Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-9241531-20150811165057/@comment-25926288-20151014140220

P3nathan wrote: Eskaver wrote: I sort of don't want to create a magic colors thread (since it changes every half season), but:

1) Why is Rumple's smoke reddish purple, while Emma's is grey?

2) Why is her magic blast golden?

I think the magic blast might be different, but I can see why they would pick golden over greyish. Is it just the type of spell she blasted. I theorize that golden magic is just a mixture of both magic. The Apprentice used it, the hat used it, the book and key used it, so why would anyone think her magic is dark when the Sorcerer's items use golden magic? I've been rewatching recently and some of the smoke clouds are pretty inconsitent... but especially Rumple's. Usually it's a sort of maroon, but then other times it's been straight up red and other times it's been straight up purple, identical to Regina and Cora's.

Blasting seems to be a different thing I guess; like Regina's cloud has always been purple, but for some reason her blast is red. Maybe because she favours fire attacks? I dunno... Well, you can divide it in half due to the new effects they have been using for season 4 and beyond. So, I only count from season 4 due to those reasons.

Regina though has done a green, purple-ish blue, red, and white blast and that is dependent on the spell. (Green=trapping?, purple-ish blue=telekinesis, red=fire, white=light).

But Rumple and Emma were the same being. even in the premiere the spirit of the Dark One used Red smoke, while Emma at the end used a dark grey.

I need to stop because I think that the smoke isn't even seen more most spells, except teleportation and sometimes not even that.