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Any Company of Light headcanons you feel like sharing?

Boy, do I have headcanons, anon! Do I!

You can check these out if you haven't already - Marion & Griffin (&Oritel), height, Griffin & motherhood (!), rewrite arcs (but those are my general headcanons for all CoL members), Griffin joining the CoL

Griffin Sylvane:

- grew up on the planet Erebhus in the Andros solar system. The planet is swampy land with lots of water bodies all over that catch and reflect light even throughout the night.

- her hair can change color naturally (bc of Erebhusian genes) depending on how much sunlight she's exposed to, which is the reason why her hair was a lighter shade of purple when she was young but grew darker once she became headmistress of CT because of the limited sunlight around the castle. (Darcy's hair also changes from dark brown to blond for the same reason since I headcanon her to be Griffin and Valtor's daughter.)

- the golden eyes are also an Erebhusian gene.

- her mother - Emalyn - was a very powerful witch that studied at CT herself. She chose to become a housewife, however, and would do freelance work on translating and restoring ancient spells from home. Griffin learned most of what she knows about magic and about botany from her.

- her father - Aryan - had scarce formal education but knew how pretty much anything worked and could build and fix an unlimited number of things.

- Griffin went to boarding school on Erebhus until it was time to go to CT. After that she's only returned home briefly for summer breaks and post-graduation only on several occasions, including her father's funeral. He died (from stress) when she was 20-something and she felt guilty for adding on to his worries with her reckless and ruthless pursuit of her goals (of helping dark magic users against their oppression).

- she met Valtor in a secret library on Erebhus and his power convinced her to join him since she was getting frustrated with how long it was taking her to accomplish her goals, especially after what she believed she had to sacrifice for them.

(I'm gonna skip the whole Coven/Company era because I've talked about that a lot and I am still unclear on certain specifics.)

- post Domino's fall she joined the CT faculty after an extremely hasty process of getting credentials. She managed that with ease but she was depressed and feeling that survivor's guilt so her heart wasn't in it when she announced her candidacy for the post of headmistress. She was doing it to keep CT out of the Council's hands, who would otherwise hire their own pawn and control the most prominent school for witches.

- she won the election with significant support from important political figures such as Faragonda's mother and, surprising everyone, Erendor (who was feeling guilty for betraying his alliance with Domino to save his own skin and thus felt it his duty to help out those who were there and fought - including Griffin).

Faragonda Lydiriev:

- was born on a(n unnamed as of yet) planet from the Zenith solar system.

- her parents weren't married and she rarely got to see her father even when she was little.

- her mother - Sylvia - is a very powerful witch and her political influence is greater than that of the monarch of their planet.

- Faragonda has Spherian heritage. Her ancestors were the witches of Spheria (a place mentioned in s2 4kids (in 2x11)) who practiced the vilest of black magic. That is to say magic that was powered by negative emotions (like dark magic) but twisted things out of their natural order and is forbidden. (Just fyi white magic - powered by positive emotions but still twisting things out of their natural order - is also forbidden.)

- Faragonda's magic was powerful from a very early age but she had a lot of trouble controlling it. She was always accidentally destroying things or harming others.

- her mother sent her away to boarding school where she met Griffin and gradually she started staying with Griffin's family even over the holidays. They were the only ones who didn't treat her like something was wrong with her. Emalyn even gave her helpful tips on controlling her magic by balancing out her negative emotions with positive ones but she was refusing to use that method since she felt that it would disappoint her mother and reflect badly on their family name.

- she enrolled in CT along with Griffin and studied there for the first semester until it became glaringly obvious that dark magic just wasn't the thing for her.

- she transferred to Alfea when she chose to become a fairy. Her mother disowned her for it and her new classmates had opinions about a witch deciding to be a fairy but she was lucky to be roommates with Griselda in whom she found a new friend.

- her friendship with Griffin also suffered some by the change in her but they remained close until graduation when Griffin fell off the face of the Magic Dimension. Faragonda was hurt but decided that she'd rather keep their good memories than hunt down Griffin only to be rejected.

- she focused on her work on the fairy animal park (she was always an animal person) outside Magix City and on further studies and a career in Alfea. The idea was to eventually head the college and work on improving relations between dark and light magic users in general.

- that was until headmistress Mavilla (of Alfea) asked her to assist the Crown Princess of Domino on a diplomatic mission and Faragonda found herself face to face with Griffin... and the Coven.

- she was pissed that Mavilla had not told her of this because she figured it was all set up this way to use her against Griffin. Still, she decided to join Marion and Oritel's fight with the idea of helping Griffin and protecting her from execution. Plus, as time went on, she was convinced that the fight with the Coven matters more than anything else she could be doing currently.

- she does not remember this because she took a forgetting potion (*insert OUAT gif here*) on Griffin's ardent plea but she was the one who helped Griffin hide her pregnancy. They used an ancient Spherian curse to speed up the pregnancy (the original intended purpose of the curse was for it to allow the witch to collect the child that she was promised as payment for her services). Combined with Valtor's genetic material in Darcy, it almost killed her and Griffin but Faragonda literally used her life force to save them, which made her age somewhat faster than normal. Then Faragonda left Darcy in an orphanage on Erebhus and took the forgetting potion, leaving Griffin the only one to know that there ever was a baby (aside from the Ancestral Witches).

- started dating Hagen only after Griffin joined the Company because she was too focused on the situation with her to think about anything else beforehand.

- became headmistress of Alfea almost immediately after the last battle on Domino when Mavilla retired. She endorsed Faragonda as the new head of Alfea because of her political prowess (picked up both from her mother and Marion) that would allow her to maneuver the current circumstances better than any other member of the faculty.

- her mother, who helped a couple times against the Coven, showed up in person to ask Faragonda not to take the position of headmistress of Alfea but Faragonda told her off.

- she went through a heavy depressive episode herself after the last battle on Domino. She felt like she was too broken to really be a support to any of her friends and mostly felt like she could no longer be the person to brighten Griffin and Hagen's lives so she figured that it makes sense that Hagen left. Still, that hurt her even further to the point where she was stubbornly avoiding any mention of Hagen in an attempt to bury the pain deep down. She did the same with her pain over Marion and Oritel and stopped looking for any traces of them because she was afraid of what they'd find and how much worse that could break her. It was Griffin's relentless search of the truth about what happened on Domino that rekindled her hope of finding their friends but due to outside interference, they lost access to all clues as to what happened on Domino and were forced to give up on their mission to find Marion and Oritel and move on with their lives.

