#Lil Peyton discovering her powers

[peytonfitz-blog]

Even the Earth is on My Side || Flashback || Self Para

Title: Even the Earth is on My Side Summary: Peyton is with her childhood best friend when she discovers her powers for the first time. When: Summer 2008 (Peyton: age 16) Where: Colchester, United Kingdom Trigger Warnings: Transphobia, bullying, physical violence, slurs

The day Peyton discovered her powers wasn’t in any way remarkable, as far as days normally went. Well, her best friend had just gotten his drivers license, so there was that.

James was a year and three months older than her, which he never failed to remind her of. And which she had never missed an opportunity to call him grandpa because of. Peyton had just turned sixteen, still a year shy of being able to drive in their small town about an hour outside of London. It didn’t matter much that she couldn’t drive though, not when James could.

He had come to pick her up, and at her insistence, they were walking through the uneven stone streets of downtown, eating ice cream and arguing about which movie to go and see. Peyton was finally talked into seeing Iron Man, after a large amount of pleading which she would tease James about for the foreseeable future. Ever the comic book geek that he was, he swore that movie was the beginning of something amazing, and they just had to see the very first one in theaters.

A couple hours later, Peyton had her hands in her pockets, walking behind James in the park just outside of downtown, amused smile on her lips as he ran forward, did a clumsy cartwheel and fought off imaginary assailants.

“I am Iron Man!” James declared loudly, arms stretched out in front of him as he imitated blaster sounds.

“You’re an idiot, mate,” Peyton laughed.

“I second that,” a painfully familiar voice cut in, making Peyton’s head drop back, a groan escaping her lips before she turned around to face the boy. He had another friend with him, one that Peyton recognized but had never cared enough to learn his name.

“Get lost, Whit,” she snapped.

“Why? Oh come on, I’m on your side here, man. Or girl. Whoever the hell you think you are today,” Whit sneered.

“Just get outta here,” James said, coming over to join the group. He was about a foot taller than Peyton, and looked more intimidating by his stature to anyone that didn’t know him. To those that did know him though,  he couldn’t actually hurt anyone if he tried. And he had tried, once. In a painfully similar scenario, and Whit had never let him forget it.

“Or what? You gonna try to punch me and just freeze there like a statue?” Whit asked, turning back to his friend with a laugh. “Come on, your girl-boy-friend here would make a better iron man. If you’re even a man.” As he said it, he reached out towards Peyton in a familiar movement, fingers not quite able to grasp the bottom of her shirt before she was knocking his arm away. It wasn’t unfamiliar to Peyton, all the cold comments, the disbelief and outright cruelty to the fact that she identified as male or female depending on the day. On how she felt. Her preference for masculine and androgynous clothing probably didn’t help. She knew it was weird, knew she was a freak, but it wasn’t like she ever insisted other people keep up with her identity. She’d outright told people to just call her whatever they wanted. Him, her, just not they because she disliked the plural term. So why the fuck did people like Whit have to be such jackasses about it?

“Go fuck yourself,” Peyton hissed at him.

Whit only laughed harder at the words. “Ooooh, big words from the he-she,” he mocked. A second later, his expression changed and he lunged at her, arm around her waist as he knocked them both to the ground. The next few minutes passed in a flurry of limbs and painful blows. Of Whit’s friend and James joining the fray. Of punches to her stomach and face. Of blows landed on Whit’s stupid face. Of hands tugging at her black leather jacket and the shirt tucked into her jeans underneath it.

When she finally made it to her feet, still trying to register where Whit and the others were around her, a hand grabbed her arm. She didn’t turn to see who it was—didn’t care. She just reacted.

“Stop!” She screamed, jerking her arm away and throwing it back again towards the person, her other arm flying out to her other side at the same time. Something happened, and later, when James would ask exactly what, she wouldn’t be able to explain it.

She just felt…everything. The air around her felt like static electricity. The earth beneath her feet felt like it was pulsing. Like it was drawing her in. Like it was a part of this fight too. On her side.

