Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-31937823-20180102211252/@comment-28162607-20180103003611

I actually have sort of a AU planned:

First off, scrap the "Darkness physcially makes you do things" like from 5x01 and 5x07 in order to stop the Rumple whitewashing, instead just have itpoke and prod Emma in the right direction.

Keep it going with Snow and Charming being neglectful of Emma and caring more about Regina than her and Regina being... well Regina.

Keep Merlin getting out of the tree and Henry and Violet subplot.

Then..... turns out Killian is the true heir to Camelot (bringing his father in neatly and not using a weird sleeping curse retcon) and then Arthur plots to kill him with Merida. And then Merida assassinates Hook. Emma tries to use dark magic to bring him back but he begs her not to so Snow tries to save him but he dies. Clippy Rumple tempts Emma and she uses Dark Magic to trade Gwen's life for Hook's, officially becoming the Dark One.

Then her family and Hook are horrified by her and refuse to accept her so she goes to a cave somehwere and plots and schemes and then wipes their memories to bring them back to Storybrooke.

In SB, Emma plans to cast a Dark Curse that will give her everything she wanted; her family's unconditional love and memories of growing up with them and a miserable Regina and Rumple. But instead of her casting it, she takes Regina's heart and forces her to crush Robin's heart to enact it (payback for the dagger).

At some point Emma has a breakdown about her issues and lashes out at her parents for not being there in Camelot.

Hook talks her out of it, pretty much the same as in 5x01, True Love's Kiss happens. But, it comes with a price as it undoes all the magic she did as Dark Swan. Gwen comes back, but Hook dies.

When seeing how upset Emma is without Hook Henry has the idea to save him and after hesitating Emma grees. Her parents decide to come with her because Snow acknowledges she is a bad mother and she will start making that up to her now.

Its a work in progress