Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-68.125.32.224-20130312042332/@comment-6905051-20130314073814

Gleek655 wrote: Yeah, I don't get that. If he saw the future then why did he feel so hurt and betrayed when Cora didn't choose him? I mean shouldn't he have seen it coming anyhow? I guess he thought he might be able to change her mind, but still that part just confuses me.... I think, just like sage of earth said,because rumple cannot see everything and also future is very complicated and very minute things can alter the course of event. Like Rumple trying everything not to die in battlefield and by that action losing his son.

Anyways, I think, He knew Cora would be the mother to the person who would cast the curse. I think he came there to see her for himself, I mean such a powerful, extraordinary person should have one parent who has certain capabilities. Realise his first contract was only getting Cora's first child, irrespective of the father. later he altered it to make it his child. So he knew only of the mother, and not of the father. And he later hoped to be the father when he fell in love with her.