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In Character Information
character name: Regina Mills (The Evil Queen)
Fandom: Once Upon a Time
Timeline: 1x12 – Skin Deep.
character's age: Estimated to 30-ish.
powers, skills, pets and equipment:
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. The best example to that is the Huntsman who lost his heart to Regina and became aware to it only in Storybrooke. Before becoming aware of it, he would share her bed and obey her, a good example for her magic's doing.
In Storybrooke, it is unclear how much remains of her magic. Her keys are magicked to open any door in the city, and we can see her crush the Huntsman's (now the sheriff's) heart, killing him at the spot. So while her magic remained but perhaps was a bit weakened, in Anatole she will be gaining her magical talent back to its full extent.
Of course in game everything will be subject to mod and player approval.
She brings no pets and no special equipment, just her bag with lipstick, pictures, some money and some keys with a skull keychain that are, as said, enchanted to open every door in Storybrooke.
canon history:
Not much is known about Regina's early days, as she keeps most of those details a secret. She never speaks of her mother but is very devoted to her father, as he is to her. The most important part of her past is that she lost someone. When she was younger, Regina loved, truly loved, just like a fairytale story. But she lost the one she loved. Was it because of Snow White as she claims? It is unclear. What is clear is that once upon a time she was in love, and the loss of love has changed her, made her heart fill with darkness. As she said, evil is not born, it's made and losing someone you love? Can make you do unspeakable things.
And she does.
She marries Snow White's father, the king, in an unhappy arranged marriage. The king holds no love for her, instead doting on his daughter for she resembles her beloved mother who has passed, as she is the fairest in all the land. But Regina plots her way to freedom, faking love for a genie who comes to the kingdom. She lures him to her, making him kill the king using snakes that she asks her loving father to bring her. She tells the genie that after the king is dead they will be together forever. But he doesn't know that the snakes were ordered by Regina especially from his lands. She frames him for the murder and he, still in love with her, wishes to look upon her forever and never part from her and so he becomes her magic mirror.
Regina then becomes queen without a king. She plans to remove Snow White, to kill her, as she blames her for the loss of her love. Her mirror advices her to use the Huntsman and so she does - sending him to the forest with Snow White to carve her heart out. When he returns with a fake heart, she takes out his instead, making him her unwilling minion. She then plots to end Snow White in various other ways, using Hansel and Gretel to steal her something from a witch who lives in a house made of candy. That thing is the famous poisoned apple she will use against Snow White. All the while, she bothers with destroying lives of those around her who has a chance of happiness. Lying to Rumpelstiltskin that his love, Belle, is dead and plotting against a certain mermaid and even planning to steal from the famous queen of hearts; but her true target remains Snow White.
She does poison her, but as the story goes a true love's kiss is enough to break the spell. This is where all the fairytales end, usually, but not this one. Arriving at the wedding of Prince Charming and Snow White she vows to destroy their happiness. She then attempts to activate the Dark Curse that will send them to a place where there are no happily ever afters. When she fails, with her father's advice she goes to the person who gave her the knowledge of the curse to begin with, Rumpelstiltskin. He tells her she must sacrifice the one and only thing she loves. Stopping at nothing, Regina kills her own father, the one person she loves and the one person who can still see any good in her. She then marches on Snow's palace, ordering her men to kill everyone. She sends Snow, an unconscious Charming and the rest of the fairy tale characters to a place she calls "terrible".
Our world.
Time freezes in fairytale land and all are trapped without memories of who they really are, all but one.
Snow and Charming's daughter, Emma, who was also sent to this world but not to the jail known as Storybrooke, Maine.
There is also one who has memories of the kingdom, Rumpelstiltskin, as this was his price for telling Regina how to activate the curse to begin with.
If there are others? She's not sure.
What Regina doesn't know is that Rumpelstiltskin told Snow White to hide her daughter, and on the 28th birthday she will come back, and the final battle will begin. She will break the curse and restore memories and happily ever afters.
But before that, during all those years all the fairytale characters people think they know have been living their mundane lives in Storybrooke, Maine. Unaware to the fact they were once in a different land.
They have a mayor too, who rules forever with an iron fist, Regina Mills.
Regina also adopted a son; surprisingly, it is the son of Emma Swan, Snow White's daughter. Regina named him after her father, Henry. Henry has a book of stories, the real versions of how it came down, brought to him by Mary Margaret, his school teacher and unknowingly to herself, Snow White.
Henry seeks his mother, his real mother, and brings Emma to Storybrooke.
Under Regina's rule no new people ever come to Storybrooke and those who try to leave are harmed by the curse, one way or another. The town's clock is forever showing the same hour, indicating that time is frozen.
But when Emma arrives and decides to stay since she feels there is something odd about Regina, the clock ticks and time starts moving. Regina, who dislikes newcomers, tries to destroy Emma but to no avail. She also makes sure to try and make the lives of her citizens miserable. Trying to keep Mary Margaret away from David, Prince Charming. Trying to send away two orphans who are Hansel and Gretel and even keeping Belle in an asylum, locked under the ground.
Regina holds all the secrets and all the lives of those people she subjected to this land and tries to ruin their lives and most of all, she tries to ruin Emma.
