I would love to hear your thoughts on how the Belle/Killian friendship could've gone, please 😀
Well, my preferred friendship with these two is built on an imaginary version of the show where Rumple had a falling arc, instead of the confusing mish mash of redemption and continued villainy they gave him on the show where they tried to have their cake and eat it too. I’d have loved to see a friendship blossom between them where Killian is a safe space for Belle from the things Rumple did. And he never says I told you so or anything like that, because he gets it. Additionally, I see Killian as a big reader. One of my pet head canons is that he filled a good portion of his hold with books before leaving for Neverland (which I’m realizing now is predicated on my own personal time line for that period of his life that nobody knows but me and I apparently briefly forgot the actual time line... oops).
Anyway, I see him as an avid reader, regardless. And we know he speaks several languages. So I think he and Belle could be delightfully nerdy together. That they’d find in each other a sort of kindred spirit that they don’t really have with anyone else in Storybrooke or wherever. Someone to discuss the deep intricacies of the universe with, and like talk philosophy and drama and poetry and whatever else strikes their fancy.
They’d probably get in fun and overly intense arguments about things nobody else cares about or maybe even understands that eventually end with them both just smiling at each other and laughing it off. Maybe it’s a frequent occurrence that one of them will be somewhere with other characters and the other will storm in and slam a book open on the table and point at a sentence and just be like “See! I was right!” and everyone else is like side-eye-monkey-puppet.jpg.
