Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20150622205208/@comment-26184894-20150624084917

With the hand gestures, I always thought they were connected to the personality of the user.

Regina hand gestures is kinda elegant and majestic.

Zelena hand gestures and magic effects is aggressive and wild.

Ingrid hand gestures is cool, calm, and collected.

Emma hand gestures is tense and rushed.

With the incantations, I think it has to do with the way the sorcerer/sorceress is taught. The aprentice speaks English when he does his incantations,  Jafar speaks latin, and  Regina doesn't speak, but waves rumple dagger, much like rumple. All three uses different ways of doing incantations, but Regina's way is basically the same as rumple's, and all of her other spells are the same as her mother and sister.

I never thought of Regina as weak or strong because of how inconsistent her power is( my opinion may be bias because I love Regina and I am a total fanboy when it comes to her). For the first 2 and a half seasons she was one of the strongest people on the show. She defeated M alificent, she killed Cora(by accident), and defeated pan( rumple killed him, but she stopped the curse). Than Zelena came and made her look pathetic. Twice! However, after both brutal beatings she discovers she is a  purveyor  of the strongest light magic and defeats zelena. Than Ingrid makes her look pathetic again. After that arc Emma learned magic and she out ranks her because she's the product of true love( what makes her different from all the other products of true love? She seems more important than the others) and the main character. I think another reason Regina is made to seem weaker is she's a hero. Rumple's allowed to be super powerful because he doesn't stop the villains. Example he joins forces with the heros to save Henry, than throws a temper tantrum and runs away leaving the group. There's a trade off rumple was extremely powerful, but never helped with the villain, Regina is skilled and helps with villains, but isn't that powerful, and Emma is powerful and helps with villains, but isn't that skilled.

Also some things i noticed

You don't have to know magic or put the spell together to cast one. Regina seem to do everything but crush David's heart, but snow cast the dark curse(.

light magic seems to be weaker. Except for Emma and maybe Merlin( he may be neutral) all the light magic users seem weaker than the dark magic users. Glinda and her sisters was weaker than zelena and the fairies don't seem strong.