Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24674051-20151016181954/@comment-25926288-20151016183328

Yeah, I think it made sense when Rumple talked about all the voices in his head would be quiet when he's dead....as that is the only way to escape the Dark One's curse (besides deus ex machina hat).

I don't think the orginal had a voice other than the Darkness itself and after the first one the voice of the Dark One could take a visual form.

In part of this, I wonder if that's how the dagger works. I wonder if the Dagger control the Spirit/ Magic of the Dark One which in turns control the Dark One person.

When Rumple had more voices in his head, the dagger was a bit iffy in working against Rumple. IT actually makes Rumple a tad more intelligent (since he pretty much tossed Zelena the dagger). When he absorbed Neal (which was never explained how and why he can't have both), I think he had a Neal voice and the Zoso cvoice in his head along with his own and that's why Zelena couldn't reeally use the Dark One because the Neal voice would stop him.