Dust, The Dark Curse, and the Black Fairy

[hjbau]

If are going to have the Black Fairy enact a dark curse, then who is the heart of the thing that she loves most?

[RumplesGirl]

If are going to have the Black Fairy enact a dark curse, then who is the heart of the thing that she loves most?

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My gut feeling says Rumple. I know what we’ve seen but that’s how these writers roll–the villain is set up as having no attachments or feelings toward a certain character and then BAM, reversal of emotion usually happens during a flashback that lets us in on why they presented themselves as cold and indifferent in the first place.

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[Sci-Fi Girl]

As far as the curse, and Black fairy’s fixation on Emma, I feel like the dots connect up in an interesting way. ( This might be a little scattered, but stick with me.)

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So, Black fairy was banished to that realm. (She was banished by Blue, right? Was this stated? Or just implied?) Anyway, her banishment probably meant that she was tethered to that realm by magic, and could not leave it for long.

So the sword did not exactly open a portal, but instead cut the bonds tethering her to that realm.

That sword was made by the Blue fairy. Black fairy was tethered by Blue’s magic, and it was Blue’s magic combined with savior magic that freed her. ( Done by blood, undone by blood … oops wrong show.) Done by Blue undone by Blue . 😉

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But she couldn’t do that until there was a savior! (Did she try with Aladdin? Is that why he had the savior shakes? If so then Jafar actually stopped the black fairy back then, by giving Aladdin the shears!). 😮

Ok, so how did Black fairy know about Emma as the savior in the first place? Lets try this:

Black fairy wants to use magic to free herself from the dark realm. How does she go about doing this? First, she makes the dark curse, which is designed to transport folks to a different realm. Does she use this to escape? No, and she probably never planned to. (There’s probably nothing she loves enough. Or at least nothing she is willing to sacrifice.)

Instead, she leaves the curse out for someone else to use. Now, what exactly does the curse do? It transports people and places them under a curse, and at the same time it creates a “Savior” who is destined to break that curse.

So Black fairy creates the dark curse, which when used by another gives someone (Emma) savior powers. Savior powers are what Black needed to steal in order to escape. She creates the curse, the curse creates a savior, and then she uses Emma to escape!

Seems Black fairy can plan even farther in advance than Rumple can!!! 😮 😮

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[Matt]

So, Black fairy was banished to that realm. (She was banished by Blue, right? Was this stated? Or just implied?) Anyway, her banishment probably meant that she was tethered to that realm by magic, and could not leave it for long. So the sword did not exactly open a portal, but instead cut the bonds tethering her to that realm. That sword was made by the Blue fairy. Black fairy was tethered by Blue’s magic, and it was Blue’s magic combined with savior magic that freed her. (<del> Done by blood, undone by blood</del> … oops wrong show. Done by Blue undone by Blue .

That all sounds spot on! Well done 🙂

[RumplesGirl]

It transports people and places them under a curse, and at the same time it creates a “Savior” who is destined to break that curse

But not really. Emma is the Savior because of her parents truest love but also, and this is a big part, because Rumple made her the Savior. He put a drop of that true love potion from Snowing’s hair on to the Dark Curse. He altered it so that Emma was the Savior but it wasn’t part of the Curse’s DNA to begin with.

Since S1 the Curse has become difficult to parse in terms of “what does it do?” The one Snow cast did not have Emma as a Savior and without any machinations from Snow and Charming, Regina was the one who broke the Curse but she is not designated as a Savior. It did, however, recreate Storybrooke. The one cast in Camelot by Nimue using Merlin’s heart did not have any sort of Savior to break it (Emma simply gave her family back the memories) nor did it create Storybrooke since it was still in existence. It did transport people but that’s all.

I guess we can say that the Black Fairy saw that Rumple would make Emma a Savior so she left a deliberate hole in the Curse–a hole Rumple would fill with Emma–and the Black Fairy likewise knew that Rumple’s hole filler would be the key to her release. That’s rather complicated and twisty.

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[Sci-Fi Girl]

I guess we can say that the Black Fairy saw that Rumple would make Emma a Savior so she left a deliberate hole in the Curse–a hole Rumple would fill with Emma–and the Black Fairy likewise knew that Rumple’s hole filler would be the key to her release. That’s rather complicated and twisty.

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Works for me.  And yes, very complicated and twisty!  😆

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[Skyler]

Could it be that it wasn’t the blue fairy then that gave Bae the magic bean? Or what if the seer that told Rumple about the prophecy was the black fairy too?

If the black fairy was able to plan so far ahead she must have known that Rumple would let Bae fall through the portal and would lead to him casting the curse years later to find him.

If we bring Pan into the story, maybe that is why he took Bae to Neverland. Maybe he tried to sabotage the black fairy’s plan, which could explain why he knew about Henry?

Just a few thoughts…..

 

[MatthewPaul]

Could it be that it wasn’t the blue fairy then that gave Bae the magic bean? Or what if the seer that told Rumple about the prophecy was the black fairy too?

If the black fairy was able to plan so far ahead she must have known that Rumple would let Bae fall through the portal and would lead to him casting the curse years later to find him.

If we bring Pan into the story, maybe that is why he took Bae to Neverland. Maybe he tried to sabotage the black fairy’s plan, which could explain why he knew about Henry?

Just a few thoughts…..

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Either way, it comes across as the writers taking every Sneaky Blue Fairy theory ever suggested by the fans, while incorporating it into a separate fairy character.

[ry4christ]

Could it be that it wasn’t the blue fairy then that gave Bae the magic bean? Or what if the seer that told Rumple about the prophecy was the black fairy too?

If the black fairy was able to plan so far ahead she must have known that Rumple would let Bae fall through the portal and would lead to him casting the curse years later to find him.

If we bring Pan into the story, maybe that is why he took Bae to Neverland. Maybe he tried to sabotage the black fairy’s plan, which could explain why he knew about Henry?

Just a few thoughts…..

I really like all of this. It would give a sense of purpose to many of the seemingly unconnected plot lines over the years.

[ry4christ]

ry4christ wrote:
Did anyone else find it strange the flashbacks started with the Black Fairy carrying baby Gideon through the sky and not with her overpowering Blue and stealing him as Blue claimed to have happened? I

Yes.

I’m glad I’m not the only one that thought that. I also thought it was weird how Black Fairy referred to Gideon as “a gift.” From Belle because Black is Blue? From Blue because she’s shady and gave Gideon to her, hence why we didn’t see Black taking Gideon from Blue in the flashback? Or it was just a figure of speech? It just seemed like the line was written intentionally that way.

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