Does anyone else do ridiculous fan-casting sometimes and not even really know why? I don’t think I’ve mentioned it on here before. I seem to recall typing up a post but I think I deleted it as I was embarrassed. However, then they cast 6ft tall Giles to play Gideon and maybe my fan-casting for a potential Rumple and Belle son wasn’t quite so ridiculous. So I’m just going to admit to something now.

For some reason best known to my subconscious, when I was plotting a fic that had a grown-up Rumbelle son (it was my first Once fanfic idea actually) I was trying to picture him in my head and I wound up casting Jason Momoa. Why? Well I’ve only seen him in Stargate: Atlantis and he wasn’t so beefed up back then, he was kinda lean and lanky which reminded me of Rumple’s build, but he was still solid more like Neal.

Then I saw this picture and that just reminded me even more of Neal with the overcoat and scarf and everything. Plus he has a really warm smile which is just so Rumple and Belle, and I don’t know, it just felt right to me and you are all probably reading this and thinking I’m utterly crazy.

Then pretty soon after I first joined tumblr, this picture was reblogged onto my dash and I nearly fell off my chair.

That looked like two brothers just messing around. I was actually a little creeped out by that because I’d had no idea up until then that the actors even knew one another.

Anyway, I just saw Raven’s post about John Cena and I thought I might admit to a little fancasting of my own 🙂