@weedith wrote:
Unless you think SB Henry is actually Henry, Regina’s father reincarnated. Apart from the weird “I’m my own grandpa” aspect, that could have some interesting ramifications. Could it be Henry, the father trying in a weird way to save his daughter? He did seem to love her right to the end, even when he knew she was considering killing him. Or is Henry, the father seeking revenge on his daughter for murdering him? Since Henry’s heart was used to enact the curse, maybe his essence somehow made it through to the new world.
I’ve never actually thought about it that way before but I have actually thought that somehow Regina’s father is going to be involved in all of this. I have actually wondered if August is somehow Henry Sr. But since you have written it out here, I actually like what you said. It could make sense that Henry is actually Regina’s father reincarnated. It could make sense that Regina killed her father, the thing she loved most, to enact the curse that would leave a void in her soul that could never be filled. In my theory I think that Rumple wanted to use the curse to end all magic so what if he knew she would use her father’s heart and then somehow was able to bring it back to her again in the form of a child that she would love all over again as “the thing she loved most.” Remember right before Regina ripped her dad’s heart out, he said something like “We could be happy together. We could start a new life together and you could be happy again.” Well, if Henry is her reincarnated father than that is exactly the chance she got when Gold brought him to her. I have always thought that Gold wants to give Regina the chance to redeem herself as well. That would be the perfect way to let her do that. And it would create a bit of a loophole in the curse. If she still has the heart of the thing she loves most – does she really have a void in her soul that can never be filled??