Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-26241562-20151013033754/@comment-11464223-20151013040415

Eskaver wrote:

We never saw Rumple's fall to darkness. It went from Normal Rumple to a lightly Golden Rumple in the flashbacks. This. We don't know that Rumple didn't have visions of the darkness manifesting itself -- hell, we know he went pretty crazy, that actually kind of supports the idea. It's never established that he didn't, so we have no reason to believe explicitly that he didn't, y'know?

Those're my two cents.