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disregardcanon · 10 months

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okay so i don’t WANT a locked tomb au for the owl house, but hoo boy does my brain try to lump all my most recent fixations together. so, a few details

1. hunter and belos are from the eighth house. you know, the one that sucks the life force out of cavaliers just cuz. you’ll never guess who’s the cavalier here.

2. lilith is one of the first lyctors. her cav killed herself so that lilith would HAVE to ascend, and while it eats lilith up inside, she knows it was for the best. (all of the rest of the necros have gone through with it and ascended now). except, of course, eda. who’s still clutching raine’s living hand like a lifeline, and who lilith has heard whispering about... packing up with raine and fleeing the houses entirely.

so lilith kills raine, and offers eda the choice to either lose them entirely or ascend. and it’s.... it’s fucking awful. but what other choice is there now? there’s just ways to numb the pain and to try to cling to the sister that she loves so dearly, even after everything that lily did to her.

3. gus is the necro from the fourth, which is why he and mattholomule are so incomprehensibly young. neither of them were really supposed to be there. gus had older cousins; his dad wasn’t even in charge of the fourth until he was five or so! but his dad’s older siblings died and then his cousins died and suddenly, gus is the necromatic heir and he’s not a kid anymore he’s a necro with a cav and battle experience and he doesn’t know how to deal with any of it. matt’s older brother, steve, was the cav to gus’s last older, necromatic cousin.

it’s supposed to be an honor, serving with the heir to the house, but with how many of them have dropped dead in the past year, it’s hard for matty to think of it as anything but a death sentence. (steve thought he’d be the first cav of this generation to see an heir through to proper adulthood... but he wasn’t. he barely saw matt through cav training before he was blown up trying to protect the necro that didn’t make it out anyway)

but gus is... nice. and they share the same interests, and he isn’t mean to matt about not being tough or strong or old enough. gus keeps promising him that he’s not going to get treated like bria, the absolutely AWFUL necro he trained with before gus came of age and they met up and meshed instead.

and they both uphold that as well as they can as thirteen year old boys. but they’re still a necro and cav, and that dynamic is doomed from the start.

4. ed and em are coronabeth and ianthe from the third. they are the richest and most influential house. ed isn’t a necromancer, just like coronabeth. amity is the younger, cavless necro sister who their mother forces to tag along because “the emperor requested our heir and our cavalier primary! there’s NO reason that amity couldn’t learn a thing or two to bring back, directly, to the third house. right, amity dear?”

amity is tired of living in her siblings’ shadows and is going to learn what she can and sabotage them.

5. willow is something approximating ACTUAL dulcinea from the seventh house, and in true seventh fashion, she’s dying. she’s been dying since she was born, basically. she’s very strong but tries to restrain herself from overuse of her powers to preserve her own life and that of others. she thinks that thalergy is a better source than thanergy and is running experiments to see if she positively affect plants.

boscha is her cav because boscha is The Best In Their Age Cohort TM but they do not, on any level, get along. boscha thinks that she’s weak and that she can bully willow into being a “better” necro or at least just fucking dying already. it’s... ugly. willow has the social power in the relationship and is VERY powerful at necromancy, but with her kind disposition and lack of inclination to use those powers... oof.

6. luz isn’t a necro, and she isn’t a cav... she’s a dav’s caughter when her mom gets called away with her necro, the current master warden of the sixth house.

“luz, this is my job.”

“but you could get hurt!”

her mother sighs. “which is my job, mija.”

“you’re a sixth cav!” luz protests, “you weren’t even supposed to see combat! ever!” camilla noceda learned everything that she possibly could so that she could fight her way into the program and offered Outside Knowledge TM to the scholars, which combined with her abilities and ties to the warden are the only things keeping her position stable.

(luz’s mother hates that she’s taken it up as well, but she can’t really blame her. luz is SO clever and so creative, but so much of the sixth house is dedicated to the parts of academia that are difficult for her. maintaining her position requires something like this... which doesn’t make it less painful to her mother.)

