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The hardest lesson for any reader is to not sympathize with those characters whose fates have been intertwined and presented in the most sympathetic of manners. Our story has one such foe. You will want to romanticize him; feel bad for him, maybe even-- as the worst of it-- pity him. But fear not, sweet reader, you are not the first nor will you be the last. The scourge of this Earth is quite a charming man. One with whom your trust may seem easily won. But be not deceived. He is vindictive, manipulative and at loss for anything pure in this world or the worlds over. To be fair, you have nothing but the words on these pages which will prove to you the very opposite. Heed not the delusion. The name of this man is Rumpelstiltskin and he is rotten to the very core of the darkest fruit. [break][break]
What could have driven such a man to this madness then? There is a simple answer to such a seemingly profound question: love. A love he could never truly believe he had. This love, oh it tore him apart in the most wretched of ways. It pulled out the evil malice within him that had always existed. It pulled and tugged and strained and tore until the cloth that had been wrapped to tightly around this burden at birth, came loose. So it would seem our ill-fated villain gives in, come the end. He gives in, as all do, to the darkness of one born into evil. [break][break]
“Oh and you will skin the children I hunt for their pelts.”[break][break]
Once Upon A Time, in a Land Far, Far Away... is not that the beginning to every childhood story, tragedy or not? This tale, one of magic and desires too grand to be pure, falls into the category of those such stories except this time, there is no happy ending just yet. The life of Rumpelstiltskin continues on, even today, in the same way as you have seen above. He is doomed to forever rot in the pain of his mistakes, further away than even the farthest of these lands. This time though, there is a literal sense in the figure of this familiar metaphor. Once, there was a boy who lived, upon the time of a clock, in a shoe—in a spring-- in the wheel of a toy, in a village. He was a curious boy, never one to be unfriendly but always up to mischief and mayhem. His best friend was Time, an even more curious old man who followed him about like the spirit of youth. Together but alone the two of them frolicked and played, the years passing by without a notice or care from either.[break][break]
Born into a small family with no other siblings, Rumpelstiltskin was always one apt for mischief. His father a spinner, was also the village coward-- much as Rumple would become in later years following in both sets of footsteps. His actions of mischief where always assumed by his mother to be a form of attracting attention away from his father and the reputation that followed them in the eyes of all who gazed upon the Rumple family. As a boy, Rumple had few friends, preferring to spend most of his time causing silly mayhem and helping those who needed it most, say the butcher's daughter when she caught the hem of her dress on a nail in the wood and got a splinter trying to undo it. Or the widow's son who slipped on the stones by the creek and needed his leg wrapped. Rumple, though always willing to lend a helping hand, was well known for getting himself in trouble and was often left alone to venture in the woods as he willed. He grew steadily into what was never a very strong young man but always a clever one. His betrothal to Milah came around the same time as the start of the great Ogre Wars and soon, the dominoes began to fall in a long chain of events that would lead to the corruption of an innocent and many deaths.[break][break]
Rumple was drafted, along with the rest of the men in his village, and was forced to the front-lines where things where far from pleasant. He tried his best, amidst the showering rain of fear that constantly plagued him, and a sense of honor, small and dwindling, kept that tiny flame of will burning. It wasn't until after an unfortunate encounter and its consequences that Rumpelstiltskin would be branded a coward, not only by the people but also in his own heart.[break][break]
He was placed as sentry one evening to keep watch over a wagon carrying cargo that was said to hold the very essence behind changing the tide of the Ogre Wars and moving it in the favor of the people. That cargo, was a Seer, young and rather beautiful aside from the deformities that came with being one of such talents. Rumple, too curious for his own good, looked under the tarp covering the Seer's cage upon her summons and though startled, had an exchange with it. He gave the young girl water in exchange for a prediction of his future, a future he thought concerned his fighting in battle the next morning and his wife, Milah. The Seer told him that she was to have a baby and that Rumple's actions on the battlefield were to leave the boy fatherless. At first, Rumple did not believe but after he saw a number of other predictions come true, he returned to confront the Seer but she was gone. In anger and terror, he rattled the cage. Then, overtaken by his fear, the greatest fear of them all (to end up like his own father), Rumpelstiltskin broke his own shin and was sent home to receive a less than welcoming reception. It was in this manner that he also gained a limp, one that would follow him with the alias of Mr. Gold. Upon his return home, Milah was far from pleased and after a brief confrontation - thus began the long struggle of their marriage. Her, and their son, having to live with the shame of the village coward.[break][break]