- eventually, she makes up with her mother who admits that she was wrong about the way she treated Faragonda. She didn't really know how to help her gain control of her magic, which is why she sent her away to people, who hopefully would know, but in Faragonda it created the sense that she was a disappointment and a failure and the entire relationship fell apart from there. Still, Sylvia was the adult and it was her responsibility to figure parenting out, which she failed. She is ecstatic when Griffin and Faragonda finally get together and she helps Faragonda through the realization that Darcy is Griffin's daughter from Valtor (that's when they make up).

Hagen:

- comes from the same planet as Oritel. In fact, his father used to work as the royal blacksmith and he's been best friends with Oritel since they were little.

- his mother made pottery and was the one of his parents who was quite direct and even brash when talking to someone else. His father was one to use flowery language and tons of metaphors in every day conversation.

- he studied to be a blacksmith under his father but went to work for Marion's parents instead of Oritel's because Marion won him over with her attitude and views.

- he would not go home in order to nudge Oritel to come visit him and set up meetings with Marion. He knew that they only did not like each other because of wrong first impressions and set out to bring them closer and help them reveal their true self to the other. Not entirely out of selflessness as having his two best friends living on different planets was quite exhausting.

- he never meant to be a warrior. He only studied combat in order to be able to test the weapons that he made himself. He was always more passionate about the craft of metalworking but when Marion and Oritel grew restless because of the Coven's activity, he put his life on hold to help them.

- that was until he met Faragonda and realized that he could die any day without having pursued what he himself really wants. Still, his commitment to Marion and Oritel was too strong for him to fully devote himself to his relationship with Faragonda and when the political circus and legal procedures around Domino's destruction settled, he left to go search for Marion and Oritel.

- he didn't even show up at either of his parents' funerals, feeling like the part of him that was their son had long ceased to exist. It wasn't because he knew Faragonda would be there (he introduced her to his parents during the war when they both accepted the idea that anything could happen to them and saving the development of their relationship for peaceful times was not a risk they wanted to take; both his parents loved her and she felt that she could be a part of their family but she only went to Hagen's mother's funeral because she wanted to see him; she later figured that he may not have shown up because he knew she'd be there and she didn't go to his father's funeral to give Hagen the chance to go if he wanted but he didn't). Still, avoiding her was another point in favor of not going since he felt guilty about the way that he left her to deal with the loss of their friends even though he did it so that he wouldn't drag her down with him when he couldn't let go.

- he tried to hide it from his friends once they were reunited but his returns to Domino's cursed ruins ended up with him falling victim of a curse that renders him unable to feel any kind of touch and/or pain. Everyone learned when Bloom accidentally burned him and he didn't even notice. Normally, magic can't fix tissue damage (even if it is caused by magic) but Griffin's magic allows some healing to take place as long as the other person opens up their mind and body to her willingly. Not the easiest of tasks since she and Hagen were never particularly close but they manage to make some progress and Hagen can finally feel the warmth of his friends again.

- after he learns that Marion chose to join Oritel in his imprisonment, Hagen got extremely upset, which forced him to reevaluate his feelings for and his commitment to them. He'd always put them first to the point where he ignored himself, which is the reason why he refused to be reinstated as their counselor.

- he chose to restore the Magic School for Forgers in Hoggar (which is NOT the planet that he comes from; fuck canon/Wiki) instead and teach there.

Oritel:

- youngest out of six brothers and therefore not of interest to his parents since his chances for inheriting the throne were practically non-existent.

- doesn't have a very good relationship with his brothers, who tend to ignore him similarly to their parents.

- he has magic but thanks to his parents' neglect he never really got proper magical education and training how to use it. His raw power is actually quite impressive, considering how little practice he had to develop it. His magical core is underground waters.

- hated Marion for "stealing" his best friend but with time fell in love with her.

- he knows that Marion went against her parents' wishes and societal expectations to marry him and it makes him feel like he's detrimental to her. Marrying him was her first decision as heir to Domino's throne that the whole universe witnessed and it was one that left people looking down on her for the choice. Those that respect it only do so because of her heritage, not out of respect for her.

- he compensates for feeling like he's dragging her down by being a perfectionist and a - self-proclaimed - paragon of virtue. He tends to easily veer into self-righteous territory because of all the pressure on him as Prince Consort of Domino (yeah, that's right, no kings of Domino in this fucking household).

- is close friends with Erendor despite the age difference between them (Erendor is at least a decade younger than him) since he knows what it's like to be young and not taken seriously. There are extreme homoerotic undertones to that relationship that Oritel is completely oblivious to, Erendor is too blinded by internalized homophobia and toxic masculinity to notice and Marion and Samara pointedly ignore although for different reasons.

- after the Coven attacked Domino, killed Marion's parents and damaged the Roc - which was part of Domino's defense systems - Oritel used his magic in combination with the Dragon Fire in the core of Domino (thanks to his close connection to Marion and Daphne and their pieces of the flame) to raise a shield around the whole planet that would stop unauthorized teleportation. He and Marion also repurposed the Roc - repaired by Hagen - as a library to keep safe Domino's magical archives.

(...aaaaaand that's pretty much it for Oritel; I need to think about him more but I haven't gotten to that point yet.)

Marion:

- has a younger sister (based on the family tree fake!Avalon showed Bloom).

- very strained relationship with her mother and an almost non-existent relationship with her father. She's not close with her sister either since their mother didn't have a lot of interest in her Dragon-Fire-less child and Marion never had free time with all the grooming to be the next Queen of Domino.

- resigned to a loveless marriage since young age only to slowly fall in love with Oritel and decide to fight for her own happiness. Was engaged to someone else before but she broke it off and married Oritel.

- had horrible doubts about becoming a mother due to her own relationships with her parents and the way she was raised. Still, Daphne instantly became the light of her life.

- Marion was tutored at home but she allowed Daphne to do specialized studies at Alfea, much to Marion's own mother's chagrin. She always believed that Marion was raising Daphne wrong and allowing her to mingle with the nobodies at Alfea was just further proof.

- Marion was the one who started noticing the pattern of concerning magical thefts all over the dimension. Her mother did not pay attention to her worries but Oritel supported her and the two decided to take matters in their own hands. The Coven was very successful in turning that against them and making them as well as Domino look suspicious in front of many of the other monarchs. They only really managed to start getting the upper hand once Faragonda and Saladin joined them.

- the death of her parents is an awful time for her because she had a lot of negative emotions to deal with (mostly guilt and self-hatred for not really feeling much about her deceased parents rather than the typical grief and melancholy but that wasn't any easier to handle) and a ton of bureaucratic nonsense that she was stuck with instead of fighting the Coven. The only thing that saved her sanity was trusting the other Company members to hold the front while she was assuming her new queenly duties.

