#katherine isnt supposed to be autistic but because I am autistic she accidentally ended up being autistic sorry guys its genetic

[zorubark]

My beautiful girl, Katherine DeRose, has hypermagia, a condition originally inspired by diabetes type 2 since I have lived closely to many people with diabetes and my family(mom side) is prone to diabetes, so many family members have it, I myself have risk of getting it if I don't maintain a balanced diet, since I already don't do exercise. But since it's developments, it's specifically inspired by diabetes, and not specifically diabetes, instead of your pancreas shutting down from all that sugar you're gulfing down(since it's type 2), Katherine's condition is like your pancreas is always producing more insulin than it needs but at least a manageable amount where you can be ok with care, but anytime you eat something with a little glucose, like pasta, carbs and all, your pancreas explodes with insulin, making you have hypoglycemia and needing immediate care.

In my world, magic is magic but also, it's like a substance our body needs, like a vitamin, insulin, iron, glucose. Just like them, you can have a magic deficiency, it causes you to be weak, unattentive, have headaches, hungry, disoriented, dizzy, and a general feeling of sickness, depending on the person, they can feel nausea or even vomit. Since different species have different magic levels the effects of hypomagia vary but it's always a bad thing.

Hypermagia is the name for the condition of having too much magic, Katherine has a specific type where her body produces too much magic when it feels like it's being demanded magic. Bodies produce more magic in situations of stress, exercise, and when trying to use magic(duh).

"when trying to use magic" - When trying controlling magic, it naturally goes to your extremities, but in magic training they focus on using magic on your hands so you can use wands, magical swords, and etc. (Many wands don't have their own magic and you have to put your own magic in it, good thing that when you try to use magic it goes to the hands kinda easy)

"exercise" - Magic is energy, bodies use magic when they do physical exercise as well, though, the most efficient way to make your body have more magic naturally is doing exercises with magic, like keep trying spells and etc until you get tired but not to a hypomagia point, and physical exercise uses way less magic than a spell

"stress" - In the wild, many animals use magic, but in an "less advanced way"(as the people from where it takes place like to denote it), since animals mostly don't use any artifacts or tools to use magic. Magic can help you to be faster, stronger, and can even paralyze others, magic itself, without any tools, can do some incredible things, so naturally, animals get a magic boost when stressed because it gives them more energy to run away or fight.

"but zorubark, are you gonna talk about katherine" I'm sorry, I'm so autistic and I love biology so much. It's inevitable.

How Hypermagia affects Katherine's life

Katherine, really, really, wants to be a witch. She tries to get into a school for witches, and she does a test where she needs to do a simple spell:

She holds the wand, she unconsciously concentrates magic in her hands, that's something you should do when using a wand, but then, combined with her already high magic levels and how too much magic is being made, it all goes into her hand- and it explodes, literally. Depending on how hard she tries it goes to: small capillaries breaking, muscle tear, internal inflammation, small bone cracks/bone fragility(in the hand to arm area), veins rupturing, and her bones breaking, if it's really bad.

Katherine gets rejected because her condition is a health risk as a witch, at the moment Hypermagia has no treatment that will make the explosions go away, Katherine's only options would be: 1, Remove the organ that produces magic(downsides: surgery, will have to stay at hospital for a long time since her body is used to having magic and would die without it, and isn't able to use magic anymore)(upsides:???) 2, Never use magic

Katherine obviously doesn't want any of that, she wants to be a witch and doesn't want to give up now, she wants to at least study witchery even if not doing spells, but turns out her condition makes her automatically rejected from all witch schools where she lives, so reluctantly she tries to find another school.

When it comes to her Hypermagia outside of witchery, it gets worse when she gets stressed or does too much exercise, she was an energetic kid and eventually, specially now, easily stressed, even though that's detrimental to her physically. And in general, many hospital visits to observe if she is development well, prescribe medicine. She also has accidents where if she eats a food that increases magic she gets bad too.

Get ready for: Fantasy disability posting 2, eletric boogaloo, dragon guy that can't spit fire and his wings are too frail to fly so he gets a prosthetic(this is the tip of the iceberg of my characters with disabilities, there's so much of them...)

Writing a character with fictional chronic disease be like:

Me: So her body produces too much magic and when she tries to use magic she gets hurt

"Along the story she should train and be able to use her power"

Me: She WON'T SHE CAN'T USE THAT MUCH MAGIC OR HER VEINS EXPLODE HER MUSCLES TEARS AND SHE BREAKS HER BONES