I had been thinking that Rumpelstiltskin’s habit of concealing things and avoiding the tru

I had been thinking that Rumpelstiltskin’s habit of concealing things and avoiding the truth was something that developed after he was cursed. But clearly it is a basic part of his personality. Perhaps increased by the dark curse (along with his paranoia and desire to jealously guard his power) but right from the beginning he was giving his son a very carefully chosen version of the truth.It rather makes the amount of honesty we’ve seen from him with Belle in season two impressive even as it is obvious that he has a long way to go in that department. (As in many others. He is a work in progress.) Never telling anyone what is really going on is long standing method of self preservation for him and it must be quite scary to even let in his true love. -- source link

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