- was suspicious of Griffin's sudden and untimely decision to defect from the Coven but was also interested in exploiting the opportunities that could provide (unlike Oritel). Did not appreciate the realization of how much Faragonda's presence has shaken Hagen's loyalty to her and Oritel and how it twists her arm into respecting Faragonda's - unreasonable - demands. They all had to do a lot of work on functioning as a team but eventually succeeded.

- had a panic attack when she learned she was pregnant again. The timing was awful. Not only was her whole planet under vicious attack, but she was also the Company's strongest fighter. A pregnancy would incapacitate her for months on end and provide the Coven with significant advantage. She was out of her mind with worry over the complications this would create for the whole universe.

- late one night when she couldn't sleep, she instinctively found Griffin and confessed that she was considering having an abortion. She knew she could count on Griffin's cold rationality to give her the push to do what she couldn't make herself do but she was surprised when Griffin vehemently defended her right to choose and encouraged her to do what is best for herself. She decided to keep the baby because she'd already sacrificed so much of herself and her own life for the sake of her kingdom. Besides, she didn't want to give into her fear of being unable to protect her children from the Coven.

- speaking of, Daphne was insistent on being included in the battle with her own Dragon Fire and her Nymph powers. Marion was firmly against, dead set on protecting Daphne and keeping her as far away from the fight as possible. She and Griffin got into a fight about that once when Griffin allowed Daphne to accompany her on a minor mission. Ultimately, Griffin's point that Marion was letting her fears control not just her, but Daphne as well got through to her and Marion allowed Daphne to be included in the planning but mostly on the periphery of the action. Daphne's most prominent role in the war was her task during the final battle to protect her baby sister.

- Marion knew there was a possibility that the information they were given was incorrect and that their daughters were alive out there, yet she still chose to transfer her spirit into Oritel's sword. She didn't have time to truly think through her decision and she couldn't bear the thought of staying behind only to find out that her daughters were truly dead and she'd lost Oritel as well. She feels intense guilt for essentially abandoning her girls.

Saladin:

- has a sister (Helia is his nephew since Saladin never felt ready to pursue romantic relationships after the war with the Coven). The two are relatively close and Saladin loves Helia like his own child.

- he did two-time Griffin and Faragonda. The two were both reluctant about sharing that they were dating a certain Specialist because of the turbulence in their own relationship at the time thanks to Faragonda transferring to Alfea. So for a time, he got away with it. His intention was never to hurt either one of them. He preferred being with Faragonda but he could tell that she was going through a lot and didn't want to rush her into a relationship. At the same time Griffin really understood his commitment to a cause (he signed up for RF because he believed in fighting for a better future) and they were already "dating". It was casual anyway so why should he have to break up with her when he's not really cheating with Faragonda, right? It was... quite the fallout when the truth came out but Griffin and Faragonda were also somewhat relieved to learn they were dating the same guy because they both chose to interpret it as proof of their continued similarities despite the recent changes in Faragonda and their relationship. Plus, Saladin was last year at RF at the time and later he was busy on missions all over the dimension so the distance from him helped them both get over the fiasco.

- Saladin was sent along with Faragonda on the diplomatic mission to help out Marion and Oritel. Mavilla mostly arranged his presence as cover for her true intentions of orchestrating the meeting between Griffin and Faragonda (not that that deceived Faragonda for long). Still, he took to Marion and Oritel's cause and decided to help them out as much as he could while maintaining his career at RF. He had reservations about Faragonda's trust in and protection of Griffin but he chose to support her. He didn't have her blind faith in Griffin but knew enough to understand why that was so important to Faragonda and to agree that there was still hope for Griffin to make the right choices. Plus, he still felt bad for two-timing them and wanted to help them both with whatever he could.

- splitting time between RF and the CoL made him feel like he was failing in both of his missions but both felt too important for him to be able to give up on either. The Company afforded him the opportunity to act in situations in which the Specialists would not be allowed to due to concerns of political nature. Having Marion and Oritel's influence to fall back on provides him with a lot more opportunities to help, however, and he really believed in what they were doing.

- Saladin was the one to find out that the headmaster of RF allied with the Coven. He saved one of the wands of the Ancestral Fairies (s6) from destruction and with the endorsement of Domino and Eraklyon was elected the next head of RF (which only complicated his work with the Company further but it was preferable to having to worry about whether or not the head of RF is corrupt and working for the Coven).

- he was the first to recover from the losses that they suffered during the final battle on Domino. He was scarred by losing their friends just like everyone else and he had survivor's guilt and intense feelings of failure as well but he also had a purpose to return to. All that time he was holding on to his role at RF because he knew that even if the war with the Coven was won, it wouldn't be the last one. The dimension would still need protection from new rising threats and he could continue working on being the defense. He also helped Griffin and Faragonda's recovery immensely.

#winx club #winx griffin #winx faragonda #winx hagen #winx oritel #winx marion #winx saladin #company of light #winx headcanons #ask #anon #wc rewrite

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Griffin and Darcy headcanons?

I don't have many since most of their interactions take place off-screen both on the show and in my fics. Plus, Darcy doesn't know that Griffin is her mother and Griffin can't reveal the truth to her.

The planet that they come from - Erebhus - is where the golden eyes gene originated. Everyone who has Erebhusian genes has golden eyes, which means that Stella and Diaspro also have a small percentage Erebhusian genes in their DNA. However, Griffin and Darcy's half Erebhusian genetic makeup affects their hair color as well. Erebhus is a very sunny planet where even the nights are relatively bright. Due to the exposure to light most Erebhusians' hair tends to be in very light shades. However, as soon as they stop being exposed to so much sunlight, their hair color darkens. That's why Darcy and Griffin's hair colors can change drastically depending on where they're currently living and how much sunlight they're exposed to.

Griffin dreads the moment when other people will learn that she's Darcy's mother. Motherhood as a concept in society comes with a lot of baggage and she can already feel the judgment that will be hurled her way from people that have zero understanding of the situation that she was in. The thing that truly bothers her, however, is the fact that she herself hasn't really made her peace with what happened. Yes, she knew there was nothing else to do but she still holds resentment for herself for creating the situation in the first place. She doesn't really view herself as Darcy's mother since she didn't raise her. She just gave birth to her. And she's afraid of how Darcy will come to perceive the whole thing, especially if she hears other people's - uninformed - opinions. She doesn't want Darcy to suffer if she thinks that Griffin didn't want her.

