@Lil’Red wrote:
I don’t know if anyone has brought this up before, but…
It’s always bothered me that Zoso didn’t have eccentric mannerisms or voice as the Dark One: he could easily be passed off as a regular guy. At first watch, I passed this off as Rumple being the Dark One for a longer period of time + guilt = a delightful amount of madness…now, I’m not so sure.
Could Rumple’s voice, behavior, etc. after Baelfire left but pre-curse all have been a ruse to keep people at bay? You’d be less likely to seek out a man with dark powers, but someone who isn’t even human, an ‘imp’, would be even more dangerous. He had centuries to cultivate this image. As the people who remembered who he had been died out, the new story of a demon, beast, imp that terrorized deals could have started. Besides, what is most likely to catch on as a story to pass on to children: this formerly sweet spinner was a coward, became the dark one, killed people, lost his son, continued being bad or an ancient being tricks people into deals/killed people. Take away his humanity, and you have a villain worthy of early oral storytelling.I think he’d even want to get lost in the story, to have people forget about Baelfire and who he was. At the very least, less people would be bothering him and/or trying to get his dagger…
I like this theory especially if Rumple isn’t in Henry’s book. I guess we’ll find out next season. If Rumple isn’t in there and a certain other character isn’t either, I think Bae wrote the book and somehow got it to Mary Margaret. If Rumple isn’t in there, but the other character is then I go back to the theory that Rumple wrote it.