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Eskaver wrote:

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.''' 1 Hard to believe what? Gold was dying of poison when he was outside of SB in Season 2 so why would it be hard to believe he would die of old age? And ur first sentence is very hard to understand like the rest of you post I commented on "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" he's return to magic and his immortality would be intact once more, see the flow of thought here is very hard to identify if you read that passage right there that I bolded. Explain this again please.

2. This is exactly what I Just said the dagger absorbs magic from the surrounding in order for the Dark one to use it, if you read my post up there, you would see that  I mentioned multiple times that the dagger literally has the power over the dark one. And the wand of fairies absorbs magic from the fairy dust which is evident in season 2 when gold use the wand and stole the magic from the mines to prevent Cora from getting into SB from EF through the portal.

3. It's different when Emma used the wand, Emma's magic just activated the previous spell casted which is the time portal spell which is why it didn't need fairy dust. Emma opened the portal with her magic, which is why hook told her to try the want and see if her magic is back since the wicked witch is dead which naturally would undo any spell/curse cast on her. It didn't channel Emma's power, emma simply took the advantage of the wands ability to recast the last spell. Since, she didn't need fairy dust, he powered up the wand itself. As we know Emma is a product of true love, which means she is literally a magical being in a sense that she didn't learn magic, she has magic in her, which also explains why she seems to have these magical moments outside of SB. first being the situation in the arcade when she was with ingrid, second being when she was giving birth to henry, and finally when she first entered SB. All these events had these electrical, light thing going on, which maybe the show hinting that Emma has magic whether outside or inside SB.