Kitsis interview about Rumbelle in the OUAT S6 finale just pisses me the fuck off! He’s still mocking us with that “difficult man to love” bullshit, who needs to make a “difficult choice between power and love” crap, even though it has been over two fucking seasons of Rumple and Belle getting the same fucking storyline over and over again.
Rumple has literally never chosen power over Belle with the exception of S4 (sort of…I’m putting the fact that he “chose power over Belle in S4” really loosely because it’s not like he technically chose power over Belle, he just did shady shit with magic behind her back that he knew she wouldn’t like) when he was doing shady shit behind her back, after he got abused, traumatized, lost his son, and they decided to pretend like all that shit never happened by framing him as a one-note villain, instead. And he almost did in 6A when he couldn’t get her emotional support, no matter what he did to try and be better, or get it, and she was pregnant with his kid, so he went off the deep end because the writers kept writing her as an OOC, illogical, and mentally/emotionally abusive bitch, who refused to hear him out for nearly two seasons straight for the sake of creating nonsensical plot-driven soap opera drama to make him the “villain.” No, that’s not me excusing Rumple’s awful behavior with Belle in 6A, either. He was being a total OOC controlling, threatening, idiotic, possessive, and manipulative asshole to Belle throughout most of 6A, and I wanted to smack him throughout most of the arc, despite the fact that Rumple has always been my favorite character on the show. I’m just saying that it wasn’t for total lack of trying to be a better person on his part because he really did try throughout all of S5 to make up for his fall out with Belle in 4A. This time, he felt like he couldn’t just leave her alone, like he usually does when she doesn’t want to have anything to do with him because she was knocked up with his kid, and Belle’s own totally OOC bitchy, illogical, controlling, demanding, wishy washy, and emotionally manipulative attitude, her constant rejection, and constant refusal to let Rumple get a word in edgewise every fucking time he did try to reach out to her of nearly two seasons straight finally triggered him to go off the deep end and stop trying to fight the darkness in 6A.
So, unless they break the curse with Belle giving him a TLK, and give him a happy ending with no character assassinating ‘twists’ to make Hook look more “heroic” at the last second for suddenly choosing not to murder a litter of kittens at the last second because Emma is his “twoo wuv” or whatever bullshit, then Kitsowitz can fuck off, and they deserve all the hate from the Rumbelle fandom for bringing back Rumple back in 3B and destroying his and Belle’s beautiful complex characters/relationship for no good fucking reason!