Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25850402-20160525123525/@comment-25926288-20170312204117

I think Rumple can love, like 99.99% of the rest of the characters. It's just that Rumple has a controlling/domineering personality.

Rumple loved and still loves Baelfire. Rumple mentioned that he was fond of Henry, but that was about it. Rumple is fond of Regina, but it doesn't stop him from getting one over on her. I guess another way to see it is that Rumple sees him in his sons. So, the more distant you are from him, the less her could care. Some of it is pretty much due to time and constant betrayals and abandonments and failures. He even sort of didn't even want to kill Milah (again).

Think of it as, if push comes to shove, Rumple will pick himself, power, and at best, his immediate family, over everyone else. The only reason he might not bring up Henry now is (one, they sort of dropped the family aspect, two, they sort of dropped any kind of nuance with Rumple's relationships) because he's a nuisance.