Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20161128015930/@comment-5188977-20161129075627

When the Black Fairy said, "That's impossible!":

(a) did the Black Fairy did not expect her child to survive? or

(b) was the fact that her son ended up being the Dark One so impossible?

I think it's interesting how she was so convinced that she'd never meet her son again, much less under the circumstances that Rumple created. I think there's something to explore there. We see her momentarily disturbed when Rumple asked her his question. Did she really choose power over love, or was that a defense mechanism? Did she start kidnapping babies before or after she abandoned rumple? Was her abandoning rumple the cause of the darkening of her heart?

If she was forced to "abandon" rumple (for yet unknown circumstances), it's possible that this started the darkening of her heart, leading her to kidnap babies in an effort to fill a hole in it. But this brings us to the question of WHY, which as the Black Fairy herself has said, "... you'll just have to keep wondering..." for the moment.