I'm starting to think becoming a fairy was "cut content" at the last minute.
The fairy seedling you plant blossoms into the plant you're given in a bell jar after becoming a fairy, and is otherwise never available as a real plant, ever. You can only plant one again to summon mother nature. It really seems like there was meant to be a grow-this-plant-to-get-this-plant-to-summon-mother-nature quest or something. Some of the fables also seem to be designed to ease you into some stuff fairies might do.
After becoming a fairy though I've been pleasantly surprised at their gameplay loop, until you get several later level skills it's actually pretty engaging to have to go find ways to get emotional force. Granted a lot of it is still very overpowered (fairy houses are ridiculous, using the springs to get force back whenever you want is crazy OP, the teleport stone is INSANE and skips TENS of HOURS of gameplay...), but as a modder...uh, I'm just rebalancing all that myself lol.
