Cora

[playarita]

I wonder though if Cora, Regina and Rumple will all have their own Greek tragedy.

[spinninggold]

Been wondering this all day, but what did a woman as strong and power driven ever see in Henry? He’s a weak man, slave to his wife and later his daughter.
So, I came up witha theory. The ledgend of Rumpel is that he helps the miller’s daugther to spin straw into gold, else the King will cut of her head. Her father promised she could, and the King said: do it or I’ll kill you.
She does, with help of Rumpel, in exchange for her first born. Because she can, the man that threatened to kill her, now marries her. (Yeah great, gimme a bloke like that 😕 )
Now which King do we know with a love for gold? Midas!
So what if Cora was put before the same dilemma: Love or Money. She spun gold forthe king so the king married her. Midas… But she fell for Henry. And then she got pregnant.
Let’s go over the top here and consider for a moment she got twins: Regina and Abigail. Both from diffrent fathers. Technically that is possible…especially in fairy tales.
As she gives birth Rumpel comes and claims his prize: Regina. He drops the little bomb that she is not the King’s anyway, but number two is *insert manical Rumpel laughter*
Midas banishes Cora & Henry, but keeps daughter number two: Abigail
Cora furious over having lost everything, gets back her daughter from Rumpel, nearly destroying him.

Hmm extra theory: A spinning factory is also called a mill. I have heard theories about Regina being his daughter, but what if Cora was? Rumpel is not completely heartless, and has a weak spot for children. What if he found Cora as a girl and adopted her? SHE could be the little matchstick girl or something. He takes her in and trains her up, until she decides to woo a king. Rumpel can spin, and she figures it’s the wheel that does it, so steals it. She can’t do it and Rumpel catches up and makes her a deal: If you leave me,you get me a replacement: Your firstborn.
It could make sense…

[PriceofMagic]

Henry was probably Cora’s step up the social ladder. She may not have loved him but if he was heir to a kingdom, by marrying him, that would’ve made Cora queen one day. Having married Henry, Cora would have been expected to do her duty and produce an heir. She had Regina but in order to get to where she was, she had to make a deal with Rumple for her firstborn.

All magic comes with a price!

Keeper of Felix

[spinninggold]

Well the reason I think Cora has chosen between love and power is that when Regina is about to marry Snow’s father she tells her daughter that power is more important, as if she once made the wrong choice, she chose love (with Henry). It’s like she uses her daughter as a second chance, putting right the mistakes she has made.

[Phee]

I think that Cora loved someone once, not Henry though, rather Rumple and/or King George, and that kept her from obtaining absolute power in some way, which is why she believes it’s a mistake to love.

If she’d allowed herself to become completely infatuated with Rumple, and let her guard down with him, she was vulnerable to his tricks and manipulations. Being played by Rumple wouldn’t sit well with Ms Cora at all.

If she’d had an affair with George, the fallout from that could have led to Henry losing his kingdom, which is why they weren’t royalty when Regina was young.

I’ve got George pegged as being Regina’s father right now. I’m thinking that they were having an affair, and Cora was fed up with being the other woman, but George wouldn’t leave his wife, then Cora found out she was pregnant, and she’s the one who cursed George’s wife to be barren. Maybe she couldn’t have the man’s heart, but she could have his child, and she’d make sure his wife couldn’t do the same as a means of punishing him for not returning her love. Perhaps her machinations were discovered, and there was a threat of her being exposed, and perhaps she’d have been thrown in jail or something, unless she (and Henry) made some sort of deal where they got to keep their freedom, but they lost their royal status. Also wondering if Rumple’s castle used to belong to Henry and Cora, and he got it through a deal such as this.

[spinninggold]

Actually, George was number 2 on my list, with his fascination for GOLD, and his ruthless atttude towards obtaining it. I can totally see him forcing a girl to spin gold for him. In that respect he fits perfectly; Setting a contest, getting a girl to do his bidding, promising her marriage and then going: Oops sorry, no can do, you’re beneath me and not a profitable match. They both share a lust for power, so that would make the match even more likely. Maybe that makes him even a more suitable match then Midas.

Reason I chose Midas was that when Abigail and Regina meet in Storybrooke they seem to bond like sisters. Not that that would stop Regina from wanting her dead later on…She killed her own father after all.

I don’t see Cora and Rumpel as a love match. Yes, his power will attract her, but I can’t see it the other way round. I don’t think he felt anything for any woman until Belle. Not romantic love anyways. I can see him as a “father” to her though, finding her at a teenage age, alone and orphanned, taking her in and teaching her because he feels sorry for her. This would explain how she gets her magic.
Of course he gets betrayed, as she runs off to spin gold for a King. And we all know Rumpel does not take betrayal very well.

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