#no one listens to her bc they have MAGIC they can just use a spell to clean up!
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Appreciate the Astarion works!!! 💙💙💙
If you'd like another request, what about Tav gifting him something that allows him to see his reflection? Idk some kinda spell/amulet/potion? They're already to the point where he feeds from them or in a relationship and he's just beyond touched/ shocked they would do something for him like this? (Bc we know he's not ever had the most kindness shown to him)
he's been living rent free in my head and I just want to give him everything his undead lil heart desires.
Recommended Song: Mirrorball - Taylor Swift
(I just started listening to her music and holy shit this song is so them!!!)
It's late, the perfect time of day for the two of you. You and Astarion and out in your backyard, putting out some new furniture that he haggled for today. It's hard to say no to that smile, you would know. As you move nice chairs around debating where you should put them, you get into a playful argument.
"I know you're like, the house decorator, but gods why can't we put it in this corner?"
"Because darling, it'll ruin the feng shui. We should put the chairs here instead, and keep the plants over here."
You roll your eyes.
"I bet you don't even know what feng shui means."
"I don't, but it sure sounds fancy doesn't it?"
You giggle.
"What, I'm laughable because I don't know one tiny phrase? I bet there are plenty of words you don't know."
"Well, I don't know them, so I'm not worried about them."
You saunter over to him, throwing your arms up around his shoulders, and the two of you stare at each other for a moment.
"You know our anniversary is tomorrow right?"
"How could I forget my sweet?"
"I don't know, maybe the way you forgot what feng shui means."
"Okay, ouch. But yes of course, I have wondrous plans for the two of us."
"Okay but you can't have that good of plans because I really need to make sure you don't one-up this."
You walk back into the house for a brief moment, grabbing a scroll out of your bag.
"When I walked away while we were at the market, because I said I got tired of hearing you argue with that old lady? Well, I found this."
You hold the scroll out, and he gently grabs it out of your hands.
"I tried to get Gale to teach me, but you know I'm not very magically inclined so..."
He unrolls the scroll, reading the scrawled writing.
"This is-"
You cut him off in excitement.
"Mirror image! I thought maybe you could use it to make a reflection of yourself."
He stares at the scroll in shock.
"How much did you pay for this?"
"None of your damn business."
You grin at him, knowing all too well that you paid that guy way too much.
"This is very sweet my dear, I... I don't know what to say."
"Well you don't have to say anything, try it!"
After reading for a moment, he goes to cast the spell. He says a few words that go right over your head, and suddenly there were three more Astarions in your backyard.
"Gods!"
Astarion's cry of shock echoed through, all four of him? You're not quite sure how this works. After getting his bearings, Astarion looks around at his three reflections.
"Wow, this is certainly... wow."
You're so excited, you can finally show him all the little details you like about him, he gets to see how gorgeous he is, the list goes on and on.
"Okay, I have to do something funny, because I NEED you to see your little laugh lines. Hm..."
He furrows his brow at you, wondering what you're planning. And then you tickle his sides, causing an eruption of laughter.
"Quick, look!"
As he's still smiling, he catches a glimpse of one of the reflections, the little crow's feet he gets when he laughs.
"Oh, that was so important you had to attack me? If anything they make me look old."
"Well... you are kinda old."
He playfully pushes your shoulder. After the two of you quiet your laughter, he stands staring at one of the reflections, taking it all in. The eyes, the hair, trying to remember what he used to look like.
"What do you think?"
"I think... I think it's fitting."
He snarls to look at his fangs. Astarion has never seen just how menacing he can be, why people listen to him when he's threatening. You don't see anything scary though. Maybe you used to, long long ago. But now, he's just Astarion. That's all he has to be.
"This red really is quite bright."
He says, commenting on his eyes.
"Yeah, they're nice though. Piercing."
"At least my hair looks as good as I think it does. All my efforts haven't been wasted."
And just as fast as they came, the reflections vanish, fading out of existence. It's just the two of you again.
"Damn, I thought it would last a little longer."
You frown a little, wondering if it was really worth it. Astarion catches your glance, realizing your doubt. He tilts your chin up and cups your face in his hand.
"Even if it was short, it was a wondrous gift darling. I appreciate it, truly. Besides, now I know what kind of handsome devil you've ended up with."
"Yeah, trust me, I know."
You wrap yourselves up in each other, locking lips, somehow sharing your gratitude for each other in kisses. He gets a little handsy, and you jokingly whisper to him.
"Should've done this with the reflections."
He laughs quietly.
"Oh hush."
You end the evening tangled up in each other, and he seems to be more sure of himself than usual. Turns out seeing yourself after two hundred years can do something for the ego. Maybe one day, you'll find a more permanent soluton, but for now, one little scroll is enough. He's enough. You're both enough, as long as you have each other.
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tuesday again 4/9/2023
the best photo i took this week
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i have not been keeping up with either the tuesdaypost spreadsheet or the tuesdaypost playlists so there's a strong possibility i have already talked about Joywave's It's A Trip! off the 2017 album Content. spotify
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driving ten hours in one day is ideal for listening to albums and i listened to almost every joywave album on my way home from the eclipse. american indie rock band from rochester ny, i have loved them since early college. i think they were made in a lab to get to stuck in my head bc they tend toward lower register synthier tracks that deceptively amble cheerfully along and talk about dealing with fear. songs for a male protagonist to splash water on his face, look at himself in the mirror haunted by what he's seeing, linger in his children's bedroom doorways, and then drive off into the night for the finale.
i think i listened to this song for an hour on loop yesterday bc the chorus so perfectly got stuck in my brain
When you've gotten what you want (Maybe I should start over)
There's nothing left to want (Up and at 'em again)
You don't know what you want (Yeah, I'm thinking it over)
Just tell me what to
Want
they have spent a lot of time figuring out how to have longevity as a band: "The record kind of attempts to figure that out but it doesn’t end in a definitive place. For me personally, it’s just to create things that matter as long as I possibly can, and to make things that are going to outlive me that people can hang onto for at least five to six years after I’m dead." they are deeply cranky about virality/content churn, especially in this interview. i appreciate this in an artist.
could not tell you how i first found them. i think i would have to go back to the proto-tuesdayposts of 2018.
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when you're not sleeping well you can average a book a night!
Uprooted by Naomi Novik destroyed me. (image from here)
“Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. Of course that’s not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years. He protects us against the Wood, and we’re grateful, but not that grateful.”
my best friend real-life influenced me into reading this book and i have since managed to convince four other people to read this book bc i won't shut up about it. the descriptions of the physicality of magic and how different kinds of magic and different families of spells Feel was only part of the coolest magical system ive ever read about. this is not a dark romance but it is a little brutal in a brothers grimm/this is how battles shake out sometime kind of way. i think a companion piece of media written from the Dragon's point of view would nicely parallel that post going around about how Howl's Moving Castle the movie is from Howl's point of view and Howl's Moving Castle the book is from Sophie's point of view. i would die for Agnieszka.
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (image from here)
Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders… but her father isn’t a very good one. Free to lend and reluctant to collect, he has loaned out most of his wife’s dowry and left the family on the edge of poverty–until Miryem steps in. Hardening her heart against her fellow villagers’ pleas, she sets out to collect what is owed–and finds herself more than up to the task. When her grandfather loans her a pouch of silver pennies, she brings it back full of gold.
But having the reputation of being able to change silver to gold can be more trouble than it’s worth–especially when her fate becomes tangled with the cold creatures that haunt the wood, and whose king has learned of her reputation and wants to exploit it for reasons Miryem cannot understand.
i don't know if i've ever read a book with seven points of view before? i think it was well handled, but it required significantly more brainpower than screaming through three of kingfisher's light fantasy/romances in two days and it threw me a little. saying this book is about debts cheapens it a little, i think. it is concerned with debts but also safety, and it is very much about cost in a very fairytale way and in the horrible everyday calculus of survival way.
