[ SECRET POST #2118 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2118 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

No, no, NO. You CANNOT use "prevented him from seeing his birth mother" against Regina. Emma gave Henry up for adoption. Although I don't think it was specified, it is certainly indicated that it was a closed adoption as Emma wanted nothing to do with Henry until she found out he was in trouble. Regina had no obligation whatsoever to let Henry see Emma.

Regina may be a bad person, but she was in every right to keep Emma away and warn her off Henry because she's his mother, not Emma. And that is the most troubling thing about the show to me: its inability to distinguish between helping a child because he came to you and helping a child because he is your biological son raised by another woman.

[(Anonymous)]

THANK YOU.

The show is so fucking awful with adoption that this needs to be driven home again and again. Henry is Regina's son, Emma gave away her right to parent him when she put him up for adoption.

[(Anonymous)]

The one thing that made me somewhat OK with adoption on this show was Rumpelstiltskin and Bae? True, Rumpelstiltskin does fuck everything up, but it is kind of implied on the show that Bae isn't his real son and he still adores him above all else anyways, so.

(I completely agree that this show makes me very ragey about adoption, though. That was the one thing that came to mind that at least makes it look like they're sort of *trying*.)

[ionaonie]

God, yes this. 10,000 times this.

Every time I think about the representation of adoption in ouat I go all ragey.

It's so messed up it's not even funny.

[(Anonymous)]

Normally I would agree completely. However, Emma wanted to return Henry to Regina, it was only after Emma asked Regina 'do you love him?' and detected the lie that Emma chose to stay. Regina cannot love as she once did, that was the price of the curse. Henry can tell the difference. He knew that something was not right. Retinas first nesting is to posses, no matter the cost to Henry's emotional well being. The fact that she is trying to move beyond that tells me that as the curse weakens, so does the price return to Regina. However, even with the capacity to love, Regina was capable of ripping her father's heart out of his chest. She kidnapped a father, told his children that he had abandoned them, sent them into a proverbial pit of snakes then tried to adopt them.

I don't think Regina has been sound of mind since Daniel's death. She is not at present a fit mother to anyone.

That being said, the last episode broke my heart when Henry tricked Regina with a promise of having lunch together. She looked so happy but now she knows it was all a ploy, that the only person she is close to loving doesn't care even when she is really, really trying to regain her humanity and do the right thing for the child she raised.

[(Anonymous)]

I should never try to argue with preemptive text activated, sorry guys.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, it's the "Regina is not a fit mother" that is the only redeeming quality to the bullshit that is the adoption storyline (how hard would it have been to have Regina steal Henry instead of adopting him? The adoption didn't have to be there at all). Emma is a sort of vigilante social services and it is only in that capacity that I can deal with the "you're his mother" reiterations, because, no matter what, Emma is no longer Henry's mother in anything but biology. She can work to save him from a woman that doesn't care for him, but she has no automatic right to him if she gets him away from Regina. I feel like the writers keep forgetting that, and it makes me very uncomfortable.