Cora’s part in the curse

[tabsicle]

I just had a thought while listening to the podcast! So on the podcast it is insinuated that the curse was meant for Cora to inact, but since she wouldnt bc of Regina, perhaps Cora had caused it so those of Storybrooke (namely Rumplestilstkin) could not leave the town.

[Grimmsister]

She does know things about the curse wich is a bit suspicious like the 28 years…

Could she have tried to enact the curse but failed or not been able too sacrifice what she loved most, maybe Regina. Could she have tried to sacrifice her own heart instead of Reginas and thats why she doesn’t have it inside her now.
Afterall enacting the curse “It will leave an emptyness inside you, a hole that will never be filled” 🙂

[obisgirl]

I think since Rumpel can pull out hearts and we’ve seen Cora do the same thing, she probably helped him create the Dark Curse and that’s why she knew specific details about it.

[hannah97]

That’s a good idea, tabsicle! If Cora found out that Rumple was getting Regina to cast the curse, she could have altered it so that no one could leave. That way, all she would have to do is find a portal to Storybrooke and not have to search the whole world. It would make sense if Cora did this because Rumple obviously didn’t know that he wouldn’t be able to leave.
Although, I have another idea about why they can’t leave. I think that because Rumple brought magic back, the price of that magic was the barrier.

[snowfalls]

@obisgirl wrote:

I think since Rumpel can pull out hearts and we’ve seen Cora do the same thing, she probably helped him create the Dark Curse and that’s why she knew specific details about it.

I never even considered that. Good theory. 😉

[tabsicle]

I think the price could be both ideas together. I cant recall if it was the podcast or the show that said that wherever someone would get magic from, the person who gave the magic would choose the price/sacrifice. Perhaps Rumple chose Cora’s price to sacrifice Regina, while Cora chose Rumples as not being able to leave. I believe they made the curse together and Cora didn’t want to sacrifice Regina, so Rumple went to Regina to inact the curse.

Time to hide your crazy, and start acting like a lady.

[the fairest]

@obisgirl wrote:

I think since Rumpel can pull out hearts and we’ve seen Cora do the same thing, she probably helped him create the Dark Curse and that’s why she knew specific details about it.

I was thinking the exact same thing. Cora was Rumpel’s student, so she probably found a way to gain knowledge of his spells and curses. But this also gives me even more reason to believe that Cora knows about the dagger. 🙁

[obisgirl]

she might.

[tabsicle]

I think she probably does,and to go further she probably told Hook about it to gain his trust.

Time to hide your crazy, and start acting like a lady.

[Phee]

This part of the podcast got me thinking too…and it ended up making my head hurt. 😆

I like the idea that perhaps Cora was originally supposed to cast the curse, and that’s how she knew the specifics of it.

We don’t know the type of person she was before Regina was born, the type of person she was when she first met Rumple. Could she have been ravenous for power even then, which is why she entered into a deal, to become a queen? Could the idea about her having been King George’s wife be true, and if so, could she have been looking for a way out of that relationship if it didn’t end up being a happy one? Could Rumple have told her that he had a way for her to achieve all of that, the curse that would transport everyone to another land where she’d be the only one who’d remember and would rule over them all, including her un-loved husband, George?

The story of Rumple and the miller’s daughter goes that she had to give him her first born, though there’s not a reason given why he wants the child. Perhaps in actuality, it wasn’t quite that literal. Perhaps he told her that for her part in the deal, she had to sacrifice the one she loved most, which would be her first born child? In a way, she was still giving the child to him, because she was giving up the child for the sake of casting his curse.

But Cora couldn’t do it. When Regina came along, she loved her too much and couldn’t give her up, couldn’t kill her, couldn’t give her away, couldn’t bear to be without her. So instead Cora wrangled a way out the deal, and out of her marriage, and set up camp with Henry instead, and went about becoming as powerful as possible in an effort to protect Regina from Rumple, who was justifiably pissed off that his curse hadn’t been cast, and vowed to Cora that one day, Regina would be his, and one way or the other, his curse would be cast. And sure enough, many years later, that happened. Perhaps Regina was always destined to be the one to cast this curse, so even when she escaped being sacrificed for the sake of the curse as a baby, she still ended up being the one to cast it in the end.

Perhaps?

Or, on a different tangent…was Regina originally meant to be The Saviour, the one destined to break the curse when she turned 28, Rumple’s original safety valve plan? But Cora couldn’t give her up for that either. Or maybe Rumple realised after making the deal, that because Regina wasn’t the product of twu wuv, she simply wasn’t up to the task, and he needed to find a different baby instead. If so, then it makes it all the more tragic that Regina ultimately ended up on the complete opposite side of the situation.

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