Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-11058666-20150826195114/@comment-11058666-20150903224901

Rumple and Gold are not the same. They are as alike as Ruby and Red, Snow and Mary Margaret, and David and Charming. Ruby is a sexual and highly flirtatious lady and Red is an innocent, sweet girl. Snow is a brave, allegedly heroic person, and Mary Margaret is a sweet, yet somewhat spineless girl. Charming is a courageous warrior and David is a coward and a cheater. Rumple isn't supposed to be the same as Gold. And the reason everyone seemed to revert back to their Enchanted Forest selves after the curse and not him is because he has changed too much. He's been the serious, solemn, cold-hearted old man for too long. Also, he's human now. He's still technically the Dark One, but he's not a "beast" as Maurice put it. The claws, sparkly skin, strange eyes, and high-pitched voice are gone, and along with it, the charisma and childlikeness. Also, he's been really traumatized over the past four years. In S1, his girlfriend came back from the dead, in S2, his son appeared to really hate him, in S3, he was tortured and abused and his son was murdered, and in S4 he probably had PTSD by then and his wife broke up with him and moved on with someone else and his heart was black and dying from all the bad deeds he did. So, probably not a happy camper. :P, the most happy he can get is sadistic, which is not nice to watch.