Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-2153169-20160901162450/@comment-5235494-20160904084825

I think Zelena is in for a major handful regarding the side of her sister she never knew - the one, the only, Evil Queen! In the picture, despite them toasting to green apple martinis, Zelena looks very uncomfortable, nervous, and reserved, and it would appear that Zelena's child is also in this photo. The Evil Queen was never above blackmail, threats, or using dark magic to enslave others to her will, and since this version of the Queen completely lacks a heart, she probably threatened to do something unspeakabe to Zelena's child, since "love is weakness", if Zelena didn't do something that the Queen wants.

When Zelena first met Regina, Regina was pretty much mostly 3/4ths reformed into a hero at that point, if not fully, so Zelena thought she had the upper hand without knowing the person that came before. For Zelena's sake, she was lucky to meet Regina at that point in time, because had she met her as the Evil Queen she probably wouldn't still be alive (and if she was, she would not be in any good condition whatsoever). Zelena may be more powerful magic-wise (supposedly, although by the time Zelena and Regina met, Regina was also still getting back to her former level of magic-use), but the Evil Queen is more manipulative, violent, manic, aggressive, insane, and flat-out EVIL. The Wicked Witch has done some nasty things, but they have fallen more in line with rebellious mischief and the occasional dissipation of a Munchkin compared to anything nearly as horrific as what the Evil Queen did. The Evil Queen has slaughtered entire villages - every man, woman, and child - to get what she wants, has forced countless individuals to serve her (and possibly, like the Hunstman, be raped by her) by ripping their hearts straight out of their bodies and storing them in a vault for ETERNITY, has found glee in torturing others not only with dark magic, but directly getting her hands dirty in a variety of different methods implied to be too gruesome for the show to expound upon, has one-upped and owned Rumpelstiltskin several times, including holding Belle captive for years, and has remained a topic of discussion even amongst other villains, who have had to team up with others just to try to take her down (unsuccesfully). This is a woman not above sending countless children to their deaths at the hands of the Blind Witch just to get an apple, let alone turning on her "only friend" (Maleficent) for the sake of revenge. And that was the Evil Queen when she had a heart. I cannot begin to imagine just how cold, psychopathic, and deadly she will be without it.