“you can’t leave me here,” luz begs. her mother is the only person who has ever been kind to her. as a teenage refugee from the world outside the houses, THIS camilla was basically only able to get clearance to stay by becoming a cavalier. and she did, but luz is strange and impulsive and silly and only HALF house, and it makes it so that even though her life should be easier than her mother’s... it isn’t.

so luz stows away on the ship to try to protect her mom from Whatever the Fuck Lyctorhood Looks Like, and if not at least go to live with her. the emperor is in charge of everything. he can make some room for a lyctor’s DAUGHTER

her mother doesn’t find out about her stowing away until they’re already at caanan house, and by that point, it’s too late to send someone back.

her mother tries to misdirect her and keep her out of whatever’s happening, luz ends up doing research with a group of friends who come very close to lyctorhood... and figuring out that it’s not something anyone... ANYONE... should actually want.

the gang who decide LyctorHood Is Bad DON’T DO IT PLEASE: hunter who would like not to get literally eaten on top of the things that his uncle already puts him through, willow who thinks that’s an awful thing to do to a person and has never wanted the relationship she has to have with bosha, amity who at this point is more invested in making sure that her siblings don’t Become Saints more than any issue of morality, luz who is doing her research and trying to talk her mom into Not Doing That WHAT THE FUCK, and then gus and matt who are thirteen and just don’t want to die, dear god.

willow and hunter keep sneaking away from their partners who keep trying to Do More Of This Nonsense and then end up... accidentally doing More Of This Nonsense. but like. together and consensually. (hunter: i’m already a battery! i don’t mind being one for you instead <3 willow: oh god oh no oh SHIT)

luz and amity Accidentally a cavnecro bond, but they refuse to do any of the tests because luz has seen how much it’s been taking out of her mom and amity wants to beat her siblings, but god she’s not THAT desperate. she kinda likes this perky little swordwielding weirdo, and they both have a very specific fantasy series of books that they like in addition to studying necrocav things. (yes, there is a good witch azura in the nine houses. because i say so!)

the people cytherea kills: both of the early twenties girls from the second, em’s cav from third, matt while he and gus are separated, the real grownups from the fifth, camilla and the warden from the sixth (rip but this is not a story with parents). cytherea and her cav stand ins are from the ninth here. I PRAY THE TOMB STAYS LOCKED FOREVER BITCH (i had my fingers crossed)

when we get to the end and know what’s going on, kinda, we get one full lyctor. this combo comes from... belos and boscha. they each realized their partner was avoiding them to work together. and NEITHER of them were giving up on this dream. so. uh. in the end belos kills boscha for lyctorhood and to join cytherea’s Whatever She Was Doing. and boscha was happier with that solution than she EVER was with willow’s “please stop trying to die for me”.

with em’s cav dead already, even if she wanted to go full ianthe, she couldn’t.... except ed offers, and em goes WHAT THE FUCK and then. they do not do that. (hunter does though. he throws himself on a sword to give his life force to willow full griddlehark style).

willow ends up lobotomizing herself enough to keep hunter from getting destroyed, but it puts her at a serious disadvantage. while she doesn’t owe belos any favors because he didn’t help, he still hates her for “stealing” hunter and also completing his feat and diluting the credit that he gets and the attention.

while belos and willow are carted off by OG lyctors and jod himself, the rest of the gang are captured by the blood of eden. ed decides to do a corona and join up, as is his right as the non-necromatic twin forced to pretend about it. gus isn’t either old enough or patriotic enough to be judith deuteros wholesale, but he IS a deeply powerful necromancer who’s traumatized by the loss of his cav, his new friends, imprisonment and *gestures to everything*. plus, his mind, necromancy, and maybe a resurrection beast are all attacking him. so. that’s FUN

luz and amity at least get off easier than cam and pal do in canon because they are in their own bodies and luz doesn’t have to go on a Skull Hunt TM, but it’s still not great for them being POWs.

while ed is mainly Being Corona, he isn’t fully on that side. he’s continuing to play along that amity is a fellow cav and that em and gus are the only necromancers that the blood of eden has in its possession. they want a LYCTOR to study, but they aren’t getting one.

probably. at least not now.

