To be fair, we should remember that we’ve only seen a few minutes of Bae’s character before the events of this episode – when Rumple first became the Dark One in season one’s “Desperate Souls.” Every scene of Bae after that episode would have taken place after he drank the potion.
The potion took him back to pre-Beowulf, back to who he before the daggers apparent influence (if we go with @AKA) so I think it’s safe to say we have a handle of Bae’s character. It was largely established in Desperate Souls and the Return. At every turn he was a boy who believed in his papa, a kind boy, a loving boy, and not someone who was given to moments of violence like this.
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"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"