Re: Rumple & Regina

@ hjbau: You’re right in saying we don’t know enough about Rumple’s back-story before he became the dark one to know his true human character for certain (I think we’ll get more of that in episode 19, The Return). Based on a few things though, I think human Rumple was innocent of a crime like murder. He was too much a coward to fight in a war, let alone kill his own wife. In episode 8, the duke’s guard said Rumple’s wife couldn’t stand the sight of him for being a coward, and the implication is that she left her husband for another man. When Bae questioned his father, he said she was dead, but he said it mournfully, like his heart had been shattered. Also, the guard taunted that Bae was probably not his true son, because unlike Rumple, he wasn’t a coward and he even wanted to fight. In ep. 12, Rumple said to Belle that he lost both of them, though he didn’t say how. I have a feeling that he mourns his loses, and that he didn’t murder them. In fact, I think he’d do anything to get them back.