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Sjr1219 wrote: Something to consider, in order for the hat to untether him he needed to sacrifice someone who knew him before he was the dark one. People who say Gold was ooc for wanting to retether himself should consider the fact that technically everyone in town know knew him when he wasn't the dark one. So know it would be alot easier to use the spell since he can use just a random person know one cares about. Also what is different about the dagger exactly? I was using the gallery page to compare the "new" dagger to old picture's but they look the same to me. The hat currently is destroyed or in an undetermined locatiuon and it needs tons of light magic to work anyhow and the Apprentice one of the more powerful magic users is now dead. So, he can't do that spell. The point is why tether himself, but it was likely the side effect of power movement and it correlates to how Hook was tetthered to Excalibur. It makes sense he was tethered, but it doesn't make sense Rumple would place himself back into a tethered situation. Probably he doesn't care about being tethered as long as he has the power. It's better that than his OOC "Take over the World" plot.

Different color scheme.