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Hoping it’s not Rumple, really hoping this if in fact it does turn out that she is Cora’s daughter.
I think she is lying, I think this is all part of a bigger plot for her revenge.
Why, in Cora’s last moments of life, why would she say to Regina, you would have been enough. If she had another daughter out there. It does not make sense. I think she opened that door with Regina’s blood which was stolen from her in the last episode. Maybe it does have to deal with Cora but I don’t think Zelena is her daughter. It is just too obvious, there has to be more too it.
[adrotate group="5"]I say it is Snow’s father King Leopold, why else would they bring back young Cora and young Leopold. Why not make the already complex and confusing family tree that much more interesting.
Regina and Zelena are half sisters.
But…who is the father? Rumple? The Wizard? someone else?My money is on Leopold being the father of Zelena, making her also the half-sister of Snow White.
"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
Though I’d rather her father be the Wizard, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it ends up being Leo. If Zelena knows that Snow’s baby is a blood relation to her, it could explain why she’s getting involved with it.
I just hope that if they go that direction, they make it that it was a one time encounter and Leo didn’t even know Cora’s name, otherwise it’ll feel like a retcon of Stable Boy, where there was no indication that Leo knew who Cora was.
This is a very long, crazy-theory-rich post:
I think that Rumple could still be Zelena’s father. Though she may have implied to Regina she only knew him as a teacher, her exact words were “the only man whom both our paths have crossed.” Regina assumed the rest, that she was his student and he chose Regina. And why would we assume the WWW is honest, anyway? I also think that that emotional moment in which she paused after hearing both Rumple and Cora are dead could have been her realizing her status as an orphan.
If Rumple is Zelena’s father, I would imagine it played out like this: Cora became pregnant so close to her ending her affair with Rumple and marrying Prince Henry that she didn’t realize she was pregnant with Rumple’s child when she cut out her heart and married Henry and she didn’t realize the baby was Rumple’s when she presented it to the royal court and named her Regina (because she will be queen one day). Then Rumple came back for his child, which Cora made a deal with him that he could have, and Cora realized the horrible truth. She tried to use magic to break the deal, leading horribly to her daughter’s turning green all over from some potion. Cora then hopelessly disowned the baby because “no child of hers would ever be his” (Rumple’s). She named her NEXT child Regina and tried to pretend the first baby never happened. Thus, Zelena winds up obsessed with her half-sister who has the life she was supposed to have, and tries to steal everything that makes Regina happy in order to take back her life.
This theory is pretty out there, though, and I don’t think it fits with how good of a father Rumple is — why would he ever leave his child, if he knew she existed? So my other theory for them being half-sisters is that the Wizard was some aforementioned poor stable boy in Cora’s life, who she had a child by but then tried to kill, thus leading to the baby turning green (she’s green for a reason, people!), and then the father wound up becoming the Wizard in the typical Oz-story progression of events. I agree that is a little Wicked-y, but as long as they stay away from the exact plot points in Wicked, I think it could work. Or perhaps Rumple IS the Wizard, in some way?
However, I think the most likely theory is that Zelena is lying. They aren’t really half-sisters at all, and she broke the blood lock with Regina’s blood that she stole. I don’t know what pretending to be Regina’s sister would gain her, but based on her creepiness about Snow’s baby, I would say that her real play is to get her hands on the baby. Maybe she really wants vengeance on Snow for something? I’m betting it has something to do with the Cora-Ava backstory we’ve been waiting for more of since last season.
Interesting. It never crossed my mind that she would lie. Did she only need the blood to enter Cora’s room or the whole castle? She was definitely in the castle already when the flying monkey brought her Regina’s blood. Just wondering. I missed some of the conversation details between them, because of my reception & my kids.
However, I think the most likely theory is that Zelena is lying. They aren’t really half-sisters at all, and she broke the blood lock with Regina’s blood that she stole. I don’t know what pretending to be Regina’s sister would gain her, but based on her creepiness about Snow’s baby, I would say that her real play is to get her hands on the baby. Maybe she really wants vengeance on Snow for something? I’m betting it has something to do with the Cora-Ava backstory we’ve been waiting for more of since last season.
My problem with her lying is that she was already inside the castle, past the all the spells. I don’t think she’s lying
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Not sure about her lying. Regina used a blood lock twice after Z already had Reggie’s blood. The question is did the blood lock prevent anyone from getting into the castle or just prevent anyone from opening the door to Cora’s crypt?
If they are sisters, I’m still sticking to young Leo being the father, but I am no open to the possibility of it being Rumple. They did make a point of having Reggie say that Z was jealous that Rumple used her to cast the curse instead of Z. Why bring that up unless of course we are being asked to question “Why didn’t Rumple use Z to cast the curse?”. The most obvious reason would be because she is his and if she is his, does she even know this?
Keeper of Pandora's Box & The Yellow Brick Road.
Had it just been the one incident in the castle when Zelena broke through Regina’s blood magic, then maybe I’d be more suspicious. But they then backed it up by having her break through Regina’s blood magic in SB too, which to me feels like confirmation that yes, they do share blood. That seems like a more straightforward explanation as opposed to later revealing that Zelena carries a vial of Regina’s blood wherever she goes, just in case.
Not sure about her lying. Regina used a blood lock twice after Z already had Reggie’s blood. The question is did the blood lock prevent anyone from getting into the castle or just prevent anyone from opening the door to Cora’s crypt?
But like you said,s he used it twice and Zelena got around it.
Why bring that up unless of course we are being asked to question “Why didn’t Rumple use Z to cast the curse?”. The most obvious reason would be because she is his and if she is his, does she even know this?
I have to wonder if he didn’t use Zelena because she wasn’t innocent like Regina in the Stable Boy flashbacks. Maybe Z wasn’t as easy to control
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"
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