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]

But with knowing his name you earn power against him. I did think that she was really able to get the better of him in some way even more than what is in the original story. To my mind that is the best way to explain the real antagonism between the pair of them and possibly why he then gets his finger in various pies trying to get some power back.

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

only everyone seems to know he's called Rumplestiltskin.

[madwitch58.livejournal.com]

unless Rumpelstiltskin is not his real name, he could have a diffident birth name and taken the name of Rumpelstiltskin. that's what i would do if i were him.

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

that makes sense.

though then it's the folk tale that is puzzling - was that set back when few even knew what his assumed name ("rumplestiltskin") was, and he tricked them into thinking his true name was Rumplestiltskin?

I like your idea.