I was just re-watching OUaT 1×15, “Red-Handed,” and when Granny Lucas made the comment about paying a sorcerer a lot of money for Red’s magical cloak, it clicked and I realized that the sorcerer must have been Rumplestiltskin. And then I remembered his line to Belle, during their hamburger date in “Into the Deep.” Referring to Granny, he said, “I have a complicated relationship with her…” So something must have gone wrong during that deal, and now I’m wondering what it was.
I feel a little silly that I’m bringing up stuff that the fandom probably discussed years ago, but I didn’t start watching OUaT till the S5 hiatus and I was woozy with a combination of a bad cold and cold medicines….so I’m just now making these connections on rewatch….it’s kinda cool.
I didn’t start watching the show until last summer, when I binge watched the first four seasons on netflix, before season five started. I didn’t have anyone to discuss it with, I just wrote a lot of posts on my blog.
In regards to Rumple and Granny, I read a fanfic once (and I’ve read so many I can’t remember which one I’m sorry) which said that Granny didn’t like Rumple because he knew her secret. She didn’t want Red to know, and she definitely didn’t want the village to know, it was like her vulnerability and she hated that he had that power over her.
Plus I don’t think they got on as their cursed selves either. I think I’ve read several fanfics where they tussle over the rent because even cursed Granny didn’t back down for anyone.
After all Rumple does deals with “desperate souls” it only makes sense really that it makes relationships complicated, because he sees people on the worst day of their lives and has the gall to say he won’t work for free. Everything has it’s price and magic most of all.