Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5521796-20130201044544/@comment-124.168.147.109-20130208034352

im wondering about the kiss and what that means too, but rumpel knowing regina as a baby has nothing to do with him being her father. has no one heard the original story? a poor miller tells a king/prince that his daughter can spin straw into gold so the king locks her up and tells her to prove it or die. she asks for rumpels help but he remains anonymous. this goes on, with more and more straw, as the king cannot believe it. finally, the king says that if she does it one last time he'll marry her. rumpel demands his greatest price yet: her firstborn. she agrees, but when the baby comes she begs for the chance to keep the child. rumpel says that if she guesses his name within three days he'll relent. at the end of the three days a spy she has sent out comes to her, saying that they saw rumpel in his cottage, gloating to himself and thereby revealing his name. the princess tells rumpel this and he pretty much kills himself.


 * deep breath*

now, obviously cora is the poor millers daughter as we know she was a poor mans daughter before she married henry (it may have even been stated that her father was a miller). in any case, henrys surname is a clear reference. following on from this, rumpel was the one who helped her in some way before/whilst she was pregnant with regina. the locking up and spinning thing probably didnt happen but he helped her, taught her magic and gave the book, demading regina as payment, but cora outsmarted him.

so the reason he knew regina as a baby is because she was supposed to be his. he may have even taken her for a while, but cora obviously got her back.

none of this rules out him being her father, but i think its unlikely. as someone else said, it would become a soap opera.