double, double

[omniscient]

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 Leannan Sidhe. 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.

Meme written in collaboration with Axael/Desiderii

Comments

Wednesday Addams | Addams Family | OTA

[outofthemanor]

[[witch, possible on the dark/arachic side of magic thanks to family legacy]]

Tiffany Aching | Discworld | OTA

[hagofthechalk]

[[good witch, under traditional Disc expectations for a witch. Know how to use magic, and know when/where to use magic]]

Jasmine Armstrong | r63!The Secret Circle | ota

[traitorwitch]

[ A witch of the modern variety, though all the witchy families in her town are descended from survivors of Salem. Leans toward destructive magic and also somewhat skilled at defending against magic due to falling in with a group of witch hunters for a time. ]

mal | disney's descendants

[malevilent]

[ definitely a witch. she's been brought up with black magic and her mother is the darkest witch of all, but lately, she's been questioning that. and whether or not she'd prefer to be good. ]

Queen Nehellenia || Sailor Moon

[nehellenia]

(ooc: Illusion/mirror magic. Wicked, due to long term loneliness, jealousy, and a dash of obsession. Friendship might actually be magic in this case, if done right.)

Margo Hanson | The Magicians

[ibiza]

Hux (Force-sensitive AU) | Star Wars | OTA

[empires_heir]

[I've got a fairly complex backstory for him for a Modern Coven AU, but if we're going canonical, there's all sorts of ways it could go.]

[prevailsthelight]

[I knew I would find you here ;) ]

[empires_heir]

[well duh, I gotta.]

Finn | Star Wars | OTA

[haveanamenow]

[There are witches in the SW universe, but they're... uh, let's not go there, especially since Finn wouldn't be one. Though if we're going with Force Sensitive = Witch, I'm down for that. Also modern AU is good, with Finn being some kind of soothsayer/moral compass type.]

Pixel | Inception OC | OTA

[inkedchemist]

[Modern-day type, she's the go-to for all your tinctures and potions and hangover cures. And if she deals in some darker stuff on the side, what's the difference?]

Gabreel King | OC | OTA

[malecompanion]

[He's a pain-eater. Not a sin-eater, they're something else entirely, but if you're having a bad day, he'll make it a better one for the price of a cup of coffee. And if you're having a really bad day, he'll make it a much better one for the price of a dinner, even if that's takeout and a movie rental.]

Ben Solo | Star Wars (AU) | OTA

[solo_junior]

[Not an in-universe witch (but he did train with some of them and their half-blind rancor for a while) but some kind of modern AU is good, witchery runs in the family but he couldn't join the family coven because he was a son and not a daughter? IDK man, throw me something, I'll roll with most things.]

Poe Dameron | Star Wars | OTA

[squadless]

[Son of a witch, and more than a little bit of a plant-witch in his own right, especially since his mother left her Tree in his keeping. BB-8 is his familiar, an enormous marmalade, named BB (short for Beach Ball because cat is round)]

Techie | Dredd | OTA

[clan_techie]

[Modern loner, formerly of a coven. He's mostly a technomancer, he'll make your electronics work again even if they've otherwise been declared dead.]

Angie Martinelli | Agent Carter | OTA

[criesoncue]

[50s coven AU? I bet most of the girls at the Griffith are some kind of witch, including Ms. Fry.]

[therightpartner]

(ooc: Do you mind a very rusty Peggy)

[criesoncue]

[I don't mind in the least! And with these two I'm good at whatever point of the timeline.]

[therightpartner]

[I'm good with any point, but I may miss some details. I haven't had a chance to canon review lately. Do you have any preferences of what kind of situation for vintage witches?)

[criesoncue]

[well at least we'll be in the forgetful boat together. and IDK, I'm down for whatever, though if we want to do something sort of seasonal: I think Angie is probably one of those people who's aggressively into Halloween, because it's the one time of year she can be at least a little more open in her witchery.]

[therightpartner]

(Now I don't feel so guilty about it. I think seasonal could be cute. Angie decorating everything for Halloween while Peggy sighs and pretends she doesn't think it's cute and telling her to not be obvious around the normals. Should I start or would you like to?)

[criesoncue]

[If you could I'd appreciate it, but yeah, that sounds about right, if they're already living in Howard's spare house, she's probably working out how to have a party.]

