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@Phee wrote:
In my book, it’s not a cowardly act to avoid fighting in a war. That’s just good sense IMO! Pre-Dark One Rumple gets a bad wrap for being a coward, but I have a huge soft spot for him. He was a simple, peace loving man, who had had his heart broken, didn’t have much in life, but was dedicated to using what little he did have to give his son the best possible chance in life.
It is accepted canon of the show that both pre dark one Rumpel and post dark one Rumpel are cowards. That is what the show is trying to say. He was a coward before when he ran and everyone died. He was a coward when Bae called him one when Rumpel let go of Bae so he would fall through the whole into the land without magic. He was still a coward centuries later when Belle called him one when he didn’t accept that she “loved” him. That is his defining characteristic that he is going to have to overcome if he is going to ever redeemed. He has to not do the cowardly thing when it is important which he always does now. That is what the showing is saying at least. They have said it over and over again in every Rumpel episode.