Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6905051-20130319075749/@comment-4975807-20130321022439

201.191.254.225 wrote: I think Regina is just a victim of Cora's acts. I mean, she just wants to be happy. She was a good person from the beggining, and she knows she was good, but she has never had the chance to be happy. The love of her life was killed by her mother. The first person who was nice to her in a long time (Owen) was taken away from her. Henry, her son, and the person she was able to care for and love, is the grandson of her worst enemy and now is leaving her alone, as everybody else does. It's not a surprise she's evil.

For example, she tried to change when Henry asked her to stop using magic, but she's always left alone and Henry is happy with the Charmings. She realized that being good is not going to take her anywhere. Think about it. I would be as bitter as she is if that happened to me :P While I agree, Regina is also responsible for her own actions. She herself knows she always goes back to bad tactics to get what she wants, and there's the cycle of revenge she can never let go of. She uses vengeance to deal out justice to everything. Daniel's death. Cora's death. While Regina does want love, she actually does not know how to love someone without trying to be possessive and controlling. Remember what Mr. Gold said. Regina wants love, but that same piece of her also wants vengeance. Those two things in her simply cannot co-exist. Her need for vengeance completely bleeds into and twists her perception of  what is love, and how to obtain it. I do agree with what Henry said. Magic has corrupted her life, and now she has no idea how to live without using it for means to get things she would have to be patient and steady in earning if she did not have magic.