FebruarOC Day 1: Alaric
“May I see your stone for a moment?”
Fay scowled at him from her spot on the floor and Alaric did his best to suppress a sigh. It wasn’t going to be easy to gain any amount of trust with her and he knew that. Had known it from the beginning. But even the slightest bit of cooperation would be nice.
Maybe he was too old for this. Or too out of practice.
As Fay heaved herself up, he shook himself mentally of the thoughts. It didn’t matter now. She was his apprentice and he needed to get back into practice quickly. For both of their sakes.
Fay removed the small cloth pouch from where it hung around her neck on a simple leather cord and tossed it onto his desk, still scowling at him. “Here.”
“Thank you,” he said as he carefully dumped the stone out into the palm of his hand to examine it.
Noting the starting brightness of the light it glowed with, Alaric dimmed it so he didn’t blind himself. He hadn’t gotten a good look at it earlier. Fay needed it far more than his curiosity needed to be satisfied. A quick look over revealed his initial thoughts to be correct. It was indeed a bit of quartz embedded into its parent rock.
“Do know what it is,” he asked while returning the quartz to its proper brightness as Fay had it so she had it to protect her at night.
“Sparkly,” she answered slowly while taking it back.
“True. But it’s properly known as quartz.” Alaric opened a drawer and found a large piece of quartz. Freed of the rock it had come from and polished to a high shine. “Like this. You finding that was a stroke of good luck. Quartz takes easily to being a part of a beginners spellwork.”
“It was just pretty.”
He didn’t doubt that’s why she’d picked it up. She’d been starved of beautiful things her whole life as far as he knew. A little bit of something that sparkled would’ve been a perfect little trinket to stash away to satisfy some deeper yearning.
“Pretty, and practical. I’d like you to start with this for your first lesson,” he said while indicating the polished quartz. “You made your piece light up. I’d like you to replicate that with the polished bit. I’ve already used it with my own magic before, so it should be easier than if you were working with an untouched quartz.”
Fay’s expression darkened. “I don’t want easy.”
“I don’t want an exhausted or half-dead apprentice,” he replied gently, but firmly. “We are building a base for you to work from. I didn’t say it would be easy either. I said easier. You’ll still need to work to get this piece to light up as well.”
“If I already did it once, why do I have to do it again,” she demanded.
“Do you know how you did it?”
Fay opened her mouth and froze like that for a moment before closing it. Alaric sighed a little while pushing the polished quartz towards her. “The first time was in far less than ideal circumstances. You were scared and wanted light. So you subconsciously pulled any scrap of light from your surroundings and forced it into your quartz. Now I’m asking you to do it on purpose. Sit with this piece and focus on your breathing like I’ve been teaching you, and then try putting light into it.”
She took the piece with a slight glare. “Fine.”
Alaric sighed as she went to sit back into her spot. As she stared at the quartz, he watched as she at least made an effort to breathe as he taught her. While she tried to wrestle with this lesson, he pulled out the journal and recorded the conversation and the notes he had so far on Fay and how she took to her lesson.
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HISTORICAL TIME PERIODS
1700’s
✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ we are about to brave the storm in a skiff made of paper ❜ ── the second continental congress
✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ these are the times that try men’s souls ❜ ── the american revolution
1800’s
✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ a house divided against itself cannot stand ❜ ── the american civil war
✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath ❜ ── the gilded age / the age of big business
1900’s
✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ blood and steel built belfast’s pride and joy ❜ ── before the voyage / titanic’s construction
✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ ever westward on the sea ❜ ── rms titanic’s maiden voyage
✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ turn the tragedy into spectacle ❜ ── titanic’s immediate aftermath / the inquiry
ALTERNATE UNIVERSES
FANDOM
✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ a visit for the season ❜ ── bridgerton
✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ history comes to life ❜ ── night at the museum
ALTERNATE TIMELINES
✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things ❜ ── time travel
✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ this universe is only one of an infinite number ❜ ── multiuniverse travel
MUSE SPECIFIC
ROBERT TODD LINCOLN
✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ the prince of rails ❜ ── first son of the united states
ANASTASIA ANDREWS
✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ professor of magical history ❜ ── anastasia andrews in the wizarding world
CONSTANCE MORGAN
✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ now is the time to seize the day ❜ ── the 1899 newsboy strike
✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ fortune favors the bold ❜ ── the princess of wall street
✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ mother of the titanic ❜ ── mr. andrews’ apprentice
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ with malice toward none ❜ ── sixteenth president of the united states
MORE TO BE ADDED
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You are a traveling wizard set out to find your next apprentice. One day you find a young child who is gifted with magic, but instead of taking them away from their family like everyone expects, you settle down in the tiny village to train them.