Swordheart, Paladin's Hope, and Paladin's Strength by T. Kingfisher. god these go down So smooth. kingfisher has a niche and i respect that. i am reading the Saint of Steel tetralogy out of order bc even four library systems can only do so much, and i don't think you particularly need to read them in order.
i'm a bit cranky that the terfs took feminist fantasy from me, bc when the protagonist got her period in Paladin's Strength a little alarm bell went off in my head and i had to put it down and google some stuff (the answer is no btw). there is a way to write female-focused lightly historical fantasy without being terfy and kingfisher does it, but it's so rare that i was genuinely expecting some sort of. weird agenda to be at play.
these were all fun, fast reads and i don't have much else to say about them! not that they are better or worse than novik's books but they will not live in my head quite as long. there are fewer tantalizing hints about systems of magic that make me want to graph things out u kno
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kanopy has Animation April as their focus this month which is how i saw The King and the Mockingbird (1980, dir. Paul Grimault) which is a longer piece adapted from something he'd been working on since the 40s.
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This animated fantasy tale follows the romance between a lovely shepherdess and a handsome chimney sweep. The land's imperious king falls for the beautiful woman and tries to thwart her relationship, but a kind mockingbird assists the lovers in evading the ruler. At the king's command, the chimney sweep and his bird friend are imprisoned, and they must escape in order to rescue the young man's true love.
GOD the animation in this. there are so many references to early animation and silent film. there are so so so many gadgets and methods of conveyance in an absolutely architecturally dizzying castle. there is a ROYAL MECH that plays its own theme music. the backgrounds have a very Chuck Jones quality in that they are exactly as detailed as they need to be for the gag to work. the castle is lush and beautiful but not dizzyingly, overwhelmingly lush. there is a clear vision to every shot and a clear path your eye is meant to travel, which i appreciate very much. i think a lot of technically impressive animation (i am specifically thinking of the Nimh movies) muddies itself by trying to jam too much on the screen. just a fucking delight of a film. a delicious confection
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playing
nothing specific to say about genshin this week ur welcome
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making
painted a frame (it was a dead basic michaels frame i got at a yard sale and it was giving little boy's room) and framed a thing. this is a poster that came as a freebie with a 1997 album, and i actually bought this CD case without the CD inside bc i was so delighted with the poster. scuff sanded the frame with 120 grit, i went with a matte black acrylic bc i felt that disguised how the poster did not quite fit the frame a little better? and also bc it was what i had in the house.
i did not bother with a mat, i just used the lining paper with the stock photo and painted the back of that. do not do this with particularly valuable or beloved pieces. i do not think this is necessarily acid free and there is some danger that the paint may transfer to the back of the poster over time.
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for the Melrin ask - Worst thing you think Merlin ever did. im so curious about this one
I had to think so much about this one too.
I don't know. I love Merlin, he's my favorite character. I justify everything he does, even if it's bad. That's what happens with any favorite fictional characters.
I don't want to say "Not telling Arthur sooner" or "Mistrusting Mordred" or "Poisoning Morgana" or anything of the like because, to be fair, that's a given. It's something a lot of us will lament about. Mainly because the writers did not do their job properly (imo).
I'd say, the worst thing he did, to me, is be passive.
I'm bringing up my own values and morals here because I believe that Merlin ruined himself and all of Albion by being passive. By listening to the dragon and not doing his own research. By being whatever Arthur needed him to be. By taking things upon himself. By not trusting others because that's what he was told.
If Merlin had been a little more assertive and a little more sure of himself and what he wanted, then the show would have gone on in an entirely different direction. But he's passive. For the majority of the show. The biggest time where he's not is in the first scene where he challenges Arthur because he wanted to stay true to his ideals and values which was to stand up against bullies who prey on the ones who can't defend themselves against them.
If he had been more assertive, he would have told Arthur earlier, he wouldn't have poisoned Morgana, he would have trusted Mordred or even Gwaine and the others more.
But he let himself be led by Destiny and Kilgharrah and Gaius and whoever else advised him rather than take some time to think things through first. Like Arthur does.
The thing about Merlin and Arthur here is that Arthur really is bolder than Merlin, but in a different way. He is bold in a way Merlin lacks, which is with practical and tactical matters. He questions Merlin's judgement, questions his father's judgement, Gaius's judgement. Agravaine was a main villain for season 4 because of his perfect ways of manipulation and deceit in a way that it got past Arthur's critical thinking and assertiveness. Arthur doesn't take things at face value and is willing to consider different ways things can go and the show mostly shows that when it comes to questioning Merlin's judgement (like about Agravaine and the siege tunnels and about Gwen at first etc). But in the first few seasons, he questioned his father's judgement a lot too but the fandom mainly focuses on Merlin's opinions vs Arthur's even though he and Uther had met head-on-head multiple times.
Arthur doesn't take things at face value which is why it's possible for so many magic reveal fics to look and be accurate.
But Merlin does. Merlin takes a lot of things at face value. He took Kilgharrah's sayings at face value, he took Gaius's (good-hearted but misguided) warnings at face value. He took what the druids said, what Edwin Muirden said, what Julius Borden said, what that druid seer in the Diamere episode said, and so many others at face value. Just accepted it without thinking much about it and went forward.
Don't get me wrong, Merlin has a very strong moral compass and moral thinking. But he lacks critical thinking. Something which Arthur doesn't lack. They complete each other in this way.
But if we're not looking at all that then I'd say the worst thing I believe Merlin ever did was poison Morgana because- WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK MERLIN, DID YOU NOT THINK OF ANY OTHER FUCKING SOLUTION???? HOW ABOUT GETTING MORGANA OUT OF THE CASTLE? HUH? WHAT THEN? WHAT ABOUT TELLING HER THAT HEY, I'M GONNA POISON YOU BUT DW I HAVE THE ANTIDOTE SO THAT I CAN REVIVE YOU AGAIN WHEN MORGAUSE COMES AND LIFTS THE SPELL BC I KNOW THAT YOU DONT WANT THIS EVEN THOUGH YOU THINK UTHER SUCKS.
I MEAN, THE USED THAT PLAN SEVERAL HUNDRED TIMES ALREADY, WHY COULDN'T THEY USE IT THIS ONCE???????
#quotidian asks#joan <3#thanks for the askkkk#bbcm#bbc merlin#merlin bbc#merlin meta#merlin#merlin emrys#arthur pendragon#morgana#bbc morgana#morgana pendragon#morgana bbc#bbc arthur pendragon#gaius#bbc gaius#gaius bbc#kilgharrah#bbc kilgharrah#kilgharrah bbc#introspective#ik i went a little too introspective and literal there#but heh#idk i'm very particular about morals and values and personality traits when it comes to people#espeically in terms of ignorance#after all#i mainly have to suffer through islamophobia bc bigots don't want to search and see for themselves what Islam is actually about#anyhooo#this is fun i love this ask game
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hi =)
what are your swanqueen headcanons?
hey!
oh, I have too many lol :
Emma is an amazing cook, despite what most of fandom thinks, and she loves to cook with Regina and vice versa
Regina loves soft rock, she also loves pop songs, although no one will ever catch her listening to them (well, maybe only Emma and Henry, and Emma will tease her about but at the same time reassure her that it's ok to like those songs bc we know Regina can shut down in the blink of an eye)
Emma loves reading, and she DID READ LOTR because honestly, that line in s4 when she says to Elsa she can't read elfish because she never read LOTR is absolutely rubbish.
they play board games every now and then during family nights and Emma is not even bothered to lose anymore because her reward comes later anyways
Regina is a power bottom and I will die on this hill (although they switch most of the time because she LOVES to see Emma moaning her name and doing everything she tells her to)
both uses the magic cock spell and the strap ons
Emma is the only person Regina lets take control in bed, none of her previous lovers were allowed, not even Maleficent.
Regina loves to cuddle and just run her hands through Emma's hair when they are alone
Emma loves to kiss Regina's neck all the time, not always to tease her, but just to show affection
they leave cute notes for each other whenever they can, they also send random small gifts to each other
Regina likes to drive, but she prefers when Emma does, specially in highways
Emma likes beer okay, but she also likes wine and whiskey
They love going to the beach, and they love the looks they give each other while they're there
They also love going to the beach at night for a peaceful walk and long conversations sitting on the sand watching the waves
Regina thinks Emma and Daniel would have gotten along, and Daniel is the only person Emma isn't jealous of and loves hearing everything Regina has to say about him
Regina teaches Emma to ride horses and Emma teaches Regina to ride bikes
they are both great swimmers
that's all I can think/remember now.
#swanqueen#emma swan#regina mills#swan queen#once upon a time#jennifer morrison#lana parrilla#morrilla#swen#swanqueen fandom#swanqueen headcanons
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I've just discovered the pet zoo au and I.am.obsessed.
