Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-26394456-20171122060155

As I was drifting off to sleep, still pondering Once Upon a Time's two hour information dump of Once last Friday, I realized something: Alice's mother, like Rapunzel's in Tangled, ingested the Golden Flower. Does this mean our heroine from Wonderland and other places could have magical abilities, like Tangled's Rapunzel.

I'm not saying that Alice has "Flower gleam and glow" powers. I'm just saying or proposing Alice has a high potential for magic. I mean, as far as we know, Drizella's parents didn't practice magic at all, and she had the Potential.

Although this potential for magic giving seems very inconsistant. Zelena seemed to have a higher potential for magic compared to Regina. And at the time of her birth, her mother had not begun to practice magic yet, whereas, Regina exhibited no magical potential as a child despite her mother practicing magic before her conception. I guess you could argue Zelena's exposure to the cyclone at a young age gave her the Potential and Cora's lack of a heart during Regina's conception lead to a lack of exhibiting magical potential, but this has never been addressed. Or of course this could just be writer inconsitancy.

So what do you think? How does this magical potential work? And could Alice exhibit magical potential considering her exposure to the Golden Flower and her mother being Gothel? 