Darcy is an extrovert to differ from Griffin, who is an introvert. It causes her to process her emotions in a different way, which in turn reflects on her magic and could sometimes make it hard for Griffin's teaching techniques to reach her. It shouldn't be a problem since many of Griffin's students are extroverts and she has had to develop different approaches of teaching to accommodate everyone. However, Darcy is very similar to her in other ways and, ironically, that makes the extrovert/introvert difference stick out way more and get in the way. Ediltrude and Zarathustra have a much easier time teaching Darcy than Griffin does sometimes.

That being said, Griffin's lessons were a life-saver for Darcy. (I have a feeling I'm repeating myself about this particular point so bear with me if that's the case.) Darcy finds it easier to push her magic out through her eyes at first but that quickly strains them and also gives her a headache. Griffin teaches her to minimize that effect by manipulating the tangibility of her own magic so that it has an easier time passing through the delicate tissues in her eyes and won't hurt her anymore. Plus, she helps her learn to channel her powers just as effectively through her hands.

Darcy prefers to be around living things even if those are animals. Her psychic magic only works on living organisms and she feels better when there are some animals or unsuspecting people around her that she could brainwash and weaponize in case she has to fight an enemy that is resistant to her psychic powers. Griffin's magic, on the other hand, works almost exclusively on non-living or dead things and she tries to develop Darcy's darkness powers more so that Darcy can rely on herself in battle. It has made Darcy feel like Griffin either dislikes her psychic powers because she thinks they're a weakness or that she's passing moral judgment for subjecting innocent organisms to mind control.

Darcy was thrilled when she came to study at CT because the castle was mostly wrapped in clouds and there was a lot of darkness even during the day. Growing up on Erebhus - one of the sunniest planets along with Solaria - with her powers was sometimes a challenge. There was way too much light and that made her powers weaker. CT's darkness not only boosts her magic, but also has a positive effect on her circadian rhythms. Griffin is glad that Darcy has finally found an environment where she could thrive but she thought it best when she had Darcy to leave her back on Erebhus because there her eye color wouldn't stick out. She was just another orphaned child and it was safest for her to be there since no one had a reason to believe that Griffin had had a baby. Plus, Griffin didn't know Darcy would develop powers of darkness back then.

#winx club #winx griffin #winx darcy #winx headcanons #ask #anon #wc rewrite

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Stella, Griffin and Darcy all have the same eye color and as far as I know they are the only ones with this one, could it be that they all come from Solaria, only Griffin and Darcy from the moon side? (Or only Griffin and Darcy just get her eye color, if you know what I mean 🤭)

The show never made any comment whatsoever on it and I feel like Valtor could have taken Darcy with him in season 3 when he went to Solaria (or she could have just tagged along for the fun of it) but he didn't. And she didn't care in any way about how destroying the pillar of light would wreck Solaria so I don't think she is from there. Also, Griffin was getting along well with Winx in season 3 and they could have worked something in if she was supposed to be from Solaria (not that the writers seem to have considered the past of any of the adult characters). Besides, if Griffin were from Solaria, it would have made sense for Valtor to mock her with how Solaria is now practically under his control. I really can't see it.

I headcanon that Griffin and Darcy are from another planet that's called Erebhus. It is also known as the planet of the eternal sunset because they say all the water mass on it catches the sun rays during the sunset and reflects them throughout the rest of the night until the sun is back up again. All the people of Erenhus have golden eyes but it is possible for people from other planets to have golden eyes as well aka Stella (and Diaspro's also look golden/amber).

And I am really not a fan of the idea that Solaria has a moon side.

#winx club #winx griffin #winx darcy #winx stella #erebhus #wc rewrite #ask #anon

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Trivia Tuesday

It’s been a hot minute since I last wrote one of these. This one is about The Power Inside a Family and deals heavily with the symbolism I used in that piece. I just have to ramble about it because it’s too perfect.

- Erebhus is Griffin’s home planet. I’ve spelt it with an h to indicate it comes from “erebh” which means evening, night. The idea being that there is so much water on the planet that reflects the final rays of the sunset that the whole night is light as day until the sun comes up again in the morning. It is known as the planet of the eternal sunset.

- On Erebhus it is tradition for brides to wear blue dresses like the ocean. They hold the ceremony under a tree the couple grew together to prove they can foster life on the swampy lands of the planet. The tree is usually planted outside their future house (or at least the place where it’s supposed to be) that they also usually build together.

- Emalyn’s engagement ring having a topaz gem was a gut feeling but I like how it fits. From Wikipedia: “the word topaz may be related to the Sanskrit word तपस् ‘tapas’, meaning ‘heat’ or ‘fire’”. That and the fact that topaz forms under high temperature and pressure at depth aka near volcanoes and there aren’t many volcanoes on Erebhus, it is a rare gemstone on the planet. Some topaz stones can fade from continuous exposure to sunlight and that is why Emalyn’s engagement ring is now paler than the intense gold it used to be.

- I picked lilies for Emalyn’s wedding flowers because they symbolize motherhood and fertility. They are used in weddings in China because they are tied to the 100 years of love. They are actually a 30th anniversary flower since they represent devotion. The roots and bulbs can be boiled in teas with healing effects.

- The apple tree I’ve mentioned in relation to Griffin’s veins is a symbol of wholeness, healing and connection with nature which is perfect for the idea of that part of the story. It also represents the idea that the future will be what you make it aka if you do good, good will come back to you and vice versa.

- Pomegranates symbolize fertility and rebirth, spring which is what Griffin’s transformation (as Faragonda pictures it) would do for her and for the rest of the dark magic users as well. However, it can also mean war due to the shape of the pomegranate that reminds of a grenade. (Which is ironic because Faragonda is only thinking of seeds aka spring rebirth but instead it’s more like Griffin’s heart gets replaced with a pomegranate when she goes to war against the Council.)

- The hawthorn tree symbolizes love and protection in Celtic mythology. It is also known as the Fairy Tree because it’s guarded by fairies that allow the respectful gathering of sprigs and flowers, especially if it’s brides with hawthorn blossom in their hair or a bouquet that symbolizes their union of love. Its thorny branches are great for birds to make their nests safely. The hawthorn tree is known for its longevity and can live over 400 years. Its healing properties have been used by traditional medicine for a long time. To Greeks the Hawthorn was symbolic of love and would help bring success and longevity to newlyweds.

