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I don't think Baelfire was any more ooc then any other discontinuous moment. I see the issue as the dagger being an outsiders temptation which can be canonized if you a flexible. Baelfire has had many iffy moments, so we can't really say it is beyond him.

1. Bae used a child to bait a dangerous creature. 2. His whole cause of death, as Bae really didn't have a good enough reason to resort to dark magic usage (but its continuous with this flashback)

I feel as though the dagger (if we get any "explanation") was retconned thus retconning Bae, less so it being totally an ooc moment for Bae.

In a meta purpose, it wasn't trying to destroy Bae to lift up Rumple. It was trying to uplift Rumple's core talking point in the episode and create an exact parallel. It would have been better to do a softer parallel as they likely changed how the dagger works to lead to this event.

So, I can see why others are mad. It is discontinuous with season 1 talks of Bae from Rumple. It is retconning the dagger's effect (likely--but can actually be mostly confirmed via canon). But if those were the case, I think it was 90% that than 90% "Must destroy Bae!"

As I also posted is that as the show continues, all the characters slowly become murders which is slightly stemming from the "Heroes don't kill" weirdly terrible system of morality.