Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-28162607-20170818082458/@comment-25926288-20170831124756

Aine1989 wrote: The problem is that up until this point, Regina had never shown to hate herself. In fact, she said in 1x02 she didn't care about anyone else's happiness but her own and in season 4 she said she would "force the Author to write me the happy ending I deserve". Those are not the words of someone who hates themselves above everything. Hell she literally saw herself as the victim and Snow as the evil party, thinking that the EF "Call me [evil] because of her!"

The idea that the most narcassicistic character on the whole show (except for maybe Rumple) needed to learn to love herself is beyond laughable. It is a complete retcon. Not really. She really isn't narcissistic (well, not much more than the next person). But we can agree to disagree.

Nevertheless, valuing your happiness over others doesn't mean that you don't hate yourself. Regina often projects her anger and frustration onto Snow (and some others). She hated becoming like Cora, hated the way people saw her, eventually hated how "wronged" she had been and that obviously leads to what they all have in common: herself.