Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-6175354-20141215234519/@comment-5188977-20150227040823

Eskaver wrote: Yeah, happiness is different for everyone. But I'm saying that Snow, David, Ingrid, Alice, Cyrus, etc had numerous trial before their happy ending, especially Snow. Regina meets her her second or third trial and she now is looking for an person to give her her happy ending. None of the others really did that. They went through life and overcame it. This makes Regina looks impatient since becoming a hero. Snow had her mother die, father die, had to leave David, was cursed by King George, was an outlaw in her own kingdom, went through a forgetful potion, plagued by Regina countless times with countless deaths and attempts to kill her, Sleeping curse, Dark curse, losing Emma, awkward relationship with Emma, dealing with inner darkness, having another baby stolen from her hands, more awkward relationship with Emma. If Snow can get through this before calling for some outside help or blaming someone, so can Regina.

I know that blaming innocent people is what Regina does, but it makes her look foolish or at least need some mental help. Recently, Regina blamed Emma for trapping herself in her own vault. She blamed Emma for saving someone from her evil self, and she now blames a book for not having everythi-I mean a happy ending. A happy ending isn't suppose to be everything we want, but everything that'll suffice. Regina's worst self blamed Emma, because in her mind, Emma was the only one who could do it.

I don't think it's a matter of how much stuff happens to you before you get to your happy ending. Regina, from the very beginning only wanted to be free to love. She thought she finally had that chance but for Snow's innocent indiscretion. With her hopes (she thought) totally crushed, she went full tilt in making Snow miserable thinking that that would somehow fill that void Daniel left. She found Henry and thought that she now had someone to love and care for, and for a while it was enough. But when someone or something threatened that, she reverted to old habits to secure what she thought was her last chance at happiness. Then she met Robin Hood and thought she couldn't go through all that again. And somehow every time she reaches out emotionally, it ends up blowing in her face. In her mind, she knows she has done a lot of evil, but she has also seen good people do terrible things and yet achieve a semblance of a happy ending. So the question is who decides who gets what? that is what triggers the search for the Author. We have found that the Book's contents can be changed, but is it just be their decisions or also someone else's? are their decisions limited by the options this someone gives them?

So in the end, Regina as a character seems impatient, but this only comes from her forgetting how to hope, seeing as how at every turn, her hopes are somehow dashed. and this is her common beef with the Charmings. She is at once appalled and fascinated by how they manage to cling to hope in spite of all that has happened. Something she is unable to do, or has forgotten, and is probably seeking to regain.