Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34924658-20150708195332/@comment-24674051-20150710142512

Honestly, making Evanna both Morganna and Rumples Mother is just cheap lazy writing. imho.

A better approach is that Evanna is simply a peasant (One with some endearing qualities like hope, grace, etc) that fell in love and got married (to Malcolm). After having Rumple, something happened that caused Evanna to be killed, but not before imparting some of her better traits into Rumple (This may be when he was just 2-3). The circumstances of the death are what led Malcolm to be the Coward and Cheat that we saw in Think Lovely Thoughts. Or alternatively, it could be Malcolm's cowardly ways that lead to Evanna's demise.

And some of this is going to lead into what we see in Rumple when he "wakes up" from his magic induced coma. I think there will be some good in Rumple (I think there always was, just masked by his Dark One persona), and this is something he got from his Mother.