Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25355646-20150302022703/@comment-26255666-20150425034043

Eskaver wrote: Technically, the Dark Curse doesn't need to destroy a realm or travel. They just so happen to use it that way. Remember, Pan casted it and nothing would change, but the memories and the timelessness.

Remember, also that Rumple manipulated the Dark Curse to do that. The Dark Curse beforehand likely did what I mentioned. It wasn't until Rumple tinkered with it that it required such a price.

I mean, who would Mal, Ursula or Cruella sacrifice? Mal and Ursula could find someone, but Cruella couldn't dare find a single person because she can't love.

I forgot about that first point, thank you.

Perhaps if you did not have someone you loved then you could not cast the curse? Do we know what the basic laws and requirements are of the dark curse? Would the contents of requirements change when they can change so many other aspects (like memories and timelessness) without the "recipe" changing? Rumple didn't have someone he loved and it was predicted early on he couldn't/wouldn't enact the curse, so maybe it was because he wouldn't have had anyone he loved to kill? (Since we know he turned Belle away in the Enchanted Forest when she tried to cure him.)