Netflix’s live-action remake of the animated series Winx Club, Fate: The Winx Saga just dropped its second season. The universe of teen TV dramas has shared one glaring similarity lately: the shows are much darker than their source material. Other modern teen dramas like Riverdale and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, have thrived with this darker, more mature model, and just like them, this show is full of unexpected darkness despite being about Fairies.
While Riverdale recently introduced the supernatural, Winx Club already has a large fantasy world, The Otherworld, for Fate: The Winx Saga to pull inspiration from. In The Otherworld, Alfea College is home to many magical beings like Fairies and non-magical beings like Specialists. All of them face the threats of magical antagonists, Blood Witches and Burned Ones. Let’s examine the series’ important characters and their magical powers.
Bloom: Fire Fairy Possessing the Dragon Flame
Bloom (Abigail Cowen) is the most powerful teen fire Fairy at Alfea. In Season 1, Bloom learns that she’s a changeling, a full-blooded Fairy raised by human parents in The First World aka Earth, after being swapped with a human baby. Bloom learns to control her pyrokinetic powers and becomes the first Fairy to transform in generations, complete with fiery wings and glowing eyes. In Season 2, Bloom’s abilities are expanded upon when she discovers she possesses the Ancient Power of The Dragon Flame. The Dragon Flame is an asset that can help Bloom save The Otherworld from Blood Witches, but it also has the power to cause great destruction if Bloom doesn’t learn to control it.
Aisha: Water Fairy
Aisha (Precious Mustapha) is a water Fairy whose abilities are very versatile, allowing her to extract water from any body of water, soil and air and create little rain clouds. Aisha is a fiercely loyal friend who has used her hydrokinetic powers to help Bloom put out some fires.
Stella: Light Fairy
Stella (Hannah van der Westhuysen) is the Crown Princess of Solaria, the realm in which The Otherworld exists, and a light Fairy. Stella is strong-willed and was taught by her mother to never show weakness, so she comes off as self-centered. Stella uses her photokinetic powers to bend light to render herself invisible, and she even uses this ability to hide from Bloom and the other fairies. But Stella quickly learns to value friendship and begins to see that loyalty and showing vulnerability aren’t signs of weakness.
Musa: Mind Fairy
Musa (Elisha Applebaum) is a mind Fairy with the ability to feel the emotions of everyone around her, but amplified. Therefore, she wears noise-canceling headphones to block out other people’s emotions. Musa’s empathic powers are expanded upon when she tones down people’s strongest emotions like anxiety and rage, which gets her into trouble when she inadvertently messes with her boyfriend’s head so much that he almost kills someone.
Terra and Flora: Earth Fairies
Terra (Eliot Salt) and Flora (Paulina Chávez) are second cousins who possess the ability to manipulate plants and the earth. Terra and Flora’s respective powers and personalities slightly differ. Terra is more soft-spoken, and Flora is more impulsive and wild. Terra is better at using her powers to manipulate the ground and minerals. While Flora is highly skilled at controlling plant life by reviving plants, forming flowers and manipulating vines around her fingertips.
Beatrix: Air Fairy
Beatrix (Sadie Soverall) is a powerful air Fairy with the ability to generate electrical currents through air molecules to control objects and people. Beatrix is very duplicitous and self-serving, often manipulating both sides of good and evil for her own gain. Her powers can also kill as seen when she kills Sky. However, much like Stella, Beatrix has a change of heart and sacrifices herself to the Blood Witches to stop Bloom from giving their leader the Dragon Flame, purposely controlling her powers to kill Sky in a way that he could be revived.
Sky and Riven: Specialists
Sky (Danny Griffin) and Riven (Freddie Thorp) are non-magical warriors called Specialists who are skilled in combat and strategy to help defend The Otherworld. Specialists are selected to train at Alfea and most graduate to serve in the Solarian army.
Burned Ones Attack in Season 1
Burned Ones attack Alfea in Season 1. They’re human soldiers who turned into scorched creatures over 1,000 years ago because of the power of the Dragon Flame. Since Bloom’s Dragon Flame magic created them, hers is the only pyrokinetic magic strong enough to destroy them. When Bloom defeats the Burned Ones, they revert to their human form.
Blood Witches Steal Fairy Magic in Season 2
Blood Witches have been at war with Fairies for millennia because a powerful Fairy destroyed their home, Aster Dell, killing many of them. In Season 2, led by Sebastian (Éanna Hardwicke), Blood Witches use creatures called Scrapers to steal Fairy magic. Blood Witches also bend others to their will by fully controlling their bodies.
Fate: The Winx Saga Seasons 1 and 2 are streaming now on Netflix.
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