Black Fairy

"And you will know the great evil by the crescent it bears. Evil was not born this winter... it was made."

- Tiger Lily about Fiona becoming the Black Fairy

Fiona, better known as the Black Fairy, and also known as the Dark Fairy, is a character on ABC's Once Upon a Time, and also the inventor of the Dark Curse. She débuts in the ninth episode of the sixth season. She is portrayed by guest star Jaime Murray.

The Black Fairy is an allusion to the Evil Fairy from the fairytale "Beauty and the Beast".

Trivia

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Etymology

 * The name "Fiona" is the feminine form of "Fionn", an Irish name which means "fair" or "white". Ironically, Fiona becomes the Black Fairy.

Character Notes

 * The Black Fairy is featured in the title card for "The Black Fairy".
 * The fairy incantation to summon her is: "Let the night sky tremble, as the Dark Star shall fall. Awake, Black Fairy, and heed my call."
 * The Black Fairy states that "she practically invented dark magic". However, the Black Fairy didn't turn dark until centuries after the Darkness was born. Many of the dark entities the heroes have faced were therefore not born from Fiona, including but not limited to:
 * Regina, Cora, and Zelena's dark magic.
 * Cruella's powers and other consequences from Isaac's writings.
 * Rumplestiltskin, Nimue, and all of the other Dark Ones;
 * Hades and his dark Underworld threats.
 * The Black Fairy could actually be the oldest person who has ever lived. This is supported by the fact that she was banished to the Dark Realm when Rumplestiltskin was just a child. But time runs faster in the Dark Realm as Gideon spent 28 years in there while hardly one day lasted in our world. So, by the time she came to Storybrooke, she could be thousands of years old.
 * However, according to the Darkness, Merlin is the oldest person in all the realms. But it's possible that the Darkness said this from the point of view of the other worlds, excluding the Dark Realm where time runs differently.


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Production Notes

 * To divert the attention away from her real identity, Merida's casting call presented her as Rumplestiltskin's mother. Her name was supposed to be "Evanna".

Appearances
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 * In the Season One episode "The Thing You Love Most", Maleficent says, "Whoever created that monstrosity makes the two of us look positively...moral"
 * In the Season Five episode "Souls of the Departed", Regina says, "Well, when I conjured Storybrooke, it was with the Dark Curse. Whoever created that curse, looks like this is where they got their inspiration."