Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-9241531-20150811165244/@comment-25926288-20150813104918

DarKingdomHearts wrote: Dr. Kangaroo wrote: DarlingDavies wrote: Maybe when you absorb the darkness, you're able to commune w/ the previous DO? Yeah, that's what I was thinking too! Kinda like the Avatar in the Last Airbender series who could commune with his/her past selves. Was going to say that too, makes the most sense imo. And they said we would learn more about previous DO's as well, so maybe she delves further into the DO past to meet them and learn their stories about handling the darkness. Maybe Emma also learns why Rumple became the DO (we haven't had that explained on screen, right?) We know why he became the Dark One. His child was going to be called into war and Zoso manipulated him into taking the DO's powers himself. Like, tha was shown in Rumple's first centirc episode in season 1.........lol

Emma knows that because of Neal....offscreen. I mean it would be weird to have them show her spefically why because it would make us think the characters never talk off-screen. He never was shown telling Belle why he became the Dark One, but I would think she knows, even if it wasn't shown onscreen.