Digit: a tragedy in three acts (a ramble in three bullet points)
I’m an above average Tecna and Tecna-adjacent character enjoyer on most days, but sometimes I just get irrationally angry about what the franchise did to her (or to everyone, really, but SPECIFICALLY to her). 1) Digit is a great Pixie. I love her, I collect her merch, she’s beautiful. An angel, really, but does she balance out Tecna like the other Pixies do with their Winx? Not in the slightest. If anything, they make each other worse.
2) Digit is a guy in the PopPixie series, which Rainbow handled exactly how one would expect – instead of making for some trans rep and gaining a larger audience, they mould her exactly after another male pixie that’s exclusive to the spin-off called Fixit, and have their powers be almost identical and try to have all of that go unnoticed. Which, if we’re talking about trans rep - looking at the target demographic - might just not be the way to do it. 3) then by season six they have Cherie replace Digit, which would be great if Tecna didn’t already have an ENTIRE ‘feel your feelings’ arc three seasons before that and also if they maybe... mentioned where Digit had gone off to. (They didn’t). The obvious answer to would make for a good Pixie for Tecna is Cherie - had Rai properly introduced her in season two. Digit would have been a better fit for Bloom, or maybe Roxy (if earth fairies bond to Pixies the same way Magix’ fairies do) or maybe one of the background characters, MAYBE even to a villain with no grasp of technology if they really wanted to do something wild but NOOOOOOOO----