“I am a coward. The only choice I have, is which corner to hide in.”[break][break]
Over the years, as their son grew, Milah turned to drinking away the embarrassment and shame that came along with being married to Rumple. It caused a great strain until at last she met Killian Jones-- or rather, the Captain of the Jolly Roger and a pirate, and disappeared with him. It was not a quiet exchange when Rumple, in a haste, boarded the ship in an attempt to get her back. There was a dealing of the utmost embarrassment that entailed a duel that Rumple would not, could not fight. But he never forgave it, nor did the exchange go by forgotten. With Milah gone, Rumple returned to their son-- his son, Baelfire. He had not the heart to tell Bae he had been abandoned on account of his father's failure and so to Baelfire, Milah was now dead. Years passed and still the Ogre Wars did not cease. Three days time before Baelfire's fourteenth birthday a girl was taken from the village showering panic over Rumpel. A panic driven by the fear that his son too was to be taken in three days. That very evening, Rumple and Bae departed from the village, along the way passing a beggar to whom Rumple gave a little money. Soon after, the same soldiers who took the girl earlier in the day from their village stopped Rumple and another exchange, much like the one with Jones, came to pass; one in which Baelfire was shown the true depths of his father's shame and the truth of Rumple's running from the war was revealed to him. The Duke of the Front-lands then tried to take Bae upon learning of his age and in exchange for leaving them be, he forced Rumpelstiltskin to kiss his boot. The shame of which was hardly even bearable, especially in front of Bae. Kicked in the face, Rumple was then aided by the beggar whom he had given money before and the beggar took them into his home with promise of help. [break][break]
This beggar, having a good sense of the desperation within Rumpelstiltskin, offered him then a choice. He offered Rumple the seed of an idea: the idea of power. He explained the story of the magic dagger which can 'enthrall' The Dark One and explained the details of the scheme. This led Rumple to burn the wood floors and rafters of the Duke's castle and steal this such dagger. The next exchange was that between Rumpelstiltskin and the Dark One himself in which Zoso was killed and the power left him, just as Rumple realized that Zoso, the Dark One, is actually the beggar that helped them. [break][break]
“Magic always comes with a price and now it's yours to pay...”[break][break]
As the new Dark One, Rumpelstiltskin returned to his village, to Bae. He arrived just in time as the Duke was about to take his son. After quite the display of power and forcing the Duke to kiss his boot, Rumple killed all of the men from the army that had gathered there. After many such incidents where Rumpelstiltskin, with his new power, took command of the situation and killed all those he deemed worth it, Bae soon grew weary of this new power and worried for his Papa. One eve he offered to make a deal that if, Baelfire can find a way to rid his Papa of the power—safely, then Rumple would comply. Bae did manage to find a way and then trouble began to brew upon the horizon. [break][break]
The manner in which Baelfire found to rid Rumple of his powers, of his curse as the Dark One, was simple. They would travel together to another land, a land without magic. At first Rumpelstiltskin was skeptical and he argued with Bae but ultimately he agreed to follow through on his word and the two departed their home. They ventured out into the woods until Bae finally paused and pulled out a small bean the Blue Faerie had given him. It would create a portal to a world without magic and they were to go through it. Once the portal was finally brought forth, Rumple hesitated-- his cowardliness surging forth from the depths in which he'd tried to bury it. Bae grabbed his father's hand and pulled towards the portal. Their exchange, though seeming endless, lasted only minutes before Bae was lost to Rumple for what which would come to seem like forever. Baelfire slipped through the portal in Rumple's weakest moment and his grip was lost. The portal closed and regret settled over the remaining, instantly. He called forth the Blue Faerie then and discovered the only way to follow Bae is to enact a curse, one which the faerie thought far above his capabilities. It was in this manner the seed of a curse was planted and the first steps towards regaining what was lost were taken.[break][break]
Much time passed then, Rumple enacting what he would in order to set his great plan in motion. Along the way he made a great many deals, often the benefactor behind schemes that always seemed to end in his favor. He continued in this fashion for many years until there came a change in his life. This change came in the form of a beautiful bell, one which would cause him great heartache in the future. [break][break]
