Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26184308-20150322015532/@comment-25926288-20150328130913

Avatar Beta wrote: I disagree. Rumple without powers would honestly get boring no matter how much I love his character. I want him to go good again {or at least, the anti-hero he was before this season} and get "Light ONE" powers if he can't keep his old ones. And this is why Rumple is in the rut he is now. In a magical world, is the magicless really interesting or a challenge? As Carlyle himself said that Rumple is a man who's nearly overcome and often plagued by not only his self-preservation and addiction to power, but also his self-loathing. Can Rumple undo his retroaction or his regression? Yes, but it will be hard and really challenging. He had had two lights in his life: a greater light that was Bae, his son who's now dead and was the only light he had for much of his life, and Belle, a flicker of light in his ocean of darkness who's finally seen who he is and will always be. Can you find light when your world is filled with darkness? Are you worthy of that light if you condemn yourself to be always of the darkness, to loathe your very being?