@slurpeez108 wrote:
@LaurieAnne wrote:
what kind of “dark” conversation would Regina have with Henry?
The kind where she wants to isolate him from his birth family and kill all his blood relatives so the two of them can be alone together. I doubt she’d say it so forthrightly, but Henry’s no idiot. Although he doesn’t want her dead and wants to see her redeemed, I think he’s aware of Regina’s actions. I fail to see how anyone can defend her right to mother Henry after she has openly tried to murder his parents and grandparents, all because she didn’t want to share custody of Henry.
The same way I can defend Rumple after he threatened to kill the Charmings and said “all wars have costs.” I can sit here and say “well he was scared. He had just lost Belle and when Rumple is scared he goes dark but he would never really hurt Henry” yada yada yada. I’ve done this on multiple occasions. But a lot of it comes down to the fact that I happen to love him as a character so much that I will defend him pretty much against anything. The EvilRegals are the same way. Regina is a murderer and a rapist and pathological and still they will defend her. It’s part of fan culture, when you love someone or something so much you tend to defend them. To take Regina’s side, which I never ever do and can’t believe am doing now, she had just lost her mother. She’s officially all alone in the world and what Regina wants more than anything is love. She’s been denied it for most of her life and when she did it have it, it was taken from her. So she does what she has to to secure it. We always defend Rumple with his manipulation of Regina by saying “what wouldn’t a parent do to find their child?” Well, Regina IS his mother, what wouldn’t she do to be with him?
With that said, I don’t think Henry should be with Regina only, but if she can get back on the no-magic wagon (which I can’t see happening for sometime given that H and K will probably have her be mainly an antagonist because Lana does it so well) she does have certain rights.