Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26391241-20150511234157/@comment-26234227-20150513163003

AHappies wrote: Eskaver wrote: Hmcooper4 wrote: Eskaver wrote: Now that we know the Dark One's heart can be removed...can you crush it? Can you control it? We saw Rumple remove his own heart, and the Apprentice (who I would wager is on par with the DO in terms of power) remove his heart, but only after he was passed out and almost dead. I'm not sure if anyone else could remove it while the DO was alert and functional.

As for crushing, I doubt it. I would wager that there is some magical protection against crushing and controlling. Besides, why go for the heart when you can get the Dagger, which does control the Dark One (but only when it is tethered to a human soul)? I'll always question the Apprentice, who was easily subdued by Hook holding him down lol. I guess so...but I don't know what would stop them from doing so. Actually now that the Apprentice is brought up I'm wondering if he was above the powers of the Author during the Finale... anyways, so far it seems like the heiarchy goes Sorcerer & Darkness, Apprentice, Author, Dark One and so yes it can be crushed but only by those above the DO I think the author is above the apprentice because he forced him to transfer Emma's darkness to Lily. As for the heart, I wondered about that for a long time, and now I finally had an idea. I think that if someone did crush the dark one's heart, the human will be gone, just like what rumple thoought would happen to him. His heart was dying, and if someone were to crush it, I think it would have the same effect.

Emma's light magic is connected to love. Rumple kept loving bae after he became the dark one, and fell in love twice. The dark one can love. I think she might be fighting herself, like some sort of self possesion, when there's a dark Emma and a light Emma, and in the end maybe one of them will destroy the other. She might be the season one Regina to Regina's season one Emma, and try to keep Henry for herself, while Regina thinks she's putting him in danger. I also think maybe dark Emma will try to pull Hook back to the dark side after her statement. (Perfect timing, by the way. Just the time you wanna hear your girlfriend loves you. When she's getting sucked by the most evil thing in a all the realms. Nice one, Emma. An hour earlier wasn't good enough.)