Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25597861-20141215215529/@comment-35639545-20141227193952

By teleportation clouds I'm taking that to mean, not just teleporting one's self and others but objects as well. Although Rumple states that, like a snowflake, no two person's magic are identical I believe that location is more indicative of the colour than anything.

Take Cora as an example: Cora learned magic in the Enchanted Forest, probably because of the template colour when I think Enchanted Forest a purple colour scheme comes to mind. This applies to all worlds: Wonderland-Red, EF/FTL-Purple, Arendelle-Blue/White, Oz-Green etc. Cora's smoke has almost always been purple BUT in the OUaTiW episode "Heart of the Matter" Cora's smoke took on a, what I like to call, red-purple mashup. It was more red than purple but wasn't as red as Anastasia's smoke who, despite being an EF native herself, learned magic in Wonderland. Anastasia's smoke was a deep scarlet colour. Cora spent a significant amount of time in Wonderland after being banished by Regina and so, I think, the resulting time began to change her smoke to red. Then she returned to the Enchanted Forest where she spent 28 years frozen and it turned purple again.

There are a few deviants from this theory: 1) Rumple, he mostly uses the "blinking" teleportation where he simply vanishes and then pops up again the blink of an eye but on occasion he will vanish in red-black smoke but he's the Dark One so maybe his magic is unique...and Rumple's been in every F***ING world so it might've change so many times, 2) Glinda, she uses white smoke where Zelena uses green (in keeping with Oz's scheme), but in the Oz books a tell tale sign of a Good Witch was that she wore white (which is why the Glinda in the books mistook Dorothy for a witch because of her blue/white gingham dress). Maybe Glinda I white because she's good and Zelena green because she was wicked. OR!!! Maybe it's all just a personal preference and a person chooses their smoke colour!