Cora and Rumpelstiltskin’s battle

[Grimmsister]

@slurpeez108 wrote:

maybe there never was a direct conflict between Rumpel and Cora after all. All Rumpel said is that Regina reported that she saw Cora’s body. .

Your right Rumple never saw the ‘dead’ Cora so there probably wasn’t a direct confrontation or battle between them- too bad 🙁 no Once Upon a Time in the West reference this time around. Never mind they’re probably saving it for later 😀

[midnight dreary]

^But Mr. Gold did say that he won the battle against Cora. So, maybe they did meet face to face.

[Slurpeez]

@Midnight Dreary wrote:

^But Mr. Gold did say that he won the battle against Cora. So, maybe they did meet face to face.

True, but I suppose Gold could be speaking proverbially. If Cora is the miller’s daughter from the original Rumpelstiltskin fairytale, then Cora thought she got the better of Rumple by keeping baby Regina. However, the fact that Rumple eventually persuaded that said grown child to push her mother through the mirror made Mr. Gold think he’d won the metaphorical battle in the end. Boy, did Cora surprise him, especially if she makes it to SB.

"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy

[scaredcrow65]

I got the impression that maybe 2 different events were referenced in the conversation. Maybe the
Millers daughter happened when Regina was young and was a more magic heavy showdown than the origin story name guessing version. Maybe Cora tried to overthrow him. It sounds like she may have temporarily overpowered him, taken the dagger or something, but he beat her, hence the “that’s not how she tells it” “I won *in the end*!” comments. Plus, if rumple and Cora fought in the same fight in which Regina saw the body, Cora wouldn’t have been able to tell the story of the fight. Then, later, some time after she pushed her mother through the looking glass, something happened between Cora and Regina and she thought Cora died.

Another thought: Is it possible Regina never saw a body and may have even known Cora was alive but didn’t want to admit she was physically or emotionally too weak to kill Cora and lied to Rumple? That would explain why she appears to know the queen of hearts well in hat trick. She knows it’s her mother. I don’t think this is true, but it’s not unrealistic. She wouldn’t want to be seen as not magically powerful or be judged if she couldn’t bring herself to kill Cora (I actually think this wouldn’t be unrealistic even after all Cora did; it’s not uncommon for those who are abused to still want to impress or look up to their abusers, and she’s obviously scared of Cora).

[Grimmsister]

@scaredcrow65 wrote:

I got the impression that maybe 2 different events were referenced in the conversation. Maybe the
Millers daughter happened when Regina was young and was a more magic heavy showdown than the origin story name guessing version. Maybe Cora tried to overthrow him. It sounds like she may have temporarily overpowered him, taken the dagger or something, but he beat her, hence the “that’s not how she tells it” “I won *in the end*!” comments. Plus, if rumple and Cora fought in the same fight in which Regina saw the body, Cora wouldn’t have been able to tell the story of the fight. Then, later, some time after she pushed her mother through the looking glass, something happened between Cora and Regina and she thought Cora died.

Uh! Your right ! Then this one is still a possibility-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyvzfyqYm_s
Love the music.
Notice the “Who are you?” If you watch till the end. WONDERLAND!!

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