The form in which this girl entered Rumpel's life is a tale into which only the Dark One and she are privy, and at the current time is beknown to all in a certain manner. To detail it here would simply cast light upon a mystery much better kept at bay, in the shadows of privacy. Belle, with her enchantment did ultimately gain the heart of the one so monstrous to even be considered a beast and she still holds it, stolen and locked away far from Rumple's own grasp. He, though having no desire to regain it from her, treasures the only souvenir and keepsake left of his beautiful love. A chipped tea cup, once dropped at the sound of a small quip. She too was lost in the manner which Bae was. A cowardliness of the heart with which Rumple still struggled.[break][break]
Time would come to pass, a few weeks after her rather abrupt dismissal for reasons better left unmentioned, and notice of her death came by word of... no-one more than Regina herself. The very Queen whom Rumple would spur to enact the curse that would not only one day reunite him with Belle and Bae, but also plunder their world into nothingness. The curse, enacted, was broken as well; 28 years later just as Rumple expected. The course of events that progressed there-forth are simply a matter better left at ease for now.[break][break]
All the residents of this restored land never can hold a flame to the identities they'd been given then lost again in that other world. Here, now-- Bae was back and Rumple could be content, if only relatively so without Belle and without his power, in watching over his son who still pushes him away. A second chance has been given to all. And now, this man, through all his troubles, has left naught but Bae. He struggles on, having resigned himself to a fate between worlds. He has returned to the past and has been cast in the light of the Dark One once more. All links to Storybrooke now are lost, and the Dark One does not cross back easily without reason. [break][break]
Evil then, in the vilest of forms, could be metaphorically conceived in the mental picture of a black apple. Born a pink seed which developed into a yellow, cowardly thing-- Rumpelstiltskin has undergone and continues to experience the changes which may ultimately leave him brown and broken. Grey is a hue he has touched and black, a thing of mental corruption. Here hangs in the balance a man with the potential of a rainbow that has been cast into darkness. For now, he remains –having reverted back-- into a malevolent fiend: but know this, dear reader. To be born and to be fated are two different things with only the relevance to each other one gives to them. Not even the blackest, darkest core is always what it may appear, eh dearie~[break][break]
Rumple, telling his own story. The two P's at the beginning are his view of himself, thus a slight bit of his personality shines through. (There are other things throughout it as well that once you know it's Rumple speaking and you re-read it, they make sense. I promise. XD But who doesn't like surprises! //cueRumple'slaugh) That love he references, is not only Belle but also Bae. The love he's lost in his life is great and not singular. Additionally, I have him now resigned to the old world in his old role and hope to develop his character into Mr. Gold again through plots and re-link him with Belle and Bae. I also have it set to being right before he finds Belle again. ][break][break]
What could have driven such a man to this madness then? There is a simple answer to such a seemingly profound question: love. A love he could never truly believe he had. This love, oh it tore him apart in the most wretched of ways. It pulled out the evil malice within him that had always existed. It pulled and tugged and strained and tore until the cloth that had been wrapped to tightly around this burden at birth, came loose. So it would seem our ill-fated villain gives in, come the end. He gives in, as all do, to the darkness of one born into evil. [break][break]
“Oh and you will skin the children I hunt for their pelts.”[break][break]
Once Upon A Time, in a Land Far, Far Away... is not that the beginning to every childhood story, tragedy or not? This tale, one of magic and desires too grand to be pure, falls into the category of those such stories except this time, there is no happy ending just yet. The life of Rumpelstiltskin continues on, even today, in the same way as you have seen above. He is doomed to forever rot in the pain of his mistakes, further away than even the farthest of these lands. This time though, there is a literal sense in the figure of this familiar metaphor. Once, there was a boy who lived, upon the time of a clock, in a shoe—in a spring-- in the wheel of a toy, in a village. He was a curious boy, never one to be unfriendly but always up to mischief and mayhem. His best friend was Time, an even more curious old man who followed him about like the spirit of youth. Together but alone the two of them frolicked and played, the years passing by without a notice or care from either.[break][break]
Born into a small family with no other siblings, Rumpelstiltskin was always one apt for mischief. His father a spinner, was also the village coward-- much as Rumple would become in later years following in both sets of footsteps. His actions of mischief where always assumed by his mother to be a form of attracting attention away from his father and the reputation that followed them in the eyes of all who gazed upon the Rumple family. As a boy, Rumple had few friends, preferring to spend most of his time causing silly mayhem and helping those who needed it most, say the butcher's daughter when she caught the hem of her dress on a nail in the wood and got a splinter trying to undo it. Or the widow's son who slipped on the stones by the creek and needed his leg wrapped. Rumple, though always willing to lend a helping hand, was well known for getting himself in trouble and was often left alone to venture in the woods as he willed. He grew steadily into what was never a very strong young man but always a clever one. His betrothal to Milah came around the same time as the start of the great Ogre Wars and soon, the dominoes began to fall in a long chain of events that would lead to the corruption of an innocent and many deaths.[break][break]
