The Queen Will Finally Find Love Again In Season 3

[Josephine]

I can’t picture EvilFire, either.  You’re reasons are right on Phee.  Adding his now horrible experience with EvilTamara, he’d have to really overcome a hurdle to look in Regina’s direction.

Truly, I can’t picture Regina with anyone at the moment.  Who is left of fairytale or storybook characters that she hasn’t attempted murder on, cursed or manipulated?  The best possible solution is if she has Kurt in some cryogenic state and he wasn’t really killed.  I think her best chance at happiness would be with a person from our world, devoid of magic or any knowledge of all the shenanigans she’s put everyone through.  Then she can ease him into all the nasty stuff she’s done.   But he also needs to be a strong character.  Someone who would support and also stand up to her.  Who would talk her down from her psychotic episodes. 

I also agree about the same-sex couples.  People get blasted on tumblr for stating it, but you’re right.  Neither Regina or Emma have ever shown a tendency to go toward the female side.  They’re past major lovers have all been men (that we know of).  I know some people believe you can’t control who you fall in love with and anything can change for the right person, but I don’t believe that.  I might have a deep emotional connection with a best friend, but that doesn’t mean I want to sleep with her.  When they do finally have a same-sex couple, and they will definitely do it, I image it would a fringe couple, too.  People are attached to their fairytales.  Can you imagine the furor if Snow White came home one day and told Charming she was tossing him over for Rapunzel?  It would be hilarious but it’s not going to happen.

I get a kick out of the Red Beauty shippers, not the casual ones, but the ones that deep down believe that Rumple isn’t the beast but Ruby is because she turns into an actual animal.  Again, they have a nice friendship, but Belle is pretty stuck on Rumple and you’d have to be oblivious to not see that.  I mean, she was eyeballing his behind and flirting with him when he was Sparkly Rumple.  She’s been into him for awhile and it’s not going to stop anytime soon.

[RumplesGirl]

They keep saying that Regina will find love again this season but I can’t help but wonder if it won’t happen until the very end of the season. Her arc this season has GOT to be redemption. She made huge strides in the final episode of S2 and she has to continue down that path and It think it has to be mostly alone or else the dangerous precedant that you need romantic love to be a whole person and truly forgiven is…well dangerous. For sure, it won’t be until after they rescue Henry, right? Same with Emma. No matter who her end game is, it can’t really be expected to happen until after the Henry situation is resolved.

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[Phee]

Can you imagine the furor if Snow White came home one day and told Charming she was tossing him over for Rapunzel? It would be hilarious but it’s not going to happen.

LOL “I’m sorry sweetie, but it turns out I missed long hair a little bit more than I’d thought.”

Seriously though, I get that some people switch teams part way through life.  I have a friend who was married, had two kids, then several years later left her husband and came out.  She’d known the whole time she was really a lesbian though, she’d just been lying to herself and the world about it because she’d wanted to have kids, so she’d decided she’d needed the husband.  Neither Emma or Regina appear to be living in denial about their sexuality though, and for SwanQueen to happen, they would both have to have some orientation related epiphany.  And really, how could that be shown in a convincing way?

And that’s not even getting into the whole thing with Emma having to get over the fact that Regina’s tried to kill her mother several times.  Could you really trust someone like that to be your romantic partner?  I sure as hell couldn’t.

 

They keep saying that Regina will find love again this season but I can’t help but wonder if it won’t happen until the very end of the season. Her arc this season has GOT to be redemption. She made huge strides in the final episode of S2 and she has to continue down that path and It think it has to be mostly alone or else the dangerous precedant that you need romantic love to be a whole person and truly forgiven is…well dangerous. For sure, it won’t be until after they rescue Henry, right? Same with Emma. No matter who her end game is, it can’t really be expected to happen until after the Henry situation is resolved.

I would imagine so, yes.  Though in Emma’s case, I could see CS developing a close bond during the process of actually rescuing Henry.  And at whatever point Neal shows up again, there are gonna be all sorts of FEELS flying around.  So I could see them doing a slow build through the season regarding Emma’s relationships with them both, without her actually getting full on involved with either one.

