#or it’s like Pokémon evolution and sometimes they just *poof* great fairy!

[skyward-floored]

I have a burning question and since you are knowledgeable, I'd like your input.

How the flip do the fairies reproduce?

The closest answer I've gotten is that one time in the Four Swords manga when the priestess maiden ladies made Miss Fairy. Are the fairies like bees? Are they like preying mantises? Do they just clone themselves or spawn out of nothing??

...I must admit I have never before thought about this question o_O

I would have to guess that there’s magic involved though, whether by great fairy means or otherwise. Maybe when the level of magic in the air or whatever reaches a certain level, fairies are born from that? Or maybe great fairies just create them. But that would then beg the question where great fairies come from (unless you decide that perhaps the goddesses just made a couple great fairies at the beginning of the world and all fairies are descended from those? Just thoughts.)

Fairies also tend to congregate in areas with heavy levels of magic, such as fairy fountains, secret grottoes and sacred springs and stuff. That would reinforce the literally “created by magic” thing, along with the fairy being created in the manga like you said, but they’re not necessarily congruent. They might just gather in magical spots because they tend to be safe from enemies who’d like to capture a fairy, and that’s where other fairies hang out.

I don’t think any games ever say what exactly fairies are too, even the botw compendium is lacking in that regard. In the statue gallery in Wind waker, it says their birthplace is “unknown” which would imply a birth of some kind, but that might not mean anything.

You can also sometimes turn enemies into fairies if you use certain items, as well as butterflies in oot, so that seems to imply some... unusual methods of creation/reproduction, but I honestly don’t know.

Though, all that to say... we do know there are male fairies, so... I mean... they could just do it like us.