#winx club #winx griffin #winx faragonda #emalyn sylvane #trivia #trivia tuesday #winx headcanons #erebhus #the power inside a family

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How did Faragonda and Griffin met? They seemed to have been closed in the past because after Griffin worked with Valtor Faragonda still trusted her and Griffin was there when Faragonda gets her Enchatix. I can conclude that they have known each other at least since their school days but what happened after that? How did Faragonda react at Valtor? Their reactions when they rrealizedthey have to fight eachother? Why did griffin seem mad at faragonda in season one?

I have so many theories about those years but I'd be really interested to know what you think about it.

Take you time, I know how stressful some days can be

Lots of Love <3

I just want to preface this by saying that I am going to give you the events as they are in my rewrite. Most of that could be considered canon compliant as well but the one major difference is that in my rewrite Faragonda never got Enchantix because that transformation works in a fairly different way than it does on the show and there is simply no way for Faragonda to have earned it because of the way her life went and her family situation. I don't think she mourns that, though.

You have pointed out something very important already - that Faragonda trusted Griffin even after her time with the Coven which is major because Griffin was a literal magical terrorist. Even the closest of friendships can be strained by something like that. Not to mention that Faragonda was there and actually saw Griffin commit atrocities right in front of her eyes which is very different from just hearing about it. My explanation for that is that they didn't just know each other since they were young, they grew up together. So here's the thing:

Faragonda was born in a very powerful witch family that basically controls an entire planet in the same solar system where Zenith (Tecna's world) is. Faragonda was definitely encouraged by her family to develop magic from a very young age which is illegal but who's gonna tell them anything? The reason why it's illegal is that despite magic always coming in during childhood or not at all, children can't exercise proper control and it's dangerous for them to have magic, especially dark magic that is super volatile because it comes from negative emotions. So Faragonda's powers developed early on, before she even started going to school, but she couldn't control them at all. Her dark magic was powerful but very unstable because Faragonda mostly drew it from fear/anxiety/insecurity thanks to all the pressure she was under.

Because of her out of control powers, her mother decided to send her to a boarding school in the very faraway planet of Erebhus. Now if Andros is the first planet in its solar system, Erebhus is the fifth one there and it is known as the planet of the eternal sunset because all the water in it reflects the last rays of the sun during the entire night and the next day until the sun starts setting again and its rays are caught in the water surfaces all over again. The reason why her mother sent her all the way there is because the boarding school is a very old school that's famous for all the witch graduates they have so they understand witch psychology and can help Faragonda with the control of her powers. And that's where she meets Griffin because Griffin's mother also studied there and she enrolled Griffin, too.

They quickly become friends because Griffin has exceptional control of her magic and can help Faragonda deal with hers but Faragonda is better versed in magical politics all over the dimension so they both want to learn what the other knows and bond along the way. Griffin's mother uses magic to teleport from home to the school and back and so Griffin doesn't really spend the nights at the school which becomes a problem the closer they become since they want to spend more time together. They're kids, after all, despite all the serious stuff they're already dealing with. So Emalyn (Griffin's mom) contacts Faragonda's mom (still unnamed) and the two work things out so Faragonda can come and stay with Griffin's family during the weekends and later, even on school days. Faragonda's mom can tell Emalyn is a witch that knows what she's doing despite stepping away from the world of dark magic users a long time ago (she only uses her magic at home for everyday purposes) and she thinks being around her could benefit Faragonda's magical progress.

So Griffin and Faragonda grow up together but Faragonda doesn't really get that much better at controlling her magic. Emalyn is helping her with it (and so is Griffin) but she never pushes her the way Faragonda knows her mother would want her to be pushed and that creates constant anxiety that she's not making progress which gets in the way of progress. It's a vicious circle that keeps on spinning until it's time for high school and both Griffin and Faragonda sign up for Cloud Tower. Faragonda studies there for a couple months but things are just not right and it finally dawns on her that the reason why Emalyn wasn't pushing her to practice dark magic wasn't simply because she didn't want to stress her out. She could tell that Faragonda has an easier time channeling and controlling positive emotions which means she's better suited to be a fairy. She probably had a panic attack at the realization because she could just imagine the hell her mother's reaction would be but she couldn't pretend to be something she wasn't anymore.

She made the choice to join Alfea. Her family disowned her because of that. Griffin has a strong reaction, too, even if she does understand why Faragonda doesn't want to pretend to be something she's not but is struggling with the fact that Faragonda switched over to the socially acceptable kind of magic (the bias against dark magic is strong and planets where dark magic users such as Faragonda's family are in charge are an exception) and it's no longer them versus the world. She's upset because she's afraid Faragonda will start treating her the same way everyone else does.

The conflict between them escalates quietly with time since Faragonda tries to fit in more with the fairies which really ticks Griffin off because they are still mostly ambivalent towards Faragonda and she's basically falling into pretending to be something she's not despite trying to avoid exactly that. Faragonda meanwhile has had a taste of a completely different culture from the one she grew up in and some of it resonates with her but Griffin can't seem to accept that. Plus, she can see the similarities between fairies and witches that everyone else seems blind to and so she wants to become the next headmistress of Alfea (and this clearly has nothing to do with spiting her mother) to help bring fairies and witches together... to help bring her and Griffin together again. She thinks that maybe then Griffin will understand that she's been trying to bridge the gap between them all along. Griffin, in turn, wants to help dark magic users as a kind to be less ostracized so she decides to leave Magix because she feels like Faragonda is asking her for space and she doesn't want to be the one holding Faragonda back with her inability to reconcile with the change in Faragonda.

They part on good terms but with severe misconceptions about what the other is aiming to accomplish and that causes a festering bitterness between them that totally blows up in their faces when they meet on the battlefield. Now I'm thinking that they don't meet as soon as Faragonda joins the Company. In fact, Faragonda meets Valtor first on a mission that she gets involved in because her mother is a key player. So she's sent to Domino by the previous headmistress of Alfea - Mavilla. She wants to help even if she has to face her mother to retrieve and artifact the Coven (aka Griffin and Valtor) was trying to steal but it ended up with her mother. She convinces the woman to give it to her despite her mother's general neutrality on the Coven vs Company issue (she doesn't want to help light magic users and especially the Domino royalty but she will if it is the only way to stop the Coven from taking control of the universe because she doesn't want them to win). Faragonda just barely escapes from Valtor, though, who was on his way to stealing the artifact properly this time. He has no idea who she is and her untransformed appearance isn't remarkable enough that Griffin could gouge it was Faragonda from his description (Faragonda managed to teleport to Domino without transforming while her mother held Valtor off). And Faragonda gets asked whether Valtor was alone when she tells the Company what happened but something always happens and for weeks she can't get the full rundown on who exactly is Valtor's partner.

