#w.i.t.c.h. luba

[krchar]

Introducing: My Basiliadean Headcanons II

Ok... this is part II of my overthinking... (part I) it is so long, it is only for the strong with the brainrot

I gave some issues too much thought when writing my fics

5. Basiliade and romantic love This is quite an issue, when you dive into Basiliade for the ships lol.. so I thought about it damn lot So.. we see Orube is surprised at the huge role of romantic love in the lives of Earthlings.

We also know that Basiliade, at least in elite classes, is quite a strict society based on firm hierarchies, not very prone to attachment – as is seen in the memory of Orube's father (the guy is hot tho)

although the society might clearly favour other kinds of attachment and love – like that between master and apprentice (and Orube is also surprised the girls seem to put love before friendship sometimes). It is possible that romantic love is just not as important in the society - even on Earth it had a lesser role at times, than the extreme one it has now in the Western media. It can also be looked down upon, as drawing a person from more important spheres of life. When I wrote H/Y, I presumed their relationship would be secret - I joked on everyone actually having an inkling in the Garden, cause I thought the reality of such society is always different than the ideal - but generally I kept love as something you are not open about. Of course, H/Y are two males, so it might have appeared as an issue of homophobia - as it is common to presume homophobic tendencies for any made up world. My reasons for their secrecy and restraint were actually more complex, but I regrettably might not have made it very clear - although I have some, eh, WIPs mentioning hetero relations of warriors as problematic, too. Still, to add some self-reflection, I suppose including the secrecy might’ve felt natural to me, because I have the homophobic trope internalized like most people. But my reasons were 1) The society viewed as strict, non-individualistic and focusing on other spheres. Basiliade comes from the comics’s orientalistic tropes, so I think it is based on these classic patterns emphasized in Western portrayal of the Far East. Still, I keep thinking of a 17th century Chinese play that I have seen years ago, a story of two lovers divided by dramatic events and seeking each other - then meeting with all the drama, then a monk tells them their love means nothing - and they realize she is right and stop feeling the love. As a then ca. 15 yo European, I was shocked. Still I felt like - oh, yeah, the Far East, classic - bc I am a Westerner, like the authors of the comics. 2) Warrior lifestyle - I see masters as an icon of the strict society - they live for a task and they subordinate their personal desires to it. Note e.g. the hints of Orube's difficult and humbling training, her painful parting from her family, which refuses to acknowledge her pain, Yarr's self-diminishing after an apparent mistake etc. I mean, there's this:

but I think this refers to a bit of a different level - keeping your values, your identity, but not being self-centered. In a fic I also followed Orube's unfamiliarity with love and made Yarr a bit confused about his crush, although now I think that at his age (ca. 39 then), he might have had a better idea... but I also made it specific to his warrior life, that he is just not used to love, although he does know it from theatre - cause I think it might have a role, but it is problematic, unofficial, left for art, fringe culture, stories of old times and not the present. And definitely not for the daily life of masters. 3) For masters also the rank must play a role - and this could be extended to class in the general society. Strong hierarchies commonly build great barriers between people. Specifically H & Y in my story are divided by several years in duty, but much more by those two cursed years of them being master and apprentice, which, apparently, might connect and divide you at once, for life. Even in canon, it is interesting, how Y. keeps the custom of respect, when they meet, even though by now he may just as well have a rank much higher than H had, when he had left. Y. keeps this mostly formally, while they seem to speak quite equally at times, but it is there. H. was once his superior, and so he is forever. I hc that, generally, in such society, love over the borders of class would not be favoured, and for masters difference of rank would make the situation even more problematic, than it already is.

Still this all is based on the orientalistic trope - it is not impossible that some masters were quite unhinged and nobody cared.. or that, as I mentioned, the society had a certain facade, but inside everything was very different - I think I was using the latter idea mostly

Well but... these were my thoughts.. yours?

[doowlssleep]

my brain please i made a lineup and posted it can i be free now pretty please

[aghostrandom]

I don't know if Luba made a downgrade or a upgrade, but it's surely something.

[rheatit]

°•☄️🀄;;

❝ — Кᴀпли стихий взᴀимодᴇйствʏют дᴘʏг с дᴘʏгом, кᴀк пᴘиᴘодныᴇ силы нᴀ Зᴇмлᴇ... ❞

[lumiy-a]

A list of W.I.T.C.H. fanfictions (non-exhaustive, non-Guardian-centric)

Here’s a list of fanfictions I have read and appreciated over the years, as well as the ones I have written. They will be divided by pairing and/or trope and I'll try to keep it up to date as I keep reading and writing stories. If you find something that inspires you, go show the authors your support!

