regina created the dark curse in once upon a time.
regina created the dark curse in once upon a time.
who created the dark curse in once upon a time?
regina
emma and hook arrive at granny's diner together, with both of them telling a concerned david and mary margaret that they were fine, despite emma's change in appearance, and with hook adding that he "didn't look like a crocodile just yet." the others tell them that they can finally continue their quest to destroy the darkness, with hook volunteering to get merlin from the diner. as merlin was finishing the message that would be later be received in storybrooke, hook appears and locks the doors, revealing that he planned to cast another dark curse in order to get his revenge on gold. merlin says that this is impossible, since he would have to crush the heart of "the thing they love most" to enact it, and hook would never kill emma. hook then takes merlin’s heart, and the manifestation of rumplestiltskin morphs into one of nimue, who appears to see hook crush the heart. just then, emma enters, devastated to find out that hook has tricked her. hook says that he had always planned to get his revenge on gold, and adds that no one will ever control him again, before sending excalibur back into the stone to ensure this. when emma asks nimue why she was helping hook, nimue reveals that hook had made a deal with her: the darkness would ensure hook vengeance on gold while hook in turn would help the darkness snuff out the light, which devastates emma. nimue goes on to explain that when hook crushes merlin's heart, it also counts as her crushing his heart, since she is "in all the dark ones," which will allow hook's curse to work. emma tries desperately to convince hook to stop, telling him that he doesn't need revenge, and that his happy ending was with her. she warns hook that if he crushes merlin's heart, he will destroy his happy ending. however, hook states that it was her "lovesick puppy dog" "killian jones" who had fallen in love with her, claiming that his former self was killed when she "turned him into a dark one." then, he suddenly crushes merlin’s heart in his hand, to enact the curse. when merlin dies, emma tells merlin that she was sorry, before dissolving his body and telling him to rest in peace. unable to stop the curse, a heartbroken emma knocks hook out, before using a dreamcatcher to erase hook's memories, to prevent him from remembering why he cast the curse. then, at the behest of the manifestation of rumplestiltskin, emma brings her parents, henry, regina, robin, belle, their friends and zelena (whom she reinstalled the magic-inhibiting cuff on) back to granny's diner in an unconscious state, before using the dreamcatcher to erase all of their memories, and to add a forgetting spell to the curse, to keep hook from ever finding out that he was a dark one. meanwhile, in camelot, arthur is shocked to find excalibur's fragment returned to the stone, and guinevere points out the cloud of the curse, which arthur describes as "extremely dark magic." then, merida (who was riding her way back to camelot to fight arthur), arthur, and guinevere look on as the purple cloud of the dark curse engulfs camelot and part of the enchanted forest.
broken heart (once upon a time)
the hero and their group of nine friends then fight the dark lord, and upon defeating them, the heroes discover that the dark lord was in fact a common mii possessed by the dark curse, a small blue wisp. while the hero is distracted, the dark curse attempts to possess them, until the great sage intervened and became possessed instead, becoming the darker lord. the hero and their team are then tasked with tracking the darker lord through the lands of powdered peaks, peculia and nimbus, before reaching the darker lord's domain in the sky scraper, fighting all previous bosses along the way with assistance from the ex-dark lord. upon reaching the pinnacle of the sky scraper, the heroes are forced to go on without the ex-dark lord to the otherworld for the final showdown against the darker lord. upon reaching the darker lord, they evolve into a stronger state, forcing the hero and their team to split up, with three members each fighting the two hands of the darker lord. after this, however, the darker lord steals the faces of these six heroes, evolving again into the darkest lord, forcing the hero and their last three companions to fight the darkest lord in his final form. after the darkest lord is defeated, the great sage is freed, trapping the dark curse, and explaining the history of the dark curse to the hero: it was once a normal human, rejected due to having a boring face, which they then rid themselves of, fading away into a soul of hatred, malice and evil, which became the dark curse. the hero is then given an opportunity to either destroy the dark curse or provide them with a new face and body. if the hero provides the dark curse with a new life, the great sage takes the curse and travels with them to have them atone for their mistakes while the hero and their companions are praised for saving miitopia from evil.
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