Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-4877635-20140102162900/@comment-4839682-20140118112237

Child of the Moon7 wrote: I always assumed that she got the dust from Maleficent... Because she obviously is dark and she is a kind of fairy, no idea if that's correct but I always thought that way since Snow Falls! Disney's Maleficent is based on (loosely) the evil fairy from the original Sleeping Beauty fairytales, but that's about it. She wasn't a fairy in Disney's Sleeping Beauty, and, based on the evidence we have, I am almost completely certain she's not a fairy on the show.

From what we've seen, Maleficent shows no sign of the things fairies/deposed fairies do. She does not have wings or need them to fly, and she has magic freely available to her without the use of a wand. If she was a deposed fairy, like we saw with Tinker Bell, she would be unable to use magic, and if she were a current fairy, she would need a wand and possibly fairy dust. She also seems to greatly exceed "normal" fairy capabilities.

Of course, Dark Fairy culture could be entirely different from "regular" fairy culture. Or, Maleficent could be a former fairy and simply doesn't need a wand or dust or wings. We have no evidence of such things, but there's always the possibility. I'm just basing my supposition her on what we know/have seen.

It's my personal opinion that's she a powerful sorceress, not a fairy, as she was in the Disney movie. Of course, as Sleeping Beauty is my favorite fairytale and Disney movie, and Maleficent one of my all time favorite characters, I am extremely biased in this. I see her as more powerful, both inshow and out, than fairies. I like the idea of her being separate and a part from the fairy hierarchy and society. I don't want her backstory to be simply that she was a fairy, and was a failure or was slighted or something like that. She's always been more than that, bigger than a simpler backstory, and I'd like to leave it a mystery in my mind, as Maleficent's story, or at least the bulk of it, seems to have played out already in the show's past, and she's moved on. As I see here as a great and terrible figure, that's fine with me. :D