He has been picked on a bullied and now here is someone else who says they are a “hero” who has killed several people and is going to blame it on his father. I don’t think this has anything to do with leaving towns
Not sure I buy that, sorry. I get what you’re saying but in a mere few months Baelfire is going to not only push Rumple to leave town but to leave worlds. Rumple is suggesting that they leave town and start over–having resisted killing Beowulf himself having proven that he can resist dark magic–and Bae just “nopes” that idea and orders his father to kill another person. Remember his words in The Return: “you hurt people all the time now.” He was against Rumple hurting anyone–the mute maid, the snail man, anyone who so much as looked at Rumple wrong.
This also completely recasts the Rumple/Bae dynamic. Rumple could have resisted the dark magic but nooooo Bae made him kill someone! It’s feels retroactive and a way to trash a dead character.