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I with most others on the fact Rumple wanted the “curse to end all curses” to happen for the largest part in order to end his own curse, as currently his only way out is to be killed & pass the curse to another (Ill be clear here- I dont think he’d care about passing it on, its the killed bit he dont like 😉 ).
Also because of the whole, he who holds the dagger, controls the cursed one, he pretty much will be living in constant danger of someone getting their hands on that dagger & therefore his free will – thats gotta get old after a while – unlimited power but at anytime able to be totally controlled by any random who holds the dagger.
I have a feeling Rumple & Regina go a ways back, as they seem to be on a pretty equal footing in fairy tale land & well theres no love lost, they do seem to have (an all be it begrudging) respect for each other. I think Rumps knows the one person who would track him down After his curse is broken & make his life hell is the evil queen- she never seems to just let people move on once she’s crossed their path or it could just be he saw in her the desperate soul he needed, who was driven enough to use the curse & ultimately pay the price.
My take on Rumple & the Evil Queen is this- in the belle/rump heavy ep, towards the end rumps states to regina she’ll “never be more powerful than him” nor will she “ever win against him” – to me it’d be just like rumps to take his best opportunity to oust Regina by setting her up to fail (he knows the 1 thing that’ll make her somewhat malleable- her revenge of Snow)- when he talked deals with her re MM & murder, He never actually stated “I will ensure MM is convicted of Murder” nor “MM WILL leave town” All he stated was the possibility of it- very cleaver wording by the writers IMO (we can only assume what we saw was what was said at this point), as everyone seems to think he did make a fail-safe deal with Regina, when we all know Rumps NEVER makes a deal he doesnt benefit from directly 😉 & from the Rumps/Belle ep He clearly is playing a game of power with EQ, Enjoys & Wants to Win it.
What would be better than having the evil queen being destroyed well removing/breaking his curse – he would also no longer be branded a coward either, but a hero by all FT land- that last was just an icing on the cake thought I had lol