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We were talking in chat about the price of magic and how it’s a repeated theme in the show. But it got me to thinking about the fairies. They use magic. If all magic comes with a price, what is the cost to them?
Could one price for the fairies be living without love? Blue tells us that fairies aren’t meant to fall in love, and even in Storybrooke they’re nuns. Is that the price they pay for using magic?
Anyone have any other ideas?
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I’ve had this conversation with other people who watch the show as well, so I think it’s interesting we’ve never discussed it before. I’ve always thought of it as, it’s not necessarily the *magic* itself that has a price. More that the motive behind the magic does. In high school I went through a “alternative religion” phase, and read books about wicca, etc. And there is something called the “rule of 3”: it essentially states that whatever magic acts you do, will come back to you threefold. See also in other beliefs: treat others as you would like to be treated, be careful what you wish for, the energy you put out into the “universe” will come back to you, etc. There are many different versions of it for any walk of life. I don’t think it’s necessarily every little piece of magic that has a price.
In regards to your question: Faeries in Once tend to do magic for *others*, not for their own means, similar to Rumple’s deals. He often reminds people that magic comes with a price, and it’s *their* price, not his for actually performing the magical act. I suppose that if they did perform magic for themselves, or for selfish reasons, that it’s very likely that they would pay a price for it.
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Interesting. The fairies need dust to use for their spells , but seems like the dwarfs bear the brunt of that cost.
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” -- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
I’ve always thought of it as, it’s not necessarily the *magic* itself that has a price. More that the motive behind the magic does.
Karma. You put the wrong motivation out there and it’ll come back to bite ya. Use magic for selfish reasons, and you’re gonna pay the price. So if fairies only have a pure motivation for using magic, maybe they have no price to pay.
But if Sneaky Fairy is Sneaky…
Yes, it isn’t that magic has a price, it’s the spells and acts that have karamic impilications. Of course Rumple becoming the Dark One was going to have some sort of price, same with the casting of the Dark Curse, and all other big spells that affects many people.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Could one price for the fairies be living without love? Blue tells us that fairies aren’t meant to fall in love, and even in Storybrooke they’re nuns.
I definitely say yes.
Being a fairy means helping people of FT land, probably 24/7. I’d actually like to see a statistic about how many times people wish for stuff in FT, how fast the fairies respond, or if for every person who makes a wish, there’s an equal ratio of fairies to consider that wish.
It’s probably a long set rule, much like the Jedi from the Star Wars prequels. Their only purpose is to serve and protect the people. They aren’t allowed to fall in love, because that would deter/distract them from their cause in life.
which goes back to my statistic thing. If Nova and Dreamy were really in love and wanted to run off together, and there’s countless fairies and dwarves being hatched every few months — why should the Blue Fairy care? Because it goes against what they’re meant to do.
It’s probably a long set rule, much like the Jedi from the Star Wars prequels. Their only purpose is to serve and protect the people. They aren’t allowed to fall in love, because that would deter/distract them from their cause in life.
Considering this, it’s pretty obvious why the fairies became nuns. Similar job requirement.
which goes back to my statistic thing. If Nova and Dreamy were really in love and wanted to run off together, and there’s countless fairies and dwarves being hatched every few months — why should the Blue Fairy care? Because it goes against what they’re meant to do.
Pretty solid guess work! Nova’s role is to be a fairy, Grumpy’s is to be a miner; those are the the social and cultural roles that are laid out for them. They both have very important jobs and their own desires and dreams are held in a lesser degree to what they provide to the world at large.
But I always go back to how vehement Blue was against the two of them. If it’s true love, in a land where TL is held up as the most powerful magic of all, then shouldn’t there be a loophole or some sort of concession made in the name of true love? Dreamy I think was the episode where I really started to suspect Blue of being Sneaky Fairy.
Which brings me back to our larger question of love and fairies. We’ve often speculated that Blue (being super old) has something to do with the original Dark One’s curse and the man it first affected. Perhaps she is so anti-true love when it comes to fairies because of the price she paid in creating the Dark One’s Curse–namely, her love."He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"obisgirl wrote:
It’s probably a long set rule, much like the Jedi from the Star Wars prequels. Their only purpose is to serve and protect the people. They aren’t allowed to fall in love, because that would deter/distract them from their cause in life.
Considering this, it’s pretty obvious why the fairies became nuns. Similar job requirement.
Yup!
Perhaps she is so anti-true love when it comes to fairies because of the price she paid in creating the Dark One’s Curse–namely, her love.
Maybe, but I think the anti-love rule probably goes back further than Rumple’s Dark One curse.
I mean, the Blue Fairy is the oldest magic in the land (I think it was said that she was the original magic back in season 1), then she made the rule for a reason. As much as I don’t trust the Blue Fairy, I’d still like to see her backstory one day — which would probably be an “origin of it all” episode, maybe even the creation of fairytale land.
Maybe, but I think the anti-love rule probably goes back further than Rumple’s Dark One curse.
I mean, the Blue Fairy is the oldest magic in the land (I think it was said that she was the original magic back in season 1), then she made the rule for a reason. As much as I don’t trust the Blue Fairy, I’d still like to see her backstory one day — which would probably be an “origin of it all” episode, maybe even the creation of fairytale land.
I agree with you, actually. I think the Dark One’s Curse is as old as Blue. Way older than Rumple and Zoso. I totally want to see her backstory because I think the creating of the Dark One’s curse is the beginning of “all magic comes with a price.” Let’s say Blue had a TL but that TL was dying. So she created a spell that would heal him but, as magic does, it had unintended consequences, namely it turned her TL into the First Dark One and also ageless. In order to rid the land of this new evil, she created “the Dark One’s knife” and put it in the hands of someone she thought she could trust, but there are more unintended consequences and so on and so forth. I don’t know what this has to do with PP and NL, if Blue is connected to them at all. I have far too many theories about Blue.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"
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