Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11058666-20141228031222/@comment-24674051-20150203151917

Well, That's kinda what I meant. I think though, that the character, if split, would shun the name of Rumplestiltskin altogether, and choose to go by the name that everybody knows him as now.

Besides, Rumplestiltskin is the name that is on the dagger, and that name will remain there unless someone else kills Rumple and assumes the role. In this case, no one is killing Rumple, he is just being seperated from the DO persona. So Rumplestiltskin IS the Dark One. If the little bit of good that's left in Rumple were to somehow break away, it would not be Rumplestiltskin.