Shocked and pained cries broke through the ringing in her ears and she forced her eyes open, breathing heavily as she looked around. Two benches several yards away from her were nearly flattened to the ground, the metal of the arms and legs bent and crushed in towards the ground. Whit and his friend were on the ground, staring at her like she was a monster. But they were—they were in front of her. Neither of them had grabbed her.

“James,” Peyton breathed, whipping around to where James was on the ground behind her, groaning and clutching at his leg. She ignored the yells of ‘Freak’ and ‘Bitch’ behind her as Whit and his friend left. She was rushing towards James and dropping to the ground beside him. She started to reach out to him, but hesitated, her hands shaking. What had she done? “James? James, I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean—I don’t know what I—Fuck.”

“I’m—It’s—I’m okay,” James groaned, but his voice was pained and he was still clutching his leg, tears forming at the corners of his eyes. His eyes opened just a little and Peyton flinched back reflexively. When he spoke though, he didn’t sound angry, or even afraid. “How—How did you—“ He broke off with a groan, one hand moving from his leg to brace against the ground so he could push himself up.

“I-I don’t know,” Peyton said quickly, before reaching out to help steady him. “I’ve never—never done that before. Be careful.” He just grunted in response. “Why did you grab me anyway?” She didn’t want to sound like she was blaming him for her managing to injure him, but she was afraid it came off that way. She hadn’t meant to, she’d just reacted.

“I was trying to get your attention,” James said, looking up at her. “Thought we—ugh, thought we could just get away from it. Whit was—was trying to stop his nose from bleeding, and Ri—Richard was trying to catch his breath. Thought it would be—be our best shot to get out.” He smiled a little at her after he finished. “Never can take the win though, can you? Always gotta show off one more time.” James started to laugh, but his face contorted in pain and it looked like he regretted it immediately.

“Careful. Sorry, did I—“ she broke off, watching in concern at the way he pressed his free hand into the center of his chest.

He just shook his head though. “Didn’t—Didn’t help getting thrown to—to the ground, but no. Whit kicked me pretty hard in the chest.”

Peyton knew she should ask exactly how hard—had he broken a rib? But she knew he wouldn’t be able to really answer that accurately, and she was distracted by something else he’d said. “Who’s Richard?” James just stared at her until it clicked in her mind. “Oh, is that his name? Huh.” She paused, watching as James tried in vain to hold back another painful laugh. “Always knew he was a Dick, just didn’t know it was official.”

That pushed him over the edge and he laughed hard, alternating between laughs and groans of pain, gasping for a few minutes with a smile on his face before looking at her again. “Stop—You’ve seriously gotta stop—trying to make me laugh. That fucking hurts.”

“Sorry,” she said again. “Come on, put your arm around me, I’ll get us back to your dad’s car and drive us to the hospital.

“You don’t have your license,” James protested.

“It’ll be fine, Mum’s been teaching,” Peyton said. She carefully pulled James’ arm around her shoulders and helped him to his feet.

“Just don’t—don’t do this again, okay?”

Peyton kept her face turned down to hide the disappointment. This was what she expected. He hated her. He was afraid of her. He should be. She was afraid of herself. Of what she could apparently do. “Yeah. I’ll just—Let me help you get to the hospital, then I’ll go, okay?”

James’ brow furrowed and he gave her a strange look. “Go? No, Peyt, I meant,” he gestured to himself, to his leg that was starting to bruise, then gestured to where Whit and his friend had been, as though his vague gestures were supposed to fill in the blanks. Normally they would. They had been friends so long they could practically communicate psychically. But this wasn’t normal times or normal topics. “That? That was bloody brilliant. Definitely do that again,” he paused, offering a weak smile before looking back at his leg. “Just this part, don’t do again, ok? Leave me out of it next time.”

