Board Thread:Show-Related Questions and Answers/@comment-25926288-20150114173743

I was looking at magic in Once Upon A Time, potentially looking at it for a story idea. But I have a few questions, (actually loads, but here are a few)

1) What determines the color of magic? I know different spells are different colors, like petrification is gray, conjuring/summoning items is purple, etc. But sometimes it doesn't have a color-coded smoke cloud with it or one color, i.e. Zelena. By color, I mean the poofing color. The spells have different colors, like Regina's anger made the fire spell redder.

2) Is the poof cloud seen by other characters, continuously? They saw green smoke from Zelena, but Rumple can teleport with or without the smoke effect.

3) A quite funny question, if Tinkerbell uses magic, fairydust, via her wand wouldn't it be green. How then would anyone know whether it's pixie dust or not. Blue has blue dust, that also looks similar to the immobilization spell; FGM had golden dust; Nova had used pink magic.

4) On that note, can fairies use magic without their wand? Blue summoned the Black Fairy's wand, Tink used pixie dust to light a fire and fly, and Nova conjured up something in pink smoke? 