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An eloquent and mature summary to the thought process of Princess Regina. While I also initially thought Anita got off lightly, after a reread, I felt it fitting. Redemption for those who seek repentance can be possible when their victims forgive them. Only if they’re truly remorseful and actually sincerely work for it though. Cheap apologies and lip service not accepted. (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
Exactly! Well said and love the part where u stated about being kind to the author. We are just readers and its our part to just take in whatever story the authors want to make, and it is not our job to dictate the ending that we want. ╮(￣▽￣)╭
Writing this so that anyone else that was content with ending could see that they aren’t alone. A lot of people are hating on the way the main story ended. I don’t blame them but I don’t agree with them either.
I don’t think it’s right to hold the actions of a past life against the people in the current life and that’s obviously something Regina also seems to hold herself to. Regina regressed with the main intention of saving her family and loved ones along with the kingdom. It was never so much as getting revenge against Anita as it was saving the Kingdom.
I feel as though Regina is an empathetic character, and the more she learned about Anita, the more she understood her actions. While I don’t at all approve of what Anita did I understand her. She was deeply betrayed, to the point where she ended up with nothing and no one as the kingdom that she helped established with a traitor continued to grow and flourish while hailing the man that betrayed her and the rest of her kind went extinct. If that isn’t a good reason for being a villain I don’t know what else would be. The reason why Anita got off with such a light sentence is because the grandeur of her destruction of the past life isn’t taken into consideration, only what she’s done in the current life. For some it’s enough to kill her but since Anita’s old coven plead for her life, Regina just made it so that she would serve out the rest of her short life helping the kingdom to make up for her destruction IN THAT LIFE.
A lot of people struggle with the knowledge of what she did in the past life and I’m not saying you have to like Anita, but you do have to understand that those things never fully happened in this lifetime.
Also; Regina apologized to Anita as a way of gaining closure, it seemed obvious that Regina couldn’t and didn’t want to actually go through with killing her. The ending was more of an ideal ending for optimists who don’t always believe in people staying evil and exacting revenge. It’s not going to be suited to everyone and while it’s fine to feel disappointment and upset with the way things ended remember not to take it too far and be kind to the author.