On people who are already impure of heart, like Cora (in this case, already corrupt and literally heartless). But we’ve never seen it exert any measure of influence to this radical extent on someone who was pure/good/light whatever.
It’s true. But someone may have to remind me of the storyline with Snowing doing bad things to Maleficent in order to protect Emma. I know it’s not the dagger, but the whole point of that arc was that even good people make mistakes when tempted by darkness….or at least that’s how I remembered it.
But other than that, you do have a point. Bc with Hook, he still had some darkness in him buried down and the darkness brought that out. But Bae did not have that. I’m trying to remember if other characters had this happen to them. Not necessarily the dagger, but darkness in general. Zelena? I’m foggy on her origin story for some reason. The Snow Queen? What turned her evil again? did she get tempted by the darkness? Bc she was actually a good person deep down and sacrificed herself. She just wanted her sister’s approval if my memory sevres me correctly. Ursula? Cruella? Once she obtained the power to control animals, she used that power for evil. But remember evil is not born, it is made. So evil and power influences others. The author? Once he got the power, he abused it. Even Emma got a taste when she almost killed Lily in the street. So for me, the darkness controlling even the nicest of boys for just one second to make one bad decision, makes some sense to me.