Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1894786-20151102014307/@comment-6175354-20151104144258

Eskaver wrote:

It's like them saying that the DO Rumple we saw was evil, but Rumple's an evil man underneath. Rumplestiltskin was a coward before he was the Dark One, and an even bigger coward as the Dark One. The Darkness twisted him into an evil, manipulative killer, but it do not make him any less a coward. Rumple believed that magic would make him powerful, and keep him (and his loved ones) safe from harm. His bravado was just a mask, used to cover the coward beneath. Cowardice was the core personality trait of Rumple's, that the Darkness fed upon and twisted. The question with Emma, is which personality trait is the Darkness twisting?