NO CUZ LIKE IMAGINE IK AND BELPHIE LISTENING TO "WHAT DOES THE FOX SAY" AND BELPHIE JUST STARTES MAKING FOX NOISES ON THAT PART.
Also for some reason I think beels "woof" would be like that one meme with the husky where the humans are trying to sush it and he just lets out the most definde 'woof' ever.
Another thing,what if they tried to write out their names??? Like Satan steps in int and tries to make multuple paw prints on a paper to draw out his name in a way (he fails)
Also, it's said that crows can learn some words...what if crow Mammon (due to being magic as well) manages to start saying a few words and even starts making full on sentences. Can just imagine him flying through the window and landing in front of Ik and her dad like "feed me mortals or perish" as a joke to freak them out BC 'omg a talking crow' AND THEY INSTEAD START SCREAMING THWIR BUTTS OFF WHILE MAMMON IS TRYING TO CALM THEM DOWN BUT IT ONLY TURNS WORSE.
On the talking crow Mammon topic,what if he tells Ik what the others want to tell her?? Like "Yeah Lucifer wants you to put more Britney Spears" or "Levi wants to watch you play this game" or "Asmo says you gotta go pet him"
(wanna hear more from you tho BC I like your hcs, they're funny and silly)
orders given, orders received (/j i've been wanting to talk more about this au too!!)
i love the idea of the brothers attempting to communicate their names,, i feel like lucifer and/or satan would come up with some really smart method of going about it (like laying out books or ripping up a newspaper and using the letters), but ik and her dad are just like 'ah, what silly animal antics' and clean up the mess without even noticing what they're trying to spell out
so at first they just all have nicknames-
lucifer: peter (as in Peter the Peacock)
mammon: car (crow goes "caw!", caw sounds like 'car', ergo, car)
levi: socks (on the first morning after they took the animals in, ik found him trying to hide inside one. it's also funny because usually you get cats or dogs named this)
satan: paddy (aunt lisa picked this one - as in st paddy, for his green eyes)
asmo: duchess (ik had a feeling he'd like it)
beel: boof (it's the noise he makes)
belphie: hu (from the chinese word for fox (zhao picked this one). sometimes it's extended to hu-hu)
at first, satan and asmo are the only ones who like their new nicknames, while everyone else is mostly neutral on theirs, apart from lucifer, who HATES his
however, he still responds to it, so really it's his fault that it sticks
eventually everyone warms up to their new nicknames, but they'd still like their new family to know their actual ones
i like the idea of mammon learning speech, so yes he'd be the one to eventually relay the message!
he hops around on ik's shoulder going "lucifer! lucifer! lucifer!", and ik thinks her crow friend is conducting a ritual up until she realises he keeps pointing his beak at peter the peacock
she does switch to their actual names once she learns them, but in her head she still tends to refer to them by their nicknames, and they still respond when she uses them aloud
mammon's language would be more fluent than a regular crow's, but i don't think he'd generally be able to string together full sentences
so it's more like a "hey! food!" when he's hungry, "kid? okay?" when he's concerned, "levi. bowl. broke!" when he's snitching
he can manage full sentences if he tries really hard, but he usually can't be bothered, so he saves them for when he's serious
for example, if ik were getting bullied, he would go full fluency mode to say "i'm gonna kill them for you"
the other brothers are mostly happy to just chill (particularly levi and belphie), but lucifer gets so restless with no work to do that he starts assigning himself random chores to occupy himself
for example he's decided it's his job to open all the curtains in the morning and close them at night
ik starts bringing home random worksheets from school and lucifer will just sit there staring at them (he doesn't have hands to write with so he just has to answer mentally)
levi has a little box by the window from which he can see the tv and also sunbathe
ik brings home a sheet of stickers so that he can pick some to decorate with
beel is SUCH a big dog that he would take up the whooole sofa or bed if he sat there, so usually he very politely sticks to the floor
but then they buy him a big blanket and he starts carrying it with him from room to room to rest on (belphie also steals it a lot)
everyone has their own little spots around the house where they usually stay, apart from mammon, who is nearly always found on ik's shoulder
if ik isn't home he will stand on zhao's head instead
satan nearly always sleeps on either ik or zhao's bed and at some point his habit extends to the others, so they start taking it in turns being 'guards' for both humans at night
lucifer pretends to be above it as if he DOESN'T trot himself right to rooms and stay there the whole night as soon as it's his turn
whenever ik's stressed out from school she comes home and just plonks herself on beel
he's such a big dog that he barely even feels it so he's perfectly happy to be a big fluffy pillow
levi spends most of his time in his box but he'll also be quite happy to go around the house draped around ik's neck and listening to her narrate her whole day to him
sometimes ik brings asmo ribbons and such and he gets so excited that he does that jumpy twisty thing rabbits do (i think it's called binkying?)
asmo and satan both get the zoomies but satan's always so embarrassed about it afterwards, while asmo simply owns the energy and then flops over for pats afterwards
belphie's normally very quiet and docile but occasionally he'll just SCREAM and it scares everyone in the house
#answering asks#anon asks#pet zoo au#jtta aus#i'm thinking about how this was proposed as a post-fall sort of nightbringer au....#there's so much potential in translating the brothers' nightbringer development in this au#but aside from the drama i think getting to be animals just chilling with these two nice humans would be a form of therapy in and of itself#since satan's still newborn here maybe his love for cats in this au comes from having been one during this situation#that reminds me though... eventually they'll have to fix this#diavolo and barbatos figure out where the brothers have ended up and arrive to bring them to the devildom as they were meant to go#so they're trying to secretly sneak them out to turn them back to normal and stuff#but it turns into kid's movie slapstick as ik and her dad assume they're Nefarious Animal Control Guys attempting kidnap#and the brothers aren't really making it much easier because... they kinda want to stay here now#but eventually they will have to go and oh no now i've made myself sad thinking about it
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You said you were happy to give more ,so I'm back for the sweet sweet child Valtor HC's (any plans for writing a fanfic? ). You've opened pandoras box and you can't close it now.
Muah! I'm so glad you're enjoying this little crack au that I got WAYYY to attached too and am now taking seriously XD
I could do like a one shot fic or something but my main concern rn is surviving s6-8 and wow
Anyways here's some SWEET headcanons
Not all of them are nice bc I cannot be dragged away from the angst but most of them are!!
Valtor is legally a ward of Light Rock and will be until he turns 18 and competes in his rehabilitation. I imagine that Light Rock is actually a nice place, the Trix just did not jive with it or the concept of becoming better people. He does therapy at the compound, and his favorite type is art therapy. Valtor really likes it there with his 76 well trained older brothers who are also technically guards
He picks up a bunch of different hobbies at Light Rock. He loves all the activities. They introduce him to theater and it goes exactly like you expect. He LOVES it, and invites the winx et al to all of his shows. He loves the costumes and dramatics about it, and eventually he's listening to Stella talk about types of stitches so he can make his own clothes too
You know those magic limiters the Trix wore on their foreheads at Light Rock? Valtor wears one but he can break it and take it off whenever they want. They're still trying to find a way to actually limit his magic, at some point Valtor got involved in the process
People were first really worried that Valtor could take off the magic limiter whenever he wanted but it slowly became clear that he's perfectly content to stay put so eventually no one cares. The Light Council even gives permission for Valtor to use his magic eventually, despite the fact he's supposed to be limited
Valtor was the one who told Bloom how to get to Obsidian. Like he was there when that happened and he spent all his time after the Ancestrals got trapped trying to get them out so he can just tell the Winx
He obviously doesn't go with them, just because he has the ability to use free will and the obedience built into his essence is now gone doesn't make him immune to mind control spells and he'd rather not. He also REALLY never wants to be face to face with Belladonna ever again, Icy was bad enough tbh
When Bloom puts her hacks powers back where they belong (in Domino) and becomes a normal ass (still stupid powerful, shes related to Daphne AND part of fire mixed with her magic at this point) fairy, she has to learn how to fight like a normal person instead of abusing the fact she doesn't get magic exhaustion. She spars with/around Valtor, primarily because as the Wizard of Magic he can tell her when she's getting exhausted bc she doesn't notice
When the Winx practice group combat they usually spar with Valtor too, who is ecstatic to spend time with the Winx AND use his magic, and they're all there like "if you didn't pull your punches for most the year and have an obvious exploit in your design (aka if you were a nomral born person) we would of never won."
