Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20160321010032/@comment-26159109-20160325055627

Rumple hurt himself because he feared his child would grow up the way he did, he didn't do it to "dishonor" Milah, it's not his fault that she cares too much what other people think. He sold his (his not hers) second child after she tried to force him into becoming a murderer, and Hook throwing a weapon at a cripple telling him to fight while HOOK KNOWS THAT HE PHYSICALLY CAN'T is not an act of heroism, and Rumple was brave enough to come to Hook's ship BEGGING him to release his wife and he probably knew that Hook might kill him. Bravery should not be measured by a man's ability to pick up a sword and fight, something they used to show us in earlier seasons, but it doesn't fit that they try to sell Hook as a hero and Rumple as a villain so they deform it and try to manipulate us into thinking that what we saw in season 2 was false.

The only time Rumple was a coward was when he didn't follow Bae into the portal, something he regretted later and spent life times trying to fix that mistake.