I wonder what exactly makes the wings of ice fairies and regular fairies so different. Why the ice fairy's wings get all dehydrated and floppy and why regular fairy's turn hard and brittle. Then again, I'd likely be thinking of it terms of biology rather than magic. ^^; What can I say, I prefer science over magic. Human science and biology probably doesn't go too well with fairies, though... y'know, see the whole 'why do fairies have boobs' and 'why do fairies have belly buttons' thing.
I feel like it should be a straightforward explanation. Winter fairies are naturally cold = they melt in heat like frosty the snowman. Warm fairies are naturally hot = they freeze in cold and crack like an icicle.
I assume they develop their warm/winter status based on what side of the border their laugh lands, otherwise it would be very convenient that Tink landed on the Pixie Dust Tree and Periwinkle landed in Winter Woods. (Probably Peri would have been a warm fairy like her twin if her dandelion seed hadn’t gotten stuck and blown a different direction.)
It’s just like fairies having different talents–they have physical differences that come with them, like water fairies being able to hold water or light fairies being able to hold light while fairies of other talents (Tink) just physically cannot interact with those things the same way.
I’m more interested in the fact the actual wing breakages we’ve been shown look different to how I would expect. Like if winter fairy wings get all wilted and wavy–see Periwinkle–
then why is the breakage on Lord Milori’s wing so jagged and pointy?
And then why would Tink’s breakage be so nearly clean instead of fractured like ice?
If you know the science of why it looks like this, please let me know. I probably just don’t know enough about what happens to insect-like wings in drastic temperature changes to know what they should reasonably look like.
