One thing about Emma’s magic that gets me though. If Emma’s magic is so powerful, why the magical synergy with Regina?
Interesting. Though we haven’t seen much magical interaction with Emma and any other magical being. Emma and Cora never used their magic together; Rumple has guided Emma but never magicked with her. there is a spoiler that Regina will be teaching Emma magic so you could be on to something
Call me crazy but I think Emma’s mission is to save Regina and by saving her (an by extension her whole family and the townsfolk) then w/ the power of two let’s call them light-siders the happy endings can be brought back. Rumple did say of Emma that she is “the key.”
CRAZY!
Lol no just kidding. I think Emma is responsible for saving everyone equally. I don’ think Regina needs saving via Emma’s power any more than say Hook or Rumple or even Snow and Charming. And I’m not sure I would call Regina a light-sider. I don’t really think anyone is black and white on this show, they are all gray. I think Emma is the key to everyone, not just Regina.
In that spirit I have to ask where did Regina learn to be so kind, gentle, pure etc. Where did her father despite his flaws get his kind heart?
I would say that in Regina was all those things in Stable Boy but she was also very passive, like her father Henry Sr. One mean look or act of torture from Cora and she was instantly weak and cowed. I think Regina has many traits from both her parents–Cora’s ambition for power (though only awakened when she felt she had no other way out) and her father’s passivity.
My thought would be that Regina’s paternal grandmother may have despaired of her older children being under their father’s yoke and since he was her youngest (at least so far as we know) she may have lavished on him the love and attention that his siblings didn’t get.
I would say that’s a fair assessment
Regina’s maternal grandmother makes me wonder, if my theory that Cora’s magic is a legacy of her mother pans out could her mother be and mind you it may be out of left field, but could Cora be a changeling (a fairy child) and here’s the kicker could she be Blue’s daughter?
Wow. Hm. I’ve seen PP and Rumple and now Cora be the child of Blue. Not sure I buy any of them but…interesting
Now why would Blue sabotage Nova’s love affair and why would she try to muzzle a free spirit such as Tink? I’m betting that in Blue’s past she didn’t quite live up to what she defines as “fairy-like” Blue does come off as a tad sanctimonious
Ah. Well I’ll give you my own headcanon: long long long ago Blue fell in love with a mortal man but as all mortal men are wont to do: he would someday die. Unable to live without him, Blue enchanted a dagger that would turn him immortal so they could be together forever. She stabbed him in the heart with her dagger but all magic comes with a price and it placed upon her beloved a terrible Dark Curse, turning him into the first Dark One. Since then Blue has been determined to rid the world of the Dark One’s Curse, something that reminds her of the love she lost.