Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20160509005929/@comment-27257290-20160516004424

Eskaver wrote: I would agree with the first part. It's just all the callousness without the witty charm or sarcasm. When he killed the healer, you could feel the epicness, but were stuck with mean man Gold.

Emma and Nimue weren't cursed, so they looked like the DO. Rumple (and Zelena)are cursed which is why there form never change. Hook, though, is an outlier. Emma was cursed, otherwise she wouldn't have gone back to Storybrooke. The curse changes even the caster's appearance, like when Regina and Snow enacted it, although Emma didn't even cast it, she only added a memory wipe, so she definitely should have been transformed. By the logic of the first and second curses, Emma should have been given normal hair and her red jacket again, just as Zelena was given her normal appearance. In fact, Emma's role in the third curse was exactly the same as Zelena's in the second curse.