Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-27060727-20171014181959/@comment-31937823-20171213010155

DatNuttyKid wrote: ChocolatEyes613 wrote: 8Rob wrote: If we are going to see the curse being enacted in this episode, I wonder what we'll see in the 7B flashbacks Lemme guess, Regina cast the Dark Curse.... again. I've actually considered this and I feel like, besides the obvious answer of "Drizella cast the curse, there's no twist", this is the most likely outcome. Yes, it's "Really, Regina? You cast the Dark Curse again?" but that's exactly why no one would expect it. It could also explain Regina's understanding of whatever hero-proofing Drizella put on the Dark Curse -- she was the one who actually cast it, after being pressured to do so by Drizella and Gothel.

And her justification? Henry is poisoned (by the darkness from the Season 6 finale?). The only way to save him is to take him to the Land Without Magic, where there isn't any magic to continue the effects of the curse. If the curse is broken, Henry's poison will take its effect, killing him.

The only question would be, whose heart did Regina use? But that's also a question for Drizella, Alice, and all of the other suspects, so maybe this is a Fiona-style curse that doesn't require a heart.

My theory has changed: Drizella makes the variation of the curse, and Regina uses Henry’s heart to cast the curse but she stops it like Hades’s heart in 5B but with the opposite effect. If Hades shared true loves kiss he would return to the living, but Henry would go to the land of the dead if the same were to happen to him.

She casts the curse because Drizella, who doesn’t know how to, coerces Regina into doing it after she, Gothel, and their coven have captured everyone and are threatening to kill them if she doesn’t do so.