Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20170429134340/@comment-31564770-20170720040224

Can I just say, the whole S3 thing about "the purveyor of the strongest light magic" doesn't mean Regina is on par with Emma. The strongest light magic is True Love. So "purveyor of the strongest light magic" means someone who can use the power of True Love, aka True Love's Kiss. Regina was able to TLK Henry, meaning she can use True Love's power. Her training and skill as a Dark sorceress and her ability to use magic in the first place means she was able to channel that magic and use it to directly attack Zelena. Thus, Regina is a magic user who can use True Love- but we have only ever seen her use weaponized pure light magic once. For the most part she uses Dark magic or some combination of Light and Dark magic. My personal theory there is Regina is still using Dark magic, but the True Love she also has keeps it from darkening her soul more than it already has been. I don't think un-darkening is possible really- we've learned multiple times that you can't destroy darkness and trying has a terrible price and is never worth it. Anyways, my point is that Regina using True Love doesn't mean she's equal to Emma power-wise. As I've said, I put Regina at the very bottom of my pure sorcerers list and Emma all the way at the top, but noted that their combat potential is equalish because Emma hasn't studied like at all and Regina has tons of tools and tricks at her disposal plus years of heavy research. So just because Regina was able to weaponize TLK doesn't mean she has as much power as Emma. Emma is the Savior, she's basically True Love incarnate. She has direct access to not only the insane power of her parents' true love, but to her own true love for Hook and Henry. The Savior is destiny-bound to be the greatest hero, the champion of the light, love and hope given human form. If Emma bothered to study half as much as Regina has she would be freakin invincible.

On one hand we have the ex-Evil Queen who took a long time to learn magic and was only the great and terrible Evil Queen in the first place because she was basically terrorizing magicless peasants, who was able to overcome her darkness and use a True Love pure light magic spell once ever. On the other hand we have the freakin Savior, love and hope incarnate, destined to become the greatest hero and the champion of light, with direct access to a ton of light magic which has been proven repeatedly to be stronger than Dark magic. Yeah, I think I proved my point.