Reply To: Was Rumple a Lost Boy? (spoilers!)

[Slurpeez]

Felix said something about something not thought about in YEARS can make us cry. Bae and Belle have been on Rumples mind for DAYS.

Just because Rumple has recently seen Bae doesn’t mean Rumple has thought about the doll recently. It’s been centuries since Rumple initially let go of Bae’s hand in “The Return.” If Rumple was ever in NL as an adult around the same time Bae was, he may have come across this doll before. My guess is that PP might have shown the doll to Rumple, allowing Rumple to assume the worst. PP probably was keeping Bae’s whereabout a secret, since PP had other plans to let Bae return to Earth to meet Emma and father Henry. Let’s say Rumple somehow figured out that Bae was in NL and had gone to retreive him, PP could have said Bae had escaped or was dead and shown the doll to Rumple. If the doll is some sort of Voodoo doll then that would cause even more pain for Rumple, especially in the present day when he believes his son is dead and gone forever.

I think the doll may have something to do with Rumple’s mother.

It’s entirely possible. With so little to go on, tt’s too early to rule out anything.