So, once you’ve been with someone, that’s it for the rest of your life then? And you can never meet someone (of either gender) and find love with them? Emma has been with one man that we know of (although she had an affair with a married person) when she was 17.
I never said someone can’t find love with another person after their first love. As for Emma’s relationship history, in Heart Is A Lonely Hunter she says to MM, “One-nighters is as far as I ever go,” which suggests she’s done her fair share of “dating”.
Regina was never in a consensual intimate relationship until later – Leopold doesn’t count as it was a forced marriage. She would have been required to service him – and of course Daniel but they never consummated it. Their was Graham, but that was, hmmm, to scratch an itch shall we say. Their was no ‘love’ involved. I think it’s a bit much to say either of them is straight or wouldn’t find love with a women.
Well we dunno that Regina and Daniel never went for a roll in the hay and I wouldn’t be surprised if they did. We do know that they were honestly, completely in love though, and he was a guy. I’m in the camp that isn’t convinced that she ever slept with Leopold, because I just don’t think he’d have been interested. I suspect she likely slept with more of her guards than just Graham, it’s just that he was her fave little pet.
Their are people that have lived their whole lives one way, got married, even had children, and then they meet that certain person – and it just clicks. Past relationships don’t lock you in for love. That’s not how life works.
Like I said in another of my posts, I have a friend who was in that position: married, kids, and is now divorced and an out and proud lesbian. So of course I believe that can happen for people. I’ve just seen nothing that IMO suggests that both Emma and Regina are living in denial about their sexual orientation, and I think that both of them suddenly deciding to switch teams would be completely unconvincing and out of character.
I feel some sympathy for the SQ shippers to be honest. If snows kid had been a boy, and they got some pretty faced dude to play him, every man and their dog would probably be shipping it, but two women? Everyone frowns on it all of a sudden.
Again, as I mentioned in another post, it’s not just the sexual orientation that rules it out for me, it’s also the fact that Regina has tried to kill Emma’s mother multiple times. That’s a big reason why many people can’t wrap their heads around there being any SQ potential, it’s because of the actual storyline, not because they’re both women. So no, I don’t believe a majority of fans would ship Regina with Snowing’s kid if they were an attractive guy instead, because that whole, “tried to kill my family a bunch of times and when she couldn’t she cursed them instead which led to my whole life being an epic hot mess” issue would still exist.