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I seem to recall Regina taking a lost boy’s heart and using it for “a greater good” similar to the rationale of Emma using Violet’s heart to get Henry’s tears of lost love. In fact, I seem to recall Regina taking Belle’s heart (without Belle’s consent) just last season. So I don’t really get how Regina can say she has the moral high ground here. It’s not like Emma has crushed anyone’s heart (well, that we know of anyway). I’m not in any way making excuses for Emma, since what she did was sinister. However, the difference is that Emma is inhabited by a dark force which makes her more prone to deceive, almost against what she would otherwise have freely chosen were she not the dark one.
I think what crossed the line for Regina was more so that Henry was the victim here. Emma took advantage of Henry’s emotions and manipulated Violet into breaking his heart. Emma did this all to her own son.
This!
Exactly!!!! Regina is taking this so hard because she knows how it feels for your mother to manipulate your true love against you, hence Cora killed Daniel, Emma manipulated Violet…I’m quite sure seeing her son go through this with Emma brought back some terrible memories. Not to mention that Henry is their son, it’s a greater difference between using someone random and using your own child, especially when the child ends up as the victim.
The Dark One Curse might have influenced her, but like how a heart of darkness influenced Regina, Rumple, Hook, and every other villain, it was ultimately everyone’s choice in the end, and everyone chose to act on it.
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