Valtor is technically transformed 24/7 and can straight up die from magical exhaustion. Unlike other magic users who would just detransform, collapse, and pass out, he's far too sustained by his magic to survive without it. This is one of the said design flaws that could be used to defeat him, please note how both this and ripping his elemental components apart would both kill him
He's a kid but he's the WIZARD OF MAGIC, literally anything that's magic is under his domain and he absolutely treated their fights as games bc he COULD curve stomp anything. Belladonna wasn't fucking around when she created him
He still considers Bloom his sister after she gives up her HAXXS that makes her magic feel like his. Bloom thinks this is adorable and takes him out for family time. Valtor looks forward to whenever anyone comes to visit him, especially when he gets to leave the compound (it's nice there but he's used to having access to a lot more space) but especially when Bloom does it
Magic attaches to symbols easily, and Valtor made his mark to make really complicated magic (like Witch magic mind control and Fairy magic power boosting) easier on himself. He made the symbol at like 4ish and has been using it since. Sometimes he makes the symbol from his hands when he just shoots magic at the problem bc he thinks it looks cool
Eventually Helia takes over administration over RF from Saladin Valtor likes to hang around the place and he gets to help out with combatting magic lessons! Exciting for Valtor, terrifying for literally all the students. Riven and Diaspro tend to be around™ bc Helia harasses them into being around and they do not help the situation. The staff at RF uses Valtor to haze the freshmen. Valtor eventually notices this and is stuck between intentionally freaking them out and not wanting people to be afraid of him
Bby Valtor is Belladonna's biological son, no father. He's made from a combination of all the elements instead of just fire and his true form is more uncanny and otherworldly instead of chthonic looking. A very strong "I shouldn't be looking at this" energy, his appearance sets off the flight or fight response but it's not incomprehensible or anything. He's still humanoid it's just when you're a creature closest in make-up as all 5 of the gods of your world you end up looking weird. Still dragon looking tho
Nabu comes around often to just chat with Valtor about his magic. As a scholar Nabu is thriving asking questions about Valtor and Valtor loves the attention, everyone else is a little concerned if Nabu should be getting child that nearly took over the dimension thinking about how to use his magic more efficiently but it's fine. Valtor is a good kid now
Btw if the planet of Espero (where dimension wide government buildings are hosted, including Light Rock) was ever attacked....no it wouldn't be <3 Valtor would put an end to that shit so quickly it wouldn't even be a fight
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❤ I LOVE JELLAL FERNANDES! 💙
He was made as slave since childhood, but he still has a smile for every one, a hant to offer, a word to make everyone feel better! He was a leader and a protector.
He was the first one to blame himself about Sho's plan, and the only one that went to save Erza.
He was tortured for days, beaten, punished, electrocuted, and more, he got MAGIC possesed, and MAGIC brainwashed by Ultear and became a slave from that magic.
Everyone in TOH was there by choice in that moment, but he was the only one without choice bc he was possesed.
Even so, since he took charge of the tower, no person there was treated badly bc happy workers work more, as he, while being possesed, said in the manga, also, every person there learned to use magic if they pleased.
He then was rescued by Erza and Natsu, free himself from possesion and the first thing he did was take Erza's place inside the lacryma and redirected the explosion, saving everyone in there, no one but Simon, died that day, and anyone who said otherwise is a vile liar.
In Nirvana he wakes up thanks to Wendy. His only memory is Erza's name, the most important person for that enslaved lost boy, and even so, he knows he has to stop Nirvana, and the only way is using a destruction seal spell, that' why he activates Nirvana, no as some ignorant will said that he did it to hurt people, Jellal actually was about to destroy the artifact and would have save everyone, even at the cost of his life bc that way he will protect the codes of deactivation, and he will free Erza from himself bc even if he has no memory about TOH, the true Jellal, woukd have never hurt his friends, that's why he cries when Erza tells her about what happened on TOH.
But Brain came, and deactivated the seal, that's not Jellal fault, if you know how to read you will easily realized that, but not anyone is good at reading, so dont worry, here are the pages, these are the FACTS and not biased and wrong interpretations:
Then he gets arrest, even if he is innocent, still he takes the responsability, and he smile when Erza stops his friends that are fighting for him, bc he knows is the best for them, and of course, the best for Erza.
Later, he joins CS, bc he realized he would do more figting against darknest than rotting away in a prison, and he does, with Meredy and Ultear, the fight the evil and protect the innocents.
After that, O6 breaks from prison, he goes to talk with them, they asked is he is going to capture them again, but he says no, that's ridiculous, he only wants to talk, but they attack him firts, and he defends himself and realized that they only will listen if he wins that battle, so he wins it, and tells him the true, if they keep themselves in the dark path, like they wanted too, they will never have the freedom they want, just a reminder, this people O6 they have killed people for real, just remember that Sorano killed Karen just bc she feel like it.
O6 realized that it is true, they dont want to keep themselves in the darkness, and they decided to follow him. THEY DECIDED!!! They are not children that Jellal forced too, they are adults that were presented with a choice and they choosed. Also, you can see in the anime how they left Jellal and Meredy for a while, and they come back to them and protected both of them from Rustyrose, finally THEY DECIDED to join Crime Sòrcière looking for atoning and redemption and the true freedom, something they achieved at the end of the manga, they got a Royal pardon, they become free people, later we learned that Erik and Kinana are dating, and Sorano joined Sabertooth with her sister, bc they were always free to do what they wanted, they were not forced by Jellal. Actually you can see in Rhodonite spin-off that Jellal says to Meredy that he is not chains to bid them, they are free to come and go as they please.
Adding at this, Ultear has said multiple times that she was the one controlling Jellal actions, she brainwashed and mind controlledd him, she was the one that killed Simon, she was the one that killed Meredy's family and village, she was the one that fuck up Jellal's life, even so Jellal forgives her, and doesn't use this facts to absolve himself. He stills feels guilty even if he was innocent in all these, he still wants to protect people from slavery, from tortured, from darkness.
And if we have to add a little of FT100YQ, we see how, even if he has received all the forgiveness from everyone, he still wants to follow his path of protecting people from darkness, bc this is the real Jellal, the little slaved, malnurished, abused, tortured child that always had a smile, a hand, an word to offer to other people that need some light and help in their lifes.
He is an amazing character, sadly, some people are too closed minded, short-sighted and ill-intended to understand his deepness, his richness and his beautiful heart, but I know, there is a lot of people that loves him, and understand him, and care for him... to all of you...
THAN YOU VERY MUCH! 🙇🏻♀️💙❤
Ps: You have the right to hate every character you want for any reason, or even without reason, but spreadind wrong information as facts, its bullsh!t.
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Cedric The Sensational: Headcanons
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Cedric wears gloves for two main reasons: first and foremost, he handles aLOT of various chemicals, herbs, and dubious ingredients for potions. Our lad needs some PPE somewhere, mkay? Second, I'm sure that tower got drafty as fuck- his hands were probably so cold :(
Speaking of hands, I personally think Cedric *could have* gotten tendonitis, or some type of recurring carpal tunnel. He spent his whole life doing repetitive hand motions (using his wand) and I would equate it to artists getting these same conditions for the same reasons. Maybe his gloves could also serve as compression braces-?
