A Character Study- Once Upon A Time: Regina Mills

Regina: Archie is dead?
Emma: He's been murdered.
Regina: Murdered? How?
Emma: We don't know yet.
Regina: What did the pathologist say?
Emma: The who say what?
Regina: The pathologist, what did he say when he conducted the autopsy?
Charming: Autopsy?
Regina: Yes, the autopsy. To determine the cause of death.
Charming: Were we supposed to order one of those?
Emma: I think we were.
Regina: anda haven't even had an autopsy yet? How do anda even know he was murdered?
Emma: Well, he just laying on floor, all dead and stuff.
Regina: Was he shot?
Charming: No.
Regina: Stabbed?
Emma: No.
Regina: Strangled.
Charming: No....

Magic has a price. This has been drilled into us for over a tahun now. All magic has a price. Regina knows this. Even as something that will help Henry with his nightmares is within reach she stops him from taking it. She knows it’s not free. Bonus points to her for not pulling her usual Scarlet O’hara ‘I’ll think about it tomorrow’ stuff. (She would have won MAJOR bonus points with me if she’d berkata ‘whatever the cost is it’s mine, not Henry’s, but oh well.)

‘This one’s on me.’ Gold/Rum is always sooo careful about what he says when it’s about a deal (if only he’d...