Rumpelstiltskin: If you can bottle love, you can do anything.
Rumpelstiltskin brought to SB the most powerful magic of all: true love. Since it allows him to do anything, I suggested that he may want to have the power to bring people back to life, make people fall in love, and allow people to wish for more wishes. These three things were all limits to magic in FTL and were hinted at throughout season 1 by Rumpelstiltskin, the Blue Fairy, Regina, the Genie, and Maleficent. The reason I suggested that Rumpelstiltskin may want the power is because he may wish to have a contingency plan, just in case his son, Baelfire, died. I don’t think Rumpelstiltskin knows the fate of his boy, who disappeared from FTL centuries ago. Bae may very well be alive, having travelled across time and space, but there is still a chance he could have died. So having the ability to bring someone back to life would be a desirable power for Rumpel. It would also create a mechanism whereby beloved characters like Daniel, Peter, and Graham could potentially be restored to life. If it is true Emma really does have to die for everyone to return to FTL, this would be a way for the savior to be resurrected. These are simply my reflections on season one and the new development going into season 2.
"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