Until she and Griffin come face to face on a mission. Faragonda sees her first. She totally can't comprehend what she's seeing and freezes in place only for the effect to be exacerbated when she clearly sees the familiarity between Griffin and Valtor and it clicks that Griffin was who everyone was talking about when they mentioned Valtor's vengeful and hideously powerful partner. She can't believe Griffin would join him. Him whose entire purpose is to destroy all life that's inconvenient for the Ancestral Witches. She never believed Griffin would go that far in her quest to reinstate dark magic users as equals to light magic users. That's when Griffin also sees her and she has a similar reaction. Her worst fear aka Faragonda coming to the conclusion that fighting her is the right choice has come true when she left Faragonda behind just to make sure it won't happen. If she wasn't around to see Faragonda falling out of their friendship, she could keep her friend's warmth in her heart forever. But now that Faragonda is fighting alongside her enemies, Griffin is crushed.

They both get pulled away by Hagen and Valtor respectively and proceed to have a meltdown once they're out of danger. Faragonda reaches the conclusion that this is all Valtor's fault (let her have her delusion; it won't last long anyway) and Griffin reaches the conclusion that this is all the fault of the Council who have been using anti dark magic propaganda for centuries (a somewhat more accurate conclusion, though she's missing the part where Faragonda joined the Company to help them save lives). They both march back on the battlefield next time with the idea of making the other one see her mistake only to be very unpleasantly surprised when their misconceptions start to crack. Yes, Griffin is very much in love with Valtor but she's also the Griffin that Faragonda knows. It's not Valtor that changed her. And yes, Faragonda is on the enemy's side but she's still the good hearted, gentle friend that Griffin grew up with so it's not political propaganda that's brainwashed her. They have to deal with those realizations and figure out how to move on.

Griffin is more aggressive because she's convinced herself (not without help from Valtor) that she has to fight even Faragonda if she wants to not only achieve her goal, but also retain her freedom and even her life. She usually comes out on top simply because Faragonda isn't putting the same effort into fighting her but she can never bring herself to hurt Faragonda more than she'll be able to recover from. Especially since Faragonda isn't trying to hurt her. Her aggression only shows up against Valtor despite all the other Coven members that are trying to kill her (now why would you suggest that that's jealousy?). Faragonda hates the fact that he's Griffin's closest confidant now. She's sure none of that would have happened if she and Griffin had never parted ways. But she's not making that mistake twice. She'll stay until Griffin comes home with her or kills her. Griffin, on the other hand, knows Faragonda will never join her because she thinks Griffin has been made worse by her cooperation with the Coven but she will find a way to keep Faragonda safe even in the midst of battle until her plan succeeds and she can show her that she was right to fight for her goal.

The season 1 thing also stems from the whole issue with the Company vs Coven war. When the Trix came to CT three years prior to season 1, Griffin instantly connected them to the Ancestral Witches (it's quite obvious). She wasn't sure what to do because they were at the top of all applicants for CT and rejecting them could draw the attention of the Council to them and get them executed for being descendants of the Ancestral Witches even though they were just young girls. So she shared her dilemma with Faragonda because she trusted their friendship after they survived the war and fighting each other. However, Faragonda's reaction was the total opposite of what she'd expected. The second Faragonda heard of the Ancestral Witches again, she started having flashbacks to the destruction of Domino and Marion and Oritel's disappearance. That loss crushed her and it was only made worse when Hagen left to look for the pair and she blames it all on the Ancestral Witches (which is mostly fair but not entirely about the Hagen thing). Knowing how much the Trix resemble them is distressing and she wants Griffin to reject their applications even at the risk of them getting in trouble. Griffin has a severe reaction to that because if Faragonda is refusing to give a chance to three young girls that haven't done anything, then Griffin herself never deserved all the chances Faragonda gave her. She only gave them to her because of their friendship and Faragonda's clearly biased outlook on Griffin. So Griffin has a crisis of conscience where she's self-loathing and at the same time angry at Faragonda for not having the better judgment to just stay away from her. It feels like everything good she's done over the years crumbles in front of her eyes because she never deserved the chance she was given to even keep living and she distances herself from Faragonda because she's also distraught that Faragonda has changed. She never would've risked the lives of innocent girls like that in the past. So Griffin doesn't know what to think of herself or Faragonda and she does what she does best - self-sabotage.

I've actually written out a fic about this. It's called Left to Heritage.

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The Power of Peace

Summary: After the Coven is gone, Griffin and Valtor can have their life back. With the quiet and stillness driving Griffin's magic out of control, however, she needs Valtor's help to adjust her mind to the life she got back and find her own inner peace. Canon divergence.

CW: mentions of destructive magic, death and murder, dry humping, hair-pulling, explicit language

This was a random idea that I had that I absolutely adore now so I sort of saved it to be my first fic of this year (and it wasn't edited anyway).

Griffin's hair blew in her face carried by the gentle breeze to make her frown. The ticklish sensation irritating her cheek was too weak to let it fail a complex spell.

Her focus was already drawn partly to the surface of her skin where the humidity of Erebhus' air was making itself at home again after the years she'd been gone. Behind her eyelids, though, she could see in the depths of the soil under her palms. The roots of her mom's garden slowly absorbed the minerals and water molecules she was directing their way.

Valtor's hand on her back instantly pulled the corners of her mouth back into a smile that only widened at the touch of his fingers brushing the stray locks of hair out of her face. There was always room for him in her mind, even through the concentration on the energy seeping from her palms. It was a slow process but Valtor's presence left no void in her mind for her magic to strain to fill in a restless explosion. It eased the tension in her arms as she held up her arsenal of magical knowledge from crushing her resting form.

Valtor poked his head over her shoulder, chin a hair away from brushing her bare clavicle. "I'd never seen a sight that could compare to you in the midst of a surprise battle. Not when there is magic bursting from every inch of you letting nothing touch you–us–while your mind is racing in pursuit of victory."

Griffin's arms trembled with residue magic from every one of those battles, spells that had been at her fingertips but she'd never thrown at the enemy when Valtor's power had cleared their path or her calculations had supported another tactical decision. Her throat closed to make sure her heart wouldn't jump past it and out of her mouth. She licked her parted lips to yank back behind her teeth any minuscule confession that might have dropped out with her very breath.

"But this not only compares, it might be better. More thought-provoking," Valtor's fingers dipped under the fabric of her dress teasing at her shoulder blade before he traced them up her spine to the nape of her neck. His thoughts licked at her skin like Erebhus had caught fire, flames claiming the surfaces of every lake and puddle instead of the usual golden sunlight reflecting in the water.

