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[thisbluespirit]

Memed from senmut: A list of female characters I love:

1. Ruth Evershed
2. Regina Mills
3. Kathryn Janeway
4. Servalan
5. Clara Oswald
6. Alice Jones
7. Ace McShane
8. Cora Mills
9. Evie Carnahan
10. Dayna Mellanby


Give me a number from the below list & I'll answer the question. Or try to anyway.

1. What defining trait draws you to them?
2. Do you have a pairing you prefer for them?
3. Is there a point of canon you would change?
4. 3 sentence ficlet please? {provide prompt)
5. Random 5 things about this one?
6. What is the best point of canon in your opinion?
7. Random crossover crack ficlet please? (choose two of the ladies, or one and provide a second fandom to cross with)
8. How would canon be different without them?
9. Give a shag/marry/cliff trio for the lady.
10. Ask any other question!

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[sovay]

2. Regina Mills

1, please!

[thisbluespirit]

1. What defining trait draws you to them?

I, er, seem to have a thing for women who could probably take over the world, and sometimes have?

I think, with Regina, though, it's her strength - she will go to greater heights and depths than anyone else, and stand pain as well as inflict it, and feel things too deeply (both what causes her to become evil as well as what forces her to walk the long road out again).

And not a trait, but her relationship with Snow is key, and it's a pretty unusual and often intense one.

Also her sarcasm, which is always a highlight, and her wardrobe, whether as Madam Mayor or the more OTT Evil Queen outfits.

(I started off in S1 thinking her 2D evil and then spending the rest of the entire show going REGINAAAA in different ways.)

[sovay]

I think, with Regina, though, it's her strength - she will go to greater heights and depths than anyone else, and stand pain as well as inflict it, and feel things too deeply (both what causes her to become evil as well as what forces her to walk the long road out again).

That sounds sound compelling. I'm glad she developed so many more dimensions after her first season!

[thisbluespirit]

I'm glad she developed so many more dimensions after her first season!

The thing with OUaT is that a lot of the story is told in flashback, so finding out who she was took a while. And in the meantime, Lana was storming about in wonderfully OTT costumes and attitude ruining everybody's lives. I think as well I was a little unfair at the time, because everyone had been singing Lana Parrilla's praises (understandably) and it took me a while to see it, and then, of course, it was always there.

(The fundamental difference between Regina and Rumple as villains is that Rumple is a coward who clings to power and is too scared to let it go despite wanting to at times, whereas Regina will push herself to lengths that anyone with more sense of fear and self-preservation would have drawn back from, and I enjoy that contrast in them.)