Short version: Bae lost his mother when he was young and grew up as the son of the coward of the town, the laughingstock Rumplestiltskin. While Bae wished to have friends who were willing to play with him, he was, for the most part, content to be with his Papa. They were each other’s world.
Then, when they got word that the conscription age for the Ogre Wars had lowered to 14, and Bae was almost to that threshold, Rumple took his son away in the night, tried to Flee. Bae said that if the law said he had to fight, he could fight. He didn’t mean the words to be taken as a dig at his beloved papa, but since that day, looking back, he’s always wondered if he had wounded his father more than anyone else, if that sentence was what had sealed his fate and made him determined to take the powers of the Dark One.
For the old beggar told them that the dark one’s dagger was the only way Bae would be safe. And Papa believed him. They stole the dagger and Bae was sent home. The soldiers tried to take him, but Papa showed up and stopped them. But… it was terrifying, and it wasn’t at all like Papa. It was the beginning of the end, in a lot of ways.
The time after that was spent with Bae all but a prisoner inside the safety of his father’s well-meaning darkness. If he thought he had few friends before, now he had none. But he was no longer enough for his father. He spent much time alone and when his Papa was around, they tended to argue more than anything else.
Finally, after Bae could no longer handle watching his father kill people in the name of protecting him, he made a wish to the blue fairy and received a bean that would open a portal to a world without magic. A world where he and his father could start again. No more Dark One. No more people who remembered and feared them. No more killing. A fresh start.
Papa agreed, but then kept trying to convince Baelfire that this… this was not the way. But a promise was a promise, and Bae was determined to have their fresh start, he wanted his Papa back; more than anything.
The portal opened and Rumple… broke his word. They went tumbling towards the portal, but Bae’s father braced himself against the ground, anchored by the dagger, holding it in one hand, the other hand holding Baelfire. Bae tried to pull them both into the vortex, Rumple tried to pull them both out.
In the end the final choice was Rumplestiltskin’s. They were at a stalemate. They could both go… or he could choose magic over Bae. He let go…. Of his son. The portal closed, and Bae…
Abilities: Nothing really to report on this front. Bae is the son of Gold/ The Dark One/Rumpelstiltskin, but was born more than a decade before the powers came into play, so it wasn’t like there was anything magical to inherit. He’s helped his papa some with basic chores and was learning some of the ways of wool, before the dagger, before… everything. Given the low tech in his world, he probably would seem remedial compared to his peers in the city. But he is bright, and he is clever. He can learn. And judging from the canon past the point I brought him, he seems dexterous and nimble enough to survive as a crook and a grifter. So while Bae cannot pick locks or hotwire a car, he has the manual dexterity and patience to learn skills of similar difficulty.
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Short version:
Bae lost his mother when he was young and grew up as the son of the coward of the town, the laughingstock Rumplestiltskin. While Bae wished to have friends who were willing to play with him, he was, for the most part, content to be with his Papa. They were each other’s world.
Then, when they got word that the conscription age for the Ogre Wars had lowered to 14, and Bae was almost to that threshold, Rumple took his son away in the night, tried to Flee. Bae said that if the law said he had to fight, he could fight. He didn’t mean the words to be taken as a dig at his beloved papa, but since that day, looking back, he’s always wondered if he had wounded his father more than anyone else, if that sentence was what had sealed his fate and made him determined to take the powers of the Dark One.
For the old beggar told them that the dark one’s dagger was the only way Bae would be safe. And Papa believed him. They stole the dagger and Bae was sent home. The soldiers tried to take him, but Papa showed up and stopped them. But… it was terrifying, and it wasn’t at all like Papa. It was the beginning of the end, in a lot of ways.
The time after that was spent with Bae all but a prisoner inside the safety of his father’s well-meaning darkness. If he thought he had few friends before, now he had none. But he was no longer enough for his father. He spent much time alone and when his Papa was around, they tended to argue more than anything else.
Finally, after Bae could no longer handle watching his father kill people in the name of protecting him, he made a wish to the blue fairy and received a bean that would open a portal to a world without magic. A world where he and his father could start again. No more Dark One. No more people who remembered and feared them. No more killing. A fresh start.
Papa agreed, but then kept trying to convince Baelfire that this… this was not the way. But a promise was a promise, and Bae was determined to have their fresh start, he wanted his Papa back; more than anything.
The portal opened and Rumple… broke his word. They went tumbling towards the portal, but Bae’s father braced himself against the ground, anchored by the dagger, holding it in one hand, the other hand holding Baelfire. Bae tried to pull them both into the vortex, Rumple tried to pull them both out.
In the end the final choice was Rumplestiltskin’s. They were at a stalemate. They could both go… or he could choose magic over Bae. He let go…. Of his son. The portal closed, and Bae…
Woke up on the train to Ruby City….
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Abilities: Nothing really to report on this front. Bae is the son of Gold/ The Dark One/Rumpelstiltskin, but was born more than a decade before the powers came into play, so it wasn’t like there was anything magical to inherit. He’s helped his papa some with basic chores and was learning some of the ways of wool, before the dagger, before… everything. Given the low tech in his world, he probably would seem remedial compared to his peers in the city. But he is bright, and he is clever. He can learn. And judging from the canon past the point I brought him, he seems dexterous and nimble enough to survive as a crook and a grifter. So while Bae cannot pick locks or hotwire a car, he has the manual dexterity and patience to learn skills of similar difficulty.