Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-1962215-20131025071041/@comment-14210692-20131025184150

Utter solitude wrote: AppleTree23 wrote: It's not really the same thing. He may have left Emma because he was afraid of magic,  But that was not why he left her. He left her so she could fulfill her destiny. That's what I think, too. However, some may argue that it was his fear of staying away from that life (like what he said in Manhattan) but the point is, him leaving Emma doesn't make him the same as his father.