A few reasons why Baelfire is important
-Without Baelfire, there would be no show because Rumple took on the Dark One curse to save him from the Ogre War and he got Regina to create Storybrooke in the first place so that he could find Baelfire again. Regardless of the later inconsistencies regarding the difficulties of portal jumping, this is still an important plot point for the first three seasons of the show
-Baelfire had established relationships with much of the main cast including Emma, Killian, Belle, and Henry. There was also potential for him and Regina to have one as well since they were coparents. Unfortunately, the development of many of those relationships is in some very good fic due to the character’s untimely death.
-The character clearly meant a lot to both Michael Raymond James and Robert Carlyle
-Baelfire’s fandom has seen some shit to put it mildly but there’s some cool folks in that fandom who have managed to keep writing fic and rolled with the punches as best they can
Fics I’ve written with Baelfire as an important character:
The Knight Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
Some meta about the Rumple/Baelfire relationship
Rush's tumblr archive 