Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28081000-20181217215451/@comment-31722073-20181218003310

He is not straight up gone in my imagination, to me his soul lives on in a state of bliss, basically what Belle and Gold are experiencing except without his true love, inside Roland, Regina, sort of Margot and a lot of the Merry Men, and he sort of appears to those who need him when they need him, sometimes physically (not spoilers at all to my S8 :p), sometimes in dreams and sometimes in their minds.