Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-86.152.12.193-20200221114123/@comment-24018437-20200221120047

Mostly the latter. I mean, she literally used her daughter as bait to keep the guards of her back, without knowing what would happen to her. Sure, the Captain turned out to be a good man who adopted Cassandra as his own daughter, but Gothel didn't know that! The most recent episode even confirmed that Gothel actually never loved her own daughter, who did pretty much everything Gothel asked of her.