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Eskaver wrote: Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Eskaver wrote: Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: By getting sucked into the sword, killing Hook and making Rumple the Dark One yet again. Y'know, unless Merlin and Nimue come back again, which we know they won't. Unless Nimue is still alive and is Lance's mother.

Anything is possible on Once! haha True. All we've seen is her Darkness, which can exist while its owner is alive. We saw that clearly with Rumple. And can we just talk about the fact that this also means Rumple has a Head!Hook like Hook and Emma had a Head!Rumple? That would be nice to see. Nope, I doubt it. Because reasons.

I theorize that Head Rumple went to real Rumple and they came up with this elaborate plan. He could probably see him in that duel. I think they simply tossed the DO's back into the Underworld and Rumple stole their power. But we'll have to see. That wouldn't be too suprising; supposedly other people with holy grail power (Merlin) and past Dark Ones can see the darkness embodied (perhaps they still have a bit of residual darkness within them, not enough to do anything or give them magic (or at least, powerful magic, anyway), but just enough to manifest within them. As we saw with Emma tonight, despite being free of the darkness, the dagger still called to her.

So how was Nimue the key? why Merlin tell them that? Nimue wasn't the key at all. She had very little to do with that.