In Regina’s case, that’s something else I’ve considered with my RH crackpot theory, (I swear I’ve never thought so much about Regina’s love life as I have in the last few days, and I don’t care that I’m the only one in the universe shipping this LOL).  They could show him in present day FTL at the start of the season and give him some more development, then spend the whole season showing Regina finally getting her act together once and for all, and then maybe by the end of the season, the SBers will all end up back in FTL too, at which point Regina and RH would meet for the first time.

[Josephine]

You really do like RH/Regina, don’t you, Phee! 😆  Watch on the season premiere Belle walking through Storybrooke and bumping into Robin and Marian strolling hand-in-hand down the street.  😛

 

 

Keeper of Rumplestiltskin's and Neal's spears and war paint and crystal ball.

[Slurpeez]

I’d love for Regina to find love again and possibly even get pregnant for real, but only towards the end of season 3. Lana just turned 36 and is getting married. So, potentially if she timed it right, in 9 months or so I wonder if she’d want to plan for a baby. Time will tell. If not, maybe Regina and Hook could even find love with each other (former freenemies-turned-lovers) and then adopt a Lost Boy or two.

"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

[kfchimera]

If we are looking for an ideal, then someone without a personal history experiencing Regina acting like the EQ to them might be better.  So that rules out the characters we have seen, including Kurt as he got a glimpse when she tried to chase him down to take his son, but did not let him go.

It could be someone who has seen her darkness, understands and forgives it without judging it, who brings out her long buried better nature, but I do not see that being Neal.  I think he’d end up more like the Henry Sr. to her Cora, because he has been abandoned and betrayed so much, that he’d be a bit too eager to stick his head in the sand and not call her on her questionable choices.  Maybe if she were fully redeemed, and a different personality, but then she wouldn’t be quite the same Regina we’ve come to enjoy.  It’d be like a reboot to her stable-queen self.  I think a lot of people enjoy her suffer-no-fools, take-no-prisoners attitude in some respects.

Now it could be Sydney, but besides the fact he was played and betrayed twice by her, my main issue is she didn’t show ANY attraction before to him, despite knowing how much he cared for who he thought she was.  Plus, the actor’s commitment to another show makes me think that if his character were to be her “endgame” it would largely be something off-screen or hinted at after the show concludes, rather than an ongoing, large story arc.

I agree about the orientation too–not a huge issue if they want to write a story that she’s bi-sexual, but she has been too interested in men to this point.

Perhaps they could have Archie hook up with a guy, because we haven’t seen him being attracted to anyone.  In Disney’s Pinnochio, Jimminy gets a little crush on Blue, blushing and acting bashful.  They didn’t have him do that in OUAT, plus his Storybook dating video (I know, it was more of a joke) even had an ambiguous pronoun choice if I remember correctly (and I totally might not be).   Not Whale though, since he seems like he sincerely enjoys the ladies (that hounddog!).

My new thought–what about Zorro?  This is a character that has a similar feel to Robin Hood.  Though it could work for Archie too come to think of it, as Zorro usually pretends to be a bit uninterested in women to conceal his swashbuckling identity (though he romances a woman typically).  Ha…a Regina/Archie/Zorro triangle.

 

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” -- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

[RumplesGirl]

It could be someone who has seen her darkness, understands and forgives it without judging it, who brings out her long buried better nature, but I do not see that being Nea

But it could totally be Hook! 🙂 Especially after that very touching conversation they had in The Evil Queen. Even after he kidnapped her and allowed her to be tortured, I think they both understand each other. Regina probably would have done the exact same thing in his place.

As for RH: it’s an interesting theory. But, who is to say that RH didn’t go all “evil” and bad when Marion died and maybe both he and his daughter Tamara joined THO.

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[PriceofMagic]

I can’t see a Robin Hood/Regina romance because Robin’s true love is Maid Marian and they have already been established as characters so Regina can’t be Marian in the way that Rumple is the beast.

On the topic of same sex couples, had they not already established Robin Hood as a man, they could have made Robin Hood a woman who disguises herself as a man to commit her robberies because Robin is both a male and female name and also would explain why Robin Hood is often depicted as a man. That would keep to the basis of their fairytale and would also include a same-sex couple without making it seem like a same-sex couple is included just for the sake of it.

I agree with everyone who says Regina is straight. She has shown nothing that would suggest she prefers women over men. Also RedBeauty could never happen because Belle and Rumple are true loves, they may have their arguments but they’re never going to stop loving each other. Red could possibly develop a crush on Belle but Peter and FrankenWolf suggest that Red is straight too.

