Gideon Gold

**Gideon** is the son of the Dark One Rumplestiltskin and Belle, the grandson of Sir Maurice, Peter Pan and Colette, the paternal younger half-brother of Neal Cassidy, the paternal uncle of Henry Mills, his older half-brother's son and the great uncle of Lucy Mills.

Gideon posed as the god **Morpheus** in order for his mother to not fall for his father's tricks and awakens her from true love's kiss.

## Biography

### Pre-birth

Back in the 1800s, Rumplestiltskin had a family that consisted of his wife Milah and his son, Baelfire. When his first-born child was poisoned by a poisonous viper, Rumple comes to steal the potion from Fendrake the Healer. Being merciful, Fendrake allowed Rumplestiltskin to steal the potion in exchange for Rumple's second-born child.
Many years later, Rumplestiltskin, now as Mr. Gold came down to the Underworld, only to find that Belle was pregnant with his son while trying to locate his deceased son, Neal.

Back after the Dark Ones' defeat, Gold and Belle reconsumatted their marriage, unknowingly conceiving a child in the process. However, Rumple is freed from this debt when he uses Zelena as a hostage after Hades rips up the contract.

Before his birth, Emma sees Gideon kills her with a sword named Hrunting. In it, Emma dies from the hooded figure.

Gideon gives his mother true love's kiss to wake her from the nightmare.
With his mother still under the sleeping curse, Gideon uses the alias, "Morpheus" and makes sure his mother doesn't fall for his father's tricks. He approaches Gold, and warns him if Belle is not awaken within the next hour, she will be lost forever.

   Belle, under the hypnosis of her still being the maid at Rumplestiltskin's house, is tricked by her husband into giving him true love's kiss, but Belle refuses to continue with the love. "Morpheus" enters, showing himself to actually be their son. Belle later passes Gideon's test. He states that maybe Gold can't give true love's kiss, but he can.  Belle eventually wakens from the dream and the spell is broken by her son's true love kiss.

One day, Emma Swan sees a vision of the hooded figure cutting her down ("The Savior")

Knowing his newborn son would never love him, Rumple planned on using the Fates' shears on his son from hating him completely. However, Belle chastisizes him for thinking magic will make their son love him.
Rumplestiltskin later planned on using aging dust on Belle. As Morpheus again, Belle, after falling asleep reading, where she is lead to the shears and her son's fate strings, leading her to believe her being awake. Belle manages to find her son and happily embraces him. Gideon (still unborn) begs her to stop Gold from changing his fate. He awakes Belle from her dream when he cuts the ribbon with fake shears.

#### Accelerated birth

   Later, Gold went after his wife, who retreats form her husband, only to be cornered at the Library's elevator.  Belle's speech gets to him, Gold changes his mind and leaves her alone. However, the Evil Queen accelerates Belle's pregnancy, misleading Gideon's mother into thinking Gold put the potion on her. When going into labor, Emma rushed Belle to where the fairies were, knowing that the baby would be safe there when it was born.

### Early life

#### Birth

Gideon was born at the Convent of the Sisters of Saint Meissa on a day in 2015 with Belle's friend Emma Swan helped Belle through the birthing process. He was the son of Belle, the daughter of nobleman Sir Maurice and his wife Colette and Rumplestiltskin, the Dark One. While he was being born, Belle entered their dream world, where her son had convinced her that she had to do what was right to give her best chance. Belle gives him a hug and tearfully says that she loves him more than anything else in the world. Gideon told his mother to not to forget the book, with Belle confused. However, she is sent back in the real world, where she finally gives birth to her son.

