Yeah, it absolutely matters whom you most identify with/like/want to cuddle…because you’re more willing to see things from their perspective, explain away things that others can’t accept, look for the good in them etc.
It’s why Belle was the last one who could see Rumple as a beast and why Emma’s willing to overlook Hook’s villainous deeds and why Robin saw Regina as reformed and not as his wife’s murderer, too. We’re all willing to cut the ones we love a little more slack than sometimes we even should.
Keeper of Belle's Gold magic, sand dollar, cloaks, purple FTL outfit, spell scroll, library key, copy of Romeo and Juliet, and cry-muffling pillow, Rumple's doll, overcoat, and strength, and The Timeline. My spreadsheet: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6r8CySCCWd9R0RUNm4xR3RhMEU/view?usp=sharing