Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20161003005933/@comment-24674051-20161018202512

Well, to be fair, taking another person's life, no matter the reason, is going to have a profound impact on the person. Consider the many policemen that are required to undergo counseling (and evaluation) after they have had to shoot a person in the course of their jobs. (And I won't even go into the number of vets that need counselling after being involved in combat).

And I would not say that Rumple was ever pure of heart. his heart was a clean slate, but it was never pure. As for the Egg-Nappers, didn't Snow acknowledge the possibility that the darkness on her heart could have been caused by the Egg events, rather than the murder of Cora?