The Master/Familiar Love Meme
"In European folklore and folk-belief of the Medieval and Early Modern periods, familiar spirits (sometimes referred to simply as 'familiars') were supernatural entities believed to assist witches and cunning folk in their practice of magic. According to the records of the time, they would appear in numerous guises, often as an animal, but also at times as a human or humanoid figure, and were described as 'clearly defined, three-dimensionalโฆ forms, vivid with colour and animated with movement and sound' by those alleging to have come into contact with them, unlike later descriptions of ghosts with their 'smoky, undefined form[s]'."
Everybody needs a sidekick. This includes those who may have a little help of their own in the form of magic - witches, warlocks, mages, sages, casters, magicians...whatever you want to call them, they have a bit more juice than your average Joe. Luckily, the job comes with a built-in assistant: a familiar, or a helper spirit. The familiar serves as a guide to their magical "Master" of their choice, helping them out of tight spots and being their companion for life. Sometimes, they come in the form of animals, like dogs and especially cats. Some don't bother with this, though, and just stay in their true humanoid forms. The bond between familiar and master is one of intensity, and they know each other completely. Most familiars even have a telepathic link to their masters. That helps them keep an eye on them. Of course, given this closeness-beyond-closeness, it's easy to imagine a master and familiar as soulmates, and with familiars having a human form...well, intimacy seems like a natural option.
Too bad relationships of that kind between master and familiar are strictly forbidden. Surely, that rule is always followed.
HOW TO PLAY
- Comment with your character, stating your preferences (ex: F/M, open to all, etc). Also, be sure to remember and put whether your character will be witch/master, familiar, or if they can serve as both. There is no "set" type for any of the roles. Masters don't have to be dominate (ineffectual witches have always been a cute trope), familiars aren't passive or submissive, and so on. It's not the same as BDSM...though your character could bring that into it if they'd like.
- Comment around to other characters, playing out your forbidden master/familiar ~love~ or what have you.
PROMPTS
- The Familiar Chooses the Master: The first meeting. You may be new to the craft (or someone who needs a new familiar), and someone has been drawn to you.
- Setting the Ground Rules: You need to figure out how this is going to work. Where can you hide this woman/man in your apartment, if need be?
- Getting to Know You: Magic/power isn't all fun and games. You need to find out how to work together so you don't accidentally blow everything up in your faces.
- Helping Out: Familiars have a lot of neat powers that can be a boon around the house...and around the town.
- Danger Zone: Your feelings for each other are blurring, which is a big no-no. Do you even realize that the bond is deepening to a new level?
- Confession: Things have gotten heavy and you have to let your bond mate know you see them as more.
- Bad Romance: The familiar in this relationship isn't treated as equal. They're a slave to their master!
- Telepathy: The mental bond between. Explore it or use it to get out of trouble...
- Trouble is a Friend of Mine: Speaking of! Your familiar/master is danger, and there's nothing that can keep you from saving them.
- Intimacy: The obligatory smut option. Though romance between familiar and master is not allowed, many find the allure too much, and the bond does lend itself to members seeking comfort in each other. After all, they know you better than anyone else.
- You're Taken?: You're in love with a master or a familiar...they're just not yours. Oops! Maybe you can find some way to break your bonds so you can be together.
- Breaking Up is Hard to Do: It is hard, especially between master and familiar. In fact, it can be downright painful...physically and mentally!
- Sending You Away for Your Own Good: You're distancing yourself from the other member of your bond, and it's because you're headed towards destruction.
- Everybody Knows: The other members of your community have found out you've broken the ultimate taboo and are WITH your master/familiar. This is bad. This is very, very bad. Punishment bad. Separation bad. Perhaps even death bad.
- Happy Ending: Somehow, you've escaped the confines of the world that doesn't understand, and you're able to live together without fear.
- WILDCARD
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bakerstreet2021-08-26 07:23 am
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Ahhh, no worries with canon! It wouldn't impact Rey too much other than setting the grounds for why Death would be her Familiar--inheriting something she didn't know she had, a great surprise!
No worries on slowness! Please be safe. Hurray for hurricane season...^^;]
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thanka for the well-wishes. i'm personally planning to just hunker down and ride it out. hopefully it all blows over - literally - soon fingers crossed ]
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And really hoping the hurricane will be okay. I'm still trying to get used to them myself.]
Rey thought she was finally getting the hang of things with her life. Thought things were finally turning around and she wouldn't have so much chaos and uncertainty, but it was only the beginning. The young woman was a witch, and had come into her power a month ago. Then a week ago she continued to run into the same man over, and over again until it felt like he was stalking her--but, no, no. He was her Familiar. Not a cute, cuddly cat like she had read about, but humanoid.
Something she had inherited from family she had never known about. Family that had left her as an orphan. Family that kept a fucking Familiar, but decided she was too much--No, don't go down that road. If she did, that would only make her headache worse and make her snappy.
She stood in her kitchen, leaning against the sink with her arms crossed and stared up at the taller man. Confusion flickered in her eyes as she stared at him, then at her small fridge, and then back at him. He said he was hungry. She didn't even realize Familiars could get hungry. Then again, she didn't think she was a witch either, and still trying to figure that out.
"If you want something from the fridge, you can help yourself..." she began to say, still trying to figure out just what Familiars could eat. Maybe he was wanting her to make something for him? A soup? A stew? Or was it some magic-based thing where she'd have to...fuck, she didn't know, find a four leaf clover? No, that's ridiculous!
"Or, do I need to do something special for you as a Familiar?" Fuck, that felt weird to ask. Even weirder as she still had no clue what he was supposed to do with her. He said he was 'Death,' which she took a figure of speech. Like how goth kids said they were 'one with the night.' He...he couldn't be that serious....right?
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