This is my own personal view so take it as such: no one “deserves” love outside of the love a parent has for a child. That always needs to be a given. But other than that, no. Love must be earned. And if it turns out that Regina and Rumple don’t get their happy endings because they have done HORRIBLE things to people and those people are not willing to love or forgive them, then that’s the breaks, kids. You are not owed loved just because you’ve ‘seen the light.”