My dash just seems filled at the moment with speculation about season seven, who is staying/going etc. and so I’m going to state what is probably going to be a very unpopular opinion.
Unless the rumors get totally out of hand and start causing problems I don’t think we’re going to get confirmation one way or another until May.
If we know who isn’t going to around next season (presuming there is a next season at all) that will either a) be a massive spoiler as to how events will resolve themselves or b) render the rest of 6B pointless because will people still be invested if they learn their favorites are leaving?
They want to keep as many people watching as they can for as long as possible. I suspect they know already but they aren’t going to screw themselves over by announcing stuff before they absolutely have to do so.
It’s hard to say at this point whether The Black Fairy is involved because we don’t know much about her or what she wants. Then again this is a wish!World AU so I could literally say anything and that would also be fine.
The main question really is why did The Black Fairy show up when she did? Was it purely for Gideon? Or was it because of something else? I rather like my theory that Neverland is part of The Black Fairy’s domain. Time works differently there, and Rumple never sensed that Bae was there – just like Gideon was beyond reach of his powers while in the Dark Realm.
It was said that The Black Fairy took children but why? What did she do with them? Could she perhaps have looking for something in particular – like Pan searched for Henry – and that when the children disappointed they wound up abandoned on Neverland forming the Lost Boys? Who better than her one-time lover to rule over part of her domain? Maybe they even made a deal.
Anyway, none of this speculation is answering your question sorry 🙂
Time runs differently in The Dark Realm/Neverland and it’s easy, even for The Black Fairy, to lose track of how much time has passed in the rest of the world. When Bae made it back from Neverland Rumple did nothing. Whether it was because he was too scared to face his father, or because Belle talked him out of it, or a little of both I’m not sure. However, Rumple did eventually make the trip because of his daughter Nadia.
Nadia has Belle’s wonder of the world, her innocent belief meant that the shadow came for her one night. In the morning she had fantastic stories of her adventure and Rumple was terrified. The shadow had breached the Dark Castle defenses, it had taken his daughter. So filled with rage Rumple went to Neverland, killed Pan, practically leveled the place and took all The Lost Boys back to the Enchanted Forest. Just like he once brought the children home from the ogre war.
Just over a year later The Black Fairy started roaming the realm again. She’d been awakened by the loss of Neverland’s magic – by the loss of Pan and the loss of the easy access to children that he granted her. My headcanon until the show says otherwise is that The Black Fairy is looking for a “dark heir”, a right-hand, to rule at her side and one day take over her domain. Although I suppose fairies are immortal (though not invulnerable), so maybe it’s more just a powerful sidekick she wants. I don’t know. Anyway, she can either sense the magic, or she decides to check in on the Dark One, or she could tell who had wrecked Neverland and went to see why Rumple had done it etc. No matter what she winds up sensing teenage Gideon’s potential and she tries to snatch him – he could be the one.
Unfortunately a teenager who has had some training from Rumple, is far harder to grab than a baby. Not to mention both Gideon and Nadia were instructed to scream for Rumple the second they were in danger, and so Gideon blasts The Black Fairy back once, summons his dad and then they put the smackdown on her together.
I do quite like the theory that The Black Fairy and the Blue Fairy are the same, sort of a Jekyll and Hyde situation, so whether The Black Fairy can be killed or not depends on whether she was the original. I’m thinking that she probably wouldn’t be, so she can’t die if this theory is real. However, she could be captured, locked up in some magic device – maybe even Pandora’s Box – and no matter what she ceases to trouble them anymore.
This is a verse where Rumple and Belle and their family get a happy ending. Aside Bae’s unfortunate early death 🙁 but he married and loved Emma, and had Henry, so I guess that’s something.
YES! Yes to lots of things but I’ll just pick one for today 🙂
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They turned Irina into a power hungry idiot, who knew reaching for the globe thing would mean her death and did it anyway. So she died. Then on a completely different continent, Jack got shot and then blew himself up to kill Sloane (it actually just buried him alive). So he died. Jack and Irina’s relationship was complicated, messy and filled with pain. By rights they should have kept well away from each other but they couldn’t because despite everything they loved one another.
If I could have written an alternative ending I would have had them both live for a start. There would be no such thing as a happy ending for them but to be honest they both operated more in the grey area. So Jack would be quasi-legal and Irina quasi-bad guy and they would snipe at one another, betray one another but always come back and work together. They would both be shown as the smart, capable operatives that they are.
I also wouldn’t have killed Nadia off, Sark would have had a bigger role, Sydney and Vaughn would either have been less whiny or smaller roles. Marshall would be as epic as ever – oooh more Weiss I liked him. So basically I wouldn’t have killed off the cool people and I would have kept them smart, and not had them suddenly become super dumb for the plot.
