Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-34563899-20180329193002/@comment-26967699-20180329205207

From the beginning of S6, Regina suffered from what she did. That’s why she gave a-10-minute speech to Emma in 522 about feeling stuck between good and evil. Regina split herself, yes. But this is because she wanted to destroy her “Evil Queen instincts”, as we saw when Hook entered Granny’s Diner. It was never about putting her acts into another person.

Regina likes blaming others. We saw that a hundred of times. But when it comes to her past, she never ever blamed another person, but only herself (at least S4 onward). That was still ongoing in S6 until the showdown between she and her serum counterpart.

If you really feel that way, that Regina split herself because she did not want to suffer from what she did, then I’m sorry, but you did not understand Regina’s whole arc in S6.

Side note: What Snow meant by saying “While you- well the Evil Queen...” was just kind words from her. There are better ways than saying to that person face-to-face, that she is the person who is responsible for living a terrible life, which also true. And Snow was just using that.