Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-264749-20130520184336/@comment-7720627-20130709092029

My guess is the moment he became the Dark One, hell the hell did he become so scaly?!?! He mustve went to Neverland, before he lost Bae. My guess is, he knows Tinkerbell as well for Peter Pan. Then when he lost Bae, he turned into a scaly, mean, dark, out-of-control spirling down maniac looking for a magic bean to find Bae in Our world. Only that he never knew Bae was in Neverland this whole time, after he killed Milah in front of Hook, the same night Bae went to Neverland. For reasons been Rumple never had time to love someone, he lost Milah 8-9 years before he lost Bae, she left him for Hook and probably went to Neverland with him, while Rumple raised Bae as the Village Coward. 200+ years went by and somehow, he met Cora down the line and that's a big time gap there. He met a young Cora as The Miller's Daughter and their love was only a crush, Rumple felt something for Cora and she knew it. But I think, something interrupted her meeting with Henry, Rumple told her to take his heart, so then he would have Regina.

But then, Cora came out and gave him her heart and that was when Rumple was mad. He did care her, he may even loved her. I think, he regretted teaching her magic after she broke his heart. But the deal was renewed and that she would give Regina to him, in her own time. Cora would prepare Regina in time, that the moment Rumple met Belle. Regina knew he had a weakness, only that he was the reason why Regina pushed Cora through the looking glass to Wonderland, bcos I guess he was still mad at her for breaking his heart by punishing Cora, he took Regina and used her to the advantage to getting him to where he wanted to be, to find Baelfire and never told her anything. When Regina tells Rumple that Belle died, he was mad at her, but also himself. Although during the curse. Belle was in the Psychward this whole time and as Gold, he never knew she existed.