So the fairy godmother’s Happily Ever After Potion works in a way that both you and your “true love” will be turned into “beauty divine” but one thing that is commonly mentioned (and asked) on almost every site including over on r/shrek and on the shrek 2 page on tvtropes. is things like “I would try it but I don’t have a true love” or “I would use it to find my love by seeing if anyone magically transformed”
Now this is where I am confused: I wonder, does the potion work like the “soulmate” belief where it magically finds the person for you and transforms them as well or does it work where if you have met someone and love them they will transform but if you haven’t it would only be you, I personally believe it is the latter seeing it worked on a mushroom (which I doubt loves anyone). but it might be the former. Who knows?
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Essentially it gives you a beautiful and comfortable yet temporary form until midnight. If you don’t kiss your true love by then, you will turn back. The fact a mushroom (A living but non-sapient organism) transforms suggests that it’s just you that transforms if you don’t have a true love (unless that mushroom also had one, but that’s just speculation).
Based on the mushroom, I think that it just transforms you (and whoever you’re in love with) into something beautiful.
If there’s no-one you’re in love with, it just turns you into something beautiful until midnight and then turn back.