Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20180421005904/@comment-261373-20180421014843

Wait, I'm confuse. Did Rumple really stop Alice from using the dagger to remove the darkness because he really care for her or another reason that was misinterpret as he care for her? What I mean was when Alice was using the dagger to absorb the darkness, it looks like Alice as the Guardian (different from Emma as the Savior) could remove the darkness out of Rumple without it having to occupy another host. It look to me he stop her because once again he wasn't ready to give up his power. The whole Belle VO bit was a bit of internal struggle for Rumple, let Alice take the darkness from him and he could be united with Belle or keep the power. He may just have told Alice that he didn't want her to be doom to a life of darkness and Nook misinterpret it as Rumple did a good thing. But was it a struggle to preserve power?