Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26412219-20150803161431/@comment-25926288-20150804112530

Noone can blame the Darkness or anyone's darkness. That's like the whole "Devil made me do it" argument. Darkness is easy to blame because it can't defend itself. The people that choose darkness are to blame.

The Question is whose fault is it that the Dark Curse was cast? That fault solely belongs to Regina. Noone held her hand and noone forced her to do it. Regina was a grown woman who could make her own choices.

Regina was a good person, but it was her fault that she wouldn't let go of her anger for sevewral years. Rumple didn't make that happen. He didn't make Regina hold on to her anger.

Cora was always herself and she asked Rumple to teach her magic. So that is solely on Cora.

Zoso didn't make Rumple kill him. Zoso even told him that he could just control the Dark One. Rumple gave into his anger and fear and killed him.

Blue isn't to blame for Rumple not going into the portal. The Darkness isn't to blame for Rumple not going into the portal, Rumple is to blame for his own faults.

One day, they all have to grow up and realize it waas their fault. That's one step towards, not only redemption, but also to becoming logiocal and etc people.

Rumple realized he was a coward as always. Regina realized that she stands in the way of her happiness. Cora realized that she would have had enough with just Regina. Ingird realized that she had want she wanted and even more so, when she had what she wanted, she realized that others weren't the monster, it was herself. Maleficent tells Lily that she could hold onto the anger of the past or simply be happy in the future. Snow and David realize that they were at fault for what they did to Melficent. There was no Author pulling their strings forcing them to do anything.

The Blame game is always a terrible game, but in the end, the one that holds majority of the responsibility (unless magically controlled) is the one who did the deed. If a mob boss's henchman killed a person, it's partially the mob boss's fault, but it's mostly the henchman's fault, because the mob boss didn't make him do it.

So the DC being casted, is partially Rumple's fault, partially Merlin or the creator's fault, partially whoever's fault you believe it to be, but in the end, the one that takes the biggest slice of the blame is none other than Regina.