Miller Sam i’m still thinking about that to this day, and i had a thought that maybe it was a hint. merlin knew he didn’t have time to tell them the whole story, so he said ‘nimue’ so they would research and maybe they’d be able to find out what we found out later, that merlin turned the cup into a sword, and nimue became the first dark one and broke the sword and later it was the dark one’s dagger. it was faster to say ‘nimue’ than to tell his whole story.
“What the hell did Emma do to him?!” Little did they know it wasn’t Emma it was *SPOLIERS* if you haven’t seen... Major spoilers *AHEAD* *YOU WERE WARNED* It was Hook who killed Merlin to cast the curse to go back to Storybrooke and kill Rumple/Gold/The Crocodile. He had to many names I don’t know which name to call him lol. Anyways yeah... The funny thing about that scene is it’s Hook saying, “ What the hell did *Emma* do to him?!” When it was actually Hook I just thought that was kinda funny.. Idk what else to say
You know, Merlin doesn't call Emma the Dark One. He calls her Emma. So...how do we know it was actually Emma? Just a theory I have, but it felt...I dunno, misleading? It doesn't make sense that it could be anyone other than Emma as she IS the Dark One and as far as we know there can only be one actual Dark One at a time ("actual" meaning not including Rumple making his sparkly appearance to Emma as her guide), yeah, but all the same...
Emma is covering it up for hook cuz she love him and she knows he don't want to become the dark one but she have to cuz he got stab and she can't let him go ...