Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5094906-20130211185818/@comment-5679696-20130224212044

Fractuared Fairytales wrote: I was under the impression she controlled it. Otherwise, there was no way to determine who ended up where, or with who. Think about the Katherine/David relationship - that was clearly engineered by Regina. As well as who remembered FTL and who didn't. There was no way to guarentee that Belle ended up in the asylum without her having some control. Also, her minions were in places she wanted them - Sydney was a reporter and Graham was the sherrif. I don't know that she controlled -everything- ... meaning their names and occupations and such, but I'm almost positive she was in control of their memories, and circumstances. She definitely had control over their happiness, because that was what her goal was.

Sonofaphrodite wrote: The way I think it works is that the Dark Curse rearranges everybody's lives in a way that the person who cast it would be happy with. So no, I don't think that she specifically decided on minor details herself such as people's names or occupations, but her intentions and desires contributed to the outcome of the Curse, which is why Mary Margaret is torn away from David and is destined to be frozen in time as a single, love-seeking woman until Emma came into Storybrooke and the Curse uses those desires to produce something that Regina can contend with. I know this contradicts me saying that Regina probably decided not to give Belle a name, but also, maybe the Curse decided that for her.

I think exactly like you Sonofaphrodite. I think that Regina's desires and thoughts contributed, but I don't think that she planed anything. It just went out the best way for her. As for Belle beeing locked up, I think that she stayed locked up because she was before, in the Queen's castle.

There is a catch. Rumplestiltskin asked Regina to be rich, and he was, so I might be completley wrong. I know don't know what to think XD