Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4636650-20161205141818/@comment-24674051-20170124174203

Rockchick 19 wrote: I agree that the Black Fairy most likely had an innocent start, even if (by Fairy Standards) it didn't necessarily last long.

Tbh I'd be more inclined to think that it was Cruella acting on her Psychopathic/Sociopathic tendencies that turned her heart dark rather than being born with a dark heart (with her darkness possibly being amplified when she got covered in the ink); everything we've seen indicates that everyone is born as a blank slate and that it's their actions that determine whether they have a pure heart or a dark heart (with the exception of Lily and Emma thanks to Snow's interference). That gets into the whole "Nurture vs. Nature" discussion of what causes a person to become evil. So far, in all cases except Cruella, We've been shown a story where a person starts out good (or at least relatively good), and then events in the person's life led them to make wrong decisions, leading them farther down the road towards evil. For example, Regina was happy, she was ready to love Daniel (in spite of Cora's objections), and she could have led a happy life but for Cora's interference. Similarly with Zelena, she seemed to be a relatively happy as a child so long as her mother was alive, but when she died and the abusive father stepped in, it all changed. even Rumple, though he was not necessarily happy, had opportunities with the spinner women to be happy and normal. Even when he left for the Ogre wars, he was ready (or at least thought he was ready) to be a normal person. But the damage done by BOTH of his parents abandoning him, combined with the interference from the Seer, helped him to change direction. We saw Ingrid similarly, we never saw Pan as a child so have nothing to base any guesses on. Even Cora had opportunies to avoid the evil path, but those were affected by Jonathan and Eva.

Cruella is the only villain where the first time that we see her she is already 'evil' (even if we as the audience did not know it yet). Her mom's actions did push Cruella farther down the path, but the path was set before the mother acted. So the question becomes what could push an 8-year old to murder their father for (apparently) no reason other than the joy of killing. While her heart may have been a 'blank slate', I would say that in her case there does not appear to be any outside influence that led her to act in a way that led to darkening her heart.

Getting back on track with the topic, based on what little we've been given so far, it seems that the Black Fairy started out as a good fairy, but something influenced her to make a decision, and that decision is what started darkening her heart. and I would not be surprised if the event is not somehow a parallel of the Nova and Dreamy story.