Drizella Tremaine (Once Upon a Time)

“	Y'know, I've been trying my whole life to win your approval, but now I realize I'm never going to get it... because I'm not her.	„
 	~ Drizella betraying her mother. 	
Drizella Tremaine is the main antagonist of the first half of Season 7 of ABC's Once Upon a Time. Drizella is the daughter of Rapunzel Tremaine, the sister of Anastasia Tremaine and the stepsister of Cinderella. Drizella is responsible for casting the Dark Curse, which lands her and several other Enchanted Forest residents in Seattle. In Hyperion Heights, she lives as "Ivy Belfrey", the assistant to her mother, now known as "Victoria Belfrey".
She is portrayed by Adelaide Kane.
== Powers and Abilities ==
Similarly to Zelena, Drizella has revealed that she was born with natural magical powers, yet her mother has always forbidden her to even manifest them and learn them to control. But when Regina finally offers her help and begins to teach to the young Tremaine the most basic forms of witchcraft, Drizella shows a speed of learning frighteningly accelerated.
Until now Drizella has shown she has some telekinetic ability, the power to magically immobilize her targets, and the ability to teleport with purple smoke. However, she also demonstrated that she could create with her palms a form of a shield or invisible blast (which she used to prevent debris from falling over Regina's head by destroying them) and an ability to manipulate plants (manipulating, like a tentacle species, the root of a flower to kill her boyfriend). When her mother confronts her and Gothel, Drizella demonstrates the ability to put Rapunzel to sleep with a wave of her hand.
As the master of the new Dark Curse, she is able to dictate all the rules and manipulate the memories of everyone in the Enchanted Forest before being sent to Hyperion Heights (which she presumably designed indirectly) - for example, she changes Rapunzel's memories to make her believe that she cast the Curse to save Anastasia and that she and Gothel are the only ones awake when in truth Rapunzel is not truly awake.
In the present day, Drizella has seemingly lost her magic to Anastasia through Gothel's bracelets, and in order to regain her powers, she must conduct another exchange of magic with her sister to succeed.
== Personality ==
As a child, Drizella was cheerful and innocent. She had a close relationship with her sister Anastasia and even her stepsister Ella. She even gave Anastasia the idea to release lanterns into the sky so they can guide their mother Rapunzel back home, showing her kindness and optimism.
After losing her father, her stepmother, and her sister, as well as having her returned mother become more abusive of her and her stepsister, Drizella's life fell apart utterly. Far from the nice girl she originally was a child, Drizella was broken and pessimistic, blindly following her mother's orders. After discovering her mother intended to sacrifice her to use her heart to revive Anastasia, Drizella became evil and no longer cared about others, not even Anastasia. She became determined to make her mother suffer and even cast the Dark Curse with the help of Gothel and the Coven of the Eight to do so, with the heroes unable to stop her. She still retained a bit of kindness though, offering Gretel friendship before the latter attempted to kill her.
In Hyperion Heights, Ivy, Drizella's cursed counterpart, worked as the haughty and stuck-up assistant of her mother Victoria Belfrey, Rapunzel's cursed counterpart, though she would occasionally show her kinder side to Henry and Jacinda, Ella's cursed counterpart. She remained cunning and manipulative, working with Eloise, Gothel's cursed counterpart, and getting her mother arrested. Even when her mother succeeded to revive Anastasia, Ivy was cold towards her, attempting to steal her magic, but was double-crossed by Eloise and being pushed down a well by her alongside her mother. Ivy remained pessimistic, still believing in her mother's hate towards her.
After Victoria sacrificed her life to save Ivy, however, Ivy had a change of heart. She seeks support from Henry, has a heart-to-heart talk with Jacinda, and expresses her desire to save Anastasia from Eloise. She also embraces the old doll that Jacinda returns her, showing her more endearing side. After making amends with Anastasia, a fully redeemed Ivy returns to the New Enchanted Forest with her.
== Family ==
* Marcus Tremaine † (father)
* Rapunzel Tremaine † (mother)
* Cecelia Tremaine † (stepmother)
* Anastasia Tremaine (sister)
* Cinderella/Ella Mills (stepsister)
* Prince Gregor † (ex-fiancé & victim)
* Henry Daniel Mills (stepbrother-in-law)
* Lucy Mills (step-niece)
== Gallery ==
== Trivia ==
* She is based on the oldest stepsister from the fairytale, Cinderella, and Drizella Tremaine from the Disney film, Cinderella.
* She is possibly the main antagonist of the season, given the reveal in "Greenbacks". This is confirmed in the following episode when it is revealed that she is the one who cast the Dark Curse and is manipulating everyone in Hyperion Heights for her purposes. However, Mother Gothel betrays her in "The Eighth Witch" and becomes the true villain.
* Her backstory closely mirrors that of Regina and Zelena, given:
** Her abusive mother drove her to learn magic in revenge and eventually cast a curse of her own.
** Her mother considered her inferior to her older sister and even planned to rip her heart out.
** She is mentored by a sink-or-swim teacher.
** She is the primary danger behind the curse for most of the story, however, she has a backer who eventually betrays her.
** However, unlike Regina, Drizella did not cast it directly, instead of using Regina's blood since she had already killed the person she loved most (her father Henry Sr.).
** Both Drizella and Regina are redeemed at least partially by their love for Henry.
* Edward Kitsis one of the two writers alongside Adam Horowitz states that Gothel betraying Drizella has increased her anger and pain, giving her an even greater desire for revenge against not only Rapunzel but Gothel as well. "Drizella's desire for revenge only grows stronger, We've seen moments of kindness from Drizella, so we'll have to see whether or not she is fully an "Evil Stepsister", or if she can be redeemed, but right now, she's out for revenge."
* There are hints throughout the season that Drizella shows a romantic interest towards Henry, even after trying to poison him, and while in the Enchanted Forest he was firmly her enemy, in Hyperion Heights he has reciprocated the interest since his memories were removed. However, when she kisses him after being heartbroken over her mother's sacrifice, Henry wisely tells her that it is not the best time for either of them after said heartbreak.
** In this sense, Drizella bears a resemblance to Vestara Khai, the antiheroine love interest of Ben Skywalker in the Fate of the Jedi series.
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