Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25355646-20150302022703/@comment-5106672-20150302041738

In 1x22 he says (about True Love's potion): “So powerful that when I created the Dark Curse I placed a single drop on the parchment.” So yeah, so far it appeared he actually made it.

BUT. As we saw with Snow White's Curse, it can be modified: Snow's Curse wouldn't include certain effects of the original (memory loss, which was added by Zelena, and possibly others). So perhaps what Rumple was after was some kind of "blank template" for the Curse, which he "edited" into including the True Love's potion and all the specific effects he knew Regina need to retrive to using it at the right time. In that sense, the final Curse was his doing, indeed.

What bugs me, though, is Maleficent asking Regina where she got the Curse in 1x02, while we now learn that she clearly knew where it was from. Unless she was playing fool to catch wise and learn whether she defeated him or what. You know, to get revenge over Rumple after he double-crossed her and her friends, and then threatened them when he got the glove back.