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Matheus1234zx wrote: Aine1989 wrote: Matheus1234zx wrote: Aine1989 wrote: Because some people in the audience haven't grasped the concept that he is a child/pre teen and expect him to react to things the way adults do. And he's also an abuse survivor, which is obviously going to colour the way he reacts to things, like what Avatar Beta said about how he spends all his time with Regina and makes her out to be some kind of supermum.

Also, Jared is a very capable actor. Watch 6x06, he's great in that. And he plays Pan in 3x10 brilliantly. The issue was the writers making him rehash the same things since s4, either "author gibberish" or "no mom, you've changed!"

And like you said, a small number of Regina fans hated him in s1 and thought he was an "ungrateful brat" because he didn't willingly submit to her abuse (the same way a small number of Rumple fans hated Belle in season 6).

Henry Swan is very precious and I will protect him with my life. ABUSE SURVIVOR???? OMG U got to be kidding me. And I won't even mention the "Henry Swan" thing Welllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll if you wanna be technical, the de-curse/un-curse/reverse curse in 3x11 undid everything, including the adoption, and his surname legally became Swan.

Also you can deny he was abused, but you have to at least admit the first 10 years of his life were difficult to say the least. But Regina wasn't mean to him. She was mean to Emma, who, in her POV, was trying to steal her son. Also, If you want to be technical, Henry is neither Fiona's adoptive son, or grew up in the orphanage As of right know he is 100% Henry Mills, that is what both 2018 Henry’s would call themselves considering that if the curse changed their legal status Emma and Regina would need to read adopt him, I think the ten years of Mills would beat the one year of Swan. Regina might not have been the best parent before her redemption, we see that, but all we saw is her “not believing him” and him not feeling at home, which is really vague. Abuse implies that he was being beaten or verbally abused to the point of Drizella and Henry appears to be a well-adjusted person in all respects. Regina is as much of a hero as Hook is by 3B, possibly more so at that point, except for 5A they sort of fluctuate based on what they’re doing, S4 had some weirdness for her that didn’t make much sense considering her light magic in 3B but except for the Sydney stuff and Belle’s heart she has been a hero since 3B.