Cedric only started to accept his white/Grey bangs once his niece Calista begged her mother to make her hair like cedrics (I don't remember if that was expressed in actual canon if so oops) ((he's still insecure about his hair ofc in this headcanon but Calista changing her hair bc of him melted his cold hard heart))
I just KNOW deep in my soul that he also has grey hairs from stress/age sprinkled into his "normal" dark hair- but it's fine cuz we love a silver maned man 😍
Cedric doesn't really wear any strong scents, if any cologne at all. I'd think he'd mainly smell of soap, old (spell)books, dried herbs/plants from his potions, and have a light chemical smell to him from potion making as well- think like benzene and slight formaldehyde :-)
Calista sees Cedric as a father figure, that's part of why she's so attached to him. I also think Cedric has babysat Calista since she was a baby, further strengthening their bond
Even though Cordelia is overbearing and irritates Cedric constantly, they would absolutely commit crimes for one another- they care about each other so much :') and I can imagine them shit talking their parents as a main form of sibling bonding as adults 💀
Cedric doesn't miss wormwood at all, but he gets lonely without an animal familiar
:( someone give his man an actual decent animal companion please (yes I'm going to be this someone and write a fic about it)
Listen.... I don't think he's ever been in a relationship before because of how othered he was for a majority of his life, but I don't think he's a virgin either. I'd imagine some drunken black out hook up at a hexley hall party
He has and will continue to sleep holding books in his hand (he has also had his nose bonked multiple times with books when he falls asleep reading in bed)
Cedric's sleep schedule is absolutely ass over feet fucked up
He seems like he would drink coffee religiously, not for the taste but because he needs the energy to stay up late working (he probably gets killer headaches in the morning bc of the caffeine dependency)
Cedric with bed head would be so goddamn sexy to see 🫦
Cedric gets so lost in concentration/hyperfixates on practicing magic/brewing potions that he will commonly forget to eat- that partly contributes to him being so skinny and out of breath if he runs too much
As with most Disney villains, I feel like he is neurodivergent/queer coded
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i’m doing it i’m doing it DND CLASSES FOR THE WARRIOR NUNS
you will laugh initially but LISTEN - Mother Superion is a bard. she’s a battlefield control champ with a bit of healing (a BIT) and before you think ‘she would not fucking etc. etc.’ consider this - she’s a College of Whispers bard. it is creepy as fuck. she gets in ur head, she deals psychic damage. she’s out here main casting confusion, hold person, mass suggestion, geas. dissonant whispers to give you a nosebleed with a goddamn look. a bard is about swag in any colour scheme and MS is out there wearing black and making you haemorrhage without touching you.
real quick on yas and michael. LOOK i want to make yas a cleric or a druid but i am loathe to give her a high wisdom score. my girl has no sense of direction. so i’m going to make her a wizard purely because it happens every campaign. your wizard has no spells your wizard is trapped in a small room with a melee fighter your wizard is FUCKED. your wizard somehow beats the fucking shit out of that dude and walks out with three missing teeth and a shit-eating grin. this is the yas arc. so, wizard. BIG on utility. i could even see her as an artificer honestly like a bit of artillerist or she could have a metal wolf i wouldn’t stop her. michael is a barbarian but he’s the totem of the bear so when he rages he takes half damage from everything except psychic damage. champ.
cam is a rogue. she’s rogue-coded. she’s a little guy with a hand crossbow. assassin OR perhaps actually a bit of arcane trickster. message, mage hand, a bit of prestidigitation but she’s read the RAW (rules-as-written) and she is exploiting the fuck out of that cantrip. she is dealing 8d6 sneak attack damage and using a feat to shoot again with her bonus action. or you’ve been sneak attack damaged x2 because surprise and so you are dead and she’s bonus action hiding w her sneak ability modifier of +14.
don’t argue lilith is a hexblade warlock. what the fuck else? she’s your archetypical Gish rocking a longsword and fuck it i’m just going to give her magic initiate or something so she can have the primal savagery cantrip for the claws and the teeth. she’s pact of the blade. i can and will have her be a paladin base and multi class into warlock to make an overpowered mess of a stat block but she’s maining charisma and she got constitution to the roof tiles. her eldritch invocations are devil’s sight, agonizing blast, armour of shadows. Eventually I wanna say master of myriad forms just because alter self straight-up slaps and I want lilith to do whatever she wants (god forbid women)
shannon is a paladin. classic paladin exactly like the one my mom always insists on playing and she too forgets she has any spells except hunter’s mark and smites but she’s the only reason the party is alive her AC is 19 from the get-go her fighting style is defence +1 ac and she’s got the sentinel feat. sword and shield or shield and morningstar. poured all her point-buy into strength and con but acts like she’s got an intelligence score of 25 at the table. genuinely the most likely to make the dm tear their hair out bc she wants to talk to every NPC and she’ll fully encourage everyone else to do the stupidest shit
mary has me conflicted. on the one hand she’s an obvious pick for artificer but i dislike that class & mary is too precious to me SO instead let’s give her that sexy sexy gunslinger fighter subclass. yeah she made you homebrew guns into your setting no she isn’t sorry about it. took close-range fighting style so she can be ANYWHERE on the battlefield and hand people their asses. she can snipe but she has a tendency to rush into rooms, immediately trigger all the traps, and then laugh her ass off while climbing out of the pit of spikes like that painting of the naked woman coming out of the well. sometimes the traps set her on fire and she refuses to use her action to put it out. she WILL sacrifice her action bonus action movement argue w/ the DM over what counts as a free action if ANYBODY gets dropped to 0 and is making death saves. fully does not care who has healing word she will book it to her fallen comrades, action surge the shit out of her turn because ‘in this life!!!’
now. ava is obviously i don’t take criticism she is Obviously a wild magic sorcerer. my girl is out here using tides of chaos to get advantage on stupid fucking rolls like she’ll use it to win drinking games or to charm the lock into opening or to tie a guard’s bootlaces together and then in the middle of a fight she’ll roll a 7 or 8 on a d100 and cast fireball centred on herself. sometimes she breaks the fourth wall and the spotify playlist of ‘dnd fight music’ will play out of nowhere and the party is just so used to it they don’t even bother to prod at the fraying fabric of the universe. ava wants all the fire spells she’s got fire bolt she’s got shocking grasp she definitely has minor illusion AND mage hand doesn’t care if there are better utility cantrips (aside from prestidigitation not really anyway mage hand is aha your too sexy!!). she will not multi class she wants those high levels spells we’re talking dimension door, fireball, FUCKING FLY (she twin spells fly on her and bea and most days will waste all her 3rd and 4th level spell slots on 10 minutes of what she calls ‘we stay silly time’). but also she had a surprisingly high int score so she learns how to ritual cast and learns alarm and conjure steed and a bunch of good utility spells and it makes bea So Proud. just wait until she learns Animate Objects and can fuck up enemies beauty and the beast style. ava as sorcerer is bespoke. send tweet.
bea. i’m so emotional. i want to make her a blade singer wizard so bad. BUT i think her int modifier better serves rogue. along with dex she can have dual short swords she can use a longbow she can dagger dagger dagger (i’m giving her boots of haste because i love her). but i’m multi classing her with gloom stalker ranger. hands down the best ranger & thematically so so sexy. assassin rogue with three levels in gloom stalker. yes my soul wants to give bea magic but RESIST because she’s cool as she is she’s surrounded by magic users and YET she is still the MVP of any fight. she has dark vision she has sneak attack you bet ur ass she is meticulously planning how to get surprise in every encounter and she does. typical rogue sneaks ahead of the party and dispatches 7 enemies by herself. bonus action dash/ hide but also loves her team because sneak attack loves an ally within 5feet. guys she’s terrifying ava loves casting haste on her and watching her just go batshit. she’ll use uncanny dodge every damn turn if she had to she automatically halves the damage off ava’s self-combustion wild magic bullshit. ava can cast fireball right next to her and bea will succeed the FUCK out of that dex save and take no damage.
(these nuns are making me worse every day but there u go dnd classes for my babies)
#i'm fully right about everything but PLEASE argue with me genuinely i'm curious what ppl think#warrior nun#ava silva#sister beatrice#sister lilith#sister camila#mother superion#shotgun mary#shannon masters#dnd au
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Lolirock characters ranked on how likely they would be to rock your shit in a fist fight:
Note: this is for characters who speak in at least two episodes. Mostly. There may be a few exceptions.
At the bottom of the list: missy
Tbh missy looks like she'd smack a bitch, but I think she always tries to let her bark do the biting. The second it's getting more physical is the second she's backing out. She's probs the one getting her shit rocked
Next up: Doug
With a name like Doug, you know his fedora-wearing ass doesn't stand a single iota of a chance. And if you get the cell phone, he's down for the fucking count. This is also a good place to put any other love in-show love interest auriana's had... there is one exception
The exception: Matt
Now I know what you're thinking. The dinosaur guy? Why's he soch a big exception? Well it's bc of the falling t-Rex scene. The guy noticed the skull falling and was able to make his way under it, catch it and hold it up until iris got there. Do I think he'd still get whooped in a fistfight? Yes I do, but he's put up more of a fight than the likes of Doug or Timothy(who got bested by a fucking table)
Now, Our magical teddy bear: amaru
While I highly doubt amaru would get into a street fight, I don't think he'd do the best. He's smol, he's squishy, and quite cute. And while these are all amazing facts about him, they are no help in a fight. But I think his cuteness would keep him from being hurt.
