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I dunno… You can be an evil person who does evil things and still care about your family at the same time. There are tons of real world examples where someone would go out and kill someone for their jobs then go home and generally love their wives and kids. People have this scary ability to comparmentalize their lives. The world isn’t divided up by evil people who are evil to everyone and good people who are good to everyone. I think Regina can be evil and love Henry at the same time.
Should he be raised by her? No way. Does she quite deserve the animosity he sends her way? Eh, I don’t know about that… I think his mistrust of her started when he began to notice that people around him were not aging and he was. If Regina didn’t have a very good explanation for that if he asked… or outright ignored it and made him feel crazy? I don’t blame him there.
I guess I just need a little more backstory before I can make a judgement on if Henry’s animosity towards Regina is justified or not.
[adrotate group="5"]His animosity towards her might have even been before he received the book. She never seemed very warm towards him. Whenever we see him and her, she seems sort of cold, strict, and almost distant. Like I said, she does care, but it is unhealthy. I don’t think she knows how to properly love a child–her background is filled with abuse from her mother and being a bit spoiled by her father (to an extent). I think that combination might, as well as being out for revenge and having a temper, prevents her from truly opening up.
I think that scene where she tells Henry that she does love him is genuine–the threat of losing him, of how he hates her, and of how she hadn’t been able to save him, got to her. When Emma kissed Henry and woke him up, she sounded relieved, happy, shocked, and resentful. She had wanted to be the one to save him. And she knows that people are going to say horroble things about her now that they all remember, and she has never really had him–he always was with Emma.
How did Henry know he was adopted and that Emma was his mother? Regina had him from when he was three weeks old so, unless Regina or someone else told him, as far as Henry should be concerned Regina was his real mother. Regina was all “he’s MY son” to Emma so it doesn’t seem like she would have given him the information just like that.
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Keeper of FelixI think she must have told him he was adopted all along. Though we don’t know that. It is never mentioned. The information that it is Emma is what he finds on the website in the pilot that he paid for with Mary’s credit card which he stole from her.
Maybe finding out he was adopted is what kickstarts Henry’s animosity to Regina.
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Keeper of FelixThe only reason i don’t like that is because then he would have said. The show seems to imply that Henry getting the book from Mary Margaret was the stressor that lead to him looking for Emma.
Henry was in therapy before he got the book which suggests there were already problems between him and Regina. The book made the situation worse between them because Henry then had the proof that everyone was a fairytale character.
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Keeper of FelixRegina is a complicated person. Sometimes I really feel sympathetic towards her, but then she makes an evil decision and I hate her again. She’s got a lot of anger built up inside her, and I think that it overpowers her love, because she does love Henry. Even though she hurts him sometimes, it’s only because she wants him to herself. So yes, she does love him, but as we all know, she has an empty space in her heart that can never be filled, so her love for Henry is buried by her need to fill that hole through vengeance on Snow White.
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“Did you come to finish our conversation? Is that it? Well then, by all means, let’s pick up where we left off. You destroyed what I love, I destroyed what you love. To continue, you now have everything you desired – a husband, a daughter, a grandson, the title of Queen – and your last adversary is about to be vanquished. All hail the queen.”“I have a husband who won’t allow himself to rest because he feels guilty for betraying me, despite my insistence that I forgive him. I have a daughter whose entire life I’ve missed and is now technically older than me. I have a kingdom that has turned its back on me because they don’t believe I can be an effective leader. And…” her eyes stung with tears, “I have a grandson who would rather live with the Evil Queen than with me and my family. Yes, all hail the queen.” Her last words were overflowing with bitterness. She gave a slight curtsy, ever breaking eye contact.
“Don’t you get it? You’ve won. I will help you with your pest problem, and then I’m leaving. Why do you feel the need to keep coming after me? Have I not paid the price for my misdeeds?”
“All I want…is for you to tell me that he was a good man. I,” Snow’s voice cracked, “I don’t understand how the man I knew could have done such a horrible thing to you. It doesn’t make any sense!” Her last words came out bitter and angry. She could feel a war raging inside her. At her core she wanted so much to forgive Regina, to stop all of the heartache and the pain and the suffering of the woman she had once loved so dearly. But her hatred was so strong and burned so fiercely that it nearly choked the breath from her lungs. Her father was her hero, a beloved ruler, and a good man. If she couldn’t even trust that to be true, what could she trust? What was there left to believe in? She just couldn’t understand, couldn’t accept that he had allowed Regina to suffer so much at his hand.
“Every word I spoke was the truth. Your father? He was as much a monster as my mother.” The fire ignited once more in Regina’s eyes, fueled by the air that had just been sucked out of Snow’s lungs.
“Snow? Snow!” Regina and Snow both turned towards the door, and a moment later Emma appeared, slightly out of breath. She looked at Snow, red-faced and teary-eyed, then at Regina, fists clenched and eyes as black as night. “Why do you two keep doing this to each other? Why can’t you just stay away?”
“Stay out of this, Emma,” Snow warned, returning her gaze to Regina.
“No, I can’t. Snow, you have to let this go,” Emma pleaded.
“She insulted my father!”
“Snow, what she said before was true. I know it’s hard to hear, but…”
“No! No, she took everything from me. She stole my life as a princess, she stole my father, she stole my child, and she nearly stole my husband!”
“Your father stole my child. Maybe even my children,” Regina hissed.
Snow put her hands, now balled into fists, against her temples, pressing so hard her arms were shaking. “And even after all that I was ready to forgive her. I was ready to accept that she had suffered enough. But now she’s taking my memories?” She dropped her arms to glare at Regina. “HOW MUCH MORE ARE YOU GOING TO TAKE?!”
With a puff of smoke, Regina was standing right in front of Snow. She didn’t even flinch at the abrupt invasion of personal space. Emma marveled – not for the first time – at just how little of Mary Margaret remained in Snow. Regina leaned in close, her voice low and menacing, and said, “If it were up to me you would be dead.”
Snow let out a violent roar and threw herself at Regina. The two crashed to the ground in a heap, limbs flailing, fists flying. Emma heard the unmistakable sound of flesh on flesh, bone on bone as Regina’s fist connected with Snow’s jaw.
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