Rumple was drafted, along with the rest of the men in his village, and was forced to the front-lines where things where far from pleasant. He tried his best, amidst the showering rain of fear that constantly plagued him, and a sense of honor, small and dwindling, kept that tiny flame of will burning. It wasn't until after an unfortunate encounter and its consequences that Rumpelstiltskin would be branded a coward, not only by the people but also in his own heart.[break][break]
He was placed as sentry one evening to keep watch over a wagon carrying cargo that was said to hold the very essence behind changing the tide of the Ogre Wars and moving it in the favor of the people. That cargo, was a Seer, young and rather beautiful aside from the deformities that came with being one of such talents. Rumple, too curious for his own good, looked under the tarp covering the Seer's cage upon her summons and though startled, had an exchange with it. He gave the young girl water in exchange for a prediction of his future, a future he thought concerned his fighting in battle the next morning and his wife, Milah. The Seer told him that she was to have a baby and that Rumple's actions on the battlefield were to leave the boy fatherless. At first, Rumple did not believe but after he saw a number of other predictions come true, he returned to confront the Seer but she was gone. In anger and terror, he rattled the cage. Then, overtaken by his fear, the greatest fear of them all (to end up like his own father), Rumpelstiltskin broke his own shin and was sent home to receive a less than welcoming reception. It was in this manner that he also gained a limp, one that would follow him with the alias of Mr. Gold. Upon his return home, Milah was far from pleased and after a brief confrontation - thus began the long struggle of their marriage. Her, and their son, having to live with the shame of the village coward.[break][break]
“I am a coward. The only choice I have, is which corner to hide in.”[break][break]
Over the years, as their son grew, Milah turned to drinking away the embarrassment and shame that came along with being married to Rumple. It caused a great strain until at last she met Killian Jones-- or rather, the Captain of the Jolly Roger and a pirate, and disappeared with him. It was not a quiet exchange when Rumple, in a haste, boarded the ship in an attempt to get her back. There was a dealing of the utmost embarrassment that entailed a duel that Rumple would not, could not fight. But he never forgave it, nor did the exchange go by forgotten. With Milah gone, Rumple returned to their son-- his son, Baelfire. He had not the heart to tell Bae he had been abandoned on account of his father's failure and so to Baelfire, Milah was now dead. Years passed and still the Ogre Wars did not cease. Three days time before Baelfire's fourteenth birthday a girl was taken from the village showering panic over Rumpel. A panic driven by the fear that his son too was to be taken in three days. That very evening, Rumple and Bae departed from the village, along the way passing a beggar to whom Rumple gave a little money. Soon after, the same soldiers who took the girl earlier in the day from their village stopped Rumple and another exchange, much like the one with Jones, came to pass; one in which Baelfire was shown the true depths of his father's shame and the truth of Rumple's running from the war was revealed to him. The Duke of the Front-lands then tried to take Bae upon learning of his age and in exchange for leaving them be, he forced Rumpelstiltskin to kiss his boot. The shame of which was hardly even bearable, especially in front of Bae. Kicked in the face, Rumple was then aided by the beggar whom he had given money before and the beggar took them into his home with promise of help. [break][break]
This beggar, having a good sense of the desperation within Rumpelstiltskin, offered him then a choice. He offered Rumple the seed of an idea: the idea of power. He explained the story of the magic dagger which can 'enthrall' The Dark One and explained the details of the scheme. This led Rumple to burn the wood floors and rafters of the Duke's castle and steal this such dagger. The next exchange was that between Rumpelstiltskin and the Dark One himself in which Zoso was killed and the power left him, just as Rumple realized that Zoso, the Dark One, is actually the beggar that helped them. [break][break]
“Magic always comes with a price and now it's yours to pay...”[break][break]
As the new Dark One, Rumpelstiltskin returned to his village, to Bae. He arrived just in time as the Duke was about to take his son. After quite the display of power and forcing the Duke to kiss his boot, Rumple killed all of the men from the army that had gathered there. After many such incidents where Rumpelstiltskin, with his new power, took command of the situation and killed all those he deemed worth it, Bae soon grew weary of this new power and worried for his Papa. One eve he offered to make a deal that if, Baelfire can find a way to rid his Papa of the power—safely, then Rumple would comply. Bae did manage to find a way and then trouble began to brew upon the horizon. [break][break]
