Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20151207015752/@comment-1916997-20151215162903

Farerb wrote: ChocolatEyes613 wrote: Eskaver wrote:

I like to think magic was neutral before the DO and the wand was made of neutral HG magic, filled with light HG magic part of Merlin's magic (and he never used the dark HG magic) and had to be wielded by someone with strong dark magic. That would mean that Merlin could use it  (but that's a bit redundant, since he already can acess his power), and any one strong enough (or simply dark) to wield it. Other than the Dark One and Emma, magic on OUaT has generally been neutral. It was the practioner's emotions, that caused it to be either Light or Dark. Magic was just magic in seasons 1-3A.

Then in 3B, it was sorted to light magic and dark magic. They needed Emma's light magic to destroy Zelena and that Regina can't do it cause she has dark magic, but then she thought really hard and it turned into light magic for one time only. So we had different kind of magic light (Emma, fairies, Glinda...) and dark magic (Gold, Zelena and every other villain).

Now, we go into 4A, which is when it gets really confusing. Emma is good so she has light magic, but Elsa is also good which means her magic is light magic, but her magic is exactly the same as Ingrid, a villain, that's supposed to have dark magic. They invented the term ice magic, which means someone who controls the solid state of water (ice & snow), so when we saw Emma uses her "light magic", we saw her controls the light (electricity?), so magic is sorted by elements, cause in that season we saw Regina using fire balls...a lot.

4B pretty much returned to the basics of 1-3A.

5A is again with light magic and dark magic, but here is what confuses me. Emma used dreamcatchers, which Regina said are dark magic, but we saw Emma uses them in season 2 while being with light magic. There was implications that magic had a light side and a dark side, since Season 1. Things like Snow getting "dark fairy dust", and the line from Blue "Of course you would think of a curse and not a blessing", implyed that magic had two sides.