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

[dj-rocca.livejournal.com]

I sincerely doubt she is, that's just too much interconnection.

But the ages in the show are nuts at this point, especially for Rumpel and Jiminy. They were both clearly about 30 (at least Jiminy) before he became a Cricket, Gepetto was like 10? So it's 40 years at least in top of that plus the 28 year haze...

[chloris.livejournal.com]

I suppose it could work with the proper twist but at this point I agree: too much interconnection. And they are interconnections that don't add up to the relationships we have seen so far.

Yeah, the ages are crazy in this show. I can get behind magically transformed creatures not aging (or at least having longer than human lifespans) but it makes it difficult to figure out how everyone fits! I will say that having Rumpelstiltskin be around for decades (at least) making deals does work since it gives him a great deal of time to amass power and pile up favors.

[litlover12.livejournal.com]

I don't the show's writers would recognize the concept of "too much interconnection." :-)