Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6175354-20130930170041/@comment-22525977-20131001165704

Fluteline24 wrote: I'd rather have Snow's ability to feel emotions than Regina's complete delusions and narcisissm that makes people want to throw me overboard. ...what delusions and narcissism?

And: So you'd rather be a sociopath incapable of understanding basic empathy and lacking the ability to allow your own daughter the opportunity to express her very legitimate reasons for being upset, instead trying to impose your own self-proclaimed "wisdom" on her—even though she's almost thirty years old and you have, at best, known her for a year?

You'd rather hate so deeply that you manipulate a woman into killing her own mother—a woman who already has very real reasons for despising you—by giving her false hope that she could finally have the loving mother she's wanted for her entire life, and then immediately-but-not-soon-enough feel horribly guilty about it but refuse to deal with that guilt in a way that is healthy? You'd rather twist the knife further by demanding that the very woman you manipulated in the first place murder you—one action guaranteed to permanently destroy any chance for reconcilliation between your two families, especially since you didn't tell anyone what you were planning—instead of doing the deed yourself?

You'd rather punch an old man who was just trying to protect his son in the face because you were justifiably angry about him robbing you of your chance to raise your daughter, but then instead of apologising insisting that you're absolved of all guilt because "that wasn't me?"

You'd rather possess the ego capable of rationalizing away the callous murder of gods-know how many people in the overthrowing of not one but two reasonably stable governments so you could have your fairytale happy ending with your fairytale prince, but feel over-the-top guilt when you know the person who died personally?

You'd rather be the kind of person who grows so codependent on your significant other that, when circumstances conspire to pull you apart, you intentionally destroy your ability to feel love at all because it just hurts so much and you can't handle that? You'd rather be the kind of person who keels over and tries to die when the going gets rough, instead of actually, oh, doing something to try to make it better for yourself—which, I might add, is what Regina does ''literally all the time. ''

Why?