The manner in which Baelfire found to rid Rumple of his powers, of his curse as the Dark One, was simple. They would travel together to another land, a land without magic. At first Rumpelstiltskin was skeptical and he argued with Bae but ultimately he agreed to follow through on his word and the two departed their home. They ventured out into the woods until Bae finally paused and pulled out a small bean the Blue Faerie had given him. It would create a portal to a world without magic and they were to go through it. Once the portal was finally brought forth, Rumple hesitated-- his cowardliness surging forth from the depths in which he'd tried to bury it. Bae grabbed his father's hand and pulled towards the portal. Their exchange, though seeming endless, lasted only minutes before Bae was lost to Rumple for what which would come to seem like forever. Baelfire slipped through the portal in Rumple's weakest moment and his grip was lost. The portal closed and regret settled over the remaining, instantly. He called forth the Blue Faerie then and discovered the only way to follow Bae is to enact a curse, one which the faerie thought far above his capabilities. It was in this manner the seed of a curse was planted and the first steps towards regaining what was lost were taken.[break][break]
Much time passed then, Rumple enacting what he would in order to set his great plan in motion. Along the way he made a great many deals, often the benefactor behind schemes that always seemed to end in his favor. He continued in this fashion for many years until there came a change in his life. This change came in the form of a beautiful bell, one which would cause him great heartache in the future. [break][break]
The form in which this girl entered Rumpel's life is a tale into which only the Dark One and she are privy, and at the current time is beknown to all in a certain manner. To detail it here would simply cast light upon a mystery much better kept at bay, in the shadows of privacy. Belle, with her enchantment did ultimately gain the heart of the one so monstrous to even be considered a beast and she still holds it, stolen and locked away far from Rumple's own grasp. He, though having no desire to regain it from her, treasures the only souvenir and keepsake left of his beautiful love. A chipped tea cup, once dropped at the sound of a small quip. She too was lost in the manner which Bae was. A cowardliness of the heart with which Rumple still struggled.[break][break]
Time would come to pass, a few weeks after her rather abrupt dismissal for reasons better left unmentioned, and notice of her death came by word of... no-one more than Regina herself. The very Queen whom Rumple would spur to enact the curse that would not only one day reunite him with Belle and Bae, but also plunder their world into nothingness. The curse, enacted, was broken as well; 28 years later just as Rumple expected. The course of events that progressed there-forth are simply a matter better left at ease for now.[break][break]
All the residents of this restored land never can hold a flame to the identities they'd been given then lost again in that other world. Here, now-- Bae was back and Rumple could be content, if only relatively so without Belle and without his power, in watching over his son who still pushes him away. A second chance has been given to all. And now, this man, through all his troubles, has left naught but Bae. He struggles on, having resigned himself to a fate between worlds. He has returned to the past and has been cast in the light of the Dark One once more. All links to Storybrooke now are lost, and the Dark One does not cross back easily without reason. [break][break]
Evil then, in the vilest of forms, could be metaphorically conceived in the mental picture of a black apple. Born a pink seed which developed into a yellow, cowardly thing-- Rumpelstiltskin has undergone and continues to experience the changes which may ultimately leave him brown and broken. Grey is a hue he has touched and black, a thing of mental corruption. Here hangs in the balance a man with the potential of a rainbow that has been cast into darkness. For now, he remains –having reverted back-- into a malevolent fiend: but know this, dear reader. To be born and to be fated are two different things with only the relevance to each other one gives to them. Not even the blackest, darkest core is always what it may appear, eh dearie~[break][break]
Rumple, telling his own story. The two P's at the beginning are his view of himself, thus a slight bit of his personality shines through. (There are other things throughout it as well that once you know it's Rumple speaking and you re-read it, they make sense. I promise. XD But who doesn't like surprises! //cueRumple'slaugh) That love he references, is not only Belle but also Bae. The love he's lost in his life is great and not singular. Additionally, I have him now resigned to the old world in his old role and hope to develop his character into Mr. Gold again through plots and re-link him with Belle and Bae. I also have it set to being right before he finds Belle again. ][break][break]
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