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Character Basics:

Character Name: Neal Cassidy
Journal: kepthimhuman
Age: Apparent age mid-30s; actual age approx. 300
Fandom: Once Upon a Time
Canon Point: 3x15, Quiet Minds
Debt:

Class A: 1 year
Class B: 2,503 years, 6 months
Class C: 12 years, 8 months

GRAND TOTAL: 2,517 years, 2 months

Canon Character Section:

History: here

Personality:

The main aspects of Neal's personality stem from his abandonment issues. He's never really had a family, so it's the one thing he's wanted for his whole life. The fact that he himself was abandoned has given him some guilt over doing the same thing to Emma, and this guilt got worse once he realized he also abandoned the son he never knew about. This has motivated many of the things he has done in the time since then, attempting to assuage this guilt and to be there like he should have from the start. His sparse childhood, followed by a life of moving from place to place and his subsequent years of avoiding being found by his father have taught him how to hide and how to make do with what's available.

He's determined not to make the same mistakes his father did. He sees magic as the source of all the problems between him and his father, and dislikes what he sees as his father's excessive use of it. His dislike and distrust of magic has lessened some after his reunion with his father though, and after he's used a little of it himself. He's still cautious, but he's not as opposed to it as he used to be. Using magic to get back to his son, and then later to bring his father back to life, have softened his opinion.

He's essentially a good man, he just sometimes has a problem with doing the right thing. When it comes right down to it, for a family member, he will do anything within his power. If there's someone he thinks he can trust, he will defend them no matter what, and once someone loses his trust, he has a hard time trusting them again.

Everything he does is for family. The biggest decisions he has made in his life have been influenced by his desire for family, even as a child. He searched out the bean that caused him to end up in the land without magic because that was the only way to restore his father to himself, which was the most important thing. He took being left by his father so hard because his father was the only family he had left. Despite the estrangement, his disappointment in who his father had become, and his desire to have nothing to do with the man who broke his promise and abandoned him, when that man was threatened he didn't hesitate to do what was necessary to allow him to stay alive. When he had finally found himself able to forgive his father for what had happened, he wasn't able to accept his father's death, which led him to ignore warnings and the sensible route he would normally have taken and stop at nothing to get his father back, even at the cost of his own life.

He has felt guilt over what he did to Emma ever since he did it. It's why he did what he could to make sure she was taken care of (by arranging for her to get the car and the money). He still hadn't forgiven himself for it the next time he saw her, and understands that it might be hard for her to forgive him. He never actually asks for her forgiveness, and he may not even think he deserves it. This guilt is the reason he didn't come to Storybrooke when he had the chance. While he still loves her, and wants the chance for them to be a family, he eventually realizes that they are a family no matter what. In the end, he wants Emma to live her life, even if it isn't a life with him in it.

Although he knows that much of what he did when he was younger was illegal and therefore the wrong thing to do, he views it as an unfortunate necessity, for the most part. The petty theft of food, that was to survive. It's something he never would have done if the situation had been better, and once he got his life turned around, it was something he never considered again. Stealing a car gave him a place to live. The theft of the watches was purely selfish, and just because he could (though he did intend to live off of the money he got for them). Most of these things, he did them to survive, and he didn't feel any guilt about them at the time, although he does acknowledge that these are actions worthy of punishment. The action that he views as most deserving of punishment is the one that wouldn't earn him punishment in a court of law: his betrayal of Emma. It's the only one he feels guilty about, and he wasn't able to forgive himself for years, until Emma managed to forgive him.

Hook started out as something akin to family, a father figure when he didn't have one, although he wouldn't have put it in terms like that because he was unaware of the connection between them. When he discovered the role Hook had played in the dissolution of his family, it didn't matter that Hook wanted him to stay. Hook was the reason he had no family anymore. After the events in New York, Hook became a threat to the family he had left, and this was only made worse when Hook began pursuing Emma as well. Over time, he saw that Hook cared for his family as much as he did, and when the family was in trouble, he found himself relying on Hook to help save them. He doesn't see Hook as a threat to his family anymore. Instead he's the man who “looked after” him for awhile, and he wishes he could have the chance to mend their relationship.

Ultimately the decisions he makes are tied into his desire to be a better father to Henry than his own father was to him. While he goes to Storybrooke because his father's life is in danger, he stays there for a chance to get to know Henry. When he finds out that Emma, and especially Henry, are in Neverland, he puts aside his own personal feelings about the place to find a way back there, to help bring Henry home. Family is more important to him than his own safety. He has a certain amount of sadness to find that Henry doesn't remember him, but can take solace in the fact that at least Henry will know about his heroic actions.

When it comes to keeping anyone he considers family safe, he is willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.

He keeps mostly to himself, stemming from his desire not to draw attention to himself. When he meets someone new, he's friendly and polite, but reveals only as much information as he has to. The fewer questions about his past, the better. His daily routine consists mostly of going between whatever job he has at the moment and his apartment. He doesn't have many close friends, just acquaintances from his job or the stores he frequents. Even though he has settled down now, he still lives with the anticipation that he'll need to pick up everything and move on to somewhere new.

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