Faerie Wings

by Ashley
(New York)

Can you say more about faerie wings. You said faeries don’t really need wings to fly. I thought they did.

Ophelia Fey says -- Aha, there is a mortal misconception about wings. They're really fun to have (see the picture) but not necessary. I'll tell you why.

Faeries (or spelled fairies) are made of energy. Well, everything is, of course. But fairy bodies are not flesh and blood like yours. Or like animals. For some of us, in fact, our energy bodies may look firey, or airy, or watery. The body depends what element a fairy belongs to. And the same goes for our “wings.”

Insects and animals need regular wings to fly, since they are flesh and blood. Fairies really don’t. But we do like to mimic nature. We love the look of wings – bird, dragonfly, butterfly, even bat and dragon – and so we copy them. We mimic what we like. We have done so for thousands of years.

Fairies propel themselves through the air by emitting marvelous streams of energy. Sometimes they look like puffs. Sometimes longer streams, almost like streamers. Or like heat waves. Some wings may jettison us through the air with a burst, almost a mini-explosion, looking a bit like your fireworks. We can make our energy stream take a form to look like wings – they’re pretty and fun.

Designing wings for ourselves is like having a fashion accessory and a way of expressing our creativity. Making wings are a hobby for some fairies, and an actual profession for others. And since they’re not permanent, we can change them whenever we want. But we don’t need our energy flow to look like wing things. We just like them. And we like to see how mortals make pictures of our wings too – it gives us lots of ideas!

Ophelia Fey, fairy