Maleficent (Knights of Grimm)

Maleficent, originally called Selene when transformed or under certain other circumstances, and is Ash's mother. She is was originally the daughter of Queen Titania and King Oberon, and the younger sister of Queen Lurline who was consumed by her own jealousy toward her older sister. Maleficent is considered the most dangerous and feared villain, such that invoking her name strikes fear and terror in people's hearts. She is also the aunt of Princess Ozma.

Maleficent is based on the Wicked Fairy from the fairytale, "Sleeping Beauty", and on the character of the same name from the Disney film, Sleeping Beauty. She is also an allusion to the evil fairy from the fairytale "Beauty and the Beast" and Princess Luna from My Little Pony, Friendship is Magic, along with Lucifer from Paradise Lost.

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The Story of the Two Royal Sisters
Princess Selene was born as the second child of King Oberon and Queen Titania. She took after her father more than her mother, and always had a complex relationship with Titania. Eventually her parents died fighting against the Nothing, when she was young, thereby granting the throne to the sisters. The Fairy Godmother took them in and raised them, while their governmental responsibilities delegated to the Fairy Council until they came of age. Every morning, Lurline would raise the sun, and every evening, Selene raise the moon.

Together, they kept the balance perfectly. However, as time went on, Selene grew jealous: all in the realms would be awake to enjoy the day and love, admire, and appreciate Lurline's work, but would always "shun" Selene's night by sleeping through it, and the more the other fairies became jealous and resented her. Feeling hurt and betrayed, her bitterness "transformed her into a wicked fairy of darkness: Maleficent."

After transforming into Maleficent, the evil fairy attempted to bring about eternal night and assumed the sole rulership of Elphame. Selene and her supporters rebelled against Lurline in Elphame. But he was not strong enough, and the elder sister reluctantly banished her and was thrown down to a lower realm, Grimmhollow, taking responsibility for both sun and moon, maintaining harmony in the Realms. Maleficent then made a plan to take over the fairy tale world, and eventually all the realms.

Sleeping Beauty
After not being invited to a christening, she curses the infant Princess Aurora to "prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die" before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday. However, Merryweather was able to soften the curse by changing it from death to enchanted sleep that will only last until True Love's kiss. The night when Aurora returned to her father's castle, the moment Aurora was alone, she seized the chance to lure her into touching a spindle of a spinning wheel. Despite the efforts of the three good fairies, she succeeded in fulfilling her curse. She then proceeded to trap Prince Phillip and lock him in her dungeon. However, the three good fairies free Phillip after she left him.

Upon learning of this from her pet raven, who got turned to stone in the process by Merryweather, she tried to stop him with a series of lightning bolts, but failed. She went as far as conjuring a forest of thorns, but Phillip easily cut his way to the gate. With no other choice, she flew to the gate of King Stefan's castle and turned into a huge dragon to battle the prince herself. Despite pushing Phillip to the edge of a cliff and making him lose his shield, Phillip threw his Sword of Truth, which was blessed by the three good fairies' magic, and struck Maleficent directly in the heart, she screams in pain then falls off the cliff. All that was left of her was a black and purple mess on the ground, with the sword still embedded in it as it blackens.