Cora’s mother

[theladybelle]

I don’t know if we’ll find out about her at some point, but for some time I have had a head-canon concerning her. I see Cora’s mother as being a bit like Fantine in Les Miserables. She fell in love with someone who abandoned her, and she had to give up Cora to another family because she could not support herself and her child. Then years later, as an adult, Cora found out the truth of her past and went to find her mother. Her mother was dying at this point and told the whole story to Cora. Cora then decided to never let her heart rule her head and be strong in a way her mother wasn’t.
Or perhaps Cora was raised by her mother and decided not to be weak because she saw how her mother struggled to get by and had been hurt in life.

[obisgirl]

that’s an interesting backstory for Cora’s mom. I’m not sure we’ll ever go that far back though.

[playarita]

I am guessing she is the miller’s daughter so her father either worked in a grain mill (don’t think it was as an owner) or was in charge of a windmill. We see Cora wanting to be in Regina’s life and in such a forceful, controlling way. I wonder if she is trying to have the relationship she did not have growing up.

I am guessing Cora’s mother fell in love with Cora’s father but became quickly disillusioned when he did not actually own the grain mill (or say only a windmill rather than the lands etc) or did not have the ambitions so she left (either killed herself, or ran off with someone else etc). Additionally we are not sure how her father treated her… did he treat her badly because she reminded him of his wife that left, or blame her etc.

As for who she moved on with I am not sure but it could have been that she used her charm to seduce Henry with the aid of Rumple. The deal could have been to give up Regina but Cora either bested him or he allowed Cora to think so if he had been given a glimpse of the future.

That could be then why Rumple felt for Cora. Cora had a mother like Milah who essentially abandoned her own child with no remorse and her own selfish reasons. Then he respected her intelligence, charm, cleverness and apparently to the point where they shared a physical connection as well (not sure if Cora used her “charm” as a means of getting what she wanted or to have someone at her mercy. That or they did share something more (perhaps understanding each other as ones who were left.

Also there is a dream interpretation for windmills (not saying this is a legit source) but windmills have several meanings…generally means properly using resources; psychologically it can mean the fruit of human’s work (and because it holds seeds etc it can represent the female or mother); spiritually it can mean gaining spiritual intellect through accessing spiritual powers.

I think this represents Cora. She wants to represent what she had lost: mother. She worked hard to develop her magical abilities. She became ambitious because she believes that if dad was more ambitious her mother would not have left.

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