Winx Club-What happened to Tune and Digit?

SPOILER WARNING FOR WINX CLUB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tis the age old question.(Age old= Since 2013)
What happened to Tune and Digit?
These two pixies were supporting characters in the Italian cartoon Winx Club from their first appearance in the first episode of season 2. After the pixies disappeared from the series for the majority of seasons 4 and 5, most of the pixies returned for the rest of the series. Tune, Pixie of Etiquette and Digit, Pixie of Nanotechnology were missing.
And in their place were imposters!

These are those imposters.

Cherie and Caramel appeared alongside the main group of pixies in season 6. They are presented as the bonded pixies of Musa and Tecna respectively and all the main characters act as if they had been there all along. The viewer however knows something is wrong.
Where did these two imposters come from?
What have they done with Tune and Digit?

Okay, So in all seriousness let's talk about why Rainbow (or Nick) may have chosen to switch the Pixies before we get into all the conspiracy theories I've made up on the topic.
Cherie and Cara first appeared as main characters of the Winx Club spinoff series PopPixie. Tune and Digit were characters in this series too (although they changed Digit's gender and Tune is now the Pixie of vocal power for some reason for some reason). The only logical reason I can think of for switching Tune and Digit for Cherie and Cara is to promote PopPixie. Of course they could have included Cara and Cherie as bonded Pixies for the two fairies predominantly  featured in the series that don't have Pixies yet; I'm talking of Daphne and Roxy. Fans have been speculating about Roxy's Pixie literally before she even appeared in the show so it would make loads more sense to introduce one of these two as her's instead of replacing two exsisting Pixies for no reason.

First let's talk about Pop Pixie. The spinoff takes place in Pixie villiage and features various Pixie characters from Winx club. However none of the Fairy characters are ever mentioned in the series so it is safe to assume PopPixie at least takes place before Winx Club season 2 (when the Pixies first appeared). This would also explain the changes to certain character's personalities, especially Tune.

So what happened?
Well for one thing this show is not very good with continuity. There are several instances in the series where events are retconned or simply ignored for the sake of continuity. This is especially true in the series co-produced with Nick since they are...Let's be honest, pretty sh!t at writing a coherant story. Now you could just say that Cara and Cherie are just relics of a time when Nick had a say in the story of Winx Club and a lasting reminder to never let the people at Nick tell you how to write your series, however that's not why you clicked on this blog post is it?

Time for some Crack Pot Conspiracy theories!
Pixies want to bond with fairies. When they learn the last fairy of earth is coming to althea, they are all super excited. Perhaps Cara and Cherie grew jealous of Tune and Digit and decided to take their place. But how?
Time Travel!
So it's not like Tune and Digit disapear completly after Cherie and Cara's indroduction; they can be seen in the background in some episodes so they definately still exist. So something must have happened between season 4 and 6 to create the switcheroo. As mentioned earlier from season 4 onwards the show's canon gets rather... confused.
For one thing the Nabu dies in season 4 and then appears in the second movie which is supposed to take place after. In the same movie the Winx use their believix powers despite the events of season 4 implying they could only be used on earth. The circumstances of Daphne's "death" are changed completely in season 5 for the conveniance of the story.  So here's my theory, all the messed up canon from season 4 is caused my Cara and Cherie travelling back and forth in time trying to create a world where they are able to take Tune and Digit's places.

Attempt 1 
So they went back in time for the first time at the end of season 4. They did it on a whim so they ended up making several random, haphazard changes, creating a world where Nabu never died, Roxy never goes to Alfea, Love&Pet never happened, Helia never cut his hair, the Trix either never got captured after the end of season 3 or escaped very soon after and the Winx continue using believix after leaving earth. Unfortunately (for Cara and Cherie) even after all these changes, Tune and Digit still found their way to their destined fairies. C and C decide to change everything back to normal and try again...
Attempt 2
Next C and C decided to go back and prevent the pixies from ever meeting the winx by stopping them from being captured by Lord Darkar in season 2. This created the world season 5 takes place in, where the Pixies are never seen or mentioned once. Lord Darkar had an important role in the destruction of domino and Daphne's "death" so the changes C and C make are what caused the changes to the canon in season 5.
Attempt 3
This time C and C need to find a way to get close to their targets. With Tune and Digit out of the way, C and C are free to bond with Musa and Tecna. The other Pixies end up meeting with their destined fairies without any problems and know one except C and C know how hard they worked to create a universe where they can be the lucky Pixies to get a bonded fairy.

So yeah it's a bit of a long shot and this theory is really just for fun but... I don't trust Cara and Cherie, they are clearly up to something.
Feel free to share your own crack pot theories in the comments!

