and less because of it.

[vestigialwords]

The worst part for me was that it had obviously come up before and he shut her down then too. Presumably in the meantime he watched her be miserable and STILL refused to do the one thing that maybe could have saved their relationship. She tried to salvage their marriage. He didn't. Yet she's awful for leaving? I don't think so.

Anyone who says that Milha deserved what she got at the end of that episode is someone I honestly never, ever want nothing to do with. Because that's messed up on so many levels.

Yeah, IDK what they're trying to do with Rumple, but whatever it is, it's not working. My feelings toward him are getting less complex, and that's the wrong direction if you want your villains sympathetic.

The thing is, I used to actually quite like him because his evil could feel so benign and underhanded that it was fun to watch the consequences unfold. And then sometimes he'd actually do something helpful (even when it benefited himself just as much if not more), and you couldn't always predict which way he was going with it. But since Season 2 started? My opinion of him has completely plummeted.

/teal deer, sorry!

(OMG BUCKY! MY FAVORITE!)

[elaminator]

While I think she should've told him she was leaving, I understand why she wanted to leave, and considering what Rumple did later... I kinda don't doubt if she had told him, he would've snapped and strangled her or something.

But yea, I completely agree that he wanted the relationship to work, but on his own terms; he didn't want to change anything or make any sacrifices. Healthy relationships are all about give and take so when he refused her only request I knew they wouldn't work out.

I'm not at all surprised that people are saying she deserved it. This fandom will forgive their villains just about everything and anyone who opposes or upsets them shouldn't be allowed to live.

Oh, agreed again. He used to be a fun character but the more I learn about his past and the more I see of his and Belle's relationship, the less I like him. He's pretty unlikable AND unforgivable now, just like Regina is.