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Fun fact: if the curse is about "the worst part of us"... Imagine the Dark One with any control, just using Rumple's body like a shell to hide and trick people, without conscience or moral or remorse (or even memories about the man he was) and in full power.

To me, it can be an explanation to his creepy behaviour this season, better than simply "we are whitewashing Hook": Rumple was (bad) resurrected ("all magic comes with a price stuff" + Jane "the writer who was the right hand of Joss-Whedon-Loves-Kill-People-Crush-Your-Hopes-And-Ships" Spenson), the Dark One (the real one, the first wizard-whatever it was before being murdered for the first time using a dagger and thus, creating the curse of the Dark One), growing inside him like a parasite without Rumple realizing it and then, BOOM! it explodes with the Ice Queen's curse...

Sh*t gets real, baby.