Season of the Witch

[justformemes]

Season of the Witch

The concept of the Witch represents many things. Witches may be women, outcast, or other, and their power has been feared because it threatens the tidiness of the status quo. From Medea to Elphaba, the witch has been hated, feared, and tormented, but sometimes she has ruled triumphant.


Scenarios:
1. The Modern Coven ~ Witches in the modern world. There’s a school in Louisiana, where the witches walk two by two in broad-brimmed black hats, under the watchful eye of their Supreme. There’s a house in New England, where two sisters do magic with pies and gardening. There’s a prophecy in Sunnyvale. There’s a charmed trio of three sisters who fight demons. There are magic shops, Wiccans and druids.
2. The Ancient Forests of Europe ~ Arthurian England. The realm of the Leannán Sídhe. La Belle Dame Sans Merci. The Lady of the Lake. Avalon. The Huldra. Baba Yaga. The woods this way are dark and deep, and if you stray from the path, you may meet a witch. She may be beautiful, or she may be hideous, but whatever you do, mind your manners.
3. Realms Far and Lands Forgotten ~ Medea came from Colchis, on the far side of the black sea. There have been witches real and fictional from a hundred realms and ancient times. Nitocris of Egypt, witches of Hyperborea, perhaps even Enheduanna of Sumeria. Witches, queens, and priestesses, filled with an ancient and wondrous power.
4. The Realms of the Blood - The Black Jewels ~ The Blood are the caretakers of the land, blessed by the Darkness with wells of power in the form of their Jewels. Every woman's a witch, every man a warlord, and with a reservoir of raw psychic power ready to tap for their Craft, the Blood are forces of nature. And nature dictates that men among the Blood are born to serve and women to be served. Bound by Protocol and arrayed into matriarchal Courts large and small, Blood society is highly stratified by the thirteen ranks of Jewel and a handful of castes. Add social rank into the mix and their society becomes a constantly evolving dance of power, caste, and privilege that spans three realms: Terrielle, Realm of Light, Kaeleer, the Shadow Realm, and Hell, the Dark Realm and home of the demon dead. Implacable Queens rule their Courts and tend the land beneath their feet, sharp-edge Black Widows experiment in poisons and spin tangled webs to predict the future, Healers mend the injured and cure the sick, and Priestesses preside over altars, offerings, and Sanctuaries. Beneath Caste and Jewel, however, there are as many types of witch as there are witches, and all are dark and dangerous.
5. Something wicked this way comes ~ For wicked witches, whether you desire to devour children or turn a kingdom to ruins. Eternal life is within your grasp, and they claim that your crimes are as black as your heart. But that’s all slander, of course, and for anyone who doubts, you have a basket full of lovely apples.
6. Somewhere over the rainbow ~ Are you a good witch or a bad witch? Oz is full of witches, some lovely and some wicked. There are yellow brick roads to follow, and plenty more witches in the neighbouring lands of Ix and Ev and Boboland. Just as long as no one drops a house on you. Be careful to stay away from water.


How to play:
If you’d like your character to be a witch, describe what kind of witch they are and what kind of magic they have. Note any preferences you have for setting/scenario, and include a prompt or two!
Witches don’t have to be women, though they should be Other in some way. Shamanic figures in many cultures have often transgressed gender roles.
If you prefer your character to be a mundane in a witchy world, pick a scenario or two and describe what role your character would have in that world.

Comments

Sophie Hallow *Original* OTA

[sugarandwhiskey]

[info on journal. Open to crosscanon, assumed cr, all that jazz. Scenario 1 makes most sense with Soph, both in her witchy au and in a more mundane kind of way.]

Edwin Payne - Dead Boy Detectives - OTA (M/M for romantic/smut but anything goes for platonic)

[technicallyhellbound]

[He doesn't consider himself a witch, but he is a magic-user even as a ghost.
Of course if we fully AU the thing, anything goes.]

[hellandbackpack]

[I mean, goes without saying but consider Charles as his eager, a bit over excited familiar though.]

Steve | Stranger Things | OTA

[the_hair]

[Heir of a long-standing pureblood line, though he disagrees with just about everything his parents think about magic, namely: that it should only be used by people like them.
He works mostly with defensive spells, though the kind that will thoroughly befuckinate anything that hits them. And yes, obviously he's got the nailbat still, makes an excellent casting focus and monster-whacker. Solid ash with just the right amount of iron nails scattered in with the galvanized steel ones to do some actual damage if it comes to that.]

[hellandbackpack]

[Heir of pureblood line and one of those 'scruffy halfbloods' that his parents are always nattering on about? Not sure where to take it from there just yet but the idea is just delightful]

The Mage | Guy Ritchie's King Arthur | OTA

[animage]

[She's a magus, and she can control (or perhaps turn into) massive-huge animals, sometimes for fun. Theoretically she's one of the ones from History Back, but could be basically anywhere or any-when.]

