Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26179634-20141219181118/@comment-4975807-20160408173635

Hmcooper4 wrote:

here's the question I've always had (and I know this is a little off topic). Why in the world did Zelena want Rumple ressurected in the first place?

Her motivation for wanting him resurrected seems to be to get the Dark One's dagger so she could control him. Part of me thinks Zelena was also toying with the idea of having Rumple be more to her than just an unwilling minion because she always had an underlying attraction towards him. I suppose she was testing to see if it would ever go anywhere now that she had the upper hand against him (the dagger). She had offered to bring him along to the past with her (after enacting the time spell) in order to find his son again. Then again, I think Zelena was trying to use Nealfire as a reason for Rumple to trust her, and to her, Nealfire was a bargaining chip to further control Rumple and/or make him do what she wanted.