Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25375217-20170515051204

As much as I loved the Black Fairy, something that really disappointed me is that we never got to find out her endgame. So I'd like to hear some speculation so that I can add it to my repertoire of headcanons-that-solve-plotholes. Let's look at the facts:

When we first met the Black Fairy, she was some psychopath who loved power and kidnapping babies. This carried over to her kidnapping of Gideon.

Between 610 and 616, her love of power held true while her baby kidnapping was revealed to be a step towards a bigger goal: collecting dark fairy dust. She was also revealed to want freedom, which she received. Her actions towards Gideon also heavily implied a desire for a son and love.

617 had her try to recruit Rumple but also threaten to destroy the town by going up against him. She also revealed her intention to take out the Savior, but not any reason why.

618 had that weird dark fairy crystal thing that was pretty cool for Zelena but completely irrelevant for the Black Fairy.

619 revealed that her original intention was to protect her son. She also claimed that to be her current intention, but that's inconsistent with her encounters with Rumple in 609 and 617. We're expected to believe that she wants to get rid of the Savior so she can be happy with her family: Rumple and Gideon.

620 brought her desire to take down the Savior back to the forefront, but still never explained it. Her collection of dark dust and possibly the dark crystals was revealed to be an attempt to get around the Thing-You-Love-Most ingredient in her Dark Curse.

621 and 622 had her purposefully make Rumple unhappy and vulnerable by taking away Belle. This led him to voice the claims of the fans--her supposed endgame is inconsistent at best, so she must be up to something. She claims to be willing to use her power to make Rumple happy with Belle, Gideon, and even Neal, but that seems even more inconsistent than before--however, Rumple kills her instead of interrogating her for the truth.

I feel like we're supposed to believe she was lying to Rumple--after all, that's what Rumple believed. So if she didn't really want to be happy with Rumple, what did she want?

I believe that, in the end, Fiona was broken. Like 619 showed us, she was driven insane by her desire to protect her son and her apparent inability to. I'd like to think that the reason she gave up Rumple was different than what we saw, but I doubt that's the case at this point. But she did love power--she chose to take away what made Rumple special over her own power--so perhaps, after a few centuries (in Enchanted Forest time, who knows how long it was in the Dark Realm?), she became obsessed with the dark magic she had mastered and stopped caring about reuniting with Rumple. But she still had that hole in her heart, so even though she took advantage of them for whatever she really wanted, she still hoped Rumple and Gideon could be her sons, and maybe she felt the same about Henry. But something she wanted more than that led her to lose them--and it had to do with killing the Savior. So what was it?

Unlimited power? Not unreasonable. But would defeating the Savior really give her the power to break the laws of magic? That could explain Jafar's plot in Season 6, but it seems out of left field.

Subjects to boss around? Maybe. Perhaps she just went power-mad when she had all those kids to boss around and force to mine fairy dust for her and wanted that back. The Savior would get in the way of that and it would explain what she was going for with her Dark Curse.

Or maybe she really did want a happy ending with Rumple and Gideon and just had a twisted idea of what exactly that would be. I did express back in Season 5 that I thought Hades would make more sense if, instead of manipulating Zelena, he was just weirdly overprotective of her. So maybe Fiona thought she knew what was best for Rumple, such as getting rid of Belle. That is what she said. But why would she so quickly offer Belle back to him when he showed signs of leaving her? That seemed like manipulation. "Okay, I know you're mad that I took your girlfriend away. But hey! If you let me do what I want and be my little puppy dog, I'll give her back to you! That's probably possible. Aaaaaaaand... maybe we could add a little resurrection to sweeten the deal!"

What do you think? Should we take it at face value? And what exactly is face value here? What she says or how apparent it seems that she was lying?

(Also, if at all possible, I'd like to avoid the inevitable "the writers don't know what they're doing". I obviously can't control the thread, but we all understand that most plot holes are just that. I just prefer to try to answer them rather than label them mistakes and start hating the show.) 