[portable_doombox]

[Bob's a (former, he's dead now) sorcerer and a shapeshifter with just about 1000 years to play with; would that be up your alley?]

Maison + Urban Fantasy OC + OTA

[big_l_librarian]

[He's a fire sprite, so less a witch and more than likely some kind of familiar. But he's also a Librarian, so maybe reference assistant, good for whatever kind of timeline, though he's meant for a modern-day kind of deal.]

Chrissy Cunningham + Stranger Things + OTA

[cheerybomb]

[With a family as devout as hers, you bet manifesting magic powers after a near-death experience is going to go over like a lead balloon.
Also available as a dude at ccunningham, just let me know which you prefer]

Cheshire Cat + American McGee's Alice (and others) + OTA

[gone_mangy]

[He's the Cheshire Cat, which means he's either a witch's familiar, or some kind of warlock patron in and of himself. I'm good with whatever kind of timeline or alternate universe.]

Zepar + OC + OTA

[hurtyourealgood]

[Zepar isn't actually a demon, even despite more recent lore, but he's easily mistaken for one. He may even end up being summoned by someone seeking Angelic assistance, though he'll be of very little help in that regard.]

Eddie + Stranger Things + OTA

[jukebox_hero]

[He's a mutt, which is to say, nobody knows which side of the family his magic comes from, and he has probably mostly trained himself. Earth and plant magics, along with empathy and emotions, all tied down via music or song, or at the very least vocalizations.]

Charles - Dead Boy Detectives - OTA

[just_aces]

[So there's the hellhound AU where he was a witch's familiar for a number of years.
But I'm game for whatever kind of AU.]

Sebastian + nu!Suicide Squad + OTA

[littlest_sebastian]

[Could be a familiar, could be someone unfortunately transformed into a rat, either way he's smart as hell and wants to be your friend. He can even run errands! Small ones!]

Gabreel King + OC + OTA

[malecompanion]

[Gabreel is a Pain-Eater, which isn't the same thing as a Sin-Eater, that's something else that he doesn't have the training for. While he does specialize in emotional pain, he can help with the physical as well, to some degree.
For the price of a cup of coffee and a pastry he can make a person's day better, and for the price of dinner -whether it's a hole in the wall diner or a high-cuisine kind of place- he can make a person's day much better.]

Klaus + Umbrella Academy + OTA

[ouiking_ouija]

[Klaus broke away from his more traditionally-minded -and adoptive- family as soon as he turned 18 and really came into his own power.
He's one of the world's few living True Mediums and officially operates under the name Séance. But, occasionally, he also operates off the books as Ouija. His powers are the same either way: he can communicate with ghosts, and on occasion, if the price is right or if it's incredibly important -or just has a high potential for drama- he'll let one take up space in his body.]

Mina / Urban Fantasy OC / OTA

[raisedgrimm]

[She's a hunter more than a witch, but she takes these things on a case-by-case basis and isn't about to take someone out just for being a witch, they'd have to actively be harming people for her to do something like that.
She definitely knows the power of hex-bags and the like, however.]

Ben Solo | Star Wars (AU) | OTA

[solo_junior]

[Air element witch from a family of predominantly fire witches, had a little bit of training with a lot of different people, currently a bartender and gofer for an ancient vudon lady down in New Orleans.
There's more to it than that, including the fact that the Knights of Ren Templar and the Shadow Pope are after him, and that he's bonded to a shadow-being, but that's all just details.]

morgan | fgo

[gaeaf]

[she is morgan le fay.]

[onetofive]

[It's time he comes to beat up the people trying to cancel his wife.]

loki odinson | where mischief lies

[annarr]

[honestly he's a witch and you can too - but also here for au-ish nonsense where he's hiding in plain sight about it in a baba yaga esque manner]

[neverbeentold]

[Does he need possibly the worst familiar ever?]

Atsuko 'Akko' Kagari 🌟 Little Witch Academia 🌟 OTA

[wordsearch]

[ An actual witch. Very spooky! ]

Iðunn 🍎 Original 🍏 OTA

[bountifully]

[ Witchy witch. More info in journal! ]

Abigail Hobbs | Hannibal | ota

[climbingwalls]

[[Probably best in 1, a slightly more modern turn on 2, or maybe 5. A very nature-based witch no matter where she is, who probably learned it from her parents. Vibes are somewhere between The Craft and fairy tales.]]

Morgan // Fire Emblem Awakening // OTA

[tomes_n_tricks]

[ a classic Spoopy Holiday Witch!
Or if you want something darker, a more grim version is available! ]

Viktor | Arcane | OTA

[scienceofthearcane]

(Early s1 flavor but very into every kind of magic)

Dr. James Harvey | Casper

[drharvey]

[ ooc — Very down for James to encounter a witch of any kind; his experience with The Supernatural largely involves ghosts (he's a therapist to the dead), so I'd love to introduce him to more spooky things. Happy to brainstorm ideas if you like, but just as good to dive into something and see how it goes! ]