Regina Mills

Queen **Regina Mills** is one of the major antagonists-turned-protagonists and the overall main protagonist in ABC's *Once Upon a Time*. She is the main antagonist of Season 1, the secondary antaognist turned anti-heroine of Season 2, anti-heroine turned tritagonist of Season 3, the deuteragonist of Season 4 through 6 and the main protagonist of Season 7.

Once sweet and kind-hearted, Regina was in love with Daniel Colter and saved the life of Snow White. However, she became embittered when Snow (misguided) revealed that Regina intended to run away with her fiance, Daniel. Afterwards, Regina became jealous towards her stepdaughter and did everything in her power to make Snow's life miserable, becoming the Evil Queen, who cursed everyone with the Dark Curse. After the Curse was cast, she becomes the Mayor of Storybrooke, Henry's evil adoptive mother but through the love of her son, Regina reforms, becoming a hero.

In the new curse, Regina becomes Roni, an owner and bar tender of her own winery, Roni's. She was reawakened by Drizella and initially has to keep Henry and Ella (Jacinda) apart. However, she teams up with her granddaughter Lucy to get Henry to believe again.

## Personality

Regina is initially a damaged woman with a dark and troubled past. When she was young, she used to be a kind, gentle caring person. However, Regina was constantly pushed around by her mother. She helped others whenever she could and even saved Snow White's life, but Regina soon grew cold after the death of Daniel and had started hating Snow White for the secret she told Cora, Regina's evil mother. Because of her mother's wicked ways, Regina hates magic and vows to never be as evil as her mom. Unfortunately, she does become cold like her mother. Despite the fact she is evil by the time Snow White is a bandit, Regina has a sense of dark humor like her mentor, Rumpelstiltskin does.

Initially, Regina is also very vengeful as she vows to destroy Snow White and her happiness for the death of Daniel, and even goes far for framing her for murder for everything she did to her. However, after she adopted Henry, Regina began to change, but she treated her son harshly, trying to force him to be normal. By the latter half of the series, Regina learns from her mistake and becomes is a good mother and is very protective of Henry, and later, her granddaughter, Lucy. Their relationship changes over time and Regina tries to change for her son's sake. Regina was redeemed by her son and reverts back into the woman she once was. She also loves her newfound family. She was remorseful for a lot of things she did as the Evil Queen.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

Magic: Regina has practiced in the dark magic for most of the series, and later learns how to use light magic to defeat her sister. She can cast spells and curses, create objects out of the blue, create energy blasts, perform healing and locator spells, magic immobilization.

* **Blood Magic;**Regina was possibly taught blood magic by Rumplestiltskin. With this, regina uses blood magic that only she can access to unless someone from her bloodline can infiltrate it, like Zelena did before their first meeting with each other.
	+ **Locator Spells** - Ability to track someone linked to a person's bloodline, through use of the tracker's blood.
	+ **Protection Spells** - Ability to cast a magical seal that can only be broken by someone of the same bloodline.
* **True Love:**Like any magical individual from the Enchanted Forest, Regina has the power of true love, the purest love of all. She first experienced true love when she was with her lover, Daniel and kept the ring he gave her as a reminder. The true love she had for Daniel was still embodied in the ring Regina used to retrieve the poisoned apple.Regina also has true love for all her friends and family, this includes her sister, Zelena and her son Henry. She first performed true love's kiss on screen with Henry, waking the citizens of Storybrooke from the Curse. Later, Henry would return the favor many years later, when he gave his mother true love's kiss, thus reviving Regina.
* **Heart Removal:**She has the ability to remove the hearts of others who are either magical or non magical. With the enchanted heart, she can command the victim to do whatever she says. Regina can also crush the heart killing the victim, but Regina has not been doing heart removal lately since she had been redeemed by the heroes.
* **Teleportation:**Regina uses teleportation when disappearing in a cloud of smoke, making her teleport herself anywhere she wants.She can also scry using her magic mirror to spy one of her enemies and can also cast a powerful curse.
* **Potion Making:** Regina can make potions with multiple substances. She creates a poiton for sleeping at times..
* **Nature and elemental magic**: - Regina has the power to manipulate and control plants. She has also used pyrokinesis, being able to create fire.
* She also has telekinesis, teleportation and transformation.

#### Abilities

**Sword-fighting:**Magic aside, Regina actually has proved to be a capable swordswoman, possibly being taught by her royal guards. She eventually masters it, but Regina hardly does sword fighting because she has her own magic. She was able to hold herself in a duel between herself and Snow during the Shattered Sight curse and during her then-enemy, Sir Henry