I’ll tag the authors if I know their Tumblr. If you see yourself in the list, let me know so I can tag you!

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Canon fics and missing moments in canon

These stories are about missing scenes during the time Cedric and Orube spent together in the comics, or in any case canon-compliant stories (no fix-its, Cedric stays dead)

Fics in English 🇬🇧🇺🇸

Scenes from a bookstore by Elizabeth McMarsh 

For Now, an Earthly Revelation by magical_sovereign 

Insomnia by epiphyte 

Unique/Matching by @theneptuneviolin

Here is my humble offer:

The Book of Elements (Arc 5 rewrite)

Fics in Italian 🇮🇹

Due alieni by Sylphs 

Scacco matto by Marge (explicit) 

Sotto la maschera, attraverso lo specchio by Sylphs 

L'ultima speranza by Elelith 

Un sentimento fin troppo umano by ImperialPair 

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Fix-it and post-canon Fics

These stories are alternative endings and/or epilogues to Arc 5 attempting to fix its ending.

Fics in English 🇬🇧🇺🇸

The Path Ahead by epiphyte

The Librarian by Elizabeth McMarsh

Out of the Book by Zoja

When Hope Prevails by @vampirenaomi

Here are mine: 

Ink and Blood 1

The Twin Suns of Basiliade (Ink and Blood 1.5)

The Twin Suns of Basiliade - Missing moments (explicit)

Ink and Blood 2

Ink and Blood 3

Home

The Gift of Time (reloaded)

Fics in Italian 🇮🇹

Save me by Rowena

Quello che aveva perduto by ToscaSam

Ritorni by MaxT (based on an incomplete story of mine - which was the original concept of Ink and Blood)

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Pairing: Cedric x Phobos 

(check the fics to see if cartoon- or comic-based)

Fics in English 🇬🇧🇺🇸

Pressed and Faded Roses by @ror-witch

An exotic's cultivation by wastingmypotential

Meridian Traditions by magical_sovereign

bleeding petal by @linoxee

The Price of Forgiveness by @ror-witch (explicit)

Here are mine:

Stay 

What Loyalty Means 

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Multiship / No Ship / Other Pairings

Fics in English 🇬🇧🇺🇸

The Image of Love by magical_sovereign (Elyon x Caleb)

Drosera by @vampirenaomi (Elyon & Phobos)

Murmurs on the Wind by @theneptuneviolin (Elyon & the Murmurers)

Dear Nerissa by Tabby_Shieldmaiden (Cassidy x Nerissa)

Veredictum by wastingmypotential (just Cedric)

When I was down (I was your clown) by Tabby_Shieldmaiden (Cornelia x Irma)

5 seconds ago by Malingale (Cassidy x Nerissa)

Mauvais Jour de Cheveux by EVA_beatrice (Cassidy x Nerissa)

New Hope by DreamyMoonlight (Kadma x Halinor)

Fear by @ror-witch (Weira & Phobos)

Of Customs and Flaws by @krchar (Himerish x Yarr)

The Scar in His Hand by @krchar (Himerish x Yarr)

Sick Fruits Biting the Roots by avaloncat555 (Weira & Phobos)

Entangled by @krchar (Endarno x Luba)

Sweet falling apart by Casskim93 (Halinor & Kadma & Yan Lin)

Here are mine: 

The Galahot, the Prince and the Warrior (contains both Cedric x Phobos and Cedric x Orube)

The Right Choice (Himerish x Yarr)

The Swap collaboration with @atane-is-here (contains Cedric x Orube, Cedric x Phobos and Cedric x Miranda; crack fic with cartoon/comic crossover accompanied by comics)

The Maiden (Cedric x Phobos; Phobos & Original Female Character; a bit of Cedric x Orube towards the end)

Fics in Italian 🇮🇹

Dolore ardente by Casskim93 (a short Italian fic about Luba)

[badly-drawn-pigeon]

Some of my favorite W.I.T.C.H. moments are when the guardians abuse their powers. Cornelia getting all fed up and imprisoning Luba in tree branches that she grows in the middle of her room. Taranee setting random shit on fire and almost incinerating a human at one point. Will using her powers to sabotage people that she sees as threats to her personal happiness.

They are young girls who still are still trying to figure themselves out, but they are also practically goddesses. With their elemental powers, they are as beneficial as dangerous, and I appreciate every scene where we are reminded of this.

