So Rumple giving him a memory spell after Bae acted OOC didn’t save any face at all for you guys? Isn’t that the definition of why it wasn’t OOC? Now we know that at one time, Bae was tempted and used the dagger to kill someone whom he deemed a threat to him and his father. But we also know that Rumple took the blame and Bae went on after that to hate magic….which we saw. We saw that Bae. So can someone please tell me how this was OOC? Without the memory spell it is. I get that. Bc the rest of Bae’s life he goes out not liking magic and would never succumb to it so it would make zero sense if he remembered this as a child. But if the show is going to do this to put Rumple in a better light, then what’s wrong with Bae doing this one thing, Rumple fixing it so he doesn’t remember it, and Bae going on to be the Bae we saw throughout the show? You still get the Bae we knew, but now they created a wrinkle to show that Rumple saved his son from potentially being dark. It was Rumple’s actions that gave you guys the Bae you fell in love with. So I don’t get how this was OOC. And I get that it’s annoying that Bae would ever even be tempted by magic like that, but kids make mistakes. And it doesn’t mean it shattered his character. I also get that a memory spell probably shouldn’t wipe someone clean of darkness just bc they forget it, but that’s what they are going with so that’s what I have to go with too. And if that’s true, then Bae was reset before he used the dagger to the Bae we all remember and loved. So again, how is any one of this OOC with what we see in the future if Rumple wiped him clean?
Alas, what Rumple won’t do for his son……he hid this from Bae so he never would know what he did. He saved him in a sense and crushed his relationship with his son just so Bae could have a better life. They are setting us up for a Rumple death.