Fiona

"*Well, that's just the thing, Miss Swan... The curse, that Dark Curse. It and all of the darkness you've ever faced, was born out of one twisted soul: the Black Fairy.*"
—Rumplestiltskin to Emma on his mother

**Fiona** also known as **The Black Fairy**, was an evil Fairy and the hidden main antagonist of the first six seasons of Once Upon a Time.

She was once a very powerful fairy, the mother of Rumplestiltskin, wife or lover of Malcolm , grandmother of Gideon and Neal Cassidy, great-grandmother of Henry Mills (son of her first-born grandson Neal Cassidy and Emma Swan) and great-great-grandmother of Henry 's daughter, Lucy.

## Biography

### Early life

Fiona married Malcolm and became pregnant with his child, who she later gave birth to in the harshest winter. Two fairies, Blue and Tiger Lily appear to the couple shortly after Rumplestiltskin is born.

Her abandonment is one of the reasons

### Reuniting

After her banishment, Fiona found a way to return to her homeland, but she began kidnapping children, taking them to her realm, and forcing them to mine for black fairy dust. She is found by Rumplestiltskin as he uses Jack and Jill's baby to lure her to him. It does succeed and he sustains her with Squid ink. There, he reveals his identity as her son. Overcome with the guilt of being forced away from Rumplestiltskin, Fiona made up a story that she abandoned him for power as his father before had done. Before he asks any more questions, the fairy flies away.

### Meeting Snow White

Through unknown means, she gives Snow White powder to transform people into bugs. However, whether it was this dark fairy or another is unknown.

### Banishment

After her past crimes, the Blue Fairy duels the Black Fairy and sends her to an unknown world.

## Personality

Before she was the dark Fairy, the Black Fairy use to be a kind-hearted person who would take care of children. However, the power had corrupted her and turned her into an evil entity. This darkening of her heart. However, she did hold very strong affections

However, like Rumplestiltskin, she is power-hungry who chose the power to become a fairy over the love of her son and abandons her family, wish seems to be a running theme in the Gold family. In acceptance, she is indirectly helpful as the Black Fairy's dust was gives Snow a bottle of powder to turn those who would harm her into bugs and her wand was used to help defeat Pan.

## Appearance

The Dark fairy is a scary and over hundreds of years old. She has dark black hair and has brown eyes, a trait she shares with her son and first-born grandson. She wears black dress that is knee height pants, boot, black feathery color. Her full height is unknown , but she is a few inches when she is a small fairy size.

## Relationships

### Family

The Black Fairy has no care for her family, seeing she abandoned Rumplestiltskin before she *even* named him. Even when Rumplestiltskin summoned her and revealed her relation to him, The Black Fairy shows remorse for a brief second for abandoning her child but she quickly masks it with laughing and cruelty. She is also one of the reasons why Rumple hates fairies. She had a grandson through Rumple's marriage to Milah named Neal and a grandson through Rumple's marriage to Belle named Gideon,.

She considered Gideon more of a son than her actual grandson. Her relationship reflects on Henry's and Regina's the first season.

## Appearances

* "The Thing You Love Most" (Indirect mention only)
* "Snow Falls": (Indirect mention only)

### Season 3

* "Going Home" (First mentioned)
* "There's No Place Like Home" (Indirect mention only)

### Season 5

* "Souls of the Departed" (Mentioned only)

### Season 6

* "Changelings"(First appearance)
* "Wish You Were Here" (mentioned only)
* "Tougher Than the Rest" (flashback; archive footage only)
* "Ill-Boding Patterns" (mentioned only)
* "A Wondrous Place" (mentioned only)
* "Mother's Little Helper"
* "Awake"
* "Where Bluebirds Fly"
* "The Black Fairy"
* "The Final Battle Part 1"
* "The Final Battle Part 2"

## Trivia

* Originally, Rumplestiltskin's mother was going to be named "Evanna". However, she was in reality Merida.