Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-24810267-20150427050334/@comment-5106672-20150428144011

Chameleon-Guy wrote:

Eskaver wrote:

Chameleon-Guy wrote: I don't know if Zelena can be a good mother... I mean, she is crazy, my aunt is kinda like her (crazy, evil and jealous), you never know what to expect from her. Well, she had a good mother. She wanted a family that loved her in some respect, so I doubt she'd not try to love her child. Isn't it kind of a repeat of Regina? She evil and wanted to be loved, so she adopted Henry. Not really. Regina wanted a child ever since her (step)mother-daughter relationship with Snow went to hell: see Hansel & Gretel, Owen, finally Henry and recently even Roland. I think she was innately maternal all along, although often to disastrous extents due to how twisted her experience of parent-child relationship has been.

On the other hand, Zelena clearly got herself pregnant only to steal Regina's true love and bind him to her side. I don't think she stopped to consider what would become of the baby. Which is why I wonder what will happen once she gets through the nine months and the baby is born. It would be amazing to see how she could come full circle through motherhood and find her redeption there like her sister did.

It would be an amazing parallel with what Cora did: she tried to use both her daughters as ladders for social climbing, tossing away the one who couldn't benefit her and exploiting the one who could. Zelena was unsought but turned out a potential resource, as is her baby; Regina was sought with a specific purpose, as were all her attempts at adoption. It would be amazing if they both were able to have a child in similar circumstances as they were born in, but find a source of strength and growth in that.