Ask me about the show. Ask me anything about my fics, ask my characters anything. You can send me a word and if it’s in my WIP doc then I’ll post a teaser snippet. I accept prompts for any of my existing verses.
This week I posted:
Absolutely nothing – again. I know, I’m sorry, I feel terrible about it 🙁 Honestly where did this past week go?
I try and avoid scheduling anything on Tuesdays because I love doing this heh, but I am actually out for a good chunk of today. If you send me an ask and I take a while, (first thank you for sending it!), and I’m not ignoring you, I’m just out. I will answer everything before the end of the day though.
Right this shouldn’t be as long as last weeks due to the episode focus. However, I’m me so I still have apparently quite a lot to say. I’m actually going to do something that feels a little strange. I’m going to say something positive about Hook, or more accurately his storyline.
Right this shouldn’t be as long as last weeks due to the episode focus. However, I’m me so I still have apparently quite a lot to say. I’m actually going to do something that feels a little strange. I’m going to say something positive about Hook, or more accurately his storyline. Spoilers for episode 6.12 – Murder Most Foul under the cut.
For my episode reviews I write notes while I’m watching, so I kinda feel like I’ve “done it” but then I have to rewrite it in coherent essay fashion, and persuading myself to do that is definitely the hardest part. Lazy me really can’t be bothered, logical me knows I’ll be annoyed at myself if I don’t do it.
I’ve written next to nothing all month and I just got a fifth idea that could work for Rumbelle Order in the Court /headdesk. I don’t need anymore ideas, I need some oomph to get the ones I have done thank you very much.
Hey, honestly I’m enjoying the debate. Thank you for coming back and sending another message 🙂
Rumple’s deal with Cora was void for two reasons. 1) He changed the deal so it would be his child, Cora actually says this on the show “any child I have won’t be yours” and 2) The deal was for Cora’s firstborn but unknown to Rumple at the time her firstborn was Zelena, who as far as Cora knew was dead. It was a very clever deal Cora made, one she had no intention of ever honoring.
Yes I suppose you could argue that Rumple “took” Regina anyway. However, he never forced Regina to do anything. He gave her the tools and she made her own choices. Yes I suppose it was a bit like giving a pyromaniac access to matches and gasoline. Rumple knew what Regina was going to do – he was counting on it, and he definitely manipulated the situation to prompt her to choose the path he wanted. Anyway, whatever happened with Regina wasn’t anything to do with a firstborn deal.
In regards to the “more than they can pay” comment. I said that about the deals Rumple had made with Snow and Charming. I also questioned what he had done to them specifically that would have Charming label him as the ‘scourge of the realms’. From everything I saw about Rumple’s interaction with Snow and Charming prior to the Dark Curse, he only ever got them what they needed. They actively sought him out on several occasions. Then once they had ‘taken back the kingdom’ and didn’t need him anymore, that was it.
I would have thought that given their own interactions with him, talking would have been a good first response with the Cinderella situation but then I guess Rumple knew they wouldn’t do that. He specifically engineered the situation so that he could be locked up, it was part of his grand plan. He needed to be locked up, perhaps to present as weak to Regina, or something else but either way it was where he wanted to be. He knew they wouldn’t treat him fairly – he was counting on that in fact, which I find quite sad to be honest.
Re: the Cinderella deal. 1) It was the height of foolishness for Cinderella to sign the contract without reading it, or asking him what he wanted. She made an assumption and that’s on her. She agreed to the deal without knowing what it was. However, we can excuse foolishness I guess. 2) Rumple never wanted her child. He changed the deal, something he never does so he got something he actually did want (which was far more useful) a favor from Emma. He was never going to take the baby.
Now you could successfully argue that nobody knew that Rumple never had any intention of taking the baby. You could also, as I said, excuse Cinderella’s foolishness. Then there was Rumple’s trademark “nobody breaks a deal with me” which yeah would be scary. I just do think that given how much Rumple helped Snow and Charming, to call him the scourge of the realms and lock him up with the rats, feeding him worms etc. was overkill for a first response.
Surely – given their experience with him – they should have tried something along the lines of “Rumplestiltskin, Cinderella made a terrible mistake, she should have read your contract and didn’t. She is sorry for that. Any chance we can make another deal, so she can keep her child and you still get what you need?” – sounds reasonable to me. After all that’s what Emma did.
Given Rumple wanted to be locked up he probably would have cackled evilly, said a deal was a deal and forced the situation anyway. I just think that tackling it like that would have reflected much better on Snow and Charming.
