Gideon

I liked the idea that she named him after the character in “Her Handsome Hero”. It genuinely felt like something Belle would do.

I still don’t think the dream Morpheus is Gideon.  I think Belle played right into Blue’s hands.  I think Blue knows Rumple is the Black Fairies son so she somehow planted the “changeling” Morpheus into Belle’s dreams to convince her to give him to Blue.  Where she took him, I don’t know,  can she leave Storybrook? Can she cross Realms?  And how was she caring a new born baby as a little tiny fairy, did she shrink him? Of course Rumple will find him, that is his long game we have a rehash of season 1 and 2 of Rumple doing whatever he has to to get his son back. I don’t buy into the destiny rope, again I am going with the theory that all that was a play to get Belle to give the baby over to Blue.

I wonder if she took the baby to the black fairy.

I have a somewhat crack-pot theory, but so far I haven’t seen anyone else come up with it. What if the man in Belle’s vision isn’t really Belle’s son, Gideon, but, rather, the grown up son of Jack and Jill? Something just seems off with him. After all, a changeling isn’t just a child taken by a fairy, but rather “a child believed to have been secretly substituted by fairies for the parents’ real child in infancy.”

I found it incredibly odd how the man in Belle’s vision said, “Remember the book” (paraphrase). It struck me as very peculiar since how would he know about the book? It made me wonder if he isn’t her son but is really Jack and Jill’s son from the EF flashback — the one to whom Belle read the story Her Handsome Hero when she took care of him at the dark castle. Why else would he have said “remember the book”  —  which doesn’t really make sense unless Belle had read it to him. Could adult “Gideon” (aka Morpheus) be an imposter?

I wonder if the Black Fairy somehow collected Jack and Jill’s infant son after Belle returned him to his parents, he grew up and now wants revenge on the Dark One for stealing him in infancy and summoning the Black Fairy in the first place.

I think he was referring to the book about defeating the dark one, you know the one from the dream. I still like your theory at this point and time I am trying to grasp on to any hope I can find. I hate the idea that a baby can hate his father even before he is born, there is something completely wrong about this. If Morpheus does end up being their child I will be completely upset.

I took the book to be a reference to Her Handsome Hero, rather than the book about how to defeat the dark one from the vision, since Belle then proceeded to name her newborn son after the book’s protagonist, Gideon.