Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-24386552-20141110020843/@comment-25602483-20141110021843

I still think its about freedom. Maybe he wanted to explore the human world without the need to experience everything the way normal people do (unlikely considering this is a fairy tale/sci-fi. Lmao). I mean, Rumple already wanted to break free from the dagger while he was still living in EF so its not likely that he wants to rule the human world. The only thing that I can think of for him to want that much more power is to probably find a way to revived his son, as it sounds like breaking free from the dagger makes him even more powerful, perhaps so powerful that he might just break all the laws and limits of magic. But again, because A&E said during comi-con 2014 that we will only see neal through flasbacks, perhaps he will still fail even with the power he will possess once he cleaves his connection with the dagger. He may also be planning on  break th prophecy, you know Henry is still alive and he is will be rumple's undoing so with more power, he may be able to change or at the very least influence the future. Here is another crazy theory, what if he wanted to turn the world in like a new version of EF, just like Peter Pan wanted to turn SB into a new neverland.