Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-184.155.191.147-20130201065916/@comment-6917250-20130304203303

When I saw the last episode, I got a weird revelation in my head. It's not perfect, but it is interesting. There has to be some major motivation behind Cora's evil heart. Everyone else has one. Perhaps she does too. When she mentioned the part about being left a Miller's daughter over Eva's body, that's when this popped into my head. Namely because it seems weird that Cora would murmur anything over a corpse that can't hear, unless there's a direct correlation between the Queen and Cora being left a Miller's daughter. Maybe the two were sisters, simple Miller's daughters. The Prince of the time was looking for a princess. Cora really wanted to be the Queen (or truly loved this particular Prince), but Snow's mother (her sister perhaps) won in the end. As a result, Cora not only became hellbent on securing that power, but also on destroying the universal maxim that good and the pure of heart always win. Then I took it even further... what if the Queen was Cinderella and Cora was one of the evil stepsisters? (pure speculation, I know)  But perhaps instead of an evil stepsister, she was a relatively benign sister who felt slighted when she lost her shot at true love and/or power (perhaps a convoluted alteration/combination of Cinderella and Rumplestilskin)? It would also contribute to this peculiar fascination she has with turning Snow's heart black and ruining the Queen's legacy. Maybe this is some long family feud to secure for Regina a true victory over Snow White to make up for her loss to the Queen. They don't necessarily have to be blood related for that last assumption to be the case (though the correlation still exists if Eva and Henry Sr are indeed siblings), but given the turns OuaT's been making lately...

Also as an addendum to my previous thoughts, perhaps the benign sister turns into the conniving evil Cora after her run in with Rumplestilskin. This of course follows his run in with the Seer regarding the dark curse. He needed to groom someone with dark magic to make the curse that would secure his opportunity to find his son, since he couldn't do it himself. So he found Cora and began teaching her, whilst manipulating her frustration at having been left a Miller's daughter in her sister's stead. Maybe this also lead to him bargaining to use Regina (her firstborn) in his schemes... Just thoughts, but wouldn't it be interesting?

Note: this appears in a different thread (http://onceuponatime.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:108891)

Not plagiarized, just written as a Spy in the Window before I had an account.