what do you think about the world of winx spinoff? i watched it as a kid, and to this day i still enjoy it
I'm a fan of World of Winx Season 1, personally. I think it's really solid and creative. It's a good premise, I love that Roxy's included, and the characters they added are pretty solid (Ace is a personal favorite). Winx Club's strongest asset is the friendship between the girls, and it really embraces that.
The second season is where it loses me, though. The reinvention of the Peter Pan story, Peter Pan being the literal worst, the weird racist stuff with Tiger Lily (on top of the whitewashing, which was always an issue with the show), and the Evil Queen - sorry, "Tinkerbell" - getting off with no consequences. I think I said once that the best way to enjoy World of Winx is to pretend the last 2 episodes don't exist. I still stand by that.
But it did give me another long haired Winx villain boy to obsess over and ship with Bloom, so not a total loss!
Important World of Winx arc characters! Bella Tinker (Tinkerbell), Wendy Darling, Jim, Tiger Lily, and “Matt” who is now Peter Pan-Tinker-Darling
So, run down of the wow arc; Wizards of the Black Circle sent Island of Neverland into a weird magical pocket dimension, Wendy pulls Peter out = both suffer memory/magic loss, Neverland starts to fall apart and mutate, Bella Tinker begins pulling in people’s consciousnesses to replenish the magic on Neverland, Jim gains power among the other denizens on the Island wants to take over, Winx eventually come and fix things. See more in my timeline/show changes info post.
Neverland is an island near Tir Nan Og. Both Islands have natural sources that are a little similar, Tir Nan Og is the source of tears and sleep (deals with restorative magic and spells related to sadness, it takes the form of a freshwater spring) and Neverland is source of Dreams (deals with unconscious magic and vaguely nocturnal magic, takes the form of a large tree), and because of this they are considered sister islands. Tir Nan Og is the seat of power on earth because of its history, and Neverland is usually the right hand/second in command position because of its proximity. When the wizards attacked they intended to completely vanish/destroy the island and it’s inhabitants as a show of force but their spell interacted with Bella and the source’s magic creating an unstable pocket dimension. The instability begins to effect individual’s core magic, twisting their magic and pulling it out of them in physical manifestations that usually take the form raised veins and eventually horns. The placement of the horns can have other consequences but its very unpredictable.
Bella Tinker (aka Tinker Bell) tied her magic to the source on Neverland, becoming the Major Fairy of Dreams. Bella should technically be dead at this point. The pocket dimension Neverland is trapped in is sustained by Bella herself, if she wasn’t a Danix fairy she would have been drained a while back. Even with the source supporting her she experiences chronic core fatigue and the mutations on Neverland start to seriously affect her mind. When the horns first started appearing on herself and other inhabitants she began seeking outside magical power in order to help. Unfortunately, the wall between Neverland and the larger dimension was still too think for physical transportation, leading Bella to steal people’s minds/consciousness, trapping them as spirits in Neverland, and using their potential magical power to try and alleviate some of the mutations and heal the source. The Neverlander’s start to take sides as Bella looses more and more of her mental acuity and Jim gains power. also: she does NOT change color schemes after Neverland is restored because black/brunette does NOT equal evil and white/blonde does NOT equal good.
Wendy Darling, Bella Tinker’s wife and Peter’s mother. originally a non-magic user, Wendy pushed her untrained magic into the pocket dimension as it was forming and managed to grab Peter and pull him out. While she escaped being trapped in Neverland, her punch into the pocket dimension still gives her side effects of the mutated magic. She has slowly deteriorating memory/mental acuity, and physical injuries, but its not to the level that she has any horns. Wendy learns some magic on the fly, but has no proper training meaning she forces most spells and they are fairly unstable. Wendy managed to keep most of her mind and magic until Peter woke up from his coma, but after which she started to spiral and eventually became a very paranoid hermit with very little memory of who she was.
James ‘Jim’ Hook, resident of Neverland, lost his hand in an accident on his fishing boat. Begins to take on a more pirate role after Neverland is isolated, seizing the instability as an opportunity to gain power/wealth. Decent magic user, but keeps it hidden as a trump card he can play if necessary. After Bella retreats to the source in the second season Jim begins to aim for total dominion over Neverland and wants the winx to take Bella out but leave Neverland isolated. His horns are primarily harmless, the larger one is actually useful, and the ones starting on his right hand only cause some stiffness in the knuckles but the ones starting on his face are slowly starting to affect his right eye and brain. The mental influences aren’t severe enough yet for him to notice, but his empathy and impulse control are starting to suffer.
Tiger Lily, while not born on the American continent, is the daughter of the first Major Fairy of Dreams, a woman from the the Ojibwe, Ojibwa, Chippewa, or Saulteaux Nation (part of Dana’s OG crew of major fairies). Tiger Lily is a trained Psychic, but due to the situation on Neverland she has lost a lot of her cards, and has kind of morphed into a Druid in order to deal with the volatile environment. The mutation of magic has caused her to lose her vision, which is incredibly important to a Psychic Witch. To cope she started making Spider Web Charms/Dream Catchers (which.... actually have no specific connection to dreams? they’re good luck charms that ward off evil?? I think??? pls correct me if not). She uses these charms as a comfort, and eventually as a way to direct her magic and “see” via scrying with her hands over the webs. She has a ton set up around her home, to both ward off danger and act as security camera. The web and gem on her staff are mainly for offensive magic and directional. She also ties two into her hair to act as personal “eyes” but because scrying is looking into the possible future, what she “sees” isn’t always reality. Tiger Lily is a neutral party on the Island, not aligning herself with Bella or Jim and offers healing and sanctuary to those who come to her unarmed.
Peter Tinker-Darling(taking the place of Matt lmao), the oldest of his brothers, Peter has no memory of Neverland as they fragmented when Wendy pulled him out of the pocket dimension. She stored the fractured memories in Peter’s childhood compass. He was in a coma for decades after being pulled out and awoke in the 1500′s. Peter has no visible physical injuries (small scar on forehead) from being pulled out, but deals with spotty memory, dizzy spells, and massive migraines. Peter thinks Wendy abandoned him (he’s kind of right but Wendy was....... not doing well). Peter has magic, but can’t access it well with out his memories. Peter is less “annoying entitled prick is the chosen one and obnoxious about it” the way OG Matt is, and more “depressed confused art student has no idea whats going on and just wants his family back.”
After Neverland is restored, some of the mutations can be and are healed, but a lot of them are permanent or require routine treatment. The island itself returns to the normal dimension, but the source is corrupted by Jim and turns into a wild magic source to recover, severing it’s connection with Bella(who’s pretty burnt out on magic anyways and is fine with that). Bella and Wendy retire to the english countryside with the rest of their sons and try to deal with all their trauma as best they can :) Peter visits from Paris whenever he can.
