Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25926288-20151120140037/@comment-26715865-20151122072003

Actually I like the fact that she is the same person. Emma said herself that there is no good or bad version of her, just her. I think that the darkness doesn't change you at all, but it makes you embrace your own darkness.

When Rumpel got the darkness, he excepted that he was really weak, and he used magic to turn the weakness into power. He new he would not be strong enough to use that power for good, he used it to get more power in the hope of getting his son, but all he became was an addict.

Nimue was hungry for power from the beginning, she wanted the power of the HG, Merlin told her not to, but she did it behind his back. She proved that she was willing to use the darkness to do get what she wants, while manipulating herself and others into believing she did it to protect them.

Same with Emma,she lies, she manipulates, she is willing to kill to get what she wants, she is still protective, she tells herself that what she does is the best for her child to justify it. She is all aware if this, the only reason that she wanted the darkness out was for Killian.

The voices in her head wanted her to destroy lightness, but it was never about that, she was manipulating everyone. Just as Emma did. She did take merida's heart, but she would've done the same thing before. The only difference is that she did bad things to protect everyone (most of the times, she is really selfish sometimes), and now she uses darkness for a selfish act.