[therightpartner]

[For years, Peggy had kept certain aspects of her life hidden. Witchcraft wasn't something one spoke of among polite company. Once she enlisted, secrecy became even more important since they were chasing after a man who believed in Norse gods and she might have been considered a potential traitor or her magic might be seen as another asset that Hydra needed to acquire. After spending so much time pretending that aspect of herself didn't exist, Angie's exuberance was unnerving at times. And adorable, if Peggy was inclined to admit such a fact.

She might have sighed over the idea of parties where they could hide in plain sight among their friends and Howard's lackeys, but there was a certain charm to the idea that Peggy couldn't resist. Or she couldn't resist her roommate's excitement over the festivities. Which was why she was checking her purse again, mentally wincing at the sheer amount of money Howard had donated toward their efforts. She should take her pistol and cast a few spells on her handbag to keep away thieves.]

Howard said that we could spend whatever we wanted on the party as long as we were appropriately 'bewitching' for Halloween and impressed everyone he invited.

[criesoncue]

Angie, on the other hand, had come from a magical family, both her mother as well as her stepfather's family tree. Which was why, as soon as the Automat pulled out their paper cutout decorations, Angie did the same, or, rather, made some of her own, which was how they'd always done things when she was younger.

But the fact that Howard was essentially throwing them a party? that was even better. She'd already made sure she had both the day of the party and the day for buying supplies off, though her schedule at he diner was lighter than it had been, but that was by her own request because even though she was pursuing acting more fervently now that she could, she still needed something to do on the days she didn't have auditions or cold-readings.

She grinned at the statement even as she fastened her shoes, "I think we can manage that. Most of the girls will come by, if we deliver an invite, the won't be able to stay long, but I think it'll do everyone some good to get out for a while." That and she hadn't seen most of them since she'd moved out of the Griffith herself.

Alec Lightwood | Shadowhunters

[angelic_archer]

(M/M for shipping)

Lois Lane | DC Comics | OTA

[in_medias_res]

[ Lois is a champion scryer, though she gets the Cassandra treatment as often as her future sight is appreciated. She'll read your cards or your palm and she'll be accurate as anything, but don't ask her things you don't want the answers for. Because she tells it like she sees it and she always sees it right. ]

Mera | DC Comics | OTA

[just_mera]

[ seawitch! hydrokinetic, etc. ]

Dr. Angela 'Mercy' Zeigler | Overwatch | OTA

[watching_over_you]

*Halloween/Witch Mercy for this one.*

wanda maximoff | mcu

[hexse]

[ modern witch, probably with her mcu powerset, so telekinesis/psionic energy manipulation! i'm down with a fantasy au too! ]

Father Alexander Anderson | Hellsing Ultimate | OTA

[godsmonster]

[ Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. Give him one reason not to purge all you heathen whores. ]

thomasin | the witch

[curdle]

( being from 1630 is pretty important to the character being who she is BUT you can always time warp her to some other setting! maybe it's her murdergame iteration who can read and write and knows what a flushing toilet is, maybe it's just magic and we don't think about it too hard, the point is i'm contractually obligated to post her to this meme every single time it comes up. )

[headbuttinggretel]

[So this might be a little weird, but, it was posited to me that Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters takes place in a post-apocalyptic world as opposed to the past, explaining how they have the weapons they have and insulin for Hansel's diabetes (ignoring the fact that That's Not How Diabetes Works) - would you have any interest in something along those lines with these two?]

[curdle]

[ Absolutely! I've never actually seen the movie, so I'm not quite sure how to translate Thomasin to its setting -- based off checking out the wiki, it seems like witches are kind of just people with magic powers who can be good or bad and there's no explicit diabolical pact involved? Or am I way off base there? ]

[headbuttinggretel]

[iirc it's never really specified how the witches get their powers, only that the bad ones were trying to bring about the end of the world/give themselves ultimate power via a blood ritual, so maybe there are pacts involved, and if not, whatever, we can say there are because this is RP and there aren't really hard and fast rules about the lore.]

kiritsugu emiya ( fate/zero )

[originbullets]

( kiritsugu is a mage who specializes in killing fugitive mages (among other magical entities.) so, that avenue is open if you want something a bit more antagonistic!! if not, i'd be down with something more gen. m/f if you want anything shippy. )

Asra | The Arcana

[wanderingmagic]

[Genderfluid magician. Very interested in various AUs and exploring magic and gender.]

Liir Thropp | The Wicked Years | 6 | OTA

[friendofdorothy]

[Yep, that's his canon, he's Elphaba's son from the books. Open to AUs and other cross-canon scenarios.]