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My boyfriend and I actually had a very interesting discussion about this last night. There are different grades of evil and the one evil, we haven’t truly seen on this sure, is evil to the core. Regina is evil but she didn’t start out that way. She was good and became evil later, but we haven’t really seen a character who is ALL out evil. Not even one speck of good.
With that being said, Regina might be redeemable but I don’t want to see it happen right away. That to me, would be a cop out. Like oh, she killed her dad to create the dark curse and now, she’s siding with good because she wants to be a better person? There has to be a gradual change to want to be good. It can’t happen within one season. I will be very disappointed in the writers if they do that.
I don’t think Rumple is either. He’s done bad things but if you think about why he does all these things, they all happen for a reason. I think he created the Dark Curse for Bae, to come and find him in our world but taking down Regina in the process, was icing on the cake. I think Rumpel can change, with Belle’s help and guidance. Like on mentioned one time on the podcast, she’ll be his conscious and I still believe that be her role this season: to keep him from giving into his dark side.
Henry could be that vessel for Regina but she has to really want to change, not just to gain Henry’s trust and hey, I’m still evil.