Thanks for the quotes hjbau!
I think a larege chunk of the information that fans have gathered as “evidencce” that Bae is Henry’s father are quotes from the creators themselves. There is no solid evidence that Bae is the father, and yet, I can’t help but think that’s exactly what’s going to happen. Even though my only evidence are a few ambiguous quotes, the whole Baelfire=firefighter thing, and the fact that Bae was sent to a world without magic.
I think a lot of people believe the theory because it’s just too coincidental. Why would the writers send Bae to our world? There were a ton, and I mean A TON of different explanations they could have come up with as to why Rumpel created the curse. And yet, they settled on this one. Once again, I know I’m just pulling theories out of thin air, but there’s just something about theory that feels…true. Out of all the theories about who could possibly be Henry’s father (August, Graham, Dr. Whale, even freaking Jefferson 😆 ) this is the only one that sounds right. But like I just said, the theories prior to this one were so laughably weak that any other theory could come along and smash it to pieces. 😆
But I’m not going to lie, I really like the theory. I like the idea of Henry being the one thing that all the warring on this show factions have in common. He’d be connected to the Charmings, connected to Rumpel’s family, and also to Regina. I think it’s very beautiful. These three different sides can fight and argue all they want, but at the end of the day, they’ll all have to stop for Henry’s sake. I hope the writers revisit that theme in future seasons.
I also like the idea of Emma and Bae being orphans together. For all we know, Bae could have popped out the vortex around the same time Emma was 14. I could easily see them being drawn to each other due to their tragic backgrounds. They were both parentless, from Fairytale land and are directly conencted to the curse. Baelfire being the inspiration and reasoning for the curse and Emma being it’s ender. I like the poetry of it all. 😀