7. not entirely sure how it would work because this is a half-baked textpost au but i feel like the collector as jod, a more feral and hurting version of king as alecto and bby normal king as nona would work... very very well. ESPECIALLY with lumity in their own bodies and raine! in eda’s body baby sitting a very confused little king... in willow park’s body.

willow and hunter are holding hands in a river bubble. it’s fine!

#a journey through my drafts #toh aus #tlt #tlt aus #toh #the hexsquad #huntlow #lumity #raeda #gustholomule

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bluefox4 · 2 years

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The Coven System: Divide and Conquer

With season 2b starting up again on March 19th, I figure now was as good a time to talk about the sort of brilliance of the coven system as a means to keep rebellion from truly taking foot in the Boiling Isles. Because it is good. You divide people up into groups and they will do the work for you of keeping themselves in their boxes.

1. How the track system in the schools is key to dividing witches up early

Before Luz showed up at Hexside in The First Day Viney, Jerbo, and Barcus were most likely doomed to being outcasts. They were in the detention track, not being allowed to go out and socialize with their peers all because they wanted to study two tracks of magic instead of just one like a good witchling is supposed to.

They might still be doomed to being wild witches with the current system since unless they make it into the Emperor’s Coven, they are going to be forced to either join one coven or be wild witches. And given how they preferred the detention track to being forced to chose one track over another, becoming wild witches was the most likely future for them.

And I’m guessing, at other schools instead of just quietly shoving them somewhere hidden they probably would have been reported to the Emperor’s Coven already. After all, that seemed to have been why Bump shoved Luz into the detention track during The First Day, not because she was going to stay there forever but because he didn’t want the inspector to see Luz trying to multitrack. That was Bump’s main concern, someone from the Emperor’s Coven finding out that students were studying more than one type of magic. The fact that the school uniforms have to be color coded for tracks speaks volumes. When Luz first arrived, she had a school uniform that was gray showing that she hadn’t chosen a track yet. And she has to pick one on her first day. She had to chose one track to study on her very first day. Maybe while young witches are in the baby classes they are allowed to watch the older students to start trying to pick out which track that they would like. But do you remember being a kid? And sometimes those choices changed frequently? Yeah that is a lot of pressure. But somehow Hexside only had three students in the Detention Track before Luz arrived. So forcing a choice seems to work. Or maybe while in the Baby Classes the teachers note strong suits for students and give suggestions for tracks that would be good for them? Gus was skipped ahead after all, possibly because he showed great talent for illusion magic already.

Dividing them up early, forces students to not second guess the track that they are learning. In schools working as intended this system keeps students in their one track. Problem students are either reported to the Emperor’s Coven, expelled, or other disciplinary actions are taken to try to course correct them into thinking like they are supposed to. Raine was a teacher and in Eda’s Requiem when talking about recruitment into covens said, “Anyone who refused to fall in line disappeared.” I’m assuming that some of those people were probably their students. Students that refused to divide up into one track or wanted to study several tracks. Students that had possibly been noted by various teachers as either having a hard time choosing a track or had been placed in something like the detention track at Hexside. The schools serve the purpose of getting students to comply with the system when they are young enough to not question it and marking those that don’t fall in line.

Hexside is only sort of working as intended. Most of the students chose a single track. Sometimes if it is noticed that a student is better at another track (example: Willow) they’ll be transferred. But this is the school that produced Eda. In Principal Bump’s own words he’s “not a stooge” so he just quietly moves students into the Detention Track. I think there is some evidence that he knows about the corridors given that he simply got Eda’s picture from in there with a little flick of magic, so he might have been aware of the Detention Track kids still studying magic since he assigned the teacher that regularly fell asleep to watch them. He is in that generation that could probably remember before coven tracks were a thing, since Eda and Lilith are in their forties and he was their school principal then. He is probably sympathetic towards students that don’t want to be boxed in because he didn’t have to be boxed in once upon a time. He was mostly likely a teen when Belos rose to power, since in Adventures in the Elements the brochure for Hexside has a teen that looks like Bump in from conquering their rival school in Abomination pink. But for whatever reason, Bump has a soft spot for the troublemakers. Which means that Hexside isn’t working fully as intended.

