Zarina

Zarina (also known as The Pirate Fairy) is the titular character and initially a former antagonist and deuteragonist of the Disney Fairies film The Pirate Fairy.
==Background==
===Personality===
Zarina is a curious and roguish dust-keeper fairy, who is intrigued by pixie dust. She wonders at its endless possibilities and many magical properties. Though Fairy Gary tells her that it is forbidden to tamper with pixie dust, she mixes the ingredients that the book "Pixie Dust Experiments" shows and she finds out it works. When she goes too far and causes an incident, she is no longer accepted as a dust-keeper and she leaves Pixie Hollow. A year later, she steals the blue pixie dust and joins forces with the pirates of Skull Rock, who make her their captain. When Tinker Bell, Silvermist, Iridessa, Rosetta, Fawn, and Vidia all follow to stop her and reclaim the blue pixie dust to its rightful place, she uses multi-colored pixie dust to magically switch their innate magical talents. Even after she fell into villainy, she didn't fully became a bad girl, as her short-lived allegiance with James made her feel dedicated in serving for the pirate men at first before they eventually betrayed her for the blue pixie dust, which, in turn, made her go back to her original alliance with the Pixie Hollow fairies, who saved her in the nick of time after the pirates' betrayal against her. 
===Physical appearance===
Zarina has fair skin, thick, wavy auburn hair, and light hazel eyes. As a Dust Keeper and resident of Pixie Hollow, Zarina wore a yellow dress with a brown vest over it reaching just above her knees, tied with an olive-green belt, and wore light brown leggings underneath. On each of her wrists, she wore two or three wired bracelets. She wore brown shoes with worn-out soles. Her hair was always tied back in a messy bun. On her green leaf apron, there is a large cursive "Z" for Zarina.
As the pirate fairy, Zarina's hair is left down and reaches just past her shoulders. She wears a single hoop earring with small magenta and blue beads threaded onto it. When she travels to Pixie Hollow, she wore a navy-blue coat with golden trimmings, and, also in the promo picture, she wears a pirate-like wavy blouse with a black bodice and golden buttons and a short, green skirt with pirate-style patterns on them. She also has long, gray boots that reach her knees, a golden bracelet on her right wrist, and a bracelet belt that can carry her pin sword.
==Role in the film==
Zarina is an inquisitive and curious dust-keeper who likes to experiment with Pixie Dust despite Fairy Gary's objections.
After a day of work in which she accidentally hurts Fairy Gary by sprinkling golden and blue pixie dust on her bracelet, she returned home where she was disappointed that her previous experiments with Pixie Dust ended all in failure, but after finding a speck of Blue pixie dust in her hair, she decided to repeat her failed experiments with adding blue pixie dust on them and managed to create amber pixie dust which enabled her to have the abilities of the light talent.
Later she went to Tinker Bell's house to ask her for things for her experiments, and Zarina showed her new abilities and then began to make more pixie dust experiments with Tinker Bell. While experimenting, they discover that when mixed, pixie dust can change color and be infused with the power of a certain talent. For example, when a small amount of blue pixie dust and a purple feather is mixed, the pixie dust turns purple, representing the fast-flying-talent. If pink flower petals are added instead, it turns pink and it represents the garden talent. However, it goes out of control after hitting a sapling, causing chaos when the tree grows too big. Zarina is expelled from Dust-Keeping and flys away heartbroken until she returns one year later.
Zarina, now the very first pirate fairy and captain, uses pink-colored fairy dust to make poppies sprout behind the spectators at the Four Seasons Festival. She then throws dust at the poppies to make them bloom and release pollen, which puts all the fairies in the Fairy Coliseum into a deep sleep. While all the fairies are asleep, Zarina flies into the Pixie Dust Depot and steals the blue pixie dust. The only fairies that were not in the coliseum when Zarina set the poppies off were Tink, Silvermist, Rosetta, Iridessa, Fawn, Vidia, and Clank. When Tink and her friends discover that Zarina has stolen the mighty and vital blue pixie dust, they follow the blue light until they reach the coast and see a rowboat of pirates rowing Zarina and the blue pixie dust towards their ship.
After Tinker Bell and the others try to take back the blue pixie dust from the pirates, she takes the experimented pixie dust in different colors representing the different talents and throws it at Tinker Bell, Silvermist, Rosetta, Iridessa, Fawn, and Vidia, swapping their talents, and then takes the blue pixie dust and leaves.
She feels appreciated for her talents with her fellow pirates, and her closest friend is James, the cabin boy. So when Tink and the others show up again, with their talents switched, she turns down Tinkerbell's offer to return to Pixie Hollow. Unfortunately, she is betrayed and dissociated, as the pirates have only been using her to get their ship to fly. They trap her in a lantern and then as the ship starts to fly James throws her into the water. Tinker Bell and her friends save Zarina and they battle the pirates and get back the blue dust.
Zarina almost goes her separate way again, but the fairies again offer her to return home, which she happily accepts. She returns to Pixie Hollow and reconciles with Fairy Gary. She restores her friends to their proper talents by having a spectacular show, finally able to show her talent (christened Pixie Dust Alchemy) to the other fairies.
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==Trivia==
*The name 'Zarina' is a Malay name that means 'golden', alluding to her talent with pixie dust, which is often gold in color.
*Zarina is the second female antagonistic fairy of the Disney Fairies franchise. The first is Vidia, who bullies Tink in Tinker Bell but reforms by the end of Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue. Both of them reform.
*Zarina is much like Tinker Bell, full of curiosity and ending up in trouble when seeking out her answers. She also goes against the advice of what others say; Fairy Gary actually called her "The Tinker Bell of Dust Keepers".
**Zarina also serves as a dark reflection of Tinker Bell (particularly the latter's original portrayal in the first Peter Pan film), not unlike Vidia from the first Tinker Bell film. Both Zarina and Tink committed a life-threatening mistake which got themselves banished from their homes as a result, made a pact with Captain Hook, only to end up getting betrayed by the treacherous pirate, regret their actions and reform in the end, all within the course of their respective debut films. But unlike Tink in the 1953 film, Zarina is more extreme in her actions, going so far as to outright betray and cause harm and destruction towards her fellow Pixie Hollow fairies as a pirate fairy until Captain Hook dumps and betrays her. In fact, Zarina could be seen as representing what Tinker Bell would've become in the original Peter Pan film had she let her grudges towards Peter Pan banishing her from Neverland for her jealousy towards Wendy Darling consume her instead of doing the right thing.
**Co-incidentally, Zarina's banishment from Dust-Keeping by Fairy Gary parallels Tinker Bell's banishment from Neverland by Peter Pan from the original Peter Pan film, and Zarina gets betrayed by Captain Hook the exact same way Tink is betrayed by the same villainous pirate in the same movie - which they both get trapped and locked up in lanterns.
*Upon close inspection, Zarina is the only dust-keeper fairy to have a decorative apron. It possibly serves as a symbolism of her uniqueness and adventurous nature.
*Zarina is the first fairy shown to prefer walking instead of flying, given that she saves her fairy dust for experiments as opposed to flight.
*Zarina discovered how to grow Pixie Dust Trees by dropping Blue Pixie Dust inside a regular tree.
*Zarina is the only fairy seen wearing boots, aside from Spike from Secret of the Wings.
*As the pirate fairy, she is the only fairy seen wearing non-natural clothing, as all the other fairies' clothing is made from natural materials such as leaves, flowers petals, etc.
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