Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25375217-20170515051204/@comment-25926288-20170515053120

I think she's in essence all of Rumple's bad traits amplified. Malcolm was similar to Rumple, but I think Malcolm was more of what Rumple used as his shell (Just how Cora is seen in the Evil Queen shell of Regina).

Rumple is a controlling man. He disregards the wishes of his significant others to fulfill his happy ending. What stops Rumple is his love.

Rumple is very manipulative and willing to cause great pain, forget all others. What stops Rumple or at least limits it is his love.

Rumple wants power, more power, and all the power for security. However, what stops him is his love (even quite literally).

Fiona is a broken individual, just Rumple without the love in his life. She also reflects Regina (see my thread with Fiona being a composite Villain) when casting the curse as all you have to do is recognize that if you replace Fiona with Regina, you get the original idea: destruction of all the realms of story, the Savior saving all the realms/happy endings, and the whole in her heart would never be filled. It's probably why Black fairy didn't even need to crush a heart. Besides essentially being a different spell, it's the perfect Dark Curse: A curse that goes the distance because only someone so dark could cast it. With nothing to gain (hole in your heart, which was complete darkness anyway for Fiona), there was nothing to lose (thing you love most, which she had none, not even Rumple).

She's Rumple's evilness personified, the perfect caster of the Curse, essentially the Dark Curse itself, in a way.

i have to rewatch, but I'm guessing all light magic would turn dark, leading to dark magic becoming more powerful than it currently is, which allows them to break the laws of magic. (Also, the UW was a world being consumed, so....there's that.)

Now, her plan was okay. It was 1. Get free. 2. Get dust via manipulation (Failed when Zelena removed her magic. Succeeded when Rumple gave her the wand with access to DR) 3. Cast curse and "Snuff out the Light" and lead all worlds into Chaos/Darkness.