While she succeeds in some things, in other she fails, Emma refuses to leave and Henry loves her.
Emma also begins making others remember their past lives, when the sheriff kisses her he remembers who he is, making Regina kill him in order to keep him from recalling all his memories and going against her.
Before she'll arrive to Anatole, though, Regina will make one more important discovery.
Faced with Mr.Gold, another enemy of hers, as bad as Emma, she will have something he wants. In return, she will ask him once and again and then once more what's his name.
And then, Mr.Gold will look her in the eye and say " Rumpelstiltskin."
She will know then, that he remembers everything, and the faces threat not just from Emma, but from her old friend from fairytale land as well.
More than anything? She will try to preserve her power.
personality:
"You have no idea what I'm capable of."
Regina does not change much between fairy tale world and our world, her personality revolves around the same themes.
Regina's heart is filled with darkness. 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 ruthless and cruel, 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 she is not entirely inhuman, though. She shows care for Henry and she weeps as she kills her father and Graham, who she also cared for. 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 to 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 hinted Regina can feel, she feels sadness and she is no stranger to heartbreak as this is what started her spiral towards madness from the start. She simply doesn't know how to love and how to attract people to her. In Storybrooke, 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; but what comes naturally for Snow White and others is simply impossible for her, as everything is power to her in the end even if she does care for someone. What is the point of loving your father if you will kill him for your own ends?
Regina is vengeful, she holds a grudge against Snow White that makes her doom the fate of many people in a kingdom she was supposed to rule with justice. She would sacrifice everything in order to see Snow White defeated 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, the loss drives her to achieve a very twisted sort of happiness, that which is created by the sorrows of others.
She is clever and beautiful, cunning and terrible. She will play the timid damsel in distress or the caring step mother but in the end it is all an act. While she may not be a complete monster she is a cruel woman, capable of murder and torment. She traps Belle in Storybrooke in an asylum, alone, with no mercy for her fate. While she can still feel some emotions, most everything is beyond her already and every day brings her closer to doom.
why do you feel this character would be appropriate to the setting?
Regina knows darkness and she's no stranger to scary situations; in fact, usually she's the cause of them. =A woman who rips hearts out of people and preserves them in vaults only to crush them when she pleases, a woman who kills her own father, sends children to near death and poison a woman for being more beautiful than her will not fear the setting of Anatole; nor will she stop at trying to bend it to her will.
Writing Samples
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Third Person Sample:
Regina Mills' house and office was as black and white as her way of mind.
But it was hers; it was the closest thing to a castle she could get in Storybrooke. The finest house in the town, worthy for a mayor. For a queen.
She knew everything about it, the wallpapers, the furniture, the heavy wood of the chairs and doors, the softness of her bed and pillow.
Which was definitely not what she felt now.
Opening her eyes at once, she raised herself to a sitting position. For a second, she frowned in confusion. A moment later, and her face showed nothing but suspicion.
Something was very, very wrong. This wasn't Storybrooke, and she never left Storybrooke.
No one ever left Storybrooke; she had seen to that.
She rose up at once, noticing that her bag was with her, not that it did her much good. Upon inspection, her cell phone showed 'no reception.'
Gold.
No. Rumpelstiltskin. There was no other explanation. She exposed the vermin in return for a foolish chipped cup and he had done one of his tricks.
Something that was supposed to be impossible in Storybrooke, but even know she could feel her magic coursing in her veins, an old friend from a place she remembered well.
This was a trick, a plot to remove her. Rumpelstiltskin had done something, somehow and she was going to have his heart for this.
But where?
She walked to the window, cold eyes gazing over the view. Inside she was living, furious.
Her face was a cold mask of indifference.
Was there a trick hidden in her course? Rumple always loved his little contracts…but then again he was not supposed to be able to pull it by himself, not while in Storybrooke.
Still, still.
She was here, and the little twat Snow was back there. Together with Rumpelstiltskin and her Prince Charming and Emma Swan and –
Henry.
For a moment, she was seized with panic.
Henry. She couldn't live Henry with Emma. No she wouldn't. He's her son. Mind racing, she paced the room. Whatever foolishness brought her here, this is temporary. She knew all of other worlds, different worlds and this was not supposed to be possible.
She's as powerful as them. If Rumpelstiltskin thinks he can exile her out of the kingdom she created with her own black magic and her father's blood – if he dares to think that he would be proven exactly how wrong he is.
Exactly how far she was willing to go when crossed.
She was a mother and a queen. No one separates her from her son, no one takes her away from her kingdom.
She did made a vow as Snow White made hers.
There will be no happily ever afters to the people of Storybrooke.
If she had to slay every person in this new world in order to come back –
Well, it was messy, but not impossible.
A grin stretched itself on her lips.
She could see her ending even now, even here, in this unknown land that was not one of the two she ruled over.
And she lived happily ever after.
She would bid her time until her renewed victory.
And as for Rumpelstiltskin, well she had his little dove locked in a place he can never find her. He was a fool to cross her, they all were. When she finds her way back, when she sees them again –
What was the saying she heard once?
Off with their heads.
Anything else? nope!
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