Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-26211594-20151009183748/@comment-26116863-20151110044624

Then we've got the Evil Queen façade. First, it is wrong to assume that she admits her dark past to Emma because she's the only one who knows her dirty secrets: I guess the whole Storybrooke knows about that. Second, please, do tell us how nice you are when you're angry at, or threatening people who are opening hostile to you. I'm not even bringing up the whole bad parenting argument and the need not to be perceived as weak, I'll stick to simple logic: someone's treatening you, you remind them you can actually cause harm to deter them. Correct me if I'm wrong, but none of the threats have followed suit since the turning moment in Mother, have they?

Out of the three bad things that I can think of which she either did or planned to do since her supposed redemption, for two of them, Emma is probably the only one alive besides the victim who is aware of it. She knows about Sidney because she saw him show up and accuse Regina on the bridge, and she figured out what Regina was planning to do to Zelena when they were in New York (she doesn't know about the stealing Belle's heart thing though). So when Regina went on her moral high horse while lecturing Emma, it got awkward very quickly.

Who else really has any clue that she's sometimes relapses? I can't think of anything that she did out in the open for everyone to see.

Yes, these are only three things, but they're all pretty bad for someone who is supposed to be reformed.