bodycomingthroughtherye:We’re really supposed to believe that these are people Belle sh
bodycomingthroughtherye: We’re really supposed to believe that these are people Belle should be around, and spend her time and energy on, and help whenever they come to her demanding or just expecting her to fix their problems? Minus, Neal, because you know. Look at Belle. Look at her. She literally crumbled to the ground, sobbing. And they all just stood there. And did nothing. No words of comfort or kindness. No helping her off the ground. Not even a hand on her shoulder to let her know she isn’t alone. Because with this group of people, she is always alone. She will always be tied to Rumple and that will always separate them from her. Even when she’s helping them, even when they’ve wronged her and she forgives them time and time again, even when she does everything she can to be the hero they need, even if means banishing her husband. They will never truly care about her or respect her. We’ve got Hook, who has physically harmed her multiple times, actually tried to kill her more than once, and threatened her life and showed he sees her as nothing more than a pawn in his game of revenge against Rumple (before anyone tells me it doesn’t count because he was still a villain then, that was season 4. And when it happened doesn’t outweigh the fact that it happened period) and he never made any attempt to apologize (his half-assed “apology” in 3x15 was for Emma’s peace of mind, nothing else) or make amends to actually earn her forgiveness, rather than just expect to be forgiven because he’s Emma’s love interest. Then there’s Regina. Who struggles with not being a villain, but that doesn’t excuse what she’s done to Belle. She played her to get to Rumple, she imprisoned her, both in FTL and in SB, all because she wanted to get to Rumple. Just like Hook, she showed she didn’t see Belle as a person, but as just a pawn in her feud with Rumple. I was willing to accept that Belle forgave her, because even though Regina was kind of forced into apologizing because she wouldn’t have gotten Belle’s help if she hadn’t, but she see did seem like she meant it. Until she used Belle as leverage against Rumple by taking her heart to control her and threatening to crush it. I know Belle agreed to help, but then Regina wiped her memory and poof it’s not brought up again. And most recently, Regina expects Belle to go along with their plan even though risking Rumple’s life is a key part of it. It just shows that she doesn’t care about Belle, because if she did, she wouldn’t put Belle in that situation knowing how it feels to lose your loved ones. Then Emma and her parents. They haven’t wronged Belle the way Hook and Regina have. But they have always viewed Rumple as below them, and I feel like that extended to Belle because of her relationship with Rumple. They expected Belle’s help whenever they needed it, but outside of that, they never made any attempts to really befriend her, to make relationships with her. They ignore her until they think she can be of use to them. They expect her help and loyalty when they’ve done absolutely nothing to earn it. But because Belle is who she is, hero complex and all, they always have Belle on their side, even if their side is opposing her husband. The same could be said for the rest of the town, they don’t actively harm her but they’re not exactly making any attempt to be in her life, to be friends, to care for her. Unless we’re supposed to believe that all of that happens off screen. Like Belle’s rebound with Will. I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case, the writers have a tendency to do their story telling in interviews rather than on the screen. But we shouldn’t have to fill in the blanks on our own or assume certain things happened off screen or even accept the writers offhandedly saying “oh yeah that happened off screen” because that’s not storytelling, that’s just laziness. And this post isn’t meant to make Rumple look like a saint in comparison, before anyone brings up what he’s done to Belle. But if you do want to compare, Rumple’s wrongdoings in regard to Belle, which is a bit of lying and secrets and keeping her ignorant to his plans, is nothing when you list what everyone else has done to her. But she’s quicker to forgive people she has no personal relationships with than she is to forgive her true love. Yes, it probably hurts more when Rumple is the one wronging her, but it’s more that she’s so desperate to be a hero or to help the heroes, that she’s willing to do so at her true love/husband's expense. Which is definitely a flaw in her, her obsession with heroism. I got a bit off topic, as always. I just hate that people act like everyone has such great relationships and friendships with Belle. People obsess over Belle ships, romance or friendship, even when, in canon, they barely have a relationship. The only person who truly loves and cares about Belle, not what she can do for them, is Rumple. And I don’t care what anyone says, the only thing keeping Belle in SB and helping everyone is her need to do the right thing and be brave and heroic. Not the people. Maybe her father and possibly Henry. But who knows? We don’t get to see those relationships on screen, if they even have one. If she left, the only difference in her life would be that no one is constantly expecting something from her, she wouldn’t have to constantly prove herself. And her absence wouldn’t affect the town or anyone in it. Sure, they’d lose their leverage against Rumple, but let’s be real, if she left so would he. Basically the point I’m trying to make in all that rambling is that Belle is ridiculously underappreciated and neglected and mistreated by these so called Heroes and I’m sick of it. -- source link