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TheSamTrickster wrote: Magician123 wrote: Eskaver wrote:

Magician123 wrote: According to the Preview Robin goes to get the Elixir of Wounded Heart. Maybe his heartache for Belle is so strong that he is actually dying. Lol, couldn't he just whip up a forgetting potion to forget her. Anyway, it's past Rumple before he meets Belle that wants the elixir. Remember from an earlier episode Rumple thought that the pain from memories was strength and wanted to keep his memories during the second curse. Maybe he is too stubborn to erase his memories or that the heartache has somehow taken a physcial form.

My theory is that outside SB, rumple suffers from his "old age" technically he has existed for centuries now. In reference with the avatar, if you know this show, Aang was frozen within the ICE in avatar state which means he was literally frozen in time which why he didn't age. But he died around 60-70 I believe because that 100 years he spent frozen in time finnally took a toll on his body. So this might be what's happening with Gold. In the six weeks outside of SB, gold's body finally succumbs to the side effect of immortality which can only be maintain via living in a world with magic (Being the Dark One + Magical world = Immortality), however Being the Dark One + World without magic = He is mortal.

I am also intrigue by what belle told rumple during the episode of "Heroes and Villains". She said that "I know why you collect magical objects. There is a hole in your heart". We know that the hole was losing bae, however, what if the side effect of Being the Dark One is one must continously collect magical Items. I noticed that Rumple keeps seeking power, what if he absorbs magic from these "collected items" to maintain his immortality, Maybe that's the purpose of being immortal, to continously collect as much magic to maintain life. So my dagger theory which I mentioned earlier might make sense here, the dagger absorbs magic for the dark one to use, Which is why when A dark one dies without being stab by the dagger, the power from the dagger dissipates in the air into nothing, this was mentioned by Cora in "Miller's Daugther. And the ability of the dagger's ability to absorb magic was mentioned by rumple in "The Return episode". I am posting these seasons so you would know where I'm a coming from with these therories. Rumple just collects magical items for more power, the DO's power hungry nature.

It's hard to believe Rumple would be dying of old age, because he's return to magic and his immortality would be intact once more. I think of the dagger like the Black Fairy wand almost. It is channels power for the Dark One to use, just like the Black wand channeled power for Emma to use in Season three finale (it was without fairydust). I wonder if the dagger goes over the edge would Rumple then be powerless.