Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25551215-20160315233708/@comment-4453062-20160903191235

Wicked Wizard of the West wrote: As a young boy, David overhears his parents quarreling, for the umpteenth time, about his father's drinking problems. This time, his father expresses a sincere desire to change for his son's sake, promising that by the time he returns from a two week run to haul farm supplies, that his alcohol dependency would be gone. Pleased, David looks forward to the fourteenth day when his father will finally return home. Tragically, he and his mother are notified that his father, although sober for thirteen days, became drunk at a tavern on the fourteenth day and died after falling into a ravine. The death has a significant influence on David, who understands how much his father wanted to change but ultimately could not, as he begins to believe some battles simply cannot be beaten. ("White Out") This is what displayed on White Out. As we remember the writers did manage to preserve the established Brennan Jones' past when it was first told in And Straight On Til Morning. So I think the writers will likely keep the Charming's daddy story the same.

What we already knew:

- They found daddy's body

- He had quarrel with Ruth

- He had been sober for 13 days, but suddenly drunk in the 14th day, for which David think that his father was weak and cannot change.

But what if his death was some kind of murder plot by Rumplestiltskin or King George or someone else? It isn't neccessary for him to be alive and reunited with Charming like Hook's situation. Maybe Charming realized that his father's death wasn't like he thought, then their lives will be upside down.

We also know one other thing about his father. Back in "The Shepherd", Ruth mentions that he regretted the decision to give up James the minute Rumple took him away, and that he carried the guilt to his grave. Putting two and two together, I would guess that the guilt was what drove his alcoholism.