She should probs be higher but I'm spending forever on this already: Lyna
Lyna would try to avoid this fight at all costs. don't get me wrong, I'm not saying she couldn't rock your shit. I'm saying she probably wouldn't. This is basically a character trait of hers, as she's a lot better with spells. If she actually joined the fight, she'd probably just fight to a stand still.
Please hear me out: gramorr
Im getting a lot of joy from this. We never see him use anything other than magic and intimidation to get his way. without his magic, he only has intimidation. So I think he can barely throw a punch. Like once the person isn't intimidated by him they could probably rock this man's shit, but his presence makes most just go "nah, fuck this."
Next: Jenny
Is this mostly to spite gramorr? I'll never say. Listen, Jenny would use a lot of foot work to confuse her opponent, and get them to fall, then beat them up. I think this isn't her first rodeo with this crap.
Ok, this is where I'm putting Deinos and Kakos:
if I could separate them, they'd be a lot lower, but they finish each other's sentences, so they're basically one person. They mostly have the advantage of being two people, but put them in a 2v2 and those kids are getting slammed.
After this: Nathaniel
I feel like this fight is under very certain conditions. Someone's being disrespectful and loud in the smoothie shop. He tries to escort kick them out, and they punch him. Nathaniel is able to get them out the door before punching back. And wins the fight, but gets injured in the process.
We're pretty much in the you never stood a chance levels: Auriana
I know I know, it's probably lower than it should be. But I have a good reason for this. It's bc I can't see auriana getting into a fistfight. She's a very charming person, and that gets her out of a lot of these situations. She absolutely kicks ass, but I think it's almost impossible for her to end up in a street fight.
I think I know what I'm doing here: Mephisto
This is probably just a game to him tbh. Like it doesn't matter that he's not using magic. In fact, it probably helps him some since most of the magic fights are using large spells to summon monsters. Also he's talking trash the entire time, but no one quite knows what he means, so he's accidentally playing mind games with his opponents.
Back again?: it's Amaru, but horse form
Yes they are separate, and I know it kind of contradicts the Deinos & Kakos thing but guess what? I don't care. But anyway, horse amaru could take a direct attack from banes, he can handle a little fist fight. Like horses are kinda tanks already, but he also has wings.
We're def in the you never stood a chance category: Talia
If you're pissing her off, it's barely even a fight. The shit-rocking will be swift, she's by far the most efficient. But she won't do it unless it's really needed.
I'm gonna get flamed for this one: Iris
One of my main reasons for this is bc she was the first person we saw using the crystum-pactus spell, which is just like enhanced punching. And in the episode with the evil stuffed animals, in the initial fight iris just bit the plushie that was latched onto talia.
Like she's more feral than we think she is.
Praxina
I don't know why she wouldn't be using her magic, but actually she probably is, and that's what's she's really able to fuck anyone going against her up.
At the very top: Carissa
For Carissa, every fight is a fistfight. Similar to what I said about Lyna, the fact she's good at combat is part of her character. Carissa is also on the short list of people who have fucking bodied Banes, and on his own turf too. She deserves to be able to kick someone in the face. Like Carissa joining a fight by leaping off something and landing on the opponent's face would be iconic, and you can't tell me I'm wrong about that.
#I was going to put lyna a lot lower then realized I couldn't do that to my girl#why is missy the only person with a last name in this show#lolirock#iris lolirock#talia lolirock#lolirock auriana#lolirock mephisto#lolirock praxina#lolirock nathaniel#lolirock Carissa#lolirock lyna#putting gramorr really low on the list really improves my mental health#I was gonna put some more pictures but tumblr does hat my guts so I'll take what I can get
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"hey boss sorry I’m late I was zoned out in the shower thinking about what dnd 5e class each of the losers would be" -me this morning
lol anyway here’s what I came up with!! would love to hear others’ thoughts on this!! my personal character interpretations are very book heavy with cherry-picked movie influences and a respectable scoop of fanon interpretations I like lol so I think there’s a lot of options here and I think it would be so fun to hear other people’s interpretations of this!!
bill: oath of vengeance paladin whose god is maturin. his favorite spell is compelled duel. no further elaboration needed.
mike: farm boy mike made me consider druid or ranger, but I think his motivations are very strong around maintaining derry’s history, and he’s incredibly dedicated to that, so I think knowledge domain cleric makes most sense to me (his god is also maturin, bike maturin acolyte boyfriends so real <3 )
ben: book ben is soooo fighter. that man threw back an insane amount of alcohol, went back to derry no question, stomped on some alien eggs, and took decades to confess to a cute, corny little 3 line love poem, then respectfully swept his childhood love off her feet. that’s just so fighter to me. like there is nothing more Fighter than starting your story alone in a tavern venting vaguely about your past heroic exploits to the bartender. fighter for sure with some significant levels in artificer for his architecture career
stan: wizardddddd he literally escapes pennywise with the powers of his bird watching guidebook!!!! literally got magic powers from a book in canon!!!!! also he's very happy being an accountant and i feel like math and desk jobs feel very wizard to me lol. also it would be so interesting to explore his feelings about being able to shape reality when he's so attached to maintaining reality. but. he literally changed reality with his book like!!!! so much to think about here.
bev: i kinda want bev to be a rogue, but i think that's just what she initially tries to be. she wants to fly under the radar so bad but she never can. honestly i think she's a barbarian!! it's what she deserves!!! 2017 babygirl kills her dad by bashing him over the head with a toilet cover!!! that's some barbarian shit she has so much anger and rage that she deserves to let out!!!!! also her premonitions about It coming back? danger sense. decades in advance danger sense lmao
eddie: listen. i considered rogue. killing your childhood bully with a broken perrier bottle is some rogue shit. i also considered monk, bc our boy loves to go fast!! but i think the most fitting class for him is ranger. his "super power" is always knowing where to go and where he is. he uses it in the sewers, he uses it to drive around new york city better than anyone else. knowing your terrain that effortlessly is some ranger shit. also he's happiest just chilling on a grassy hill or hanging out in the barrens!! nature baby boy!! also rangers can be a dex class so it still works for him wanting to run and run and run
richie: okay i spent way too much time thinking about richie's bc he's my favorite <3 lol so this is gonna be long. listen we all have biases okay. anyways he's obviously a bard like hello he can change his voice and convince people he's someone else. basically literally casts silvery barbs in book canon. constantly performing. described as having "exhausting charm." support class 100%, while everyone leans on bill he's the one bill leans on. favorite spell is disguise self bc he wants so badly to be someone else. but i don't think he's just a bard. i think he pretends to be just a bard, but such a big part of richie's character is being afraid of things inside himself that he'd like to ignore but can't control. It shows him a werewolf with his name on it which yeah I'm very pro bisexual interpretation of that but more generally is just about feeling like he's got smth uncontrollable and scary that he doesn't understand within him. all of which screams wild magic sorcerer!! so i think he's a wild magic sorcerer who learns bard stuff so he can pretend he's only a bard bc he's scared of his natural magic
okay ty for reading please feel free to share your thoughts if you have them <3
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CW: brief mentions of abuse, violence, torture, as they appear in BBC Merlin
So I’m about ten years late on this but I’m really not seeing enough discourse about Morgana from BBC Merlin bc like. She is. Utterly Fascinating. She is a study in how writers at the time were absolutely panicking about how to deal with women activists and shows a really unnerving look at the way that people thought (and continue to think) that left wing activists are constantly on the borderline of falling into violent extremism and it is. Wild. And yet I barely ever seem to see people discussing her in depth?
It’s been mentioned a few times though on the Destiny and Chicken podcast (which if you haven’t listened, go do that immediately, it is a wonderful episode by episode breakdown and discussion and the hosts are brilliant) that Morgana’s obsession with killing Merlin (and kidnapping him, and torturing him, and emotionally wrecking him, etc., etc.) is strange because she doesn’t know about his magic and therefore she shouldn’t know that he is a legitimate threat. I actually completely disagree. I don’t think that it’s actually about his threat level at all. I always read her ‘oh he’s a thorn in my side’ type rhetoric, right from Season 3 and the scene where she says something like that to Morgause, as an excuse, rather than as her legitimate reason. I think that her obsession with hurting Merlin truly stems from his betrayal in the Fires of Idirsholas. I don’t think she ever recovers from it.
