Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-3486995-20150718234442/@comment-24674051-20150803143717

Why would Rumple be a weilder of light magic. He had magic because of the Darkness. Rumple, without the darkness, was a man who was a coward, and had zero magic power.

That's not to say that he couldn't learn magic, and I could see his character going that route. He was addicted to power for a couple of centuries. That is not a habit that is going to be easily broken. and unlike the former Rumple, this Rumple has much life experience to draw from, not to mention that the has taught magic to many individuals. And as was shown, even when he was exiled to the LWM, he was intelligent and knew how to manipulate things even without magic.

So, to tie this into the topic, there is no way that Rumple will die. His character is an open book waiting to be rewritten.