Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1962215-20140317132636/@comment-5655661-20140408220450

Utter solitude wrote: She was already evil and heartless before she removed it. She was planning to give her child to Rumple, a man she could see was full of dark intent. She was pursuing a relationship with him even while betrothed. Then, she chose her own desires for power over love... She's pretty awful from the start XD

I mean, i don't feel there was enough twisting in her past to justify her later actions. Your father is a drunk miller? Boo-freaking-hoo. XD I agree with mostly everything you wrote, but we should also remember that with OUaT there is always more than meets the eye. We haven't fully explored Cora's backstory so it is still possible something happened to her that changed her even before she met Rumple and royal family.