Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1475805-20150331011255/@comment-25926288-20150408115117

Well, let me just comfort you by telling you that your fear may be real.

I think that the DO curse shouldn't kill the host, because there was no inference before. I mean to say, we only met Zoso and he was only Dark One for a couple decades and Rumple was Dark One for hundreds of years. Now, it could take different people at different rates but killing the host almost sounds counter-productive. I would like to think it is just going to consume his heart (by it, I mean darkness) and he'll lose the humanity that he struggled to have. Like maybe then, when the heart is filled with darkness the curse tries to possess the host aka the host is just power-hungry and nothing else. I'll attribute Rumple's resurrection in aiding it. Rumple's body was raised now as pure darkness and only the light of Bae and Belle kept the darkness from consuming him. Now that those two lights are dwindling and gone, it is only a matter of time.

I think it may seem to do as such to Regina because, well, she touched it and has quite a dark heart herself and it's trying to attach itself to a host (even though we saw it travel to Rumple in a benign matter). I just think that they never mentioned this as a possibility before because if there was no Dark One, the power is just suppose to fizzle away.