This is based on the most recent filming spoilers.

I wish you could quote on tumblr. sgtmac7 said:

They yell at him to not do this (Belle says “You don’t have to do this” and Rumple says, “Stop,…”), Emma says something like stay back or I’ve got this, there’s a fight and Morpheus gets tossed in front of them, he’s defeated and then it’s like everyone is unfrozen (I assume Emma froze them) and then Rum and Belle just…walk off? Like they don’t engage again. So a poof or a dream.

My crackpot theory …

Emma is the savior because of the first dark curse. Rumple linked her into the curse, as a ‘safety valve’ to ensure that it was broken, with a drop of her parents true love potion on the scroll. Throughout 5B they kept going on about how Rumple made Hook’s sacrifice meaningless. What if he did it again? What if he steals Emma’s thunder?

Regina cast the curse, from 4B we know Rumple didn’t actually create the curse but he certainly altered it to suit his ends. The first dark curse created Storybrooke. The subsequent dark curses, didn’t use the scroll, they weren’t cast in the same way, they were just following the threads of magic that the first dark curse had established.

Rumple and Emma are linked already. He took the power of “all the dark ones” which would include the recent Dark Swan. What if he transfers the threads of magic, that make Emma the savior to himself? That would be why Emma doesn’t die – she’s no longer the savior. However, it would be taking away what makes Emma special. The Charming’s, Hook and Emma herself wouldn’t approve, even if they understood what he was doing. Rumple probably wouldn’t explain it, so they would think he was doing something bad.

If Belle knew what he was doing, then she would say something like “you don’t have to do this” because all saviors die. Maybe Rumple does it because of Morpheus, and because of Belle. He thinks he doesn’t have anything to live for, and he wants to be the hero that Excalibur deemed him to be. Perhaps he thinks that it will save his son, and if Rumple has proved anything it’s that he’ll do anything to save his kids.

I saw a theory, I think from thatravenclawbitch, saying that maybe the multiple saviors, and then the death of the savior/tremors etc. came about when a new savior was about to be born. Aladdin got his tremors before the dark curse and Emma’s birth, now Emma is getting hers after the Rumbelle baby is conceived, so maybe Morpehus is going to grow up to be a savior.

Wouldn’t Rumple do anything to stop that? To save his child from that fate? Even if he had to take it on for himself?

I know I’m predisposed to think of Rumple as being the hero they need, and this theory doesn’t address what Regina and Robin were doing there, or how adult Morpheus is the guy in the hood. However, I like the theory anyway. Maybe Regina and Robin are in a magical dimension part of Storybrooke, because Regina cast the curse, and so she’s helping Gold sever Emma’s ties to it. Robin is her delusion/manifestation of something and therefore invisible to everyone else.

I don’t know what is going on with Morpehus. I’m leaning towards someone (maybe Jafar) wearing the future Rumbelle babies face. So some of the Morpheus appearances are him genuinely being the future Rumbelle child, and others are of him being the bad guy pretending to be the Rumbelle kid. It could also be time travel, or something else.

Anyway, that’s my crackpot theory 🙂