Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1916997-20150313202428/@comment-1894786-20150510070432

Lady Regina wrote: Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: 8Rob wrote: I read something about rumple's heart going totally dark, and then the "Dark One" escapes and becomes its own entity, independent from Rumple

If this is true, then being "dark one" isn't a curse, but some sort of possession well, at least that'd be good news for Rumple. Unless the Dark One takes his magic AND immortality away with its curse. In which case, everyone in town will come for his head. I thought that Rumple meant with what he said in 4x20, that if he died, he physical would still be alive and it would be pure darkness and evilness, so that would axctually be a great plot twis. Yeah, what Rumple said is that he'll basically become a Heartless from Kingdom Hearts. A creature of pure evil with no humanity or love and the Darkness will take him over.

8Rob is suggesting that instead of dying, the Darkness leaves Rumple and takes its own form once it's taken away all of his light.