Reply To: Fairies: Do they pay a price for magic?

[Josephine]

 

I like that theory, that Blue mistakenly created the Dark One curse in some kind of misguided attempt.  It reminds me of the concept of yin and yang.  For every dark there is a light, two sides to every coin, etc.  I wonder if her messing with the balance of nature ripped apart something and created something unnatural in the magical realm.  Sort of how it wasn’t good that Victor worked to bring back his brother and fight the laws of life and death.  The result wasn’t pretty.  Or it’s just that the Dark One’s powers slipped into the Enchanted Forest and really don’t belong there.  Like Superman was just a normal person on Krypton and a “superman” with great powers on Earth.

We’ve also got to look at sources of magic. Right now we know a few sources. There may be more, if there is add it down:

• Fairy magic – wands and fairy dust mined by the dwarves needed (I’m going back to Screwball Ninja’s essay about Blue. So funny.)
• True love – the most powerful magic of all; strong enough to break any curse; yada, yada, yada…
• Natural abilities – Eddy and Adam said some people are born with the spark of magic and they’re the ones who can learn it (e.g. Cora, Regina, Emma). In some cases the source is True Love, others we just don’t know. But they can proudly sing “Baby, I was born this way”
• Curses – we have no proof that Rumple was born with that spark of magic, we have no proof against it, but we do know the magic came with the Dark One curse.

So does the price of magic only result if your magic is a certain type, or is it your intent.  Karma, or whatever your culture names it.  In Physics, it’s a one of the basic laws of nature:  For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction.   You put bad magic out there, it’s going to come back in the same way it was put out.    I also remember years ago in Economics something called “opportunity costs”  that there is always a cost or price to be paid for the decisions you make.  If you chose to this, then the price is you giving up doing that.  In my case, the choice to post on Oncepodcast forum results in the cost of my living room looking like I should be on an episode of Hoarders 😛

I do wonder then about the Blue Fairy.  Many of us are convinced she’s Sneaky Fairy and not to be trusted.  It will be the series finale before you can convince me she never had an ulterior motive and even then I’d probably still be suspicious.  So if she’s being sneaky and manipulating things, even if it is for the “greater good” will it come back to haunt her.  Do the ends justify the means?  And if it does, then what about Rumple?  He went through all this for a noble cause of finding his lost son.  Does his ends justify his means?  And if not why do they in the Blue Fairy’s case?

At the end of the day, if the Blue Fairy is the ultimate puppetmaster, I want to see what the ultimate cost she will pay.  I really have issues with that fairy.