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XxBadWolfxX wrote: ChocolatEyes613 wrote: Maynaleen wrote: "Pan has stated before that he couldn't die unless Mr. Gold did"

But why?? I don't get it.

With all the talk about Blood Magic, it might have something to do with that. I think it might have something to do with the "Dark One powers"

 Watch the scene of Rumples death closely. He and Pan are in an embrace when he skewers Pan. Because of the close embrace, the dagger goes through Pan and into Rumpel too. And this transfers the Dark One's power to Pan, which turns him old again. Since the Dark One is killing both himself and the next Dark One to be, the cycle is broken and both of them disintegrate into light and die. This was Rumpel's plan to kill Pan all along, and also his "undoing" that the prophecy spoke of. but how does the dagger work? Rumple got his powers because he was tricked into killing the current dark one. You get the dark one's powers by killing the dark one with that dagger. that's how it works.

If pan got the dark one powers, that means that he was the one who killed rumple. but he wasn't! rumple did it himself by stabbing himself through pan. The dagger is the only thing that can kill the dark one, and if he does it to himself the dark one line ends. But would a dagger through the heart kill pan? maybe? then why on earth would rumple have to sacrifice himself to do it? he'd already gone so far as to stab pan, he didn't have to stab himself too.

And why'd pan's body go back to being old? I guess if he dies as pan his body reverts or something? And even if somehow it counts as him killing rumple (which I doubt it does), the Dark One powers wouldn't revert him back to older form, they'd just add to his current pan powers.