All magic comes with a price!

Keeper of Felix

[Phee]

You really do like RH/Regina, don’t you, Phee! Watch on the season premiere Belle walking through Storybrooke and bumping into Robin and Marian strolling hand-in-hand down the street.

Wouldn’t be the first time one of my theories has come spectacularly crashing down! 😆 I don’t even like Regina that much, so Lord knows why I’m all hung up on her love life all of a sudden.

[kiwi]

RumplesGirl wrote:

I want a homosexual couple on OUAT, I think it’d be great! But I think it should be a different story, and not just in service of the fans who want Regina and Emma together or Regina and *insert another female here.* They’ve played with gender before (Jack) so it could be that Aladdin will be a girl or something along those lines.

Putting SwanQueen together would feel so forced. Neither Regina or Emma have ever given any indication that they’re anything but straight, and changing both of their orientations now would be unbelievable. When I was posting about Wendy being a mother figure for the Lost Boys before, I thought it’d be kind of a bummer if she was stuck in NL without a romantic partner, so maybe they could hook her up with Tiger Lily? On tumblr there are people all over with role playing blogs, and people send in questions and they answer in character. Came across one the other day where someone asked a Henry RPer, what if when he grows up, his true love ends up being a boy. The RPer replied as Henry basically saying, “Well then, he’d be a boy. And we’d probably have lots of sword fights.” Anyway, I guess Henry would only get a romantic partner if the show runs for several more years, so who knows if it would even eventuate, no matter if he’s straight or gay. I think though that if they do want to have a gay couple, they can’t really mess around with any of the traditionally known straight pairings. If they do it like that, it just makes it feel like a forced thing, just for the sake of having a gay couple as a means of being politically correct. So I think it’d be more likely for them to take characters who don’t traditionally have an epic true love story with the opposite gender, and give them a true love of the same gender instead.

So, once you’ve been with someone, that’s it for the rest of your life then? And you can never meet someone (of either gender) and find love with them? Emma has been with one man that we know of (although she had an affair with a married person) when she was 17. Regina was never in a consensual intimate relationship until later – Leopold doesn’t count as it was a forced marriage. She would have been required to service him – and of course Daniel but they never consummated it. Their was Graham, but that was, hmmm, to scratch an itch shall we say. Their was no ‘love’ involved. I think it’s a bit much to say either of them is straight or wouldn’t find love with a women – and Emma dear, you’re not helping looking so very very butch. Their are people that have lived their whole lives one way, got married, even had children, and then they meet that certain person – and it just clicks. Past relationships don’t lock you in for love. That’s not how life works.

Personally, I don’t ship swan Queen, mainly because I find Emma as a character so very annoying LOL. But I get what the Swan Queen shippers are getting at. Those two are very strong, dominating characters, and are constantly each others foil – they challenge each other, they get each other (sort of like what Emma mentioned on the show I guess – she knows her). And they share the kid, and importance wise they are about equal on the show – they balance, so to speak. And can you imagine the drama it would create? The evil queen falling in love with the child of her greatest enemy and the very person who took her first love away. The person who took her love, is then is giving it back. The writers would a field day. I feel some sympathy for the SQ shippers to be honest. If snows kid had been a boy, and they got some pretty faced dude to play him, every man and their dog would probably be shipping it, but two women? Everyone frowns on it all of a sudden. And as I noted earlier, it’s 2013, not the 1950’s.

I just want Regina to end up happy, and have a good relationship with her son. Her relationship with Henry is more interesting to me than who she shacks up with really. If that’s with Hook, Emma or whomever, I don’t much care – Just someone who will love her and NOT try to control and manipulate her. Well, anyone but Neal I suppose. He just seems like such a scumbag – I still have trouble equating him to the sweet child Bae was to current day Neal who betrayed and abandoned Emma. I wish he was more like young Bae. Even a new character like Robin Hood or whatever would be ok. But I feel given Regina’s importance as a character, they’d want a decently important character to match her with, unless they go the Daniel route and get a super normal person, who is incredibly sweet and loving towards her. Not sure which I’d prefer tbh.

I ship Regina Mills with Happiness!

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