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[b]Name:[/b] Cora, The Queen of Hearts

[b]Appearance:[/b] [img=https://image-cdn.zap2it.com/images/hershey-barbara-ouat.jpg]

[b]Age:[/b] 56

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[b]Affiliation:[/b] Strives for nothing but the greatest of success, and will do whatever it takes to get what she wants, even if said actions are pure acts of evil, though she doesn’t see it that way.

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[b]Magic Capabilities:[/b] Taught by The Dark One himself, Cora’s magical capabilities far surpass everyone else’s in all the realms, and is arguably even more powerful than Rumpelstiltskin. Her favorite use of magic involves impersonating others, taking and collecting people’s hearts, and binding of any kind. There is very little that Cora [i]can’t[/i] do, and even less that she [i]wont[/i] do.

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[b]Weapons:[/b] Cora has very little use for any sort of physical weapon, though she does keep a slim dagger on her person just in case (bonus points if you can even find it).

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[b]Strengths:[/b] Magic and Power. She is Queen of an entire realm after all.

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[b]Weaknesses:[/b] Any mention of Cora’s daughter (which very few know about) causes Cora to get a slight temper, though this is usually a disadvantage to those who are in the path of her fury, it seems that Regina strikes a raw nerve in her as well as any mention of humble beginnings.

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[b]Relationships:[/b] Cora has very little time or interest in getting to know much of anyone on an intellectual level, however some relationships had to be made in order to get her where she is now.

Rumpelstiltskin:

Regina Mills:

Henry Mills:

Killian Jones:

Zelena: 

The White Rabbit:

Will Scarlett:

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[b]Brief Bio:[/b] She had been proven once before that love was weakness, but it wasn't until the second time that Cora became who she is now.

Born the daughter of a miller, Cora had taken her last belittling when delivering flour to the kingdom’s castle. Princess Ava, who was visiting at that particular time for a grand ball that would take place later that evening in order to find a suitable wife for Prince Henry, tripped Cora causing the flour to spill everywhere, and yet the King, who had witnessed the entire thing, had Cora bend on knee and apologize to the princess. Cora did as she was told, but she was done being treated in this way, and so that night, she stole a dress and a mask for the ball and wormed her way into the Prince’s heart.

The King was not fooled, however, and caught Cora in her lie of posing as nobility. In an effort to make the King feel foolish, Cora claimed to be able to spin straw into gold, and that she could have ended all his problems but was blind to see her for who she really was. Not taking her lie for a second, the King made up a deal, that if Cora spent the night locked up in one of their towers and managed to spin straw into gold, then she could marry his son, Prince Henry.

Locked up in the tower, Cora was sure she was going to throw herself out the window to spare herself the humiliation in front of the entire kingdom when she wouldn’t be able to spin straw into gold the next morning, however a voice caught her off guard with some kind of joke about jumping and Cora met for the first time, Rumpelstiltskin.

In a deal Rumpelstiltskin proposed, he taught Cora how to spin straw into gold in return of her first born child. When Cora displayed in front of the entire court that she could indeed spin straw to gold, the King had no choice but to keep his word and offer his son to her. Cora couldn’t have been happier, except for the lingering feelings she felt for the man who had saved her life. She continued to meet with Rumpelstiltskin in secret, forming a very close, romantic bond with the Imp. The night before she was to be married to Prince Henry, Rumpelstiltskin came to her room once more, and Cora expressed her need for wanting to feel loved to Rumpelstiltskin, and asked if that was something that he could provide for her.

There was talk about running away together, that love would be enough for Cora, that maybe nobility wasn’t what she wanted after all. Rumpelstiltskin, in a moment of weakness, amended the contract so that instead of receiving ‘some random child’ that he wanted [i]his[/i] child. Cora agreed to the new terms with a promise to make the King suffer for humiliating her in front of the entire court before they were to run off, and so the two sealed the promise with a lustful night of passion and love.

When Cora went to the King later that night, the King called her out for being foolish; that he knew about her nights of passion with Rumpelstiltskin and that she was to marry his son as an arrangement, that love was a stupid notion only found in fictitious books. Going to the King with the intent to rip out his heart, Cora instead left with her own heart ripped from her chest and placed safely in a box. She met Rumpelstiltskin just as she said she would where they were to run away together, but Cora admitted to him that running away with him was not what she wanted any longer; she wanted power and to get it, she had to remove her own heart so her feelings wouldn’t get in the way. She then swore to Rumpelstiltskin that [i]any[/i] child would not be his, even if it were in blood, and that he would never have it, thus breaking their deal. Rumpelstiltskin was too much of an emotional state to fight back, and thus disappeared until Cora gave birth to a beautiful baby girl who she had announced to the realm was named Regina, for one day she would be Queen.

When Cora returned to her bedchamber for the evening after a feast in Regina’s honor, Cora handed off her newborn to a nursemaid to take care of. It didn’t take too long though for Rumpelstiltskin to reveal his true self (though Cora had a seeping suspicion before he had) as he held Regina in his arms. Right away he knew that she belonged to him, that he had helped to create her, and thus the blood war between Cora and Rumpelstiltskin began, 36 years later yet to be finished.

Cora ended up raising Regina as nobility with little interference from her true father; and Prince Henry was none the wiser. She was raised in the very light of Cora, making sure that each and everything she did was a reflection of what a Queen should and would be. Cora wouldn’t even bend a little when she found out by dear little Snow White that her daughter was in love with a pathetic stable boy when Cora had worked so hard to arrange a marriage with King Leopold.

Cora cut out the middle man, as it were, by killing Daniel in front of Regina to prove a point; love is weakness, and Regina had no other choice but to marry the King. Cora finally got her wish, and watched her daughter become Queen. In an unexpected turn of events, one day Regina seemed to snap and sent Cora through a looking glass by using magic. Where Regina even learned magic to begin with Cora didn’t know, but she was thus sent to Wonderland, a strange and exotic place; the perfect place really for Cora to keep tabs on her daughter and climb her way to the top to become a Queen herself, and thus, became The Queen of Hearts, waiting for the day that her daughter would need her again.

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