Peyton forced a short laugh. She didn’t think she’d be doing anything like this anytime soon. She didn’t even know how she’d done it, and was honestly terrified of it. But she promised him anyway. “Yeah, okay. Deal.”

[persephonyed]

hi there ! i’m looking to expand my muse list, so i’m adding a few new characters who you can find under the cut, along with a ( very ) brief, informal lil descrip of them. i’d love to get some starters going with them and get a feel for my newbies, so give this post a like if you’re interested in a starter from any of them ! i’ll come to you for muse specificity and to maybe work out a little plot.

avery odelia cohen ! 30, bisexual, daughter of a billionaire tech mogul and murderer. ( riley keough. ) she has seen her family murder and get away with it, she has seen them steal and get away with it, so she was raised to believe she could get away with anything. like when she accidentally killed her first boyfriend in a freak drowning accident when she was sixteen? avery had no consequences. she’s terrifyingly privileged and protected by her father’s power, combined with her insanely high iq that no one suspects she has, she’s able to manipulate any situation to turn out in her favor. and more than one ‘accident’ has occurred in her life. she might even like it at this point.

callista “callie” lucia ortiz ! 36, lesbian, university professor. ( aubrey plaza. ) teaching folklore and greek mythology was definitely a choice that callie’s parents didn’t understand, but she knew it was her passion and pursued it despite their disapproval. now she’s one of the leading specialists in the field and a sought out professor at a prestigious school. but she isn’t one of the stuffy and stuck up types that typically teach at her school. and most of the time, with success comes scandal, and there are definitely rumors circulating about her around school. and she hardly does anything to dispel them; she actually tends to revel in the attention and whispers that follow her through the halls.

daphne josette byrne ! 29, bisexual, ghostwriter ( lily james. ) predominantly known on social media, it seems as if she’s an influencer in the making, but no one really knows just who daphne is. sure, the instagram ad payouts are nice, but she makes her real money ghostwriting for some of today’s most well known authors. she’s signed strict nda’s and binding contracts that will never allow her to spill the truth about the new york time’s bestseller she just write but knowing the success of her literature is rewarding enough. it allows her to live a life expressing herself as a successful writer and maintain normalcy in some twisted, modern way. but sometimes the secrecy does get old.

elisa ianthe oliveira ! 28, bisexual, university student. ( camila mendes. ) double majoring in history and musical theatre, typical indecisive elisa, she also works part-time at the local museum and writes it off for extra credit. her parents are both mega history nerds and she was raised with dates and folklore being shoved down her throat constantly. she’s blunt, dry, and hard to tell if she’s having a good time, but tends to be fun to hang out with. soothingly genuine and keeps her private life private. but once you crack her intriguing interior, you truly do unlock another level to elisa, and she has no problem being her true self around you. it just might take awhile to get there.

flynn arlo kapoor ! 35, bisexual, museum director. ( rahul kohli. ) he’s a first generation immigrant to parents who own a restaurant and work their ass off to make flynn’s life incredible and provide all the opportunities they can for him. and he hasn’t fucked up those opportunities. he finished grad school summa cum laude and was offered a position running a museum right out of school, which was his dream, so he quickly took it. he’s a big family guy and momma’s boy, and he made sure the new job was close by so he could always support his parents whenever they let him. family means everything to him, and he easily puts anyone he befriends genuinely into that catagory as well.

ingrid dorothea langley !  26, pansexual, noblewoman. ( alicia vikander. ) much like emily dickenson, ingrid knew she was meant for more. meant for greatness. she lives every moment to it’s fullest and embraces every wild and weighty emotion she experiences. she’s full on all the time, and tends to be an open book. her sexuality is hushed in the times they live in, but she won’t ever not follow her heart where it leads. she’s optimistic and looks for the best in people and situations, and journals just about every moment in her life. she’s determined to never live a dull moment.

