Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3966122-20131220140714/@comment-23871096-20131224183524

Jomasher wrote: reply to #3 If Rumple has no magic, how can he call his shadow back? When he confronts Peter he seems to be more Dark One than Rumple. I don't know what to think about his disappearing a moment before the dagger reaches his heart... but I am not entirely convinced that Dark Lord could kill himself. Looks as tho all the bracelette does is suppress magic. It doesn't revert Rumple back to fully being the village coward. He was still the Dark One. I think this youtube comment best describes what happened with Rumple/Pan:

 Watch the scene closely. He and Pan are in an embrace when he skewers Pan. Because of the close embrace, the dagger goes through Pan and into Rumpel too. And this transfers the Dark One's power to Pan, which turns him old again. Since the Dark One is killing both himself and the next Dark One to be, the cycle is broken and both of them disintegrate into light and die. This was Rumpel's plan to kill Pan all along, and also his "undoing" that the prophecy spoke of.