Board Thread:DC's Legends of Tomorrow discussions/@comment-807326-20181023024756/@comment-2054358-20181029172627

Well, some fairies in other works sizeshift and shapeshift, so if I kept the size power, it would still work as a fairy gimmick. But I wanted to avert the "fairies are magical" stereotype by making my fairies a technologically advanced alien race that had inspired the fairies in folklore. Neither Ariel nor Sasha believe in magic despite their hearts actually suffer whenever they hear someone say don't believe in fairies, and they get stronger when people say they do believe, but the whole belief power thing isn't magic, it's neural chemicals sent to the heart with emotion and making a fairy doubt what she is can kill her.