Foolish but Brave

Running from me is foolish.
Foolish, but brave.

Lana Parrilla as Regina in Once Upon a Time. Gah, I just love this character so much.

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For anyone who cares, just a bit of title analysis as to why I didn’t go with “Running From Me is Foolish.”
Regina's no idiot. In fact, she's extremely smart and clever and cunning. But she can do some pretty foolish things, particularly when she's trying to win the love of other people, Poor girl hasn't received any real love from anyone (save Daniel), and she's completely desperate for it. So very desperate. Unfortunately she doesn't quite understand how to express love, so she ends up doing stupid and crazy things that just pushes everyone away from her. Now the least painful thing to do at this point would be to give up. Forget all about the opinions and feelings of others. Burn the entire town to the ground, walk away and never look back. But Regina's not going to take the easy route. She cares far too much. She's going to continue trying to earn love despite the fact that she's been hurt countless times before, and despite the fact that she knows that she's going to continue to get hurt in the future. She's clinging to the hope that someday someone will be able to see past the Evil Queen and love and appreciate her, slim and unlikely as that hope may be. And so: Foolish but Brave.

*CynicalCucco would like me to add that she was there bothering me as I was drawing this. Somehow she thought that it was entertaining and that she learned stuff from watching me? Quite often occasionally I worry about her