Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11464223-20151109020125/@comment-5106672-20151109200851

ChocolatEyes613 wrote: Eskaver wrote: It wouldn't be permanent, I'd guess but she'd be the one to resist the temptaions and use it for good. Exactly, it would probably just last long enough for Emma to kill Nimue. Oh, no.... Emma needs someone to channel Nimue. Well, it would make sense for the Dark One's powers to just vanish in a huge burst of magic when they're used for good because we can argue they're being bent against their nature. Except a) theoretically, the Graal-granted powers should have be good in their original nature, before Nimue corrupted them, and b) it would work if they hadn't been already used for good before without disappearing.

Eskaver wrote:

GothicNarcissus wrote: I don't know. She wouldn't be the first one to do so: Rumple stopped the first Ogre War with his powers and saved so many lives. He did it mostly for his son, true, but if we know something about the Charmings is they always do stuff to save their own faily / immediate circle of friends, so I guess Emma would use the power to do something like that… Psst, don't remind the writers before they make that a selfish and dark intention too. Well, technically there is no such thing as a totally selfless good act, because when you do something to make people you care about feel good, you're making yourself feel good by proxy. Even when you help out a perfect stranger, that makes you feel good by proxy. Also, good deeds done for selfish reasons still remain good deeds, just as bad ones done for the "greater good" still remain bad ones: however much it diverges from it, OUAT ultimately goes back to a very realistic set of morals (see how the Heroes vs Villains conflict turned out last season).