Fate: The Winx Saga Boss Looks Ahead To Potential Season 3, Including Whether [Spoiler] Is Really Gone

As they await Netflix's decision about a Season 3 renewal, fans of Fate: The Winx Saga are hanging their hopes on a single word from fairy fatale Bloom Peters: "...Mom?"

That's how the supernatural drama ended its second season, with Abigail Cowen's character crossing into the Realm of Darkness and encountering a woman she believes (or perhaps just assumes) is her mother, the same woman who placed Bloom in stasis as a baby 1,000 years ago. (Yeah, we're still wrapping out heads around that one, too.)

TVLine previously caught up with the show's stars for their reactions to the finale's biggest moments (click here for that interview), and now we're picking showrunner Brian Young's brain to find out how the events of the finale will shape a potential third season.

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Young can't say anything about Bloom's mother at the moment (mostly because there's nothing to tell), but her home sweet home is another matter.

"The Real of Darkness is going to have a bit of a backstory," he says, adding that Fate is going to "borrow from the original source material without doing it verbatim. Things will tie back into the Winx Club universe. This show is inspired by that."

With both Miss Dowling and Rosalind out of the running (R.I.P., queens!), who will step up and become Alfea's new headmistress? Or perhaps headmaster?

"That's going to the mystery of Season 3," Young says. "That will be a fun piece of casting that we'll get to have. Silva's already still there, but he's a specialist, and we probably need a fairy for our fairy school. That'll be a question mark for us moving forward."

Regardless of whether Aisha and Grey are destined to end up happily ever after, one thing's for certain: "Their story's not over."

"I'm biased because I love Brandon Grace, the actor who plays Grey," Young says. "He did such an amazing job and is just a lovely person all around. Aisha deserves happiness, she deserves love. The question is what does that love look like for her. She opened herself up to him, and obviously there was an obfuscation of the truth on his part. We're going to keep exploring their relationship and see what iteration of it takes."

Speaking of this complicated couple, Young says that both actors — Grace and Precious Mustapha — deserve a shoutout for always being game to swim "in this little river near a lake in Ireland. It's so cold, but they make it look so easy. I feel terrible for them."

"Musa's powers are more internal, which is frustrating for her as someone who watches her friends get to use their powers externally," Young says of Musa's struggle in Season 2. "And it's frustrating for her to feel like she's not making an impact. Musa is a dancer in our series, so she's already a physical person. What if she got to use her body and feel like she has a way to affect change physically, instead of just emotionally and mentally? Shutting off a part of yourself, who you are, is only a temporary fix."

Looking to the future, Young acknowledges that Musa will "need to have a reckoning with who she is as a fairy and who she wants to become."

"We were always going to bring Flora into the show in Season 2," Young says of the popular character's delayed entrance. "Flora was always going to be in this world and on the show, knowing that she's such a fan favorite. The trick with Flora was making sure "she came in as a breath of fresh air, so that whatever she went through would actually happen on camera, rather than introducing some tragic backstory from years beforehand."

But it isn't Flora's present we're concerned about at the moment. By drawing the scrapers to her in the finale, she endured unspeakable pain, and she'll need time to fully heal.

"We call her Fearless Flora this season," Young says. "So what's going to happen when she does have some trauma to deal with? When you've built your identity around being this fearless person who always has their s–t together, what happens when you suddenly don't anymore? How does that affect your identity?"

Beatrix said she would do whatever it takes to survive, but that does that include coming back from the dead? If the Shadow's visit to her grave in the finale is to be believed, then yes!

"Dowling said that life must be respected but so must death, so no matter what happens, there will always be consequences," Young teases. "And the Shadow does have that ability, so it would be surprising to me if he didn't use it from time to time."