"In what way?" Griffin's breath hitched, her lungs sticking to the pace of her spell.

She'd been waiting for him to crack under the tedium–peace–of her parents' home for weeks. There was nothing around to conquer–or even explore–but swamp and the only magic in the vicinity were the two of them with her mother's permanent magic depletion syndrome from singlehandedly defending their home from potential echoes of Griffin's actions for years. Valtor had claimed every inch of her bedroom and gone no further, leaving her to the question eating her alive. How?

"There is no strain here, no exertion to claim your place and protect it. This is your place and you reign over it fully. Your magic spreads over the entirety of a realm you've made yours. Everything flocks to you like your life force is the root of all life."

Griffin bit back a chuckle. Even with the flow of nutrients her magic shaped, the plants still turned towards him. The moisture of the land wafted in streams from the ground from where his fire pulled it and the winds clashed around him and wrestled with each other as if to prove their strength lest he decided to quiet them. Everything flocked to him, including her as she leaned into his touch.

"You're the ruler of this world and it's impossible to resist you when the land itself bows to your will," Valtor's smugness was palpable against her neck, his teeth pointed at her pulse point. He could pluck her heart out without warning.

There it was. Sweet talk was a weapon peace treaties and amnesty couldn't strip him of. There was ruination on his tongue, a collection of spells in his head that could bring down planets but all it took was a handful of simple words he strung together and she was falling into his arms. Into his arms and on the ground.

Her back hit the soil to the same rhythm her heart was pounding at her ears. She was pinned under him.

Valtor's victorious grin was only a touch less predatory than when he went for the kill. His hand was in her hair ripping out a moan like he'd sent her armor shattering to the ground and his mouth covered hers, sealing her voice in. He wasn't wasting it on the dull landscape around them.

His hand, hooked under her thigh, urged her to wrap a leg around him to reel him in closer as her tongue welcomed him into her mouth. Her spell was broken in favor of his.

The magic lingering under her skin raged for an exit. She could throw him into the nearest tree or let it build with every stroke of his fingers through her hair and over her skin until it released at the thrust of his cock inside her. Upon orgasm at the latest-

Griffin tore away. "Valtor-"

The word bled like a wound between them before his lips closed the gap once again to drown her in his breath and her own power. He tasted of oregano and thyme–a mix she'd grown up with–and the sudden flavor of her roots threw her back through time to before she'd even met him.

A boost from her magic and her stubbornness in her hands and her hips let her flip them over, "Valtor!"

She used the breath her stunt had knocked out of him. Her ruined spell might have sucked the oxygen out of the air, the garden thrown out of the loop mid-photosynthesis. Or it could be a problem with her, with the intruder she'd become in her own home throwing the atmosphere off with her out of control magic.

"My parents are right inside."

She'd already subjected them to more than they'd bargained for. She'd taken away their peace, her mother's magic, herself, only to bring home a piece of the Coven instead of her own heart.

Valtor scowled, hands covering hers where she'd stained his coat. His flames burned away the mud and dust from her mother's garden to strip away every memory of her roots. All that was left was him, the two of them so high up that nothing could touch them.

Their powers sank into each other until there was no way to separate them without unraveling them fully. His pulse passed into her along with the energy wafting off his frame to set her nerve endings ablaze and leave her itching. Her hands dug into the fabric of his coat, into his flesh with the need to sink her claws into something powerful.

"Shifting blame for your straying thoughts onto me? I haven't done anything inappropriate," Valtor's fingers tangled in her hair to contradict his words. He mimicked the motions for a powerful spell based on kinetic energy that turned a given space into a vacuum. Instead, her moans stretched out through the garden.

"Not yet," Griffin slapped his hand away, glaring at the smile he gave her as he switched to tracing her jaw. "Are you forgetting I'm sitting on your hard cock?"

She rutted against him for emphasis only to have him rolling his hips into her in return. His hands clamped down on her thighs the moment she thought of moving before the impulse had even made it into her muscles.

"And are you pretending you're not dying to ride my hard cock? Or take it in your mouth?"

Valtor's hands moved in purposeful patterns down her clothed legs. It was spellwork again. One design was for an earthquake and the other – for a flood. The magic demanded broken bones and blood to work. Magic they'd used.

They'd wielded it to the fall of entire realms. There was nothing they couldn't do together. They were the most powerful force.

Griffin swallowed and forced her lungs to suck in a decent amount of air. "Maybe later. When there are fewer chances of interruptions."

Lying her way out would be foolish with her lips dampened with desire and every cell in her body exuding it. The stars knew she wouldn't survive an interruption.

A wave of Valtor's hand sealed all doors and windows of the house essentially turning it into a pocket dimension. Only magic could travel in and out. Even the strength of her voice wouldn't carry through the seemingly open back door and the windows on the second floor. The only danger left was the distraction of orgasm allowing magic to slip through her fingers and burst into the house like an enemy.

"There," Valtor locked eyes with her. "No interruptions. No scandals. Just the two of us with a whole world at our disposal," he kept pushing. And pulling, drawing her in closer to his body and into his mind.

His hand was tracing an elemental seal under the fabric of her dress between her shoulder blades. Air. It could give her soft, feathery wings that would let them stay hidden in the clouds high above even with their attention on each other. They wouldn't have to spare a thought to anything but their shared pleasure appearing no bigger than a star from the ground. Just a dot–a domain of its own–free of prying eyes.

Griffin seized his wrist and only let it fall out of her grasp once it was over her heart. "We can't."

She shouldn't have considered it. She shouldn't have even wanted it. And he... he had to stop. His magic. His mind. His mouth. Especially his mouth. She'd fallen for it, into it and his teeth marks weren't something she was allowed to be proud of in front of the world. For the sake of their very lives. For the sake of her parents.

"Why not? The only difference between this and a silencing spell over your room is that now we're not five feet and a wall away from your sleeping parents. We have more room to work with and seclusion here." Valtor sat up, pulling her to his chest by the arms she tried to keep between them as an improvised barrier.

The curve of his mouth was like a hook in her heart ready to pluck it out of her chest but he'd never done it. It just stayed there, every pull wracking her with anticipation for the final one that would let him have the beating mess clasped in his hands. Then it'd only feel warm. Only his warmth. No more burning words, and light, and magic. Only his fire making liquid gold of her eyes to cover the entire world.

