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I think Emma answers some of this issue with her comment to Gold, after Gold exclaimed that Emma was the Dark One, it was no longer him.

Emma basically said you're not dark, but you're not light either. you are nothing. a blank slate.

Emma has learned from the master of manipulation, and she is going to manipulate Rumple. She says she's going to make him the purest Hero. Which I would take means that he is NOT that at this point in time.

Rumple (Head Vision) tells Emma that they both know who will draw the sword, which I think is something that is actually yet to be revealed, something that we will find out  in Camelot in a future episode. Rumple is a means to an end, but I don't think that he is the end. And I hope this is the case, because watching the Master Manipulator become the manipulated one is an ironic, and imo genious,  turn of events.