I’m guessing that students aren’t supposed to question if the track that they are in is right for them. Willow was only transferred because Bump saw that she would truly bloom in the plant track and not the abomination track. Students aren’t supposed to second guess if they should have studied another track like Gus was doing in Through the Looking Glass Ruins. Gus was probably a model student before Luz entered the picture: in one track, skipped up a few years, and happy in the illusion track. Until Luz, I don’t think Gus would have questioned if illusion magic was right for him. But because of the influence that Luz has had he realizes that he isn’t just limited to illusion magic anymore. She is multitracking, and there are three other students that are also multitracking. Looking at his options is something that he can do at Hexside now. Which is not how the system is supposed to work.

And seeing as season 2b is going to have Hexside play a plot role, I think Bump and the Multitrackers might be in danger. There was only so long that letting witches multitrack was going to work before someone reported them. Bump was probably fine with Luz being seen in a Multitrack uniform at the castle since he could say well she’s human, she can’t do magic, she is only going to be in the Boiling Isles for so long. Viney, Jerbo, and Barcus weren’t on that field trip, I double checked. But witches that are multitracking, that’s another matter entirely. That is something that the school system isn’t supposed to encourage, let alone allow.

Hexside’s multitrackers are in trouble, guys.

2. The Glandus kids’s attitude about illusion magic is just a small microcosm of the system working as intended

Several posts since the airing of Through the Looking Glass Ruins have pointed out why the Glandus kids weren’t right about illusion magic being weak and useless along with how that is probably not the wider view within witch society. If it was considered weak the Blights wouldn’t let any of their children, let alone two of them, study that track; they care too much about their imagine to allow their kids to be associated with weak magic users so if illusion magic was weak they wouldn’t have let their kids study it. It is also one of the main nine tracks. So, the Glandus kids’ saying that illusion magic is useless is easy to disprove. But what I’m here for is that its a great example of how the divide and conquer part is working out great for Emperor Belos.

As I said, that schools are supposed to get them started on seeing one track as their only option. Good little witchlings chose a track and stick to it. So, for the kids that the system works as intended for they can’t doubt their choice. Otherwise you get kids like Gus who gets stuck in a loop (even if it was for a short time) about this track seems cool and this one is useful for that and that track could have fixed this issue that way. From what I can tell, Glandus works how it is supposed to. Bria, Gavin, and Angmar are confident in their chosen tracks and their tracks fit well with Glandus’s prevailing attitude that the strong are in charge with magic tracks that can be used for physical strength over conning. Even when Gus is beating them, Bria keeps saying that its “just” illusions. She can’t understand how illusion magic could be beating her since she has convinced herself that it is a useless track.

And that, convincing themselves that some tracks are useless is what Belos wants. He wants witches to dismiss other tracks. He wants them to pit themselves against each other. Why? Because if witches divide themselves its easier for them to be controlled by him. They won’t be able to work together, or at least it will be harder for them to start working together. They keep to their own groups or those with magic that is similar enough to their own group. Bria, Gavin, and Angmar all use their magic in a pretty physical sense: brute strength. Gus using conning and psychological warfare was something that they didn’t have a counter for. They didn’t have anyone to combat the illusions for them, or see through them.

This attitude that they had about illusion magic was probably also so that they wouldn’t regret their own choice in magic track. Find a track that is different than your own, and start naming all the bad things about. What are the flaws of that track? What are the negative stereotypes for it? I’m betting that all of the tracks have something that can be pointed at for that. Your less likely to question your choice if you have come up with all the problems or negative stereotypes that another track has.

The conflict between Gus and the three Glandus kids was a small example of what happens when groups divide themselves into similar magic types that makes it easy for another magic to counter and take them out. Which is something that keeps rebel groups from forming and being effective.

3. Why the BATTs were doomed

As much as I love Raine and the BATTs you have to admit that if Eda didn’t show up when she did, they would have been captured. They had no exit plan and the Emperor’s Coven showed how easy it was for them to counter their magic: put on sound canceling earmuffs. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that every coven has some easy counter measure that can be used against it.

