So is the boxing of Rumple his undoing?
I personally don’t think so. I think that is going to be later. I think the “undoing” is by steps and this was the first one
I definitely think that Rumple consciously incorporated traits of his father into his Dark One persona. We know that he makes magic by tapping into the anger, and it probably makes it all the easier to tap into it when you adopt traits of the person you hate the most. Was he at all giggly before Bae went down the beanhole? Off the top of my head, I’m wanting to say that he wasn’t, that he only started doing that post-beanhole. It’d make a lot of sense for him to have started laughing like his father after the incident when he’d repeated his father’s most emotionally destructive mistake.
Agreed.