Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6905051-20130319075749

Contrary to how Cora and Rumple behave, Regina is a very conflicted person from what I could make up in the Welcome to Storybrooke Epi.

She wants power but she does not wish to control everyone or everything with it.

When the curse was cast, she was initially happy, but soon she realised it is the curse which makes people obey her. She wants to force people to want to obey her. As Rumple says, she wants it all. She wants full control and yet she wants willful submission. She is not willing to let go of anything and take a single step back.

And even when she means well, she always end up twisting stuff. She loves Owen and wants to keep him, loves him enough to let him go, but she has to have him without his father.

Somewhere down the line, Regina comes across as a very conflicted person. 