The BATTs only having bards in it made it easy to counter them. When the trap was sprung to catch the spy there is a reason that two different types of magic were sent after them, so that if you could counter one of them you couldn’t simply counter the other the same way. Darius and Eberwolf were sent together to cover the other one’s weak point. Yes, Eda and Raine nearly took them down regardless, but Eda’s curse is also doing weird things to her magic, so it didn’t work like “just” bard magic.

So, why didn’t Raine recruit from other tracks? Or wild witches? Well, being the Head of the Bard Coven would make any wild witch distrust what Raine was selling. Even before being the head just being in a coven would make it so that they wouldn’t trust them. How about other tracks then? Well, how well would Raine know people in those other tracks. Could they trust that trying to recruit them to the cause wouldn’t just get them caught long before they could get more people rebelling? Raine only had three other people recruited before Eda. Katya, Derwin, and Amber were probably all students of Raine’s at one point or another. Katya had been thrown into the Conformatorium, and who knows how well the other two were fitting into the system. Raine probably knew them well enough to know that they could ask them to join the cause and not be reported. But people in other tracks? Probably not nearly as easy to get a read on them let alone try to recruit them.

But that left the group with an easy way to counter their magic when their enemy knew to be on the look out for them.

4. The Emperor’s Coven

With multitracking not being allowed in school and possibly getting students marked as being potential wild witches, doesn’t that mean that the Emperor’s Coven going to end up with a lot of recruits that will need to do a lot more learning to effectively use all types of magic? Yep, but that is still better for Emperor Belos than letting everyone learn all types of magic. He isn’t actually looking for skill, even if that is what it is billed as to the general population, he is looking for loyalty. Loyalty to turn on your own family if demanded to. Loyalty to blindly follow orders given to them. To not question if they are doing harm to others. To ignore any ethical dilemmas that might arise. To throw their own lives away if demanded. All for the glory of the Titan, for the Emperor.

Members of the Emperor’s Coven probably do get some classes after joining to learn at least the basics of the other tracks. And just having those basics will be enough to make it look like they are really skilled to those that don’t know what those tracks are truly capable of. Its a giant illusion of great skill by lack of knowledge of the other tracks. You have a few people who are skilled at multiple tracks like Lilith. But since the Coven Scouts all wear identical masked uniforms you can just switch out who is where and make it appear that they are all skilled in multiple tracks. The only ones that actually need to be skilled with more than one magic type are the ones that have unique looks or no mask.

But the skill itself? That’s not important to what the emperor needs. And if your loyalty comes into question, well he needs that to be proven. It doesn’t matter how skilled you are if you have divided loyalties. To get into the one coven that allows you to use all the magics, you have to be first and foremost loyal only to Emperor Belos and his cause. And if not, well he will toss you to the side without hesitation.

5. The Outgroups: Wild Witches and Powerless Witches

For the system to work, for people to be willing to join a coven in the first place, there has to be something worse than being limited to one coven. After all, the Emperor’s Coven being for those that are steadfastly loyal only to the Emperor means that in some of the other covens that there are more people out there like Raine, right? Why join a coven if you aren’t 100% loyal to the system? Because you don’t want to be labeled as one of the outcast groups.

Wild Witches and Powerless Witches are both of those. And Belos does a pretty good job of making it seem like the two go together after the failed petrifaction ceremony in Young Blood, Old Souls by saying that Eda was spared by the Titan but she lost all of her magic. He makes it so that the general population will think that by being a wild witch you will lose your magic eventually. You will have gone against the will of the Titan so much that the very thing that makes you a witch is taken away. And the general population doesn’t know the details of Eda’s curse. They don’t know that she lost her magic because of the curse not because of anything that the Titan or Belos did.

We have evidence that being powerless or being not that skilled makes it so that others look down on you. In I was a Teenage Abomination Willow is picked on and called half-a-witch because she was in a track that she sucked at. It took awhile for that prevailing view of her to fade even when she was in a track at she excelled at. In Separate Tides Eda doesn’t get the full advertised price for the bounty that she turned in. Part of that was probably revenge for things that Eda had done when she did have magic, but the guy knew he could get away with it because Eda didn’t have magic. Then in Eda’s Requiem the Coven Scout states that no one wants a powerless witch. Without magic a powerless witch is basically defenseless and their rights are only tentatively respected. Being powerless is probably the boogieman fear that all witches have. There is a reason that Basilisks were probably hunted to extinction long before Belos’s rise to power: their ability to drain magic from others.