"The difference is that I left my home as their daughter and came back as something worse." A thief. A murderer. A war criminal. Shameless whore was something avoidable, something she didn't have to be in their minds... and in her own. "You can't blame me for not wanting to parade it around."

She didn't know how to stuff herself back into their baby, into the woman they knew when she was so much... more. A lot of it was bad. But not all. Not all. There was light to Valtor's fire and life to all the death they'd caused. There was love, for herself and for him that she hadn't found in the eternal sunsets on Erebhus. The very same shade of her eyes.

"You are beautiful," Valtor's gaze encased her in ice blue until the contact between them chased away any other burning. The heat enveloping her was only his and no one else's. Certainly not shame marring her skin in distorted red patches. "That isn't something to be questioned just like your magic isn't."

If he hadn't mentioned it, she wouldn't have noticed his spell freeing the house to make it part of this world again. Her distraction served him well, her lips overtaken in a flash and her mouth opening on instinct for him.

He had a firm grasp on her, teeth in her lower lip and a hand in her hair leaving no room to change the angle of the kiss, let alone pull away. His palm splayed on the small of her back, fingertips teasing at her ass while he held her in place for his hips to grind his erection into her. Each motion was a string pulled in her throat to produce a moan, one at a time. Much the same as how the spell he'd interrupted earlier had worked. Save for the lack of noble intent, that was.

Valtor released her mouth when her air started running low but let no more than an inch between them. The furious rising and falling of her chest gave him a good, long feel of her breasts pushed into him.

He sucked on her earlobe before muttering a love confession in an extinct language she vaguely recognized for the pulsing rhythm of each syllable – like the excited beat of a heart. His mouth moved to the spot below her ear and down her neck making her blood rush faster and her pussy throb for his cock to fill it.

"Valtor... this is- inappropriate." Her breathing was all over the place and her hips were moving to follow.

Their shared power was so great that even she couldn't resist it. What chance did anyone else have?

"You knew we'd make our way here, Griffin," Valtor tilted her head back by the hair, her noises going right into the sky like a prayer.

His fingers kept moving through the purple strands with a love spell on them weaving around the target like a tapestry that left the caster in the center of their world. But no magic was coming out of Valtor's body for once. It would be a waste when she couldn't see further than his coat she was clutching in her fists, couldn't hear further than the open-mouthed kisses he had moved to the top of her breasts, couldn't feel further than the bulge in his pants rubbing against her clit through so many layers of clothing.

"At least... have the decency to put back the s-spell," Griffin shuddered.

Her whole world was screeching to a halt except for the muscles moving of their own accord and her sense of magic. It always awoke when Valtor stripped her down to her carnality – hungry like a lone wolf looking for something to eat, something larger than itself to sate its appetite. At times even Valtor's Dragon Fire couldn't feed her, only their joint magic which he instantly gave her. To keep her from fearing starvation or because he'd lost control, she could never quite distinguish his selfishness from the things he did for her.

"You didn't fall for my decency," Valtor's hand cupped her breast now that she was dry humping him without a second thought.

The gentleness of his fingers was only a facade and her muddled mind couldn't keep up with the speed of his game. Not when he'd locked down his powers where she'd have to stuff herself inside him to reach them.

"And not for your," his lips brushed hers with his fingers working her breasts, "merciful," another peck, "heart."

Valtor laughed at that, a little more than a chuckle just to unravel her when he kept holding back. "You love it when I don't have mercy."

His teeth sank into the tender flesh over her heart where he'd pulled down the neckline of her dress. He was all woven from magic and there was more entering her though the red marks he left when her skin broke to let him in. There was nothing to distract her from the desire spilling out of her with every pulse of her heart. Her pussy was clenching but it was her life force flowing into Valtor's mouth that kept him close and directed his every movement – from the rhythm of his hips to the flick of his tongue over his teeth marks.

Griffin pried him away by the hair to the sound of an inhuman growl ripping from his throat.

"Say it!" Every sound had sharp edges cut into it by his breathlessness. It didn't go with the demanding aura he always wore when his lips moved of their own accord to latch on to her again to close the void between them even at the price of the one in their lungs.

"Don't ever have mercy," Griffin cried out.

She had the strength in her thighs to crack more than bones, the power in her hands to spill blood but she didn't have to. They didn't need magic to shake the world. Their desire was a monument grinding the earth beneath them into dust with the rocking of their hips into each other.

"I hate to do this but your wish is my command."

She was so close–not climbing up into the heights of pleasure but flying there–when his hands left her body. His open palms pressed into the ground releasing his desire into it to make it rumble beneath them as if moved by the flood of his energy. All the arousal drained from his body to leave him soft and still between her trembling thighs.

To use magic out of everything to pull her down like that. Stripping her to the bone, to her soul, to her want. This was all her will, not something she couldn't fight. It was theirs and she harbored that love in her heart viciously. She'd killed for it and she'd do it again if anyone dared to reduce her to something lesser.

Valtor grabbed her wrist, her intentions clear as day to him in the gold of her eyes. "Make me hard again and I'll turn this planet from one of the eternal sunset to one of the eternal screaming."

Griffin swallowed the pounding of her heart in her throat, the gripping hunger clawing up her body to take over her tongue and teeth. The power to change the universe was at her fingertips with Valtor's heat wrapping her. She wanted it. She had it. It was begging to be let out.

"You'll corrupt my mother's innocent flowers."

Valtor let her slide out of his lap and bury her hands in the soil again. The magic flowed from her heart into the roots underground – a stream of warmth, of life that had the plants growing before her very eyes with the speed of her heart rate. Making the daffodils and peony tall as trees and reaching into the sky like a bridge to the stars would take no longer than a minute. She didn't need them overshadowing her home, though, only casting shade for the birds and rodents tired of the scorching sun.

Letting go was no problem with the magic lingering on her frame like a mantle. There was no end to it, no shuffling to stuff it back inside her body. Instead she wore it like the second skin that it was. It was hers. It was her.

She only startled at the sound of her father's voice. "They're beautiful."

He was leaning on the frame of the back door. The outpouring of magic had to have alerted him. She'd never used so much before. At least not at home where the current could sweep away her mother's favorite books and her father's tools.

"Do you think mom will like them?" Griffin dropped her hands in her lap as she stared back at her finished work.

The plants weren't just bigger. They'd grown in strength as well, in resilience, in will to live. Nothing could kill them now, even their natural death pushed back in time by her magic.

"I'm sure she'll love them. You've grown a beautiful life."

Griffin returned her father's smile finally filling up the full size of the daughter she'd brought back. With Valtor's hand in her own she could live inside her magic where the world never seemed too small for her.

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