But than season 2 introduces us to Cora's backstory which includes her being in love with Rumple. But it's also implied that Rumple ALSO was in love with Cora: Wanting a child from her, the heartbroken look when Cora tells him she leaves him and him wanting desperatly to know if she really loves him before her death.
Amazed, the king stands by his word and Cora is engaged to Prince Henry. However, Cora is having an affair with Rumplestiltskin and the two plan to run away together and have another child, so the deal is changed so that Cora will only owe Rumplestiltskin his child.
Rumple loved Cora and he said so. (He changed the contract to have a child with Cora and have a family.) Cora said to Rumple that he was the only man that she has ever loved and that she could rip her own heart for.
It goes without saying that their relationship starts off pretty rocky. But they eventually warm up to each other. And Rumple starts to care for Belle. So, Belle tries to break his dark curse with true love's kiss.
Regina tries to fight her off, but Cora possesses Snow, revealing her memories to her and allowing Snow to realize what Zelena wants: to change the past so Leopold never learns of the deception, Cora marries Leopold and Zelena becomes their daughter.
Once Upon A Time 2x16 "The Miller's Daughter" Young Cora meets Rumplestiltskin
Why did Cora hate Snow's mother?
Princess Eva, a young woman, trips Cora, causing her to spill the flour. King Xavier (Joaquim de Almeida) refuses to pay for the flour and orders Cora to beg forgiveness on her knees. (This explains Cora's hereafter hatred for Snow White and her family, because Princess Eva is Snow White's future mother.)
Months later, Cora gives birth to Zelena and afterwards leaves her near a tree, telling her daughter that because she is a miller's daughter she can't give her the life she always wanted. After she leaves, a green tornado arrives and it carries the baby away to Oz.
Belle is not having an affair. She's not cheating. My heart breaks for Rum because he's hurting, but he also chose to lie and take Hook's heart and capture the fairies.
Milah is introduced as the wife of Rumplestiltskin. Before Rumplestiltskin went to the ogre war, Milah is shown to be a devoted and loving wife to her husband.
-The difference in age between Rumple and Belle isn't something like 20 years- it's something like 300-something years!! - Rumple and Hook were contemporaries, they flight over Milah in the day, remember?
The weird kind of flirty but not relationship between the Evil Queen and Rumpelstiltskin. Regina was the only person Rumple taught who didn't end up in love with him.
The Dark One helped manipulate the young royal into becoming addicted to power and guided her down the twisted path that turned her into the Evil Queen. The two villains frequently walked the line between being enemies and being friends, but their relationship was never particularly romantic.
When Thomas tells O'Brien that Cora is advertising for a new maid, O'Brien's rage makes her arrange an accident for Cora resulting in the miscarriage of her baby boy. But O'Brien is mortified when she discovers the truth. It was Violet, not Cora, who was looking for a lady's maid.
Almost every villain in this show was motivated by love, which makes Cora stand out with her famous "Love is Weakness" slogan. Cora had the opportunity for love with Rumplestiltskin or with her husband Henry, who seemed to adore her. Instead, she ripped her own heart out so as not to be influenced by it again.
It is likely that his desire for a human child is meant to demonstrate the significant increase of his greed in the tale. Some theories are founded in the belief that Rumpelstiltskin is a demonic creature, making pacts with mortals to obtain living creatures, but the Grimm's version gives no mention of that.
Around twelve years old in 1947, Zelena came across Cora, unaware the woman was her biological mother. She later befriended her half-sister Regina when they were young, and learned they were related. However, Cora separated them and sent Zelena back to Oz, giving her a potion that made her forget all about Regina.
Next, Cora tried to get with Leopold (Snow's father), but Eva got in the way and ended up marrying Leopold and giving birth to Snow. Then, Cora goes to the ball and has the whole spinning straw into gold ordeal and meets Rumple (who teaches her magic), then ends up marrying Prince Henry, and has Regina with him.
Rumplestiltskin's son Baelfire aka Neal Cassidy has always been a fan-favorite character in the ABC fantasy series Once Upon a Time. Unlike his cowardly father, Baelfire is brave and ambitious. His nickname also happens to be Bae, which makes him even more likable.
As Hook slowly dies from his poisoned heart, Rumple decides to take out his own heart and give it to his former enemy. Not only does the act of heroism end his own life, but it also finally gets rid of his dark ego once and for all as he disintegrates to dust.
When Belle becomes pregnant with Rumplestiltskin's baby, she learns that Rumplestiltskin owes his secondborn child to Hades. To protect her unborn child, Belle puts herself under a Sleeping Curse, preserving mother and child together.
In order of revenge, Zelena disguises herself as Marian, whom she killed earlier, and she one day has sex with Robin Hood, resulting in impregnating her with an unborn child.
After Snow gives birth to her son, the wicked witch Zelena arrives and takes the baby away in order to perform a ritual which will grant Zelena the ability to travel back in time. However, Zelena is eventually defeated. Snow and David have a celebration at Granny's Diner where they announce the name of the baby - Neal.