Tangled - How Did the Tear Work? Random Theory

Note: Serious spoilers for Tangled's ending. I'm not even joking here. Just... all the spoilers.

In Tangled, the only magic seems to be magical healing hair. But at the end Rapunzel revives Flynn by a tear...

So, how does that even work?

One idea often expressed is that the tear was the drop of sunlight from the start of the movie, but I don't like that theory. The reason is because at the start, the drop of sunlight was yellow, whereas the tear that revives Eugene is clear.

Not that sunlight comes down in drops anyway. It's either particles or waves.

But if it isn't the drop of sunlight, what could it be?

The best way to consider this is by looking at magic. The magic in Tangled seems to be almost a form of energy that is passed from one living being to another. Exactly how this happens I'm not quite sure yet, but any way you go about it, when Rapunzel's hair gets cut off, there's a load of magical energy in her body looking for an outlet, since it can't travel down her hair follicles any more. The closest place that the energy could be used is in the eyes, and as she cried, she used the energy to revive Flynn. After all, it's never stated that she couldn't revive with her hair, just that she only used it for age reversal and healing.

I wonder what would have happened if she hadn't used the tear to revive Flynn though? Reasonably, you could say that it could have overloaded somewhere in her body unless she could let it out some other way.

Considering that... I'm out. Merry Christmas or whatever you celebrate! I'll try to think of a more Christmas related topic for next week.

Kat.

Random Theory - Is Magic Really in the Blood? (Harry Potter)

One of the main themes in Harry Potter is the idea that people describe magical linage as being in the blood. People who have two wizarding parents are considered 'Pureblood', one wizarding, one muggleborn or muggle considered 'Halfblood and... well, lets not go into the rather rude insult for muggleborns, shall we?

So, we can assume that magic is part of the genetic code, partly because that's how you make a human: by getting a load of human DNA together and using it (hopefully with the right amount, otherwise things start to go wrong).

The easiest idea is to have magic just be a single set of genes. You have magic or you don't have magic. Sorted.

But would it be dominant or recessive?

Probably recessive actually. The reason being that there are squibs and muggleborns. Squibs are born to magical parents, but don't use magic themselves (as you probably know, and no, Kwikspell doesn't help). If magic was dominant, it'd still be possible to have squibs, but they'd be a lot rarer, and almost non-existent in pureblood households, since most purebloods would have double 'magic genes' and so would be completely unable to produce squibs with each other.

But squibs are rare, you may say. And you may say that means that squibs aren't proof of it being a recessive gene. So we'll look at muggleborns instead.

Muggleborns are born to non-magical parents. This means that the 'magic gene' can't be dominant, since if either parents had one of the genes to pass down to the child, they would be magic, and as such, their child wouldn't be considered muggleborn. As the gene for the muggleborn had to come from somewhere, the only way it works is for it to be a recessive gene.

Now for the other idea about magic being genetic: there's more than one gene which controls magic.

Why are there superior wizards, like Dumbledore? If magic is just a case of having the right genes, then why aren't all wizards exactly the same in skill at magic.

You might argue that it's a case of practice, and part of that certainly is true. After all, it's implied that they have to practice spells a lot to get them right, and that's part of the reason they have Hogwarts and the ilk to practice and improve.

However, that doesn't correlate with the idea that Hermione, in the first movie, had her feather up and flying around all over the place, whilst others were still struggling to get it off the desk. On her first time doing magic, no less. Furthermore, it's indicated in Prisoner of Azkaban that young teenagers don't have the magic resources for Patronuses, but we can all see Harry gallivanting around with his stag (which is not a goat).

Looking at skin colour, there's multiple genes that control it, but lets focus on just one, since I'm no biologist, and I don't want this to require an A-level to understand. I'm getting this information from Wikipedia, so it might not be the most correct, but it's what I can understand. The MC1R gene causes pheomelanin and eumenlanin to be produced, and someone with different amounts of them would have a different skin tone.

Getting back to Harry Potter, if there was a second magical gene, similar to the MC1R gene, then different amounts of chemical would be produced by each person, meaning that they'd have varying amounts of magical resources. What would change with practice would be the amount of magical resource required for a spell. What would be genetic would be the amount of magical resources your body produced in the first place, with people like Harry, Hermione and Lily having larger amounts of the magic proteins due to their genes, and people like Neville having much less, requiring more practice to reduce the magical resources required for spells.

Furthermore, you could have high amounts of this magic protein, and still not be magical if you didn't have the original gene for being able to control the protein, only for your kids to be magically strong and get to go to Hogwarts.

Meanwhile, I'll just wait for my letter to come by owl post (after all, there must have been some clerical errors forming from the Battle of Hogwarts... they just haven't realised that I was meant to be a wizard yet...)

Kat.