A thought I ended up landing on after a bit of a rambling post in another thread, regarding Rumple’s line about how she shouldn’t have brought him back. Maybe that was purely the Dark One talking, because when Zelena found Rumple, he HAD been undone, he was mortal, but he wasn’t any good to her that way, so she found a way to bring the Dark One back into Rumple’s body again.
Would the curse have to pass to another individual and then pass back to Rumple?
Maybe she found Rumple in Oz and the dagger with him, but the dagger was blank–no name, yet the power remained.
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"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"