#withc etho

[weaselmcdiesel]

You are totally free to ignore me but my brain saw your idea of pearl being a dragon familiar and immediately paired her with etho!

As far as I understand, familiars are not required to be around their witches, but they surely are great for extra magic focus (my guess). So, Pearl and Etho (actually two quite independant guys /gender neutral/ with this vibe of immortality around them, just in diferent flavours) made this pact a loong time ago. As Pearl is a dragon, she is very powerful and innately magical, and Etho, being Etho, is very cool etc they act more like chill coworkers. They can not see each other for years and years and still be friends.

These two literally have never interacted (well if you dont count the brief ones) this is just my brainrot im sorry. Just think that powerful creature + powerful wizard = those witches from His Dark Materials or smth. Smashing my favourite little blorbos together and forsing them to be friends in aus is just how it goes

Oh really! I definitely don't see a lot of pearl and etho interactions, but I suuuper love them both being super powerful like you said. (Wait now im thinking about how pearl and etho nearly teamed at the end of double life but didnt because of joel 👀) Actually- I was imagining Pearl as a smaller dragon? (imagine terrible terror size from httyd) simply because I couldnt see a witch being able to make accommodations for, say, a skyrim sized dragon by their house XD But you are sooooo correct. Whoever pearl pairs with would have to be someone who can handle the side effects of pairing with a dragon like extreme longevity, the wings n everything (im tempted to say dragons in this universe are revered as gods/godlike so to see a witch with dragon wings would either alienate them or shoot up their social status), and probably of course excess magical energy. and who better than someone unsuspecting like scar or etho to be housing all that energy XD I'll still think about it! ... bc i do like dragons and i want to get to drawing her soon paha

very interesting dynamic tho. both of them powerful and mature enough individually to hardly need to be around each other. i was considering that already for certain characters :)

i also believe a single witch can have multiple familiars if they can handle all that energy, so thaaaats also something to keep in mind^^

#weasel speaks #asks! #withc au #withc pearl #withc etho #oh and edit: ive never heard of his dark materials so im not sure about that ^^

[weaselmcdiesel]

About my ask

I just realized it may seem like im forsing you to agree with me and change your au? Im sorry if so :(

Just had to put those blorbo thoughts somewhere. Pearl and Etho just seem like opposites but on the same axis to me :)

Another option im thinking rn is actually Scar. Which fits well with that simple fact that they both are genius organics builders lmao. Also vexes have wings as well as dragons hmm 🤔

it didnt seem that way at all dont you worry ^^ also especially dont worry about me XD nothing anyone on the internet can say will force me to do anything rest assured <3

pearl and etho would make suuch an interesting duo, ill see how i can make them interact if i end up pairing them up with other people :)

Right! thats another thing! the aesthetic part of me wants to make sure that the witch will still look right when they adopt the familiar's traits, this is sorta whats keeping me from pairing off gem and pearl :,) i just think gem needs a mammal instead XD Scar and pearl make a load of sense!!

#ohh i just remembered uhh #falsesymmetry! wasnt there a time she was drawn as a dragon a bunch because of the dragonbros thing in..... season.. 7? ooooo #if i can be honest false and etho have similar vibes to me: both lowkey about how actually cool they are #withc au #weasel speaks #asks! #withc pearl #withc scar

[weaselmcdiesel]

In withc au, have you decided which other hermits are familiars? Do the familiars ever hangout with each other or do they stay close to their witch?

I don't know for sure yet! i only have a couple thoughts- like i want pearl to be a familiar, a dragon specifically but i dont know who she'd be partnered with? and just because i love fox etho i want him to be a familiar as well but i dont know if he really SHOULD be a familiar ^^ everyone else is up in the air atm!

there's no like, official meeting between familiars like there is between witches, but I can see familiars of witches who are friends would gossip a bunch!

Part of being a witch's familiar is that you feel a pull to your witch, gets stronger the farther you are from them and especially when they call out to you. The familiar adoption spell is a reaaaally old spell, and it was originally meant to make an animal serve its witch, so the spell is still commonly executed in the same way and prompts the animal to serve :P

#gem feels like a witch.... #oh tango.. man.... he has both crazy witch energy and crazy familiar energy #impulse? a witch? #zedaph i have no idea but of course he has insane sheep energy #you have me fucked up if you think i know what scar would be #i just need a bit of time aha XD #oh xisuma would have to be a witch with illusory magic? and conjuration? bc of his shapeshifting thing? maybe some sorta necromancy #imagine if bdubs was a familiar!! i think some people have drawn him as a bird no? but what if he was just like a leafy forest spirit thing #withc au #weasel speaks #asks!