Who is Regina/EQ...really?

[maddarilke.livejournal.com]

I know that most of the residents of Storybrooke have names that have a connection to their Fairyland characters--

Mary-Margaret Blanchard = "Blanche" is French for "white."
Ruby = Red Riding Hood
Regina = Latin for "Queen"
Archie Hopper = Crickets "hop"

...etc. Now, look at the Mayor's full name: Regina Mills.

Didn't the story of Rumplestiltskin begin with a Miller's daughter?

Could Regina have been The Miller's Daughter before she was an Evil Queen? And would that mean that she's known Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold for far longer than we're aware right now?
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Comments

[nikki4noo.livejournal.com]

I was waiting for people to twig about her surname and Rumpelstiltskin's story. :D

Look at her father and how humble he appeared. Also that he addressed her as 'your majesty' until they were alone. She would call him Henry and only called him father when they were alone. Ever since I learned her full name, I wondered about it.

Was that the secret she shared with Snow? About how she couldn't spin straw to gold, but it was Rumpel who helped her? The king the miller's daughter marries is snow's father?

My own theory atm is that Regina gets the better of Rumpelstiltskin and it was the price she extracts from him, her magical abilities, or making what she had stronger.

[musing-mia.livejournal.com]

That is a good theory. If she is the Miller's daughter and Snow told her father the truth behind the lie, he might move to have their marriage annulled? I doubt they have divorce in FTL. Very interesting.

[nikki4noo.livejournal.com]

Well considering how many marriages end in death in Fairy Tales, I would say no to the divorce in FTL ;)

If Snows father is the king from that story then it seems he's not a nice bloke either. He only marries the miller's daughter because of her ability to spin the straw into gold, nothing to do with love. Also the original story had Rumpel wanting the first child from the new Queen. Did he take her first child? Is that a nice parallel to her taking Snow's child and grandchild from her?

Also, hello Bones :D

[maddarilke.livejournal.com]

Awesome backstory sussing. So, that's the one I'm gonna go with until the show tells us what's going on. :)

[nikki4noo.livejournal.com]

*curtsies*

I've always been fond of a little metaising and this show is great to put my logical brain to work trying to figure things out. :D

[lovedbyahero.livejournal.com]

I have a feeling that the Evil Queen lost someone and that she only married the king in her quest for vengeance. This is what I love about the show right now, there are so many fairy tales that we can link to certain characters and yet they haven't managed to make it tiresome

[obisgirl.livejournal.com]

I totally buy that. I think she saw what Rumple could do and got mixed up in that, thinking it was cool or perhaps, the only way to survive.