Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-26159109-20151022174919

I had an interesting thought about Rumple and his weird unexplained constantly changed motivations in season 4.

We know that being the Dark One means that the darkness, which is a different entity, is inside the person and tries to corrupt his heart. What if Rumple's hope and determination to find Bealfire prevented from the Darkness ti fully take over. However, once Neal died, that hope was gone and the Darkness was able to corrup Rumple's heart even further, thus seeing him talk about taking over the world and other nonesense, maybe we saw glimps of the true Darkness entity (we should find this thing a real name) in Rumple.

The things that ruins this theory are:

1. Why would the Darkness care about Belle or Henry? But that maybe the real Rumple talking.

2. Why would the Darkness want to find the Author to change Rumple into a hero and prevet his heart of becoming totally dark (which is supposed to be the Darkness main goal)? My guess is that when Belle banished Rumple from the town, it made the human Rumple strong again, not completely strong, but strong enough to want to change things and bring Belle back and becone a hero and all that nonesense we had to go through in 4B.

So what do you guys think? 