If being a wild witch can lead one to becoming powerless, then of course your going to join a coven. And if you know a wild witch and care about them, of course your going to tip the Emperor’s Coven off about them since you don’t want them to lose their magic. They’ll thank you later when they can still do any magic, even if it’s just one track.

It also makes it so that any powerless witches will feel a debt to those that take them in or help them. If your born powerless, you can’t go to school, after all Hexside requires you to be able to do two spells to enroll and I’m betting that other schools have similar standards. That already has you at a disadvantage in society. And a lot of the technology that the Boiling Isles has probably runs on some assumption that magic is being used even if it is baby magic levels. Can someone truly powerless even use a scroll? I haven’t seen Luz use one that I can think of, though she has used a crystal ball.

And what would someone do when offered an out from that life? If being powerless all you have to look forward to is suffering, you’ll take whatever out you can.

TL;DR

Divide the covens so they can’t rely on each other. Make being divided seem better than the alternative. Let the people control themselves for you. Belos has it figured out.

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thorns-and-rosewings · 3 years

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Additional Owl House/ Gargoyles AU Info: OCs

Here we are with some more information regarding the AU, only this will time it will be focusing on the 3 OCs whose pics I posted a little while ago since I didn't think anyone wanted the bios jammed onto their pics.

Hope y'all think these are interesting. :)

-----Rhiannon Frostflame

Nicknames and Aliases: Rhyan or Rhya (Default nicknames) The Wyvern Witch, Ice Queen, The Best Healer on the Isles, Cruel and Fearless, Frozen Flame

Age: Roughly the same as Eda

Palisman: A Wyvern named Wisteria

Magic Specialty: Healing Magic, but is a master of Ice Magic and has created a unique spell of burning blue fire that inflicts awful frostbite and severe necrosis on anyone it comes into contact with...

Friends/Associates: Eda Clawthorne (Best friend and drinking buddy) Raine Whispers (A close friend who in spite of falling out of contact with, Rhiannon still holds them in high regards) Shaelyn Silverstone (Apprentice and Ward) Warden Wrath (Occasional Employer) Fiadh Stonespire (Grandmother figure/deceased)

Background: Rhiannon was born into one of the larger clans of the last name 'Stonespire' that still chose to follow the Gargoyle Way of communally raising their children and protecting their estate and other landholdings. They were also extremely prideful of their skilled members they contributed to the Construction Coven. From a young age, Rhiannon was considered strange due to her shunning of the clans expectations and rather developed an interest in becoming a member of the Healing Coven. Although in her youth she was particularly bad at anything involving healing, having turned several small animals inside out in her attempts to mend their injuries. Her lack of skill and stubborn pursuit of her dreams led her to be alienated from nearly all of the clan who began to treat her as an annoyance if not an embarrassment. The only individuals who showed her any affection were an older female Gargoyle named Fiadh, who Rhiannon viewed as her grandmother and Saoirse, the only rookery sister who cared about her and supported her goals.

Her fierce dedication to studying and mastering healing magics eventually paid off and she not only excelled, but grew to master every healing spell and even learned a myriad of techniques all aimed at helping others. Of course on the flip side of this, through her studies of how to heal she also learned how to inflict immense pain on others. Knowing to attack certain points where an opponent is weak in order to defeat them in a brawl, as it seemed to Rhiannon that most witches and demons had forgotten how to fight without using magic and thus a physical fight is something she can use to her advantage... And she got into fights A LOT.

When she finished her education and applied to the Healing Coven she found that she was denied membership due to her clan contacting the head of the Coven and warning him against letting her join due to her poor skills as a healer... As they had not paid attention to her enough to know of her improvement and eventual mastery of the art.

