NPCs · first: NA E1
Henry Hubbard
Henry is Timothy's husband, shown on a card in Timothy's flashback NA E1·01:20:12. When Timothy comes home with his hands full of bones and says "This is Jack", Henry asks what is going on and what he means NA E1·01:19:56 NA E1·01:20:14. Henry says their son said he had found the egg, and Timothy answers that he did not NA E1·01:20:37. When lightning flashes and sickly yellow eyes look in from the dark, Henry throws the shutters closed, lights a candle and brings out books of magic and wishes from the library NA E1·01:22:05 NA E1·01:24:14.
In the fourth episode Timothy returns from the Golden Goose's world to his desk at night, where Henry stands in a long nightcap and nightgown with a light NA E4·02:19:53. He asks "Darling? Is everything all right?" NA E4·02:21:45 In the eleventh episode Brennan's Legend Lore shows Timothy a version of Jack who "didn't grow up with you and Henry" NA E11·00:33:23. In the sixteenth, in Jack's eyes Brennan shows the face of Henry reflected back, and Mother Goose wonders whether Henry came there too NA E16·00:44:45. The Golden Goose then returns with Tomas and his brothers carrying Henry's alive but weak and malnourished body NA E16·02:01:37.
Henry wakes in Mother Goose's arms on the cloud, recognises him, and says he went looking for Timothy, found notes and went to Shoeburg, and was hit by a wagon in the street and died NA E17·00:05:45 NA E17·00:12:03 NA E17·00:12:45. Henry says that after he died he saw their Jack in a village called Hapley in a kingdom called Jubilee, with a friend named Cole, and that Jack ran faster than the wind and brought him to a door, after which he woke with these memories, went east, met a mule in Marienne who told him where to find giants, and journeyed north NA E17·00:14:12 NA E17·00:15:03. Brennan says Henry is also a witch NA E17·00:21:29. After the Golden Goose dies, Henry says the book is powerful, that there is very little time, and that the princesses have already moved to The Lines Between NA E17·01:43:06. At the Baba Yaga's cottage he cries on the welcome mat and says "I love you and I trust you." NA E18·00:06:14 NA E18·00:06:22 Before the party goes to fight, he says he should stay with Jack, who is looking unwell, and that he was killed by a wagon NA E18·02:04:56. In Mother Goose's epilogue, as Ally tells it, Mother Goose is at home in Hapley with Henry, who builds a little house on their property for the Gander; when Ally asks whether Henry can come along on the Gander's travels, Brennan says he can, and they travel together NA E20·02:19:24 NA E20·02:22:01 NA E20·02:22:37 NA E20·02:22:46.
By episode
NA E1: The Times of Shadow
NA E4: Once Upon a Time
NA E11: Big and Bad
- Henry — named once by Brennan: Jack "didn't grow up with you and Henry" — 00:33:23
NA E16: In the Land of Giants
NA E17: The Last Wish
- Henry Hubbard (he/him) — card "HUSBAND TO TIMOTHY / TALES OF OLD MOTHER GOOSE" (00:03:17); Mother Goose's husband, found sleeping on the cloud, wakes and recognises him; a witch ("Yes, Henry is also a witch.") — 00:03:05, 00:05:45, 00:21:29
- Memories: died when a wagon hit him in Shoeburg; before that found notes, a clockwork man whom he reunited with a man with an eyepatch, princesses who left, and the fact that "the original shoes of Shoeberg have dead giants' feet in them" — 00:12:03, 00:12:39
- After dying he saw Jack in Hapley in the kingdom of Jubilee with a friend named Cole, a king; Jack ran "faster than the wind" and brought him to a door; he woke with memories of this life; went east, met a mule in Marienne who sent him to the giants, journeyed north — 00:14:12, 00:15:03
- Remembers Ylfa fondly: "Sweet Ylfa!" — 00:06:57
- On Jack: "there are a lot of stories about Jack!" — 00:15:41
- After the Goose's death: "It seems like the book is powerful. We have very little time. The princesses have already moved to The Lines Between." — 01:43:06