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Remember back in episode 2, when Evil Queen threatened to kill Maleficient’s pet, which was a unicorn 😆 I think it was a black one too, but younger. And one of the first things Rumpel teaches Regina is how to rip out a heart from a unicorn and crush it.
[adrotate group="5"]Also, the unicorn is a symbol of purity and innocence, so for Rumpel to kill it underscores how depraved his character has become. He said, “nothing is innocent” probably because he’d lost everyone he’d loved.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
I thought that white unicorns were symbol of purity and innocence -actually, according to the legend, (as far as i remember) only virgin maidens could touch them- and that the black ones were their twisted version, mainly symbol of sensuality and magic. More or less the same that regarding swans: the white ones are supposed to be symbol of innocence and the black ones symbol of magic and depravation.
Although the symbolism I remember is strongly related to sexuality and that is an element which is not present in the series, so… maybe it’s just a way to show how powerful he is and how powerful she is starting to be, since whatever the colour or the interpretation, what a unicorn means is a very powerful magical animal.Using the Black Unicorn was also a nod to the Black Stallion connected to Kate Austen’s storyline on LOST…it appeared on and off Island.
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