Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11058666-20141228031222/@comment-25926288-20150203003347

Hmcooper4 wrote: Who knows? Maybe, IF they end up doing a Dark One arc, they can use that arc to physically seperate Rumple from Gold. Give Rumple all of the Aspects of the Dark One, and let Gold Remain without any of the Dark Tendencies. Side Benefit, they could let Gold retain his magic due to the way the split happened (remeber, all magic comes with a price).

I very seriously doubt it will happen this way, but it could be an interesting way to handle the story. But Gold doesn't exist and wouldn't be the Rumple that everyone knows. We only saw brief glimpses of the MR. Gold persona, before Rumple memories returned. Now, if you said separating the Dark One from Rumplestiltskin, maybe...