#speedix

Hi, thanks for the ask.

So the way Fae transformation works is as following:

As said before: Fae have numerous transformations, which aren’t even properly explored to this day. A new one can be found in a matter of moments, which means nobody really knows what is the final stage of Faes cycle. However there is a form that is regarded as more powerful than any other yet witnessed - the Nymph. With each transformation strengthening Faes spells in different ways and in some cases giving access to completely new ones.

The wings change with each transformation, to allow the Fae better access to whatever the task is. The outfits need to be designed by the Fae themself or by someone else and it needs to be drawn on bark of an oak tree and than enchanted. The bark will disperse and will be engraved in memory of the Faes magic. Therefore whenever the Fae transforms, whatever was drawn on the oak bark will appear on the Fae. If this is not done, the wings will make holes in the clothing the Fae is wearing while transformed.

So let me give you a run down of ‘first’ six, the Coitiantas, first three transformations and three specialized transformations:

The first ‘basic’ transformation, after which a Fae is considered to be fully-fledged. 

Breithix - or as it is commonly refered to ‘True birth of a Fae’, the first transformation, utilizing the powers, which are already in the Fae, depending on the ancestry and Realm, and expanding on them. This transformation happens firstly, when the Fae is somewhere between 10 and 17 years of age. The transformations last 10 minutes first, but as the Fae perfects Breithix, they can last up to 2 hours, after which a Fae needs a break and something sweet to eat. 

Charmix - Breithix, but with a power up. After Fae overcomes a great personal difficulty, such as a strong fear or a certain weakness holding them back. This gives the Fae a small brooch or pin, which endes up giving the Fae a power up, making their powers twice as strong, when charmix is used. The power up lasts up to 30 minutes, but drains the Fae much faster and that, the power AND transformation will end. It can be used through out all the other forms.

Enchantix - the first ‘real’ transformation. In order for a fae to earn Enchantix, they must rescue someone from their homeworld and show great sacrifice in doing so. If the Fae is succesful, the power up achieved will truly be grand. Compared to Breithix, Enchantix is thrice as strong in power, gives the Fae new spells and Fae dust, a dust from the wings capable of breaking powerful curses, and the Fae is given a new set of wings, that look similiar to the Breithix version, but tend to be larger and have much more strenght in them, allowing the Fae to move much faster. Enchantix transformations last 1 hour at first, but when mastered it lasts up to 12 hours.

Now let’s talk about three of many specialized transformations, they are not necessarily more powerful just different. They can be achieved only after Fae has already achieved Enchantix:

Believix - the power of will of the people. Believix is achieved, thanks to faith and trust of other people. It doesn’t have to be people who don’t believe in magic, but people who look at the individual Fae or Wing and go “I believe in you.” This sole thing gives the Fae power that easily compares to Enchantix and in some cases even excedes it. It has one main advantage over Enchantix: three usable power ups. Those are: Speedix (giving the Fae a big speed boost for an hour), Zoomix (allowing the Fae to teleport up to 1 000 km) and Tracix (showing the Fae a shard of the past). These power ups can be used only once every lunar cycle. It lasts anywhere from hour and a half to 4 hours.

Harmonix - a transformation developed by Linphean Fae, allowing them to not only protect the land and air, but also the water. It can be given to a Fae by one of powerful Linphean spirits. Harmonix gives the user webbed hands and feet and changes the wings into a form that is more suitable for water. The Fae is also given brand new arsenal of magic. The speed of Faes wings in air will be slower, in water however, they will go as fast as any Enchantix Fae in the air. While using this transformation, the Fae cannot harm anything that had not attacked them first. This transformation lasts as long as the Fae is in close proximity to water (100 metres).

Sirenix - a transformation developed by Fae of Andros with help of their water neightbours, Tritons. This transformation is considered dangerous, because it makes the user vulnerable to curses, meaning if some curses the source it will curse anyone who achieves Sirenix through it. But if the Fae manages to get Sirenix, they can be prepared for a whole new game changer. Sirenix is useless out of water, because the form exchanges the wings for a tail. This tail can be a tail of any fully marine animal. The Fae in this form is about as fast as Fae with Speedix transformation in the air. The Fae is also given a new arsenal of magic. The transformation lasts as long as the Fae stays in the sea.

This is just few out of many specialized Fae transformation. A fae can change between the forms, through a ritual, and can choose which spells to keep from previous transformation. The number of the spells is based of how strong the Fae is, but it is never more 20.

Believix was not a bad concept. The execution was lacking a little and I have to say that it didn’t make much sense in-verse because how many worlds are there where the inhabitants no longer believe in magic? We only know about Earth and even if there are others, they’re probably not a lot. So if Winx made Earth people believe in fairies again, that means that there is one less planet on which Believix can be earned. My point is that if there were a lot of fairies wishing to gain Believix, eventually they would run out of ways to do it because the planets where people don’t believe in magic would get less and less every time a fairy earned Believix until all the worlds started believing in magic which would make earning Believix impossible in the future. The greater impact their logic has on their universe has never been a concern of the writers because as we all know, Winx are the only ones that matter in the Winx universe but that is still a pretty major flaw in the concept of the transformation. Not to mention how super tailored to the circumstances it was. Wizards of the Black Circle want the Earth, to stop them Winx need Believix, Believix can be won on Earth because people no longer believe in magic there. Convenient as fuck. And the way Winx were going about convincing people that fairies exist was not ideal. Add to that how long it took them to earn Believix and then make people believe in them to gain more power, and the transformation didn’t get enough time to shine before it was replaced by the next ones.

The Tracix wings are absolutely fucking outrageous. How can wings help you see the past? They magically fly you in the past without actually leaving the present? It could have been cool if they’d explained how they worked. And a big minus here is that they didn’t use them at all. Only twice as far as I can recall and one of those times (in the Amazonian jungle) it didn’t really do shit for them. The wings were only relevant when the Wizards kidnapped Roxy which was the only reason they existed anyway. They didn’t even fit thematically with the other two sets of wings.

Zoomix could have been okay if they had not created a plot hole. I suppose the writers included Zoomix so that Winx could teleport to Amazonia, Sybila’s cave and then later to the Northern Pole. Oh, and to Tir Nan Og as well. But the wings became a problem when Winx were trapped by Nebula because they could have just used them to teleport away from there, yet it never occurred to them. It was really annoying. Otherwise, that set of wings was mostly okay.

The Speedix wings actually made the most sense out of all sets of wings and Winx made good use of them so I am not mad about them being included. It might have been better if that’d been the only pair of wings that came with Believix, however.

And a thing about all sets of wings that was annoying was when they would show how they changed them. I can’t decide what was worse - using only Bloom to show it or slogging through all of Winx changing their wings. Those parts were pretty dreadful.

The Sophix and Lovix transformations suffer from the opposite where there is no transformation at all. The Believix outfits and wings just change and it is underwhelming. They could have been a little more creative with that without turning it into a full-blown transformation even though that wouldn’t have bared down on the screen time too much since they only transformed once in Sophix and once in Lovix. But I guess that’s why they didn’t bother with creating actual sequences for these two subtransformations.

Sophix was fine. The outfits were fresh and the new powers they gained were decent. They even got to use them more than once. I think the writers undermined the very concept of Sophix a little by not taking into account what they stated in the beginning of that mini arc - that Sophix will make them one with nature. That was later implicitly contradicted and I was a little disappointed by that fact. Not to mention that Flora did not differ from the others in any way even though Sophix was a nature transformation and should have resonated even better with her than it did with the rest. But generally, it wasn’t half bad.