Why did Rumple require the sacrifice of the thing (or person) loved most to enact the curse?
I think it simply comes down to the shows most common saying "all magic comes with a price". Since we are told on a number of occasions this curse is the most powerful dark curse the inhabitants of the enchanted forest have ever seen it always made sense to me that the price was so high.
Plus it has always made a poetic kind of sense to me that with true love (both familal (Henry & Emma) and romantic (Snow and Charming) being the most powerful light magic we know of in the show, that it takes its polar opposite (the destruction of that love) to enact the most powerful dark magic we encounter.
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I think it simply comes down to the shows most common saying "all magic comes with a price". Since we are told on a number of occasions this curse is the most powerful dark curse the inhabitants of the enchanted forest have ever seen it always made sense to me that the price was so high.
Plus it has always made a poetic kind of sense to me that with true love (both familal (Henry & Emma) and romantic (Snow and Charming) being the most powerful light magic we know of in the show, that it takes its polar opposite (the destruction of that love) to enact the most powerful dark magic we encounter.