Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5583089-20160405151934/@comment-25926288-20160405153902

1. Rumple was Dark One between 150 to 200 years, roughly. Depends on whose timeline you look at.

2. Nope, each were different, even though you'd think they wouldn't show so much detail.

3. The Darkness may grow with each Dark One, but the magic shouldn't. As we can see, once all the Dark Ones got off the boat, Rumple's darkness (which left his heart in 422) was still around in Hook's head.

4. Nope, Rumple seems to have given into Darkness right away. I think if the person tries to resist, then they get the DO tutorial.

5. Dark Magic. Who knows! But seeing how it came out of Emma;s hands in 505, I'm guessing the defense system splurged out some dark goop to attack the intruders. The vault seems to hold large amounts of Dark goo magic apparently. How did it get there? Who knows!

6. It is assumed that everyone is stabbed to transfer the DO power because how else would Zoso know? He must have killed Gorgon via stabbing him. And yeah, Gorgon is a shapeshifter.

The Dark Ones could always pop up in backstory, but none of our characters would be there, lol. Zoso was the earliest DO with a main character, Rumple. Unless we randomly get Pan flashbacks, we probably won't see Gorgon.