Fairies in general.

[marilou]

are you born a fairy, or do you become one?

[LisaFromOH]

Good question, Marilou. The dwarves seem to be born knowing how to mine, but the fairies have to learn how to do fairy things.

[hjbau]

I think people become fairies just because of the way Grumpy said she was beautiful as a fairy, but that may not be. We don’t really know. I think it depends on whether there is something shady going on with the fairies or not. Like they could be some cursed beings.

[PriceofMagic]

Considering the writers are fans of Peter Pan, they might use the baby’s laugh origin of fairies.

From wikipedia:

A story of the origin of fairies appears in a chapter about Peter Pan in J. M. Barrie’s 1902 novel The Little White Bird, and was incorporated into his later works about the character. Barrie wrote, “When the first baby laughed for the first time, his laugh broke into a million pieces, and they all went skipping about. That was the beginning of fairies.”

Fairies seem to have ranks of importance in OUaT. For example, Nova seems to be one of the lower ranks as dust collector whilst blue fairy is obviously one of the higher ranks. Fairy Godmother seems to be a promotion of sorts.

All magic comes with a price!

Keeper of Felix

[surayya]

Good point – maybe we’ll find out if we have a Tinker Bell episode 😉

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