@medchen wrote:
@RumplesGirl wrote:
–Rumple has an odd habit of introducing himself. He tells people his name. Which is obviously totally outside the original fairy tale. So if his name isn’t what Cora finds to break the deal, then what? Could the dagger be making a reappearance? We know that if someone who is not the Dark One wields it, they control the Dark One. I really think Cora knows about the dagger and this might be one way that she found out about it. Instead of guessing his name, she found the dagger and somehow controlled/manipulated Rumple into relinquishing his hold on Regina and at the same time teach Cora magic. That’s the new deal: no Regina and teach me magic, and in return I’ll let you live and give back your dagger. Rumple agrees to this-he has no choice really–but once the deal is complete, he manages to find the loop hole: he leaves Regina alone for now, but takes the kingdom from Henry and Cora.
Yes Yes Yes!! I think you are right on this one. The dagger is Rumples secret. as opposed to his name being the secret in the old fairytale. Plus the name being written on the dagger and everything. Uh! I like this a lot 😀
I can hardly wait to see these two episodes. Gods! they are going to ROCK 😀
Hmmm. Doesn’t sound to me like the Cora we now know. Why should she have given up the power coming with controlling the Dark One?
Agree with you though, that the dagger is the secret, not so much the name per se. It takes the dagger and the name to control the Dark One (or so it sounded in the episode in which Rumple became the Dark One).
Interesting was though: When Regina asked, how her mother became like that, her father Henry tells her about that man, wo brought magic to Cora. He says, Cora never told him the name. Regina finds it in the book. (episode 2×02)
Another thing I noticed while rewatching episode 2×02 We are Both: Henry sr. says, that Cora knew that man (aka Rumple) before they met.
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