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PLATONIC/ROMANTIC SLYTHERIN BOYS X LOVE WITCH/WIZARD! READER
Ft. The riddles, Draco malfoy, Blaise Zabini, Theodore Nott,&& Lorezno Berkshire
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Tom Riddle
Makes you break couples up…🙁 please he gives off hater vibes on valentines days he don’t play.
He would especially make you break up that one couple that shows too much pda to the point Tom wants to Avada Kedavra himself. He literally points and says….
“Them..do your little love spells and break their pathetic hearts.”
Poor Tom just wants to go on with his day without hearing kissing noise.
Though he do wanders what your lips taste would taste on his.
Mattheo Riddle
Always pestering you to get him a date. Hell, he even woke you up straight on Valentine’s Day so you could help him find one.
Even for the yule ball…it was annoying.
“Are you sure you can’t make a love spell to work only for tonight?” Mattheo says, walking by you in the halls. You swiftly turn around with an annoyed expression. “Matt…please shove a sock in your mouth. I can’t force love, I can coach for sure. But force isn’t a good thing.” You lastly said. Leaving the Slytherin male to think to himself.
It took a few days for him to start to flirt with you. At first it didn’t work but then it started to.
Ending up with you two dating, oddly mattheo stopped talking about love which made you ask him.
Only for him to say this, “I stopped talking about love because you took it all.” Cheeky bastard…
Draco Malfoy
He’s just like Tom. He hates seeing pda from strangers. But for him he doesn’t mind showing you affection in public
A hypocrite I must say.
But he love show you do help couples with their relationship problems. He find it usual if you two ever get into an argument.
He’s curious, is he not? He goes into your so called “love office” and checks out your potions only to accidentally drop one called “obsession” on two rats who started to mate aggressively.
He was traumatized and never went inside your office again.
Blaise Zabini
Teases you a lil for being a love witch/wizard.
At first he thought you were joking to be one, but when you show your own magic he was amazed
Now he wants to watch all your sessions so can give his own love advice
Of course he credits you🫶🏾💕
If mattheo asked Blaise to steal a potion so he make two animals fall in love
He would either do it out of pure curiosity or just say no. You trust him a lot and even gave him a spare key for your office.
Theodore Nott
He would be a slight hater towards couple showing pda in public because he’s jealous he doesn’t that kind of love.
Would immediately sneak into your love office and try to do a “compatibility test” so he can see if you two are match
Would ask you a lot of damn questions of what do girls like in a guy and what do guys like in a girl. He just wants to know!
Probably asks if you do sex therapy.
Now that made him kicked out of your office.
He’s probably banned for life too🧍🏾
Lorenzo Berkshire
“Can you get me a date?”
Is what the poor boy would say to you. And sadly you decline as love is made within itself.
Lorenzo, being a slight hopeless Romantic and you being the romantic wizard/witch you are. Is quite a duo.
But despite everything, he wants to be your apprentice. Be finds your magic spells and potions very intriguing.
“Which spell works for this couple?”
“…break that one up. They’re so toxic.”
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It blows my mind that Gale drops bombs like "I stole the Blackstaff as a child" out of nowhere so casually. Like, what's the craziest thing that any wizard can do in Waterdeep? It's that!
For some context:
Only the Blackstaff, the most important wizard in Waterdeep, who is granted the office and ability to magically defend Waterdeep to the utmost extent, can use this staff and young Gale decides "Yeah, I can use that," and he's not even WRONG, the spell just goes awry.
The in-game dialogue:
"A misadventure from my days as an apprentice at Blackstaff Academy.
"I was but a child, only a few months into my studies, but already I knew I was destined for greatness. No one believed me, of course, so I decided to prove it. To cast a spell with the Blackstaff itself.
"From one perspective, I succeeded. I opened a portal. However, instead of pointing it at the first year dormitory, I found myself pulled into limbo, facing a very irritated Death Slaad.
"Fortunately the Blackstaff himself came to the rescue, hauling me backwards from the brink, and straight into several months of writing lines. Or rather, finessing my autograph."
What a lad.
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