Blue Fairy

"I hear your wish. You don't need to wish it so loudly."

- The Blue Fairy to Jiminy

Reul Ghorm, better known as the Blue Fairy, currently known as Mother Superior, is a character on ABC's Once Upon a Time. She débuts in the first episode of the first season. She is portrayed by guest star Keegan Connor Tracy. She is the main reality version of the Blue Fairy.

The Blue Fairy is based on the Fairy with Turquoise Hair from the children's novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio, and on the character of the same name from the Disney film, Pinocchio.

Trivia

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Etymology

 * Reul Ghorm is Scots Gaelic for "blue star". Additionally, the Blue Fairy's Storybrooke counterpart's is listed as Reul Ghorm.
 * Mother Superior is in charge of the Sisters of Saint Meissa Convent. Meissa is the name of a star in the constellation Orion. "Meissa" derives from the Arabic "Al-Maisan" which means "The Shining One".
 * Mother Superior is one of a few characters from the first curse who is confirmed to have the same real name in Storybrooke as her Enchanted Forest counterpart; the others being Regina, Jefferson and David.

Character Notes

 * The Blue Fairy is featured in the title card for "The Black Fairy".
 * Morraine refers to her as an "ancient being"; making her even older than Rumplestiltskin, and one of the oldest characters on the show.
 * This is actually proven in "Where Bluebirds Fly" when Mr. Gold himself says that the Blue Fairy is older than him. It is also proven in "The Black Fairy", as Rumplestiltskin is just born when the Blue Fairy visits his parents.
 * The Darkness said that Merlin, who had been living for a thousand years, is the oldest person in all the realms. This means she is not older than a thousand years.
 * The Blue Fairy has lied, despite claiming to Rumplestiltskin that fairies don't lie. She tells Snow White and Prince Charming, at Geppetto's insistence, that the magic tree can only protect one person from the Dark Curse, when, in actuality, it can save two.
 * The Blue Fairy is only able to grant the wish of someone with a pure heart.
 * Mother Superior's missing person form says:

MISSING PERSON FORM


 * The photograph of Mother Superior is from the scene where she is reunited with her friends in "Broken".
 * The phone number 555-0166 is also on a poster inside the library. Curiously, the headline says "port and marine safety and security certificate".
 * Adam Horowitz has previously stated that Season Four takes place in the early part of 2013, long before the movie Frozen (a late-November release) was released, but this is proven to be incorrect in this episode.

Storybook Notes

 * A scene from "The Song in Your Heart" says:


 * ”Do not despair. Hope is not lost.” The Blue Fairy held up her wand as it began to glow brightly with the magic of their song. ”You wished she could have a chance at a happy ending. With everyone's song in her heart she will.” Then it dawned on Snow White, realization breaking like the sun through clouds. Emma would never be alone. Not with the voices of the people who loved her in her heart. And with a little hope, their songs would resurface when Emma needed it the most."


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Production Notes

 * The Blue Fairy's wings are inspired by dragonflies.
 * During casting, Keegan Connor Tracy went through four auditions to get the part of the Blue Fairy.
 * The part of the Blue Fairy was offered to singer Lady Gaga, but the creators never heard back from her manager.
 * Additionally, Lady Gaga claims she does not accept acting job offers. Instead, she would like to be offered the possibility to make an audition for a character and earn the job.
 * When filming as the Blue Fairy, Keegan is shot hanging from a rig on a green stage.
 * For the scenes where the character appears before others in miniature form, the on-set replacement for the Blue Fairy is an image that is affixed to a stick or a stand. This gives the actor an appropriate eye line for the scene and for the VFX team to insert the Blue Fairy in the correct spot during post-production.
 * For the scene where the Blue Fairy meets up with Baelfire in "The Return", Keegan was crouching in the bushes and saying her lines off-screen. She also gave her lines off-screen for her scenes with Geppetto in "The Stranger".
 * In a deleted scene from "Changelings", the Blue Fairy was supposed to be revealed as the fairy godmother of Jack and Jill's infant son. However, this information was not stated in the final cut of the episode, making it not canon.
 * According to Keegan Connor Tracy, Mother Superior is not quirky or funny but very calm, so she found it difficult to pull it off, as she usually plays characters that have opposite personalities to Mother Superior.
 * In addition, when asked about her ideal happy ending for her character, she said it would be to "give up nunning, take a lover and overthrow a kingdom somewhere warm and beautiful."
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Disney

 * Emma wishes on a candle shaped like a blue star, an allusion to the scene in Disney's 1940 film Pinocchio, in which Geppetto wishes on a blue star and his wish is granted by the Blue Fairy.


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Props Notes

 * There is a blue star on the side of Billy's truck, which is a reference to the Blue Fairy.

Costume Notes

 * At the beginning of the series, it took close to an hour to dress Keegan Connor Tracy in the Blue Fairy costume, but it has gotten easier over the course of the show. The costume was made from scratch, and designed to fit in the harnesses used with the rigs that make the Blue Fairy "fly". The corset features real boning, and is heavy.
 * During Season One, the Blue fairy's costume was the most expensive on the show.
 * While shooting the "Pilot", Keegan was breastfeeding her newborn baby and sported her own natural cleavage. After human biology ran its course, she switched to bra inserts.
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Goofs

 * In "Our Decay", when Zelena is disguised as Mother Superior, she wears a nun outfit with long sleeves. The real Mother Superior appears wearing rolled up sleeves. However, in the next shot (after Mother Superior says, "Who are you?"), it switches; Zelena has the rolled up sleeves and Mother Superior has long sleeves.

Appearances
Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.
 * The final scene of "Leaving Storybrooke" could feature either Mother Superior or the Wish Blue Fairy.