peyton celeste kimura ! 22, queer, ballet student. ( kaylee bryant. ) focused is the best word to describe peyton. she’s always lived in her sisters shadow, from attending the same school to now living up to her quite infamous career, peyton does everything she can to be better. ballet is her life and she doesn’t let anything or anyone get in the way of her success. she’s insanely naturally gifted in the arts, but with the way she trains, you know that she has always doubted just how good she is. very hard on herself, never gives herself a break, and lets few people in. but cares deeply when she does.

malia beckett dixon ! 34, bisexual, director. ( tessa thompson. ) malia truly knows what it’s like to find fame in a small town, having gotten ‘discovered’ her senior year of high school by a wealthy talent scout. she was swept away and appropriately funded to make her first indie film on a professional level, and hasn’t stopped producing award-winning films since then. she’s humble and emotional and uniquely in tune with who she is as a person and an artist. fame hasn’t gotten to her head but she does tend to get buried in her work and lose track of her personal life and relationships because of it.

marguerite “marty” alejandra gallardo ! 30, lesbian, social worker. ( eiza gonzales. ) having loving parents who died at a young age, marty was left to fend for herself and her younger sister while they grew up in the system. living through it, she decided to take on a career that could help out and change children’s lives for the better, while also fostering a healthier life for her and her sister. she is an internally emotional person, and finds it hard to bottle up her feelings as much as she would like. she’s intelligent and her sister is her world, she would never let anything happen to her.

sabina ines caldeira ! 21, pansexual, university student and heiress. ( alba baptista. ) raised in europe to wealthy parents who made their fortune off the vineyard she grew up on, sabine is the epitome of aesthetic spanish summers spent wine drunk and lusting for freedom. she’s pursuing life outside of that fantasy while going to school before having to learn the family business. luckily she loves the empire she will one day be taking over. free spirited and naive, she seems like you could walk all over her, but you might want to think twice about that.

siena anne norwood ! 28, pansexual, vampire. ( florence pugh. ) she was turned in the height of the tudor era, a place where she sat on the king’s lap and thrived in court, but she wronged someone in power who targetted her as their next victim. the feeding didn’t go as planned and siena ended up becoming a vampire, and honestly prefers this life to her former one. she’s old and strong and much smarter and conniving than she lets on. she loves to fuck around and mess with people and has only met few who actually impact her life. truly little remorse for her actions.

sebastian anthony hernandez ! ( nathan wallace — repo the genetic opera ) 28, heterosexual, repo man. ( sean teale. ) he works for a mysterious employer who sebastian only met when they made a mysterious donation for his heart surgery. the anonymous donor saved his life and pays well, so he doesn’t complain. he has a two year old daughter who isn’t in his custody to provide for and does whatever her can to make sure she’s always taken care of no matter how shitty the job. he doesn’t let anyone close to him for fear they will get hurt and he’s upset he can’t let anyone know his full self.

[phoebehalliwell]

in your alternate next gen headcanons/fics, you've got Penn and the other P's (Piper's daughters), Dency (Phoebe's daughter), and Sheridan and Warren (Prue's son's). have you ever written anything about Paige's kids in any of the alternate universes?

okay so if i'm cataloguing every next gen warren witch that lives in my brain by charmed one, there's:

prue: warren & sheridan, patricia, penelope, & phillipa

piper: wyatt, chris & melinda, penn & (penn's siblings??), (jack the piper/kyle kid???)

phoebe: pj, parker & peyton, dency, (cj??)

paige: tamora, kat & henry jr, (bennie??)