[basiliade-hotpot]

✨Tag Masterpost bc Tumblr Mobile reigns supreme?✨

My Art

Art By Character:

Will / Irma / Taranee / Cornelia / Hay Lin /

Elyon / Phobos / Cedric / Miranda / Orube /

Nerissa / Yan Lin / Luba / Basiliade Characters

OC's & AU's

Other Media:

Fics / Edits / Meta

Other neat W.I.T.C.H. blogs and artists (not an exhaustive list obv):

@quintessence-sentimentalist

@guardians-of-kandrakar

@witchfansunite

@mykandrakar

@ror-witch

@irmacornelia

@artsofmetamoor

@lumiy-a

@bewdite-spacey-coffee

@g0lfw0lf

[princess-of-the-corner]

W.I.T.C.H. reboot, questions about the Guardians' families:

Will: what about her father? Also, will she get a younger brother here too?

Irma: is Anna her adopted mother as in the comic? If yes, will you address the mistery of Irma's birth mother?

Taranee: so... In the New Power arc it turned out she was adopted too, Fire came from the sky when Dark Mother's plants tried to murder her in the crib and the house was collateral damage so her parents had to give her up for adoption. Is she adopted here too? If yes and the circumstances are the same, will her birth parents appear? After all, Theresa kept tabs on them to let Taranee decide when the time came (she threw the information in the fire).

Cornelia: is her sister a magical Keeper here too?

Hay Lin: What's her relationship with her rich grandfather in Hong Kong?

Oh boy oh boy do the girls have a LOT of family drama in the comics!

Will - I think I lean toward liking her father in the Cartoon better than the Comic. Compared to the Comic's deadbeat with debts thing, I find the dynamic more interesting where he /does/ care about Will (and still cares about Susan as a person even if they're no longer in love), but he's just...... not really a Father.

Her getting a little brother may be in the stars, but it'll happen later. I /do/ have the opportunity to go past the cartoon's two seasons and adapt later Comic arcs, so I can have there be enough time pass where the little brother would appear. He is getting a different name though because the Will vs Will thing is going to drive me insane.

Irma - The fact that Anna is not her birth mother is sending me because they look EXACTLY alike. I'm not opposed to her being Irma's stepmom, but I might redesign her if I keep that plot. But yeah it wouldn't be a mystery, just that her birth mother died when Irma was little and her dad has since moved on and remarried.

Taranee - OH BOY. Okay so I'm liking the idea of her being adopted, but the Everything Else is a lot of drama. And the fact that her birth parents are actually confirmed alive in Canon but she doesn't want to meet them is interesting, especially with the whole fire thing being a magical cause.

While I won't keep the cause of the fire the same, having it be something mundane instead of connecting back.... would it be mean of me to kill off her birth parents? Just have the baby survive a fire. But we'd have Taranee finding out that her birth parents died in a fire and she has a breakdown wondering if her powers caused it. (in the end no, she didn't cause the fire. It was just one of the many normal ways a housefire can happen. Though perhaps her Magic is why she survived).

Cornelia - Lilian being the Heart of Earth is fucking hilarious to me so yeah I'm keeping it. Although this is entirely coincidence and not why Cornelia was chosen to be a Guardian because FUCK you Luba Corny's great actually!

Hay Lin - I actually don't know shit about the connection with the grandfather. I could roll in any direction with it.

[reizerisanoingsstuff]

30 DAYS OF WITCHVERSARY 2020

14. Favorite Basiliade inhabitant

😾 Luba 😾

I don't know if this counts, since for most of the time we see her, she's in any other planet besides her home one, but - the fact remains

Luba isn't really a good person just like anyone on Kandracar But I like what arc she goes through. We know from Orube's memories that she strick yet kind, and in her story revolving around girls, we see how predjedice can twist any kind of person, to the point where you stop seeing any good quality of them, but just horrible things they do to support their hateful beliefs

Maybe not a good person, but a good written character

[guardian-of-kandrakar]

30 Days of Witchversary-  Day 10 and 11

Favorite villain HQ

This week was my first in uni without internet so I’m here to catch up!

Totally ethereal

A Kandrakarian elder 

Let me take this chance to talk about Luba. I find this character so interesting for one main reason she had the balls to doubt Oracle! Good for her! Or not since it led to her death 😬

Anyways, I agree with her being against the Oracle's decision of giving the role of the Guardians to Earth teenagers but for different reasons, Luba thinks they shouldn't because they’re young and inexperienced but my reasoning is because teenagehood is already an age full of angst with enough worries and naivety, unprepared for this kind of responsability, so someone older, more experienced and trained would be way better like for example Orube.

[irmacornelia]

30 Days of WITCHversary - 19-27

Heres another dump of days!

