Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4636650-20161205141818/@comment-4636650-20161205175557

Hmcooper4 wrote: She does seem to have kidnapped children for quite a while before Rumple confronts her. I think one question that could be answered is "Why?" I mean, Black obviously stole Gideon, and corrupted him. Can she use the children and convert them to dark fairies (that's my guess)? I would doubt that she can convert them to dark fairies; if nothing else all the fairies seem to have been born fairies, rather than being turned into them. Also so far we've only seen female fairies - we don't even know if male fairies are a thing (I mean, it's obviously possible for fairies to have children with non-fairies but it seems that that isn't the usual method of procreation so I wonder if fairies normally practice asexual reproduction or are like Thumbelina and just appear in flowers or something).

Like I said I wonder if she kidnaps the children in some twisted attempt to get baby Rumple back (If time doesn't work normally in the Dark Realm that she resides in then when Rumple summons her, for her it may not have been that long since she lost him/abandoned him); they've never said that (with the exception of her own grandson) that she keeps the children that she kidnaps - perhaps as soon as she's sure that they're not Rumple she abandons them back in the EF (Gideon being the exception because they're related).