in which um bennie has actually made a couple guest appearances on this blog and is the paige/richard kid and is like. a fat vibe def mentally ill but like. au where richard still binds or strips his powers whatever also he really seems like a tai chi guy and paige and richard are endgame i guess lmaoo so bennie their kid is raise not my you know bonkers batshit insane powers because i stand by my theory that richard was dose with blood of a greater being as a child and that's why magic makes his react the way he does so that does pass on just a little bit to his child. i also once very briefly constructed an au w a paige kyle kid but in a kyle still died world so paige still ends up w henry and has a daughter kyle at some point as a whitelighter finds out he has a daughter bc the elders were really keepin that Top Secret but kyle's quasi-adjacent in his kid's life but idk like. what those kids would be up to. isabel and beatrice maybe? i think they were bel and bea? lemme see if i can find the pöst. nope. well ur just gonna hafta trust me on that ig. yeah i can't say i've thot much about them. i think if i were really to spin a paige progeny solo story i mean well a) henry jr spin off bc like. i think that could be fun. but i think i would want to create a circumstance really separate from the next gen something that warrants a whole ass like Own Story (e.g. warren and sheridan being raises by jack, dency being the source's heir + having the twice blessed, which changes like magical society as a whole) because if it's still like you know there's wcm at the top of the lil next gen pyramid i feel like the worlds all stay too similar and it gets my brain fuzzy. i could do a paige-never-finds-the-power-of-three-au, where she still has her witch powers and figures shit out on her own, but i really don't know what the 411 with her kids would be. i could also have the other parent be some other type of magical being, cupid, warlock, darklighter, etc, bc that fusion would be interesting. i think out of all of paige's love interests, by far my favorite option for a father just from like an interesting character perspective is richard, because like. he has a whole magical bloodline and also a family that is implied practices black magic on occasion. that kid would pack a punch. there's kyle (mortal) and kyle (whitelighter), but like. i feel like if i were to do that again i'd have to spin up some au otherwise it's just the same gen 2 universe but instead of tam and kat it's paigekyle kids. you know what actually You Know What Actually Could Be Fun in a paige-never-finds-the-power-of-three-au-but-is-still-a-witch um fuckin hello?? paige glen. paige glen world travelers witch free spirit those kids would be. those kids would be so weird man just life experience globetrotters especially seeing as they have some magical legacy (the charmed destiny) that the belland family has just someone manage to outrun by like. quite literally like outrunning it. never being in the same place long enough for anything to really happen. i'm feeling two kids here. hmm but with two kids idk if they'd stick together a whole bunch i think they'd be a lot more free not like attached at the hip so either i run two separate plots or i only focus on one. but that could be. interesting to say the least.. esp if something happened where um. where like the charmed ones were wiped out. idk how. maybe prue did bite it in all hell breaks loose. maybe Phoebe dies. in ahbl. they're down to the power of two with piper and prue. piper taps out leo clips his wings and piper binds her powers and they leave the manor. piper then realizes she's pregnant witchlighter baby??? or she just has a normal witch baby. maybe a couple. actually just two i think i need to cap it at two bc no power of three access in this au. omg leo dies in s8 like how he was fated to die..................... prue holds down the homefront at the manor. finds love eventually has kids eventually i could go really out in left field and say fuck it prue x angel of death kids. but that requires

attention on its own part. but i could. i might. hmmm. because piper post leo death hell maybe leo just gets killed by a darklighter in spite of being mortal just because a darklighter recognizes him. piper like. changes her identity and raises her kid separate from the manor and magic. kids. maybe. prue is like. ballz to the wall fuckin intense. i could just make up a guy i could do whitelighter andy i could do. justin?? was his name? there's bane and jack but bane's in jail and jack would die in about five minutes so. i think i'd make up a guy. but i think prue has kids again maybe just two. i mean i could all give them one. but. . do i really want only children here lbr also prue and piper were both raised w siblings i could reasonably seeing prue having only one kid if it was like.. too dangerous to have another kid or something but i think she really wanted to be Mom. so anyways prue's witch kids are trained rigorously from warren lore, piper's kids are raised mortal, and paige's kids are raised with training from paige, who's self taught. anyway.s prue gets murdered and the manor is taken over by dark magic. when prue's kids are. mmm early twenties great age to take on an adventure that you're not like. remotely equipped to handle yet. they know they need to take back the seat of power lest something terrible happens. like it has to be a halliwell right the halliwells have to take back their house. so the halliwells get the bennets (piper's kids) (surprise! you're a witch!) and then somehow Also discover the bellands (surprise! you have a long extensive family tree that fights evil magic!) and then idk we really get the ball rolling we get some plot goin. wallah.

