Hi! I'm not sire you appreciate questions like this but I fugured I would ask. Do you think Fey are immortal, or simply long-lived? What about Diaval, who looks the same when Aurora is a baby and an adult? And I was thinking (and immediately felt sad) that Aurora is mortal, so one day Maleficent will see her age and die, while she remains alive forever or almost.

I'm not sure where I was going with this, but I'd like to know what you think.

I love questions like these.

Clearly I am not Linda Woolverton, but canon does imply* that the Dark Fey are not immortal. They age, reproduce, and, inevitably, die. Though most of their deaths are not natural, clearly young fey grow to adult fey, where their aging process seems to stall out (if Maleficent is any indication), and, if they live long enough, become elders. How old the elders actually are, what constitutes "only a few generations ago," and the like are definitely up for debate, but we know Maleficent didn't really age between her ~twenties and Aurora's twenties, so it's safe to say her aging is significantly delayed. That - at least from a monster nerd perspective - implies that she'll get a couple extra decades-to-centuries on her dial (emphasis on centuries), but Diaval is a strange case. As @of-the-moors has said before, Diaval probably should've died when Aurora was still a kid. He was an adult raven when Maleficent rescued him. The common raven's lifespan is generally ten to fifteen years in the wild. And ravens age in the wild. Diaval was the same age when Aurora was born that he was when she was awoken from the curse. Though he looks a bit older in MoE, could it really be said to be that much? He's certainly had his lifespan extended (nearly double, already, what it would've been in the wild). That likely implies Maleficent's power is tied to him (y'know, because her losing her power didn't make him human as opposed to a raven -- which probably does mean that he sees himself as a man, now, as opposed to a bird, but that's a thing for another conversation). Diaval will age at that slowed rate for as long as Maleficent wants him to, I'd imagine (or as long as he wants to? If he asks?). I'm gonna cite @of-the-moors again, tbh; she did it right in Phoenix. They will, unfortunately, very likely live to see their daughter grow old and die. But they will also get to see her have children, and her children have children, etc, becoming the protectors of the fey as well as Aurora's....formerly psychopathic and genocidal bloodline.

(I really think this won't end well, now that I say this out loud. Because Aurora had Crazy alleles in her dad and her grandfather, and Philip's got em in his mother, so that's 3/4ths crazy bottled in their kids. Somebody's gonna snap eventually.)

This is a whole can of worms, isn't it? tl;dr - canon says they live a long time. Everything beyond Maleval's current agelessness is speculation. Also, I led myself down a dangerous road. And now I think I have to plot some things.

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