Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-69.171.166.248-20130514172107/@comment-174.102.247.43-20130515230614

Or Cora. She has been around for a LONG time (quoting Tamara with her exact great emphasis). Maybe Cora knows Maleficent too. Because they both are great masters at Disguise and Transformation. Also what did she and Hook do, immediately or shortly after the curse was broken. Because there is a gap between when the curse was broken and when Cora meets Emma and Snow (Snow again, Emma for the first time.) Also why would Cora need to become the dark one? She is already the master of dark magic but doesn't really show the benefits of it like Regina when she created that cupcake, or Rumple when he created that Necklace for Belle (who was retained her memory. Yay!) The only difference is that her skin would change color and get wrinkly (which it already is), and she would have a higher pitched voice (which would be really disturbing, seeing her have a low, serious tone to high and crazy) Cora might know how to rip shadows out. We also don't know the full extent to dark magic too, like we don't know the full extent to Emma's light magic capabilities either. If Peter Pan is Hook's father, he probably ripped his own shadow out to oversee Hook, because HE couldn't be there for him for some apparent reason.