I disagree with Rumple being at fault for making Pan evil!
Agreed times 1000. Trying to say that a little 8 yr old boy is responsible for the actions of a grown man is specious and it takes the blame Malcolm deserves for his own actions and puts it on someone else. Malcolm chose to let go of Rumple’s hand. He chose to drink and gamble and leave his son with spinsters.
Pan implies in their final confrontation that he never loved his son and always resented him. Is that true? Or is it just what Pan convinced himself over the years to help him justify the temptations that drew him away from a boy he once seemed to have some affection for ?
I think it’s the latter. I think he may have loved Rumple a little bit when Rumple was a child but over the years his obsession to be young forever changed everything and he convinced himself that he had never loved anyone.