Denied her dream, humiliated by her so called clan and filled with an anger that could not be put into words, Rhiannon lost her temper and broke the jaw of the Coven Head and fled. Stating she was now going to live her life as a Wild Witch and never give a damn about anyone else ever again. She was promptly disowned by her clan, which was fine with her. She gave herself the last name of Frostflame after the spell she had created and has become synonymous with her very existence.

Personality: Rhiannon is a bit of a contradiction. At first she comes off as cold, calculating and selfish. She is extremely sarcastic and tends to believe that someone 'Can get away with anything, as long as they are useful to someone else.' Which is how she, as a Wild Witch, doesn't have a bounty on her head nor any warrents for her arrest. As she is a freelance healer whom people come to see when they either can't afford to go to the Healing Coven, or do not want there to be a record of the visit... But also members of both the Emperor's Coven and town guards bet on her in the underground fights and thus overlook that she is not in any coven... She is also not above blackmail and is currently holding a massive gambling debt over the head of Coven Head Darius. As further insurance to keep from being arrested or have the Covens forcing her to join.

However... If someone truly gets to know her, Rhiannon is a very devoted, kind hearted person who has been so burnt by the world she no longer desires to be a part of it. She has sympathy for those less fortunate than her and does genuinely wish to help the people who seek her out in need of help. She has an special soft spot in her heart for kids. Especially since in the depths of her ice cold heart she truly longs for a family. This is somewhat evident in how she took in Shaelyn and has done her best to watch out for the younger gargoyle. However her own bias's can be detrimental to the relationships she has... As she has repeatedly told Shaelyn to forget about finding out what happened to her family and missing memories. Arguing that if she forgot them there's probably a good reason for it. Which has led to a rift between her and her apprentice.

-----Shaelyn Silverstone

Nicknames and Aliases: Shae, (Default Nickname) Lyn-Lyn (From Luz)

Age: Roughly 15

Palisman: None at the moment

Magic Specialty: Is attending both the Plant track and the Oracle track in Hexside. As she has unusual visions... both while she is awake and in her sleep. These visions often warn of dark events yet to happen or strange unknown things from a past she cannot remember. While not being taught healing at Hexside, Shaelyn is receiving training in healing magics straight from her guardian Rhiannon. Due to the talent of her mentor, she doesn't believe she could learn more from the school in that subject. As for the plant track... She is in that to both hang out with her friend Willow but also to help with Rhiannons garden which tends to grow out of control more often than not. As well as helping maintain the health of the tree Rhiannon's house is currently sitting in...

Friends/Associates: Willow Park, Gus Porter and Luz Noceda (Best Friends) Rhiannon (Guardian)

Background: Little is known about Shaelyns past beyond her name. Try as she might the young Gargoyle cannot remember much of her life prior to her being found in the wrecked hull of a ship that was brought ashore by a bad storm. While she has 'Shadows of Memories' she cannot remember where exactly she was from or even the faces of her parents. Rhiannon found the girl when she was looking through the wreck and happened upon her buried underneath several heavy cargo boxes with a broken wing and a very bloody head wound. Rhiannon took her back to her home, deep in the woods and healed her. Upon realizing that the girl had no family and no memories and that she would be left in probably one of the orphanages on the Isles, Rhiannon took her in as her apprentice and Shae has been living with her for the last five years.

Although Shaelyn is in awe of her mentor and greatly admires and respects her, she often feels like a burden. Their relationship is not like that of a mother and daughter, but is probably closer to that of sisters. Or of an older sister attempting to be a mother to a younger sibling in the absence of any parents... Shae also has gone through several different means to try and find out what happened to her family... but her search has led to nothing but dead ends. It doesn't help that Rhiannon often tells her to let the subject of her family drop as she would not have forgotten them if they were close... And how she might not like what she finds if she ever does find anything.

Nonetheless, Rhiannon has done her best to take care of Shae and has enrolled her at Hexside, so she can learn other magics that Rhiannon cannot teach. It was here that Shaelyn came across the sight of Amity and Boscha bullying Willow... And using the other skills Rhyan has taught her, Shae started throwing punches and beat up both of the bullies and warned them to leave Willow alone lest they receive another beating... This was how she initially met Willow and later on Gus and the three formed a very close friendship. Some time later Luz would be introduced and Shae grows to be just as protective of her as she is of her other two friends.

