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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

Shay | Uglies series | OTA

[1st_cutter]

[Leader of a modern coven of mostly-dark witches]

Apollo | Inception OC | OTA

[apollodreaming]

[The son of witches, specializing in dreamwalking. Also good for any kind of ancient-history AU.]

Maison | OC | OTA

[big_l_librarian]

[Not a witch himself, but he is a Sprite, which makes him a good familiar/errand-boy for witches and magic-users of any stripe.]

[justlikejezebel]

[ interested in working with/for a witch and possibly having adventures and shenanigans? Maison sounds like a lot of fun, and Dev here would definitely appreciate his talents and knowledge. ]

Techie | Dredd | OTA

[clan_techie]

[A modern technomancer, he'll bring dead computers and phones and laptops back to life and make them work better.]

Angie | Agent Carter | OTA

[criesoncue]

[Every single one of the girls in the Griffith was a witch, they were a coven unto themselves. Period muses only, please.]

Armitage Hux | Star Wars (AU) | OTA

[empires_heir]

[In-universe: he's a Force-user, though keeps that hidden, which sort of makes him a witch. I've also got a modern-coven type, son of a witch and a man possessed by a demon, though a witch in his own right, mostly attuned to divination and illusory magic.]

Claire Temple | MCU | OTA

[night_nurse]

[She's a healer, but she'll just as easily retract any healing she's done if someone's acting up. Happy to play with different time periods as well.]

Meggie Folchart | Inkheart AU | OTA

[silverquill]

[A very particular type of witch, said to be a descendant of Scheherazade, she can read things into existence, though she does her best not to. Perfectly fine with different time periods.]

Ben Solo | Star Wars (AU) | OTA

[solo_junior]

[Last son of the Skywalker line, I've got a bunch of backstory for a modern fantasy AU, but canon-verse works as well, if we're counting Force-users as witches.]

Bobby Singer | Supernatural | OTA

[unclebobby]

[He's got the technical knowledge, but no real inherent magic of his own.]

How about a magic weilding werewolf?

[fightingboston]

Her eyebrows go up at the accusation. Okay. So apparently this guy is convinced she is a witch. The evidence is frankly stacked in his favor. She had done a full circuit of these woods with her own blood which Colleen will admit to an outsider would look creepy as hell.

She also had a stick carved with symbols of her people. She might look human but is very much not but again to an outsider it would look strange and creepy.

"Sorry. No. Wrong... thing," Colleen says finally. "But what I was doing was mostly harmless. This is a kind of cleansing ritual. There were things that came in here and tried to take root. I've killed them already and plan to burn the remains after this place has been cleaned up. Should take care of any lingering taint that's been brought in."

Colleen rocks back on her heels slightly peering at him. "You could tag along instead of shooting at me. Wouldn't that be easier than tracking down my pile of dead things?"

Colleen is one hundred percent convinced if she stays reasonable she won't get shot. Getting shot would be bad as it might send her into a frenzy and this poor human does not need to suddenly be dealing with a ten toot tall fuzzy death blender.

Wanda | MCU | OTA

[youngerby12minutes]

[Can go with her canon self, or some modern coven, and even historical or fantastical types, I'm open to many things.]

Gretel | Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters | OTA

[headbuttinggretel]

[Daughter of a Grand White Witch with no small amount of power herself, though she also hunts the dark witches. Canon timeline (which is either vaguely medieval or post-apocalyptic) or modern timeline is fine]

Pogue Parry | The Covenant

[pogue_parry]

[A modern coven where men can be witches too.]

Tina Goldstein | Harry Potter/Fantastic Beasts | OTA

[thecareergirl]

[Canon witch from the 1920s. Happy to play around with various options for AUs and such, though.]

[destinedheir]

Playing around with time travel spells wasn't his best idea today. Sure it had worked, he just didn't know where he was. Or what time. He really should understand the consequences better by now with the amount of time travel he and Chris had done already. He'd probably not hear the end of it by the time he found his way back... he just needed the tools to remake the spell, remembering it in detail. But first he needed to know a thing or two, which is why he called upon the attention of Tina, not realizing she was an Auror.

"Hi, excuse me I've gotten somewhat lost. Would you mind telling me where I am?" he asked, wearing clothes that was too modern to fit in well.

Wyatt Halliwell | Charmed

[destinedheir]

((Son of Piper Halliwell and Leo Wyatt of the original Charmed. Twice-Blessed Son. Wielder of Excalibur. First male witch in 300 years.))

Cole Turner | Charmed

[anything4love]

((Half-demon, half-human. Soldier of Fortune. Do with that as you please.))

mad sweeney | american gods

[blarneys]

an irish faerie, very likely to watch/attend any magical woodland going-ons in past or present.

chase collins ( the covenant )

[finites]

a v bad witch man.

I would say modern times are most fitting

[anything4love]

"You're lucky that I'm not here for you witch, now step aside," he said an athame glittering in his hand, thirsting for blood. Belthazor, Soldier of Fortune, Assassin of the Triad was not the kind of high-ranking demon to piss off and right now this mortal witch was making his quest difficult. That he even bothered to ask or give warning was only because of that pesky human bit of him getting the better of him.

Jasmine Armstrong • r63!The Secret Circle

[traitorwitch]

[ Born witch and former witch hunter. Adamantly against black/dark magic. ]

bernkastel ★ umineko no naku koro ni

[mirakiller]

( canonically a witch! known as the witch of miracles, Bernkastel can make a miracle happen - if she wants to - and is prone to making people's lives her entertainment, since boredom kills witches, after all. she can also travel to other worlds so cross-canon cr would be great. )

[silentnarration]

((Squall's trained to kill sorceresses, so maybe that can extend to witches and they have a relationship where he's been trying to hunt her down and stop her for a while now?))

The Undertaker | Black Butler

[hihihihi]

[ Probably here just to chill with some witches! Open to cross-canon/assumed CR! ]

Hector Crone | OC

[hiddenarcana]

((Son of a witch, wielder of dark arts. Technically speaking.))

Diana Bishop | Discovery of Witches

[bodleianwitch]

[A witch who has little magical control and whose bulk of magical power is hidden because of her magic being bound as a young child. Feel free to try to help - or corrupt - her.]

Eligre Kaivodulin || D&D/Generic High Fantasy || OTA

[lady_kaivodulin]

[She's a solid #5. Bloodthirsty and with a bad reputation, she kills and curses for fun and profit.]