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''Knowing would not have made a difference. You still would have been powerless to escape your fate. ''(The Seer to Rumplestiltskin.)

''The future is like a puzzle. With missing pieces. Difficult to read. And never what you think.'' (Mr. Gold to Henry)

Rumpelstilskin: ''I can't see anything. It's too much. Nothing, but a jumble.​ ''

Seer: The future is a puzzle with many pieces to be sorted and you'll have to learn what can be from what will be.

I have a question: Rumpelstilskin absorbs the Seer's powers. However, the Dark One's abilities include precognition, don't they? So he can whield both?

And just to be clear: Bae would have grown up fartherless either way? If Rumple would have had decided to stay he would have died in battle. And Rumpel's decision to run away from  the battlefield led to the same result. So, Bae growing up fatherless (his fate) was a will be, Rumple dying in battle was a can be.

The question is: Henry being Rumpelstilskin's undoing is a '''will be? (I'm not talking about Mr. Gold.)'''   