Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25613119-20150302121703/@comment-1916997-20150303055412

GothicNarcissus wrote: Utter solitude wrote: I believe there's been a few. People really want her to be evil lol. Well, it's not like the writers have done much to improve her reputation. The only flashbacks we got so far are her giving vague advice, lying or downright screwing other people's lives so everything goes according to plan, but we never got her full story. And also okay, she was out cold during the peak of Pan's crisis, but she's described as a very powerful being, so the hell was she doing when Cora, Zelena and Ingrid were doing their biddings? And I mean, not trying to undo shielding spells or making last-ditch potions, but actually getting her pretty wand out and giving some serious, ass-kicking help during showdowns. I understand that having a very powerful good character save the day every time would put an end to every storyline in less than one episode, but unless they have her say she can't help much because after Gold and Regina drained the mines in S2 there is short supply of fairy dust, her motives for constantly being in the shadows make her, well… shady.

I think there are two things that prevent her from being more helpful with defeating bad guys. One, she seems significantly weaker in human form than in fairy form, which I guess we can just chalk up to our world not being able to have a fairy in fairy form, and thus she is not as magical or something. Two, I don't think fairies can directly do harm to people, they are portrayed as creatures of light magic, and have only been seen doing "light magic-y" things. Granting selfless wishes, stoping people from dying, putting people to sleep, etc. I don't think they can just magic blast someone to death, because that would be dark magic. And the whole plot of the Black Fairy (which is probably the same fairy Snow got her bug dust from) so far implys she was banished for trying to do magic outside the scope of light fairy magic.