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APPLICANT INFO.
NAME: Adi
CONTACT: ladylike (at) plurk
CURRENT CHARACTERS: n/a
CHARACTER INFO.
NAME: Regina Mills
CANON: Once Upon a Time
AGE: Not aging because of her original curse, Regina lived for 20 something years in the Enchanted Forest and then for 28 more years in Storybrooke, making her about 48 years old when the show started and 50+ in current canon. However, she looks no more than 30 year old due to not aging.
APPEARANCE: Regina Mills in her Storybrooke appearance.
CANON POINT: the ending of 4x11 – Shattered Sight
BACKGROUND: Regina Mills at the OUAT wiki!
PERSONALITY:
Regina's personality is all contrasts. On the one hand, she is the evil queen. She is ruthless and unforgiving, manipulative and addicted to the power that dark magic offers. Once upon a time she lost someone she loved, and that led her into a road that changed her forever. Where there was once love there is bitterness and hate. Regina takes out all her sadness and pain and turns it into anger and resentment. She has no compassion to others, if she's miserable, everyone will be.
As mayor Mills she says losing someone you love can make you do unspeakable things, and that is probably coming from personal experience. Regina can appear polite and smiling, but the smile never reaches her eyes as she is cold and distant, unable to connect.
She is ambitious and hungry for power, killing her king and turning into a solitary queen that fills Snow White's land in darkness. At Storybrooke, she rules alone and though some may think themselves their allies, she will betray them all and wipe them out if they cross her. She doesn't share her power, she never cared to.
She is willing to use every mean to achieve her ends. That includes separating Hansel and Gretel from their father, framing the genie despite his love for her and even killing the one person she truly loves, her father. Regina's willingness to go to this length proves that her need for revenge against the world that left her lonely is stronger even more than her love. Despite the warnings that this action will make her heart even more void, her soul damaged forever, she stops at nothing to achieve her goal and make Snow White miserable.
Regina's world is black and white; there are no compromises as she sees them as weakness. There is good and evil, foe or possible ally. She seeks to have the upper hand in nearly all her relationships, seeing them as competition. Every person can be a foe, and Regina is always careful, she never lets anyone in.
But then there is the other side, the compassionate, hopeful girl Regina was before magic corrupted her. Though others have a hard time seeing it, that girl isn't entirely gone, not entirely dead. The one who brings her out is Henry. Regina, even above being an evil queen, is a mother. She loves her son more than anything she had ever loved, wanting to be better for him so he may accept her back after the curse's end. Only Regina is her mother's child, she doesn't know how to love very well as she herself confesses. She knows greed and she knows how to be controlling, she knows how to try and win a child's favor with offering him magic and candy but she can't let her guard down and be humane around him.
She tries, she does try but it's hard for her, truly is. She lost that emotional side of her when, affected by Rumplestiltskin, she lost her heart to magic, becoming exactly what she never wished to be, her mother. Regina forgot who she was, what she once wanted her life to be. She wished to use magic for good but let her broken heart lead her down a dark path.
She is not inhuman, she's able to relate even if she's rather unable to show it. She weeps as she kills her father and Graham, looks genuinely hurt when both Graham and Henry reject her for Emma.
The problem with Regina is that she doesn't know how to love someone without trying to control and use them. She thinks love can be bought; she offers Hensel and Gretel to stay with her in the castle and have everything they can ever dream of and remains furious when they choose to leave her. She doesn't understand why Henry cannot connect with her. The truth behind it is that she tries to bribe people to love her as she doesn't know how to offer them anything else. She is desperate not to be entirely lonely, but her very character usually makes people leave her and by that affirm her hatred of the world. It is no wonder she punches Emma when she says that she needs to look at herself and see why people keep leaving her, why no one seeks her company; that is a very sore spot for Regina. She doesn't want all these people leaving her; she doesn't know how to keep them.
Regina was once naïve but all the betrayals and heartbreak turned her suspicious and unable to trust. She is clever and cunning, certainly not a foolish woman and is able to be patient and grinning while planning a man's doom. She is vengeful to an extreme: she holds a grudge to Snow White that makes her doom the destiny of many in a kingdom she was supposed to rule. She would sacrifice everything in order to see Snow White broken hearted, and when Snow asks why she simply replies with, "this is my happy ending." Unable to achieve the famous happy ending because her love is dead, his loss drives her to achieve a very twisted sort of happiness, that which is created by the sorrows of others.
