Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5205908-20161129194957/@comment-24674051-20161130194001

While I could see the possibility that the Black Fairy created the Dark Curse, it would not be for Rumple's benefit. The Dark Curse seems to predate Rumple. It was under guard in a very remote place with several ingeniously placed traps that would require several people to work together. and the types of people that would go after the DC are not generally prone to work together.

From what little we saw in Changelings, TBF did not seem aware that Rumple was her son (now whether to beleive that or not is up for debate).

I would say that Blue is the oldest and probably most powerful of the Fairies, considering that she had enough power to banish Black, and also that she was there and well known even back when Rumple was first the Dark One.

My guess is that Black was still a fairy when she had Rumple. Blue forced her to abandon the baby even before he was named. Black resented this, and as a result sought to  fight Blue any way that she could. And let's recall that the story was that Blue took Black's wand and banished her. Taking the wand was probably symbolic of stripping her of FGM status, and banishment just kicked her out of the fairy community. Blue may not have given her the same treatment that we saw with Tink.

So Black was, and maybe still is, a Fairy.