Think of it from Morgana’s point of view: she doesn’t know that Merlin was told that she was the vessel for the spell. In fact, she doesn’t even know that she is the vessel. Remember: Morgause enchants her to sleep before she a) consents to participate in the plan, and b) gives her any real detail about the plan. As far as she knows, something terrible is happening and someone is trying to kill Uther. With only that info to go on, she risks her life to help save Uther, despite everything he’s done to her and people like her (see: directly threatening her life, throttling her, locking her up etc.). Remember that she helps Merlin drag Uther out of danger. She has no idea what’s going on and she doesn’t have any expectation of her own safety throughout. When Merlin continues dragging Uther away after Morgana trips and a knight advances on her, she cowers because she’s fully expecting him to strike her.
Given this, when Merlin poisons her, there’s really only one thing that could motivate him, as far as she knows: she has magic. From Morgana’s POV, arguably her closest friend, the person who knows her most private and dangerous secrets and who seemed to accept her, turned on her at the first sign of a magical threat, without trying to speak to her or genuinely considering that she might literally be protected by her magic, but not be causing it. As far as she can see, he simply assumes that it’s her fault because she has magic, and his response is to straight up murder her. That’s intensely personal. She trusted this man with a secret that could kill her and he used that knowledge as justification to poison her.
Also, Merlin’s choice is essentially to kill her on the chance that it saves Arthur. He sees both Arthur and Morgana at risk and he chooses to sacrifice Morgana. There’s a repeating pattern of characters choosing Arthur over Morgana that I’ve always found intensely sad. Gwen falls for him and so Morgana loses her; when she comes back in S3, her best friend has moved on. Merlin chooses Arthur. Gaius chooses literally everyone in damn Camelot except her. Annis chooses Arthur. Uther prioritises Arthur and chooses not to claim Morgana as his family. She’s constantly isolated in favour of Arthur. Merlin might just have been the first and most traumatic loss.
(I will also point out that he used hemlock, a poison that, to this day, has no antidote. Without a ventilator and 21st century medical life-support machines, that girl should be dead. From what she can know, he didn’t want her brought to the point of death but maybe revivable, he wanted her Deceased. I assume Morgause healed her with magic but like, honestly, Merlin could not have expected that to be possible.)
I’ve gone on a bit but basically, I think that Morgana’s specific obsession with Merlin does make sense because it’s not partly political, like with Arthur, it’s primarily personal. I think this also explains why her plans re: Merlin are so centred on personally hurting him, rather than, as you said, simply sending someone in to slit his throat and be done with it. When he’s brought to her in A Servant of Two Masters, she literally stops someone from killing him so that she can hurt him herself. She tortures him physically and then tries to make him do the one thing that would hurt him most: kill Arthur. (This also ties in to Fires of Idirsholas, because in that situation Merlin chose Arthur’s life over hers and now she’s going to make him lose the person he sacrificed her to save.)
When she poisons him in The Hollow Queen, it’s violent and intimate and personal. Firstly, she uses poison, which is a direct callback to what he did to her. She forces it into his mouth and watches him. She barely uses magic at all, except to get him on the ground at first which is fair since she might not be able to do it manually any more since Colin Morgan suddenly grew three inches and got Shoulders. She uses something that will make him suffer for as long as possible. And she pushes his body over that ridge herself, without magic. Even the way in which she tricks him into following her into the woods is a sick recreation of her experience with Merlin and druidboy!Mordred.
Essentially, it comes down to her understanding of Merlin: i.e. she knows that Merlin will drop everything to help this innocent young boy that he’s known for thirty seconds—but not her. He will do anything to help anybody—but not her. It’s really fricking sad to me. She puts herself through watching him help a total stranger, knowing that he deemed her undeserving of his kindness; she forces herself to see, again, that he will help anyone, no matter what, even if they have magic—but, for some reason, not her. It must feel personal to her, which is I think why her attacks on Merlin are so personal in return.
Also, in the Hollow Queen episode, compare Morgana’s plan re: Merlin with her plan re: Sarrum. Sarrum imprisoned her for TWO YEARS in a pit and (it’s implied) physically or sexually abused her, and yet she’s willing to delegate that assassination to Gwen. She looks at her plan for the week, decides to get rid of both Merlin and Sarrum, and goes ‘mm yeah that’s too much, I simply don’t have time for both of those’ and chooses to prioritise killing Merlin herself over assassinating the man who, again, imprisoned and abused her for years. That, to me, really makes it seem like Merlin is still a more personal and important target. Sarrum she wants dead for his actions against her, sure, but she had no love for him beforehand so the trauma isn’t compounded by a previous relationship with the abuser. However, she loved and trusted Merlin before his betrayal and so her vengeance against him simply has to be carried out by her own hand.
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So since you asked for asks… your posts about walking bomb and spirit vs entropy magic and such was super interesting and it did get me to thinking about how my own headcanon re: the different classifications of spells into schools / trees in Origins vs II could have something to do with how most of the mages you encounter in Origins are from a more antiquated, “classically trained” background (obviously Morrigan seems like she should be the exception to that, except not because she was trained by the OG witch) so they might be more concerned with things like theory and taxonomy (like how closely are chickens ACTUALLY related to crocodiles, that sort of thing). Whereas all the mages and magic you encounter in Kirkwall come from apostates who are basically hacking this shit and they’re much more concerned with just getting results, so the classification you see there is just about what it feels like to use magic (like “i don’t care how closely birds and crocodiles are related genetically, when hunting one is absolutely nothing like hunting the other.”) I suppose this wasn’t really an ask, just a ramble, but yeah. I enjoy reading your headcanons and lore ideas.
YES. so relevant to my interests. okay
so the four school system appears to be very much circle specific, or at least kinloch specific. it’s extremely formalised there (there’s codex entries which actually have them in two pairs of opposities, all the books in the library are organised by school, etc.) obviously the schools can’t apply to all companions’ understanding, but it’s notable that while arcane bolt is the very basic circle-trained mage spell, the only spell a mage warden must have, morrigan does not initially have it. so you get a glimpse from that of how morrigan does not actually quite belong to this system, even if that’s how her skills are presented to you. i always build morrigan with a mix of spells from each school for this reason, rather than my circle mages who tend to be more specialised :D
da2 works along a similar system, but broken down less formally. da2’s six schools of magic are, broadly speaking, primal split into primal and elemental, spirit split into spirit and arcane, and then creation and entropy. so the impression here is that it’s the same system as dao but broken up a bit. and that makes sense for exactly the reasons you said! we’ve got a kinloch hold apostate, an apostate with secondhand gallows training, and a dalish apostate. i imagine much like morrigan, merrill works on a different system that our perspective doesn’t let us see. but bethany and anders’ take probably would look much like what we see! actually the most interesting thing about the da2 system is that each mage companion has a school they can’t take. anders can’t run entropy (the “opposite” of his natural school, creation, according to the circle’s system), merrill can’t run creation (most associated with circle mages and least associated with blood magic) and bethany can’t run primal (i... don’t have an explanation for this. maybe malcolm wasn’t into lightning. maybe bethy doesn’t like the crunch sound it makes when you throw stonefist at someone. idk)
then you have the dai schools which, um, make me want to cry. when did spirit and then three entire elemental “schools” become sexier than literally anything else... this is the absolute extreme of “just throwing whatever you can at the enemy, whatever works” which makes NO sense for any of your mage companions who are all highly educated because bioware doesn’t love me and doesn’t care abt my scrappy mage interests. however i admit that it makes absolute sense for adaar and for any non mage inquisitor who is like “just throw lightning at them!” and dorian or whoever is like “actually inquisitor it’s—” and the inquisitor is like “PLEASE JUST THROW THE LIGHTNING BEFORE IT EATS MY FACE” and then they get zapped unconscious bc they didn’t listen to theory. sad. circle mage and mage lavellan inquisitor though wtf are you doing
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hello your tangled AU has entered my brain and refused to leave. i also like to kinda shuffle things around in AUs to keep it interesting lol.