[sinsofheather]

✎ 「 have you seen HEATHER SINCLAIR yet this school year ?? maybe in DEBATE TEAM, VOLLEYBALL, EVENTS COMMITTEE?? i heard some wild rumors about the EIGHTEEN year old last semester, but now that they’re a SENIOR it might be a different story. according to their friends they’re pretty ADAPTABLE, but sometimes SHE can be CUTTHROAT. who knows, this might just be HER year ! 」[ MARIA PEDRAZA ] 

name: heather james sinclair

nicknames: heathen, devil, bitch (self- proclaimed), big red, witch

age: 18

grade: senior

star sign: scorpio

birthdate: october 31

aesthetics: red lipstick, chokers, leather jackets, a girl is a gun, venomous words, boy tears, storms, strip teases, messy sheets & unmade bed, lipstick stains, boyfriend stealer, black lace, unfinished books, burnt matchsticks, cherry bomb, heels for every occasion

character inspo: Big Red (Bring It On), Peyton Sawyer (One Tree Hill), Courtney Shayne (Jawbreaker), Kathryn Merteuil (Cruel Intentions, Heather Chandler (Heathers), Rizzo (Grease), Chanel Oberlin (Scream Queens), Veronica Sawyer (Heathers)

personality:

+ intelligent, adaptable, thrill-seeker, savvy

- cutthroat, promiscuous, spoiled, cruel

BIO:

there’s many stories that goes around the halls of degrassi such as she being the devil itself or how she is so cruel to anyone she meets. underneath it all she’s just a girl with a family she cares about and a little sister who she will make sure gets the best of the best. she’s taught her all of her tricks because she believes in order to get ahead in this world you need to be cruel. especially if you’re a woman in this world. she prides herself on being able to get what she wants which has become effortless now. a lot of things in her life has come easy for her. she doesn’t need to study profusely as she easily understands the material and ends up with good grades. she excels at about any extracurricular she’s part of and most of the time she’s joined some teams she had no interest in. one of them being power squad only because she knew she could easily take over, which she did, but she stepped away because she hated cheerleading.

heather doesn’t know how to emotionally be there for someone, she just can’t register how to do it without feeling out of place. she desperately wants to say the right thing to her sister and show her that she does care for her since she senses whatever struggles she might going through. she wishes she could just tell her that she loves her and to just hold her like when they were little. she’s not sure on when their dynamic switched a bit but she will always be looking out for holly j.

unfortunately they have just lost all their money so their comfortable lifestyle has quickly changed. heather is worried with how she’s going to manage to even have enough for college. as of right now she’s working at the mall at a store. she hates it and even more that she would have to encounter some people from school.

about last year as heather was searching for some important documents in her parents closet, she found a box that looked suspiciously hidden away. she discovered holly j was adopted and confronted her mom. she was told that she can’t say anything and now she feels guilty with this secret. she’s unsure on how to even proceed, she’s stuck in a hard place.

has been dating adam since january, well officially on new years eve cause funsies. currently she’s a bit worried for him cause of some past trauma that’s been coming up again. it seems like it could be more than she could handle so she might be seeking out the help of his mom soon. 

WANTED CONNECTION -  on/off boyfriend during her sophomore/junior year. lil toxic behavior cause let’s be real messy and was like her first love. she wasn’t exactly the greatest girlfriend as she would also purposely push his buttons.

WANTED CONNECTION - childhood friend/bestie who could even her out and lovingly hold her back from some of her attitude. i just would love someone she can just click with and be herself naturally. 

WANTED CONNECTION - honestly maybe a co-worker of hers. heather currently works in the mall at some store and hates it there. it could be a fun dynamic thing and could turn into a friendship.