#rumple analysis

So we all know the infamous “I will truly, truly become dust” line about Bae being drafted in the war. And what happens? He loses Bae. Now bear in mind- this is ultimately because of magic and what has magic done to rumple? Made him the dark one- and you could argue his skin looks like dust.

Moving forward to Belle who Rumple brings to the castle cause “the place was filthy”, a lousy excuse for company but it’s probably true in that all his relics collected dust cause why would rumple spend his time cleaning them? He had thousands. So belle was his maid, and with the castle she cleaned him too. She kissed him, the dust cleared away and he started to become ‘a man’ again. But then he pushes her away and the mask of the monster- that dust- is back. AND THEN when Weaver kills the dark one, the dark one literally becomes dust!!! And AND think of the implications of dust. It’s just dead stuff. Rumple views himself as a dead thing without Belle and Baelfire.

And of course we can’t forget the implications of pixie dust- fairy magic which does *not* work with what Rumple is. He could’ve been good dust- light magic. A saviour. But instead due to twisted fate he became the dark one. The dead thing he thought he was.

Plus also his whole thing with Cora who becomes the queen of hearts. And what does she do? Collect hearts, yes, but the whole thing about hearts in the show is crushing them to dust. Her dynamic with Rumple was just another link to dark dust, And in teaching Regina, her breakthrough with dark magic is crushing hearts to dust