[rumplegoldfankristi]

Obviously you can tell from my screen name that I am a Rumple fan, with that said – I actually think that, at heart, Rumple/Gold is good. In Desparate Soul when he was talking to his son about getting the power from the Dark One he said that he would be able to use the power for good and that he would use it to get all of the children out of the Ogre Wars, not just his son.

He never really understood what was going to happen when the power was transferred to him. When the power is being transferred to him he is obviously upset and horrified at what is happening to him. The appeal of the power to him is found in what was his weakness in his “human” form – what he viewed as his cowardice and his “lameness.” He no longer had his limp and suddenly felt respected by those who previously ridiculed him. Was he really brave now? Questionable – it may just be that people recognized him to be the Dark One so he was instantly feared. Being feared by others isn’t the same thing as being brave – as Belle pointed out when Rumple banished her from his castle – he was still a coward because he couldn’t believe anyone could actually want him.

I think he became confortable with the power he felt from no longer FEELING like a coward, if that makes sense. But I don’t think he was ever happy with his power. His only shot at happiness was with Belle and we know how that turned out. I think from Belle on out he has been a pretty miserable creature and has been just existing – with the pain of losing his wife, his son, and now Belle. So I can see that at some point in his life he has started to have some kind of self-loathing thing going on, but he is still a sinister kind of guy because he left FTL as the Dark One so he is still going to be sneaky, dark, and sly. And he still hates Regina/EQ and is still in a power struggle with her. But I can also see him wanting to somehow redeem himself and find a way to become good again and part of his plan for doing that may involve destroying the EQs ultimate outcome for her curse. So I think he had been at work in the curse all along but it has been with the motive to ultimately affect the outcome in a positive way, knowing that the EQ was powerful enough on her own to put the curse into motion. So he couldn’t prevent the curse from happening so he played along with his own plan. Obviously he is somehow involved with Emma and probably knows about Henry’s father, whoever he is, since he brought Henry to Regina. I am betting that it was Rumple’s plan all along to get Emma to Storybrooke working with Henry to break the curse. And I won’t be surprised if, in the end, he ends up sacrificing himself in some way to make sure the curse is broken.

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