Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-4467206-20161126101444/@comment-25926288-20161128035651

TrumpetofTheSwan wrote: I guess you're right. But I do still think the reason he kept doing those bad things was partly because he has always been missing something that kept the other villians from backsliding. Some sort of strong social support. He seems pretty isolated. Just my thoughts. Maybe they just can't make him better, and he has change by himself, idk.

He should see Archie for starters. He definitely has serious emotional, and possibly mental, issues that need to be sorted out. Yes. His problems is his self-loathing and fear. Rumple isolates himself because that's pretty much what he's always had--noone. But the heroes don't bust in unless they need something and he's not always the nicest guy in town.

He went to Archie once; he should have kept going.