Personality: Shaelyn is quite friendly and outgoing with her friends and is the first one to come to the defense of a kid that is getting bullied. Due to her training with Rhiannon she is actually pretty good at fighting physically... Unfortunately in earlier times this put Shae into direct conflict with Amity as she was often quite mean to Willow... Unaware of Amity's true nature, let alone the bullying she received from her family. Like her mentor, Shae can hold a grudge and has a long memory of people who wrong her and her friends... Only unlike Rhiannon she is more willing to give someone a second chance or allow them to make amends... This lets her and Amity to eventually become friends... Although she and Boscha will never get along and Shae will continue to administer black eyes whenever the other girl starts looking for a fight. But when it comes to complete strangers, Shaelyn can be very wary... As was evident when she and the others were looking at booths set up by the Covens for recruitment and she was approached by Hunter as the Golden Guard. Now Hunter, with his very lackluster social skills was attempting to just talk nicely and give Shae a few compliments... Unfortunately for him he came off as aloof and mocking her. This resulted in two punches to his helm and three into his ribs. The blows to the mask dented it so badly it became stuck and the blows to his ribs made it difficult to breathe... Resulting in him passing out and needing to be carried away by Steve.

Undoubtedly when she learns more about Hunter, she will be remorseful for kicking his ass.

-----Saoirse Fireglass

Nicknames: Saer (General Nickname) The Glass Maker, The Crystal Witch, Firebender and Wannabe-Matchmaker (From Rhiannon)

Age: Same as Rhiannon

Palisman: A unique serpent with four eyes and a golden moth shaped hood named Amaranth

Magic Specialty: Construction magic with the specialty of glassmaking and crystal working. She is also capable of using fire spells in a fight.

Friends/Associates: Rhiannon (Rookery sister and best friend) Eda Clawthorne (Friend) Lilith Clawthorne (Friend) Shaelyn (Niece-figure)

Background: Saoirse was born into the same clan and was even from the same clutch as Rhiannon, born with the family name of Stonespire. However unlike her Rookery sister, Saoirse was considered to be one of the most magically gifted gargoyles that had ever been born into the clan. She displayed immense talent in the construction track and was even able to master a very difficult branch of the track that dealt with glassmaking and crystal working. In spite of the heaps of praise and accolades she received amidst her family, she developed a close friendship with Rhyan and was always deeply off-put when she witnessed how she was ostracized by other members of their clan. Still upon completing her schooling she was quickly brought into the Construction Coven and was even taken under the wing of the Coven Head for a time.

But when Rhiannon was cast out from their clan, Saoirse was livid. One of the few times anyone could truly remember her getting angry. She was pretty much told by the clan leader that Rhiannon was a disgrace and that Saer was always special and brought a great deal of respect and admiration to their entire clan with her talent... so she needed to stop defending that lost soul and continue to move forward and possibly become the next Coven Head...

Saoirse formally cut ties with the clan right then and there.

She gave herself a new name and while still formally a member of the Construction Coven, she chose to renounce any Coven status she had an instead opened her own business. She did so with the blessing of the Coven Head, who remains her good friend to this day.

When it comes to her wayward Rookery sister, Saer deeply worries about Rhyan and would love to see her find a place in the world rather than trying to live outside it. Although she knows that the stubborn Wild Witch is unlikely to ever change her ways without reason...

Personality: Unlike Rhiannon, Saer is a bubbly, friendly and outgoing individual who always looks for the good in people... In fact she is probably one of the few people who believes there just might be some good inside the Emperor's heart. (When she voiced this Rhiannon laughed so hard she swallowed the cigarette she was smoking.) Due to this kind nature she has, Rhyan frequently worries about her being taken advantage of... Fortunately Saoirse also is quick witted and can pretty quickly tell if someone is trying to pull a fast one on her. She also has a weird gift for matchmaking, as she can just tell when two people are right for each other. It's something that Rhiannon frequently teases her about.

...Until she finds one stranger who seems to be just perfect for the Wild Witch...

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