Once Upon A Fan

The Blue Fairy, that is.


The Blue Fairy is one of the “good” characters of Disney lore, and the Once version is no exception. She gave young Geppetto a protector in Jiminy Cricket, turned Pinocchio into a real boy, and aided in the saving of Princess Emma so she could break the Dark Curse. But like all Once characters, she's gotten her own twist, and this Reul Ghorm is not as innocent as her previous incarnation: she's cursed many people.

How The Blue Fairy Saved Fairytale World

“So you'd be willing to sacrifice this world for the next? Because that's how great the price is.” Reul Ghorm asked this of Rumpelstiltskin during their confrontation after Baelfire went through the portal, making it clear that she knew what such a curse would do to their world. His response - “I've already paid a great price” - makes it clear that he doesn't care if Fairytale World is destroyed, so long as he gets his son back. And his plan to create such a curse was successful.

However, it seems highly unlikely that the Blue Fairy would allow a Curse of such power to be used without having a safeguard against it. She hints at such in The Stranger when she tells Geppetto and Pinocchio that she “must return to the fairies to make final preparations.” The episode Dreamy revealed that fairy dust powers their world, and a gathering of all the fairies together to save FW would be incredibly powerful, a good backup plan to prevent the destruction of their world.


That's a lot of magic.

It remains to be seen if this point will be clarified later, but FW appears to exist in its entirety, if vastly underpopulated. These are Mulan's words to Aurora: “[Regina] cast a curse on this land... It ripped everyone away to another world... This corner of the land was untouched, no one knows why. Something saved us.” She doesn't say it destroyed their land, only that it took most of its people. The Storybrooke residents can go home, though they've endured 28 years of captivity in time. The fairy dust worked.

But All Magic Comes With a Price

After the Curse had been broken, Henry asked Mother Blueperior to do something magical, but she couldn't because she has no wand and no fairy dust. Dreamy also showed that fairy dust is stored in a year's supply. Sacrificing her wand and the remaining supply of fairy dust, sacrificing her world for the next, would be an appropriate price to pay to save it. And in that Fairytale World, Mulan also says, “But for 28 years, we were frozen. Then, time started again.”

While they were saved from Storybrooke and allowed to remain in their land, those that remained in FW still faced a curse of their own: frozen in time with their memories intact, and forced to find a safe haven from “dangers more fearsome” than imaginable. Aurora and Phillip's palace is evidence that what remains of FW has deteriorated. They may have been saved from the Dark Curse, but they were still victims of the Blue Curse. In the words of Emma Swan: “Which curse is worse?”