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Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Eskaver wrote: Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Why are you people so adamant about not using the "QUOTE" button? It makes following these threads so confusing if you don't. Stay on topic! (I only don't use the qoute if it's a small thread) But yeah, quoting makes the comments easier to follow!

It could just be that Cora didn't kill anyone (in the family) and just moved to Leopold's kingdom, which is neighboring. Cora knew that she would have to kill her way to the throne, but she didn't seem like she would go through with that plan and I assume set up the "Regina" plan. Which still involved killing Eva. She was obviously willing to kill, as shown by her large reserves of hearts under her mansion. So why didn't she kill the four people ahead of her for the throne? After all, she wouldn't be the first monarch to spill some blood.

I think Rumple ruined her chances to become queen as revenge for dumping him, which is why she focused on having a child do her revenge for her. Maybe Xavier's kingdom was small, and Cora would rather her daughter be Queen of a much larger kingdom. Makes about as much sense as anything. A queen is a Queen, no matter the size of the kingdom. Plus, size doesn't equal power. England is relatively small and it still controlled the majority of the world a few centuries ago, and Cora can spin straw into gold.

So a small but wealthy kingdom, a princess determined to be queen... What went wrong? Most people may be happy with ruling a small but wealthy kingdom, but Cora's main attribute is her lust for power. She's always looking for it, even when she has it. She got her daughter to be queen (of what seems to be a rather large kingdom), you think she would be happy, right? Wrong, she proceeds to take over a big portion of Wonderland (and she chooses to do this over finding a way to get back to her daughter, mind you). When she finally does find a way (which by the way, not that hard to find the portal making rabbit that it took her so long), she proceeds to attempt to get her daughter pregnant so she can have an heir to the throne. In conclusion, one little kingdom was never going to cut it for Cora, she wanted a dynasty.