Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25355646-20150302022703/@comment-25926288-20150608130651

I don't know why anyone can't just accept him making it for science!...I mean magic.

There is no physics involved with the curse. The Curse itself is the physical balance to itself. Ok, follow me. The Dark Curse can give anyone their happy ending but requires a dark cost and exacts a dark price. But that's it. Happy ending(s) (which is light, light, light) is balanced by the sacrifice (Thing you love most) and the price (the emptiness inside).

The curse isn't a big dark spell that was neeeded to balance Merlin or any force besides itself. It is a good spell, but in the hands of evil it can do bad....which is said about everything! We see Regina do it for dark reasons, but let's see it for good reasons.

Example: The Small World of Gravel has two massive sides of the biggest war ever. King Rock sees that his people always lived in a tundra and never hand a bountiful harvest. People are starving, the war threatens to kill thousands of lives, maybe even hundreds of thousands, which would devestate the world of Gravel. So, King Rock trains his son in the king's way and tells Prince Pebble to perform the Dark Curse to stop the world's destruction. SO Prince Pebble sacrifice's his father (who willingly choose to) and cast the Dark Curse. He changes the land into a land of plentiful harvest,where none should ever go hungry. He helps lift most out of poverty. He changes the minds and the mindset of those who wiched to wage war. He creates a peaceful world now called The Garden, which used to be the world of Gravel. (Can't be undone because Rumple specifically added a way to break it, unless the prince would undo it.)

See, now it is very good, though still at a price.