#### Separation from Belle

"*My Gideon... strong and brave... a hero for all time. Don't you ever forget that I love you*"
—Belle to Gideon[src]

With Gideon born, Belle knew to think what was best for her son. She asked for Blue, who came to see the baby and gave her a congratulation. Belle asked Blue to be her son's fairy godmother, to which the fairy happily agreed to. Gideon's mother then requested that the baby be taken far away from Rumplestiltskin for her son to have his best chance, following Snow's and Charming's and Emma's examples of giving their children their best chance with Blue reluctantly going through with Belle's request. She asks for the book by Killian, who hands her favorite book to Belle, Her Handsome Hero. The baby's mother then tells Blue to read it to him, knowing that she loves him. Belle bid her child goodbye, and told him to be the brave and selfless hero.
Shortly after, Rumplestiltskin came to retrieve the baby, only to be too late, seeing the Blue Fairy fly off with his son.

While Blue was carrying the baby off to save him, Gideon is abducted by his grandmother, the Black Fairy, who raises him into being a merciless killer. When he returns to his home town grown up, he turns the Evil Queen into a snake and approaches the Golds' pawnshop, revealing himself to his parents, adding with "Hello Mother, and Hello Father and has dark intentions with him.

## Personality and traits

Gideon is a mixture of both his parents. While being kind, heroic, and selfless like his mother, Gideon is also shown to be cunning and a master of disguise, shown when he tricked Rumplestiltskin into believing he was Morpheus. However, Gideon does love his mother with all his heart and even proven when he gives her true love's kiss.

He may have been corrupted even before he was born, decieving both of his parents. Appearing as a young man in his mother's dreams, Gideon has his mother's brown hair but his father's brown eyes. His hair is usually seen cut short and wears brown clothing.

However, it is revealed in the flashback that Gideon is in fact a kind soul and hopes that Emma will help him defeat the Black Fairy (who knows Emma is capable of defeating her, but the Black Fairy says that Emma's death will let her break free, something Gideon does not want to do and is made his grandmother's own evil minion by stealing his heart.

## Relationships

### Family

#### Parents

Gideon's parents are Belle and Rumplestiltskin. Gideon loves his mother deeply, and it is true love after he gives Belle true love's kiss. He also calls her "mother" and wishes for her not to let Rumplestiltskin destroy their family like he destroyed his last one. Whenever Gideon looks at his father, he feels nothing but disdain and disgust for lying to his mother for all these years

### Emma Swan

Gideon when he first heard of her, wished to get Emma to help him and his friends defeat the Black Fairy. However, his foster mother steals his heart and wants him to kill Emma against him as well.

## Behind the scenes

Gideon was portrayed by Giles Matthey as an adult while he is portrayed by numerous unnamed babies when he was born. Gideon also derives from both the fairy tales of "Beauty and the Beast" and "Rumplestiltskin" because his parents are Belle from the former o fthe two tales and Rumple, who is also the beast from "Beauty and the Beast." He also took his name from the Greek deity Morpheus while tricking his father.

### Etymology

The masculine name "Gideon" is of Hebrew origin, usually meaning "hewer" or "having a stump for a hand" He was also named after his mother's favorite hero from her favorite book, "Her Handsome Hero". His name could also allude to the fact that he kills Emma in the future.

## Appearances

### Season 5

* "Devil's Due" (first mentioned)
* "Our Decay" (mentioned only)
* "Her Handsome Hero" (mentioned only)
* "Ruby Slippers" (mentioned only)
* "Sisters" (mentioned only)
* "Firebird" (mentioned only)
* "Only You" (mentioned only)
* "An Untold Story" (mentioned only)

### Season 6

* "The Savior" (first physical appearance)
* "A Bitter Draught" (archive footage only)
* "The Other Shoe" (mentioned only)
* "Strange Case" (mentioned only)
* "Street Rats" (archive footage only)
* "Dark Waters" (mentioned only)
* "Heartless" (mentioned only)
* "I'll Be Your Mirror" (mentioned only)
* "Wish You Were Here"
* "Tougher Than the Rest"
* "Murder Most Foul" (mentioned only)
* "Ill-Boding Patterns"
* "Page 23"
* "A Wondrous Place"
* "Mother's Little Helper"
* "Awake":
* "Where Bluebirds Fly"
* "The Black Fairy"
* "The Final Battle Part 1"
* "The Final Battle Part 2"