consider: caleb and philip are the kingdom's princes, and caleb is first in line for the throne. philip slowly grows more and more spiteful that caleb won't listen to the policies he wants to implement (idk what those policies would be tho lol) and tries to murder caleb. he fails, barely, and gets exiled.
while exiled and looking for a way to get back at his brother, philip finds raw magic (?) stored in a huge pink flower. he cant just take all of it bc that would explode him, so he periodically comes back to the flower to gather magic energy and learn to cast Evil Spells. this kinda fucks him up tho, and eventually he needs the magic just to stay alive.
caleb marries evelyn and gets crowned king, but when they try for baby, they realize that for one reason or another, they're unable to conceive kids. they consult the collector, who tells them that if they find some raw magic and each sacrifice one of their bones, he'll make them a kid. caleb and evelyn hunt down the raw magic flower, they each chop off a finger, and the collector uses their bones and the raw magic to create hunter.
philip goes back to his cave to find the flower gone, and goes into a Rage. he spends months searching, until one day he sees a picture of the royal baby, a little boy with bright pink eyes. the same pink as the flower.
philip uses the last of his magic to break into the palace, and discovers that magic is stored in the baby. he steals hunter and locks him up in a faraway tower, where he raises him to be as submissive and obedient as possible, and keeps reminding him of the fact that if hunter ever leaves him, both of them will perish because hunter is too good and pure for the evil outside, adn philip needs the magic thats inside him to live.
hunter is a very curious and energetic dude tho, and through the books philip brings him, teaches himself everything from sewing to cooking to basic martial arts. by the time willow enters the tower, he's more than capable of knocking her out in one hit, though he very quickly realizes he shouldnt have done that probably cuz shes very nice.
willow has a hard time convincing him to leave with her, because hunter is still like "nooo if im not here my uncle will die" but eventually he lets her convince him that he won't notice if it's just for a day, right??
wrong. cause in the 15 years that hunter's been gone, caleb has learned some magic of his own, and has been carving and sending out magic wooden birds to look for his boy. and wouldnt you know it, on hunter's first day out, he gets found by a little cardinal who keeps trying to bully him into going to the castle. and yknow, hunter would really like to see the castle and his uncle usually doesnt show up for weeks at a time and he can't resist two sources of peer pressure at once, so,,,, yea.
i really like this AU can you tell? :P
OH THIS IS SO FUCKING GOOD I’ve been trying to think of a good way to shuffle the plot to fit the characters AND THIS ROCKS!!!!
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A stupid story idea with to much inspiration fro! other media
This idea was basically a shower thought but it has now escalated.
There will probably be a lot of spelling mistakes so, have fun
This would be a mix of fantasy, mystery, adventure and possible romance (idk bro)
The world is "split" into two parts, the above (where we live lmao) and the below/the underground. In The Above, it's like our world but they're in the 1900's. Only humans live there and they only think of The Below as a legend or just an old wife's tale. In the Below, it's full of monsters (but there are still humans) and it's more advanced in some districts. The creatures in the Below include, humans, vampires, nagas, centaurs, sirens, werewolves, demons, angels and shapeshifters. Also there are mages who can be any creature with magical descent. Inside of the Below, there are 4 districts, it's also in layers like a cake. The 1st district, in which the main species are humans, werewolves and centaurs (but others are welcome) and the district is more of a middle and some lower class. The 2nd district is high class and rich, with the best things inside the below. The main species are vampires there is a growing population of sirens (others are also welcome, but for a high price). The third district is like the black market esque place. There is a lot of illegal action going on there and it's not really a friendly place to be. The main species are naga's and shapeshifters (others are welcome with a hypothetical gun to their head). Then the fourth district, the whole place is shrouded in mystery, no one can go in and no one will. The only thing people know is that, the main species are angels and demons that were taken out of heaven and hell (to do what? Idk).
Btw, I'll go into species lore sometime later
I have some idea of the characters sooooo
Main character: (name) Ash. (gender) mtf. (personality) she would be like a mix of Uzi from murder drones and Ena from project sekai. (family) she has both parents in her life but her dad is always working and literally never home so her mom stays and takes care of her and her siblings, she has a younger brother (10) and a younger sister (5). (species) human mage. (age) 14-17, idk her exact age yet. (district) 1, but she travels in-between. (extras) she is a somewhat powerful mage but she can't control it
Possible love interest and deurorltagonist: (name) Juliet. (gender) female. (personality) like Rapunzel from Tangled and N from murder drones. (family) only child to rich, entitled parents. (species) human. (age) 15. (district) none, is from The Above. (extra) she ended up in The Below bc of a huge ass crack in the ground that she fell into
side character/my fav so far: (name) Nigel. (gender) male, he/they. (personality) like Angel Dust from the pilot of Hazbin Hotel and Kaeya from Genshin impact. (family) family? Who needs family. (species) naga. (age) probably in late 20's or 30's. (district) used to live in d2 but now D3. (extra) I leaned heavily into the Angel Dust inspiration lmao. he was a very well known rich person but one day he just stopped, became a drug addict and lost all of his money. He also has a lot of connections throughout the districts.
I honestly don't have any other ideas for characters yet but if anyone has any ideas, I'm listening :)
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Uh i already talked abt time travel jatp fanfic BUT i wanna do it again i love it.
Check it out. Nick hands out a book to Julie that belonged to Caleb with spells in it. Including a time travel one. she decides to use to come back in time to stop Bobby from becoming Trevor Wilson or convince him to give Sunset Curve the credit for their songs, so Luke's parents will know his dream was worth it, Alex's parents will regret rejecting their son and Reggie's parent will get a ton of money they can get in a fund to Steve's college fund. As the boys agree, they use her phone as a catalyst/portal.
They come back in time bc Julie is gonna need guidance, time for shenanigans as people making fun of julie bc of the way she dresses, the boys handing out each one a piece of clothing for her. Julie find this girl that says Trevor Wilson is going to be the name of rock one day, so they realize they haven't gone back enough, so they travel again. They end up finding Bobby and he's dating Rose (julie was too stunned to speak) and not wanting to talk abt his band. Julie still goes and try to talk him abt the importance of keeping their memory alive. So Bobby decides to record the songs and give credit to Luke. happy ending. (unless..?)
Except when they come back to the present days, the world is a mess. Bc Carlos doesnt exist, instead, Carrie is Julie's sister and Flynn doesn't even know Julie, and she finds out that's bc Rose married Trevor, so now he's Julie's dad and Ray is nowhere to be seen. So they go back into the past again to prevent that from happening. But what happens is. Bobby and Rose dated, Bobby met a girl that convinced that his Rose was holding him back instead of helping him become a rockstar, Bobby never worked on his insecurities and inferiority complex or grief, dumped Rose and recorded the songs under a new name, thats when Rose moved on from her life, met Ray, actually fell in love and later, started listening to Trevor's songs, unaware of what he did.
But because Julie interfered, Bobby realized that girl didn't wanted to help him, and told Rose the truth about the songs, she convinced him to get into therapy, Sunset Curve songs were a huge success, he got rich and married Rose, and she never got to actually meet Ray. So the gang comes back and once they realize that they can't get their credit without ruining Julie's life forever and vice versa, they agree that is better keeping things the way they went, cuz that's how they were supposed to happen. also, since Trevor will get divorced from that girl and seek therapy, he can get a grip without Julie's advice.
One problem though. They'd be using Julie's phone planner as a portal and right when they decide to call off this plan and come back, Julie runs out of battery. As they are in the 90's and there's no charger for Julie's phone, they're scared that they'll be stuck in the 90's forever and Julie doesn't even exist yet and they panic saying that Willie was right and that magic was dangerous and they shouldn't have done that, they even consider getting into the HGC just to get the book again, when a portal opens in front of them right before they do it and its Willie, who proceeds to explain that anything can be used as a portal, including writing the date on his board and reciting the spell. They feel dumb. Especially Julie bc she was the one who had the book and she just left it open on the garage. Anyway, Julie goes home and hugs her dad very tight.
#this got so long omg can u tell i love time travel tropes?#it does hurts them a little when they agree that they have to let Bobby have a destructive mindset and engage in a toxic relationship.#but julie cant live without carlos and ray. and flynn. even if her mother is there.#dont ask how willie knew where and when to find them. he has seen things#or how nick got the book its another whole story.#julie and the phantoms#alex mercer#luke patterson#julie molina#reggie peters#willie jatp#bobby shaw
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