@obisgirl wrote:
@Clockwatcher wrote:
1. How did Cora and Regina get their powers?
I think Cora gained her power over time but probably became ‘intrigued’ by it once she met Rumpelstiltskin. I can see Cora becoming just obsessed with learning so much about magic that it just consumes her.
@Clockwatcher wrote:
2. If “Evil isn’t born; evil is made”, then how did Cora become evil?
I think her power corrupted her and she became evil.
@Clockwatcher wrote:
3. Did Cora have something to do with the death of Snow White’s mother?
Honestly, I would not be surprised if Cora somehow had a hand in the death of Snow’s mother. I mean, she clearly manipulated all the events in “The Stable Boy,” to ensure that Regina marries the King.
@Clockwatcher wrote:
5. Did Cora ever love Henry (Sr.)?
I think she did. She had to have loved him. I think this is what happened: when Cora married Henry, they were dirt poor, so poor that Cora became desperate to provide for her family that maybe she sought out Rumpelstiltskin to help her. And maybe that’s when she learned that the only real power is magic, and if she has magic, that is the only way to survive because it can get you anything. Maybe once she realized that, she looked at Henry Sr. and thought, well, I don’t really need or love him anymore but I’ll keep him around for the sake of my daughter.
I agree with all of that.
@Clockwatcher wrote:
6. Is Cora a Dark One?
7. Is Regina a Dark One?
8. Is there more than one Dark One?
9. Is Cora the miller’s daughter from the original Rumple story?
10. If so, is Regina the firstborn Cora would have needed to give to Rumple?
11. Did Regina or Cora get her power from Rumple?
12. Is Cora the Queen of Hearts?
13. How can they both withdraw people’s “hearts” without actually killing them?
6 & 7) I think no but the criteria of a Dark One was never defined nor did they say that a Dark One had to be a man. I have a few problems of a yes answer thought: Dark One says to me just that one of them. Rumple and Zoso were the Dark Ones because of the dagger. Maybe Dark One is a masculine for the Dark One is and there is a feminine equivilent. Now going with that The Dark One (Zoso) and Cora, The Dark One (Rumple) and Regina. One can make a connection with those two pairs.
8) one? but really believe just one
9) Yes but then again are any of these stories the same of similiar to the original?
10) Something tells me yes but we do not know if Regina is the first born or not. Nothing was said confirming it or denying it.
11) Hard to say…….nothing also confirming or denying too but possiible.
12) I’m beginning to believe more that she is. Regina and the Queen of Hearts both have heart chambers. Who else can say that she is the only queen and she’s just Regina. Who else has a reason to hate Regina enough to take Henry and put him into a box and into the heart chamber.
13) Magic of the Dark Kind??? Going with what Snow said to Charming in Snow Falls about Fairy Dust; there is good fairy dust and bad fairy dust. It isn’t an exact quotation but that seems to be the logical conclusion.