Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1916997-20180306160338/@comment-6302057-20180506131424

8Rob wrote: Also, we have to consider something: Was W!Rumple brought in the Dark Curse?

If so, he would in the exact same situation of Rumple. So there would "4" Rumples as well

-Weaver Rumple (currently in HH)

-Cursed W!Rumple (currently in HH)

-Gold (currectly traveling with baby Gideon and Belle)

-W!Rumple (whenever he was at this point in the original timeline. Let's say the W!Realm)

So, either the Darkness is multiplied by 4 now?

I'm not sure how they are going to handle this  =/ The darkness is only multiplied by two:

Gold and Weaver are both the same person at different points in their personal timelines.

WishRumple (I personally hate abbreviating it as W!Rumple, blech!) is a copy of the original created by the Serum Queen's wish. It's currently theorised that the darkness was replicated into this copy as well.

I personally am uncertain if WishRumple came over in the curse, because if he did, he would've logically been given a "normalised" appearance like Weaver. I don't think he travelled back in time either; he seems to have escaped the present and found his way to LWM after everyone was cursed. No time travel for WishRumple.