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Rumple (like most characters) is a combination of his parents. You see Malcolm in Golden-skinned Rumple (even the laugh). You see his fight against his lust for power from his mother.

Even Black Fairy is having the villians' dilemma. (ScrewballNinja on tumblr had a great essay). TBF relives her abandonment of her child by stealing others. She has that hole she can't fill, but her heart apprently is borderline or completely filled with darkness.