#dark one emma swan

[kazoosandfannypacks]

if your name is on something, hold onto it dark emma swan + moss green for @wasabiduckies

send me a favorite OUaT character and a color and I'll make you a moodboard

[depressedstressedlemonzest]

I just love belle's face in the middle.

✨️I WAS ALREADY IN LOVE✨️

🩷💕💖💗💓 ❤️ 💛❤️💛💜🩷💖 💖 ❣️ 💕 💛💜🩵

Aw henry wanting to bring neal back 😭😭😭😭

Just all of Emilie de Ravin's facial expressions here KILL ME

Fucking rude ripping my heart out : who could ever love me?

For who could ever learn to love a beast?

BELLE RUMPLE BELLE!!!

Oh yeah I forgot about the lily plot. To be honest who didn't expect a little evil from a girl named lillith?

'I think we both know what happened in that world wasn't real. Although I do intend to hold it never your head for a very long time.'

Then we never see lily again.

Now no dark one and it's flying off into the ether.

And emma - spill- my -guts- only- when - one- of- us- is- dying-swan makes another appearance.

Now we have dark one emma and captain guy liner.

Gotta saw I love the font and design of the dagger no matter the name.

Rumple has a new student.

Ish.

Just some magic wand time with the sorcerer, or is that his apprentice?

The rose has made an appearence!

Dark ones don't need sleep.

Nice little Canon to file away.

[self-dedicated-lover]

Ship: Swan Princess × Dark Swan.

[florida3exclamationpoints]

ouat text posts: rumple

[mccallhero]

captain swan + refusing to lose each other

[the-nada-thing]

Rewatching OUAT Season 5 and like... just how much they all distrust Hook. Like they were totally willing to let him die. How much they judged Emma for tethering him to the dagger... How Hook's backstory is him being sold into slavery by his father... how when he becomes the Dark One we see him remembering when Rumplestilskin held his heart once again being an example of him not having autonomy... how even while sitting at the same table as Regina, Zelena, and her parents (whom we established the season prior have far from a dark-free past) Emma has to beg to be given a second chance despite all she did she was doing out of love. How alone she felt, how alone Hook felt... how they were both abandoned by their families and judged for what they became and how alone they still feel

Just season 5 y'all 😢

[agirlwithoutmagic]

the disparity in emma and killian’s dark one experiences is just SO funny to me. emma goes on a series of quests where she puts her morality and her soul on the line all in the name of banishing darkness from the world while preserving her relationships with her loved ones. meanwhile hook dials the Theatre Kid up to 100 and gets in an old man fight

[stubblesandwich]

Selected lines from Caitlyn Siehl's magnificent poem:

When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it. Start by pulling him out of the fire and putting him back together with the pieces you find on the floor. There is so much to forgive, but you do not know how to forget. When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you are the reason it has become so mangled.

[chipedteacupchat]

Rumplestiltskin is such a compelling and relevant character and here is why...

His story is about how abandonment, childhood trauma, and labels can affect a person throughout their entire life.

In season 6, we learn that Rumplestiltskin came from what appears to be a normal family, with a mother and father who seemed to love him. However, after a prophecy about Rumple's future, his mother overreacts and gets banished (the only person in his family who truly loved him is now gone). As a result, Rumple’s father blames him, holding this infant accountable for something he could never control. He punishes and mocks Rumple by giving him a name people would laugh at and later tricks Rumple into believing he loved him, only to abandon him in pursuit of eternal youth in Neverland.

Rumple now has to live under the label of his father's cowardice but he is not willing to accept that label yet (notice how I say yet).

Years later, he's married to a woman who seems to love him, and despite his past, he appears unaffected. When called to war, he sees it as a chance to prove he’s different from his father. But a seer warns him that going to battle will leave his unborn son without a father. Realizing he can’t be the hero he imagined, Rumple injures himself to avoid fighting and embraces the label of coward, fearing he might abandon his son like his father did to him. His wife is so ashamed that she lets him raise their son alone, telling him she wishes he were dead before leaving him and their child and so yet another person abandoned him.

A few years later, Bae is old enough to fight because the age limit for the Ogre’s War has been lowered, and they want to force him into battle.

(at this point Bae is the only person left who hasn’t abandoned Rumple and still loves him.)

Rumple has always felt powerless, watching terrible things happen that he couldn’t control. Determined to take control, he steals the Dark One’s dagger, kills him, and lets the darkness bind to his soul to protect his son (in doing so getting the features of a monster).

Stuff goes down as you guys know but then the Blue fairy (the same woman who banished his mother all those years ago)

gives Bae a magic bean to escape. But Rumple doesn’t want to leave because, for the first time, he has magic to control his life and protect himself. Bae convinces him to go through the portal, but at the last moment, Rumple gets scared of losing his power and lets go of Bae’s hand, abandoning his son—the one thing he swore he’d never do. Now, the only person who loved him is gone, and Rumple immediately regrets it, dedicating the rest of his life to finding him.

Because of Rumple's new appearance and magic, people start to give Rumplestiltskin a new label a monster/beast, this label goes hand in hand with Rumple's past trauma and convinces him no one can love him and this Idea about himself is proven further after Cora chooses power over loving him.

Overtime Rumple accepts all his labels as the truth and starts to create a persona around them.

The most interesting part about Rumple's character in my opinion is how he is the foil to Emma swan. Think about it, both have been abandoned and both have been given labels they have embraced, the only difference is Emma has a great support system while Rumple only has Belle and while Emma's parents regret abandoning her, Rumple's parents wish they did it 20 times worse.

So yeah he definitely has imposter syndrome: In relationships, individuals with imposter syndrome often harbor the belief that they are not good enough for their partner. They constantly worry that their flaws and insecurities will be discovered, leading to their partner leaving them.

If you know someone like this, in real life,

just hug them and tell them they are loved 💖

(sorry this is long and mostly the ramble of a tired person)

[happy-emmdings]

I thought my demons were almost

defeated

but you took their side

and you pulled them to freedom

they know my secrets and won’t

let me go

- demons (philosophical sessions) / jacob lee

dark ones🥀

[captain-swan-love-story]

S05E02

[countrymusiclover]

Princess Red Thief - Rumplestilskin

"She stole from the Dark One"

Everly, referred to as the "Red Theif" and who is also the daughter of Princess Abigail and Knight Frederick has been keeping a secret from her parents as long as she could. She seeks help from the one man who knew everything about magic, but was anything but good. Will her secret finally be revealed when the evil queen casts her curse???

1 - Life Changing Deal

2 - Cinderella's Prince

3 - Confusing Conversations

4 - Must Be Fought For

5 - Definition of Justice

6 - Directions of Truth

7 - Playing with Fire

8 - Getting Closer to the Truth

9 - A Man Named Jefferson

10 - Closest to His Heart

11 - Finally Awake

12 -Thief History

13 - We're in Trouble

14 - The Golden Newborns

15 - True Rumplestilskin Fashion

16 - Meeting the Parents

17 - Not His First Witch Lover

18 - The Pirates Crocodile

19 - The Pirates Crocodile pt 2

???

Comments really appreciated ❤️

Tag list - just ask to be added @mystrey101 @melvia-ito @kmc1989 @tallrock35 @onentaien-kwara

[oautincorrectquotes]

Emma: There’s always light at the end of the tunnel

Rumple: It’s usually a train.

Emma: could you just not kill the vibe for two fucking seconds.

[florida3exclamationpoints]

ouat text posts: pt. 3/?

[pineartppland]

Inktober Day 15 : Dagger

[mccallhero]

favourite ouat scenes: 73/?