Day 19 - Something small but unforgettable

The way they handled Cornelia and Caleb breaking up in the comic.

Ignoring later arc nonsense about Elyon/Caleb, I really like the way the fated soulmates trope gets subverted. They had passion, oh yes, they had so very much passion, but that is all they had, their relationship, upon reaching even ground and time to talk and actually spend non-working time together, destabilized. Caleb thought he was flirting with someone far older and became uncomfortable when he realized Cornelia’s age, Cornelia thought she’d have a Prince Charming who’d live on Earth with her in a happily ever after, Caleb loved Meridian and was too used to the way of the blade to ever be happy elsewhere, and Cornelia couldn’t ever be happy away from her home either. They tied it up well, and while I enjoy Cartoon!C/C, it was for the best.

Day 20 - Something you’d always come back to

WITCH in general? But if I had to choose, the 2nd season of the cartoon. It just... Speaks to me because of how cohesive the worldbuilding is. Its comfortable and well animated and I spent a frankly embarrassing amount of time rewatching the home-recorded vhs tapes of that season throughout my childhood. I can recite lines. Fear my power.

Day 21 - A memorable architectural design

Kandrakar. Its a classic, very WITCH-like. I actually tried to build it in minecraft once. I didn’t finish, but I really like how its all white and cloudy and on the surface looks like some stereotypical heaven but oh, how it isnt with any kind of analysis(See, the problem of Evil). The spikes on the tower show off that it has its darker side under the fluff.

Also I have a soft spot for indoor pools, runes, and marble. So theres that.

Day 22 - A wonderful pet

Napoleon! Both comic and cartoon Napoleon are good. Im a sucker for cats.

Have a doodle of a few Napoleons Ft. the probable design for tDoK!Napoleon

Day 23 - A magical item

So I think ill talk about the Seal Of Phobos. Just. What the shit?

In the cartoon, it opened portals- allowing people access to worlds that were closed off from the rest by a Veil. Then the Heart vored it and they got that power but heres the question- Why didn’t the guardians already have the power to do that? They are supposed to fix things considered dangerous enough for intervention by Kandrakar, why can’t they get into quarantined spaces where all the particularly dangerous things are? The plot hole eats at me.

In the comics its even more shaky and poorly elaborated but at least you can just say the Heart already had the power to let them Travel and when it ate it it just purified it instead of giving it a power it should already have.

Day 24 - A group shot

Heres a sketchy shot of the Four Dragons and Xin Jing

Day 25 - A minor character

Luba!!

I love angry cat grandma.

Day 26 - A fantasy people/race/species

WEs species has a whole lotta potential, I drew em a bunch, both the tDoK version and a more canon version

Heres a bunch of my ocs for that species

Day 27 - A personal headcanon

Just choose one? I have a lot

Ill go with the headcanon/small AU that Basalites have tails so Luba and her canonical tail can make more sense. 

[krchar]

ok i could not stop myself it is already here

i promised it would be stupid and it is, so you know you can trust me

i must say i heard this song now a few days ago in a crack video for a whole other piece of media

It is originally Heroes by David Bowie, but like I'm hearing the Moulin Rouge version when I do this

and of course

they could be heroooooeeees

forever and everrrrrrrrrr

p.s. point is they actually pretty much are heroes

[doowlssleep]

ah yes i almost forgot i can make full color illustrations

[whippedcloudsofcream]

W.I.T.C.H. Issue #17

[niko-ur-local-moron]

^THIS^

Soo we all remember when Will sees Matt for the first time and she falls in love with him in the comic version and everything is so sugary sweet (ugh), right?

Okaaay but WHY NONE IS TALKING ABOUT THE MANGA VERSION

First she bumps into him and then he catches her when she is about to fall (cute)

BUUUUT

Then later on, he sAVES HER LIFE FROM THE FALLING LAMP (?)

It's just... More creative than in the comics QwQ

Haha also:

Fangirl SQUEAK

Annd

O o f

Ahhahaha who is Matt's girlfriend before Will in manga, you may never know, because the manga gets cancelled, so it's gonna leave you emotionally shattered lying on bed just like it did to me, HAH xD

[nianderful]

30 days of w.i.t.c.h. with nia, day 26!

a fantasy species

the basiliadeans!

i love how they’re all so diverse, especially for a race that seems to be defined only by ‘cat person’

and you can see that is supported by orube and luba...

but when you look at other basilaideans, you’ll see they look quite different!

and of course we have our old buddies, the two oracles themselves!

it makes me wonder if there’s some sort of spectrum to these guys, because some of them look more human than cat, and vice versa.

i dunno, it’s something that’s always tickled my fancy!