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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.