Citations:Rumbelle

Proper noun: "(fandom slang) the ship of characters Rumpelstiltskin and Belle from the television series Once Upon a Time"

 * 2014, Christa M. Baxter, "The Challenge of Happily Ever After: How Once Upon a Time Fanfic Fairy Tales Model Strategies for Ordinary Life Challenges", thesis submitted to Brigham Young University, page 19:
 * Many Rumbelle stories take place after Belle and Rumple have already undergone a terrible loss, using the hurt/comfort trope to show how they cope afterwards.
 * 2014, "@team_OUAT", Fandoms Assemble, October 2014, page 9:
 * I hope to see Rumbelle living together and I HOPE to see Regina happy.
 * 2015, Katharine E. McCain, "Canon Vs. 'Fanon': Genre Devices In Contemporary Fanfiction", thesis submitted to Georgetown University, page 26:
 * Bad-Faery is one of the most popular authors working within the rumbelle fandom today,
 * 2017, Christine Noylan, quoted in Neil Edwards & Natalie Clubb, Once Upon A Time: Behind the Magic - Companion to the Hit TV Show, page 153:
 * RumBelle is popular with my family too.
 * 2017, Lindsay Macdonald, "'Once Upon A Time': All Hope Is Not Lost For Gideon", TV Weekly (Magic Valley Times-News), 29 January - 4 February 2017, page 12:
 * We'd obviously be bummed to lose Giles Matthey as Rumbelle's adorably evil baby boy, but at least there's still some hope that the couple can get their baby back instead of missing out on his entire life.
 * 2017, "Jack", quoted in Jon M. Wargo, "Designing more just social futures or remixing the radical present?: Queer rhetorics, multimodal (counter) storytelling, and the politics of LGBTQ youth activism", in English Teaching: Practice & Critique, Volume 16, Number 2 (2017), page 156:
 * people in the Once Upon a Time (OUAT) fandom started trolling my writing, calling me a misogynist for critiquing the ship of Rumbelle (Rumpelstiltskin and Belle).
 * 2019, Claudia Schwabe, Craving Supernatural Creatures: German Fairy-Tale Figures in American Pop Culture, unnumbered page:
 * Fan websites indicate that the "Rumbelle" couple has become a fan-favorite specifically because viewers of the show relate to Rumple as an imperfect man and can identify with his rocky love relationship.