I had a thought today: what if Rumple’s using the hat to obtain power, break the laws of magic, and try and resurrect Neal?
Well on the one hand at least they’d be keeping his motivation consistent, because his motivation for centuries was to get back his boy, and a motivation apart from just, “gimme aaalll teh powwwerrrzz”, would be nice.
But at this point it wouldn’t feel like a satisfying way to bring Neal back. It wouldn’t be like Ana on WL where she was granted another chance because her time wasn’t meant to be done yet. It’d just feel like Rumple trying to cheat the system to get what he wants.
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