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DracoWombat wrote: Eskaver wrote: DracoWombat wrote:. That she didn't have any magic as a human is an assumption; we never see her use it as a human, but we only see a total of two scenes in which she is human. Hardly anything to go by.

She cast a spell as a human, and had an enormous expertise on magic. A spell to become a Fairy should be no simple task, given the fact fairies are powerful and immortal magic users. If it were easily achievable, anyone would do it. Not a chance. She studied all the fairy lore and such as they said. She casted a spell because she studied fairy lore and stole a magic wand. She's just a normal human. (At best, you can say she seemed knowledgeable beforehand).

Burden of proof is to show she had magic beforehand or if she came from a lineage of magic. Thus, since that's not proveable, she was simply human and normal. Robin used a wand to heal Marian and I'm certain he didn't study a lick about magic. Ursula stole the trident and new nothing about magic and just became a caecelia.

Okay, I give in. I have no way to sustain that she knew magic. It seems most likely to me, but I suppose it must remain headcanon territory.

Still, healing somebody and casting a complex spell to become a powerful and immortal being are probably not the same thing. Not if ya know the magic words. Now, I think it was clear that she knew about fairies before having Rumple and studied and waited for the right time to make herself a fairy. It was more complex than Blue un-fairying Tink, so....

And hey, I'd take "le sgiathan cumhachd draoidheil" over Ursula just wishing and whatever Aladdin did to become a genie.