Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-199.89.60.92-20130506231633/@comment-5235494-20131105043726

My theory:

As a young and beautiful woman, Maleficent fell in love with Prince Stephen (unaware that he was to have an arranged marriage with the woman who would later be Aurora's mother). Having considered Stephen her one and only true love, Maleficent had dreams of living happily ever after with him as queen of his kingdom, but never fully had the chance to tell him how she felt about him. One day, as Maleficent worked up the courage to tell him, she became devastatingly heartbroken at the sight of him with another woman, who she found he was going to marry. Infuriated and jealous of the bride-to-be, Maleficent taught herself / was taught by Rumpelstiltskin / was taught by Regina the "darkest of magic", wherein she crafted a powerful sleeping curse that could be rid of the bride for all eternity. On the day of Stephen's wedding to the princess, Maleficent proclaimed that the bride would prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die, afterwards vanishing from the kingdom. Thus, the bride of Stephen became Sleeping Beauty...

Seeking dire help, Stephen traveled to the Blue Fairy for assistance. Although Maleficent's spells are too powerful to entirely undo, she manages to change some of the curse's effects - at a horrible price. To save his wife, the curse would instead be passed onto their daughter, Aurora.