But it is important to remember than when the time comes to choose between her revenge, her control of others and Henry's life she chooses Henry. She chooses saving him knowing well that it might lead for her own death as all of Storybrooke will want her head. When push comes to shove Regina is not an evil queen, she is a mother. That is a redeeming point in her personality; she chooses to give up her curse for the love of her son. Sacrificing 28 years of dark work for something pure that not even the darkness of her heart destroyed, true love of a mother to her child. It doesn't mean she's a good person, of course, she is still a woman of control and manipulation but it's a start. For Henry, she'll go to great lengths, even trying to be the woman she once was.
Rumplestiltskin thought that by breaking Regina's heart again he will manage to make her into the perfect monster. For a while, that was true but at the end, Regina proved that saying that true love can break every curse. Emma might have broken the curse by giving Henry a mother's true love's kiss but Regina was just as responsible for this turn of events when she found it in her to connect with light rather than with darkness, with love rather than with hate.
Regina's ultimate moment of sacrifice comes when she saves Henry and Emma from Pan's curse by allowing them to leave Storybrooke and forget it, giving them new memories so they might live freely. She gives up her son, allows him to go with the woman she once hated and gives them both a rare gift, new memories of their time, making them forget Emma ever gave up Henry for adoption. She admits to Henry that she is a villain and thus doesn't deserve a happy ending but Henry reminds her that she's not a villain, she once was a villain but now she's simply his mother. This ultimate sacrifice burdens Regina heavily after she is sent back to the Enchanted Forest, making her even consider tearing out her heart and burying it as to not face the pain of losing Henry but finally giving up that idea in order to save the Enchanted Forest from Zelena. That Regina was willing to let Henry go and forget all about her shows how much she had changed that she chooses love and compassion over her own happiness.
It is this love which finally pushes Regina to accept her past as the Evil Queen but push away from it and towards a better future, she starts helping people instead of destroying them, going as far as to protect her old nemesis Snow White from Cora's spirit. Regina begins to befriend her once-enemies and starts to form a new family based on trust. She starts working against those who would try to hurt Emma, Snow and the others and eventually becomes part of the team going against the threats on Storybrooke, namely Zelena and then Ingrid. It is when she finally fights Zelena that the change Regina went true is seen. To defeat Zelena, one needs the power of light magic to counter Zelena's dark one and after going through all she did, after putting aside her heartbreak and anger that Regina finally manages to produce light magic and become a hero rather than a villain. She defeats Zelena and even though Zelena tried to ruin her life multiple times, she shows mercy and does not kill her as a sign to how she had changed.
Not many villains have come a long way as Regina has, away from the Evil Queen to who she truly wanted to be, simply Regina, mother of Henry. She admits that she knows it'll be easy to go back to being the Evil Queen but she won't ever do so as she has Henry. That she chose love and light cannot unmake her past as a villain but it does make her a current hero.
ABILITIES:
Magic - Regina, as a start, is a powerful witch. While she needed Rumpelstiltskin's help to activate the Dark Curse, she has a supply of magic of her own. As far as moving objects, spells and using magic to protect herself, she can hold her own without any issue. One aspect of her magic that is very important to mention – Regina can remove someone's heart without killing said person. She later places the hearts in a box she magicks for that purpose, where it is kept, alive and beating. The person she takes the heart from is still alive and functioning, sometimes it's hard for that person to know something is wrong. But something is very wrong; those who lose their heart to Regina will find it hard to ever feel anything at all, they will find it nearly impossible to defy her and become subjects to her. Her magic is so cunning, that if someone places their hand over the said person's chest, they would feel a heart beating, even though Regina took it.
But that sort of magic is something Regina won't really attempt as she has changed, she has light magic too which is less harmful and meant to protect. She can summon most anything out of thin air, food and wardrobe, can create fireballs which are her favorite weapon and can alter her appearance. She's good with potions and nearly all branches of her world's magic from healing to harming. She does, however, focuses more on light magic than dark magic in her current canon point.
She's also a very good horseback rider and is great with swords!
INVENTORY:
On Regina as she arrives are:
One Storybrooke outfit
Purse
Wallet
Lipstick
Cellphone
WRITING SAMPLES.
NETWORK SAMPLE: here
LOG SAMPLE: Here at the TDM.
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