Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5205908-20150112195458/@comment-25926288-20150207000959

DarkRobin wrote: Eskaver wrote: I know sometimes we forget the small moments. So far Blue, The Dark One, and the Apprentice and the Sorcerer, and maybe Ursula, and the Shadow are the longest living creatures. And apparently The Sorcerer, Blue, and potentially the shadow can bestow extended longevity. I guess maybe the gods keep the sorcerer in check, the sorcerer keeps the Dark One, the Dark One does it for the Fairies, and so on.

I think the use of Dark Magic simply puts them in a vulnerable place to being consumed by their darkness. I think of it like Kingdom Hearts. Darkness comes from negative emotions and is within most. Season 3 and 4 even mention the inner darkness and overcoming it. I think their unhappiness is a result of their darkness and how it consumes them. Example: Emma has light magic, which she didn't want to accept and then lost control. She grew fearful and lost control and if she continued that fear would have led her to an unhappy ending, quite literally. Each character have their darkness and a specific portion that's stronger.

Snow and David have guilt. Ingrid, Elsa, and Emma have fear. Regina had anger. Zelena had envy. Cora had ambition. Malcolm had selfishness. So everyone has their darkness, and magic is simply a tool that may perpetuate or nurture it. You may have a point, but in this series, magic is based on emotions, not the other way around. I think well dark magic is not a drug, it causes similar effect like an addiction to the practitioners. Because their darkness or negative emotions are the fuels to their magic, their powers, and they all have things to be angry about, and when you are angry you want to feel powerful, so they let their negative emotions grow, which feeds their magic and the more powerful they become. Which is ironic because that would be making themselves feel worse in order to feel better, but it just sends them into an endless loop of NOT feeling good, but that's exactly the case we've seen from Regina and most of the villains so far. Magic becomes what they feel good about themselves or a representation of the hope they have to reach their happiness. Yet its cost seems the be exactly the opposite for them. I completely agree! I think we had a small misunderstanding though. I think that magic perpetuates or nurtures their darkness. Their emotions feed their magic which in turn feeds their darkness (negative emotions and stuff). Example, Ingrid was afraid and it led to a burst of magic, then that burst of magic leads her to be more afraid. Another example, Regina had pent-up anger and released that as magic, eventually. Then, she proceeds to use that magic to perpetuate her anger at Snow. And she pretty much almost lose herself to it. She couldn't take her happy ending with Robin because of her anger for Snow. She couldn't show regret because of her anger towards Snow. She even casted a (blatantly one-sided) curse because she was consumed by the anger towards Snow. [Side-Note: She could have just took her to another land right? Like Wonderland and killed her?]

I like it that Rumple says to Regina that the darkness feeds on her, which ties into my theory.