#winx griffin

[lmnrrtt]

the content i guess

[nade0]

I feel like people forget these two exist💀💀🙏🙏🙏

P.S. I'll be posting rarely cuz i study a lot

[elsa-fogen]

Revenge is a dish best served cold

she's been waiting for this moment for like... i don't even know at this point, more than 20 years

also, she is slaying

[akaiitwki]

Merry Christmas!

(and any other holiday you celebrate!)

for this one, I wanted to challenge myself to draw something more difficult.

context in the art: Wizgiz and Dufour got drunk af and decided to dress Palladium as one of Santa's elves lmao

[taiyoooh]

Fairy outfits for Faragonda and Griselda, and a battle outfit for Griffin. I have older verions for Faragonda and Griffin, but only Griffin's changed significantly.

Redesign for Nova since she just had her head pasted on top of Miky's.... Diaspro was for fun lol Chimera is a hypothetical post season 3 design

[griffinswitch]

Griffin is canonically bi… whichever it is lol

[solowinx]

TWO PROOFS OF THE FACT THAT WITCHES ARE CANONCALLY GOOD

first:

from @winxwiki post. here is their translation (i slightly edited it):

Cloudtower knows and researches evil: it (the school) takes advantage of the enormous energy to take it over and replace it, taking its disruptive force. Both schools (alfea and cloud tower) fight for the same end but in very different ways.

It means that they fight evil by controlling it rather than destroying it

second: (from s2ep16)

Unfortunately in the english dub she says otherwise:

which is a school where witches use magic to be destructive rather than do good

This is shameful! Cinelume dub is a mess in fact im making a compilation of most of their errors through season 2, which is the least faithful to the original dub.

in general think about it. witches are mostly never opponents of the winx, just in season 1 and season 6 (those girls were freshmen manipulated by the trix). In the rest of the cases they help the winx or are neutral (or get controlled). Ms. Griffin herself is a good person who likes to make pranks to the fairies, that's all.

[kifkay]

the Cloud Tower headcanons

out of the three Magix schools, Cloud Tower has the biggest roster of scholarships and waived tuition fees.

witches are oft mischaracterised by the public. because they draw their power from strong, negative emotions, people incorrectly assume that witches must be either miserable, evil and/or drudging through a miserable existence. because of those biases, many talented young people never even pursue a witch’s education.

the Cloud Tower has been historically a very generous institution, hoping to draw in more students and combat those believes. Under Griffin’s leadership, the amount of given out scholarships is as big as ever and is specifically geared towards financially compromised students, or students in bad life situations. 

Every first year student at the Cloud Tower gets to choose a new name for themselves. It’s a ritual meant to symbolise rebirth; a way to let go of the past and embrace your new life.

of course, you’re not required to go by that name after the “initiation” - but that’s the name your coven siblings will remember you by.

in the last couple of decades, the idea of a self-sufficient, all-powerful witch became extremely popular. if before witches came in covens, nowadays, most prefer to do their bidding alone. this is why most Cloud Tower students are more versatile than fairies, but less powerful since they spread themselves thinner to try and learn a bit of everything.

in order to earn their enchantix, a fairy has to make a sacrifice to save a person from their homeland. in order to go through their final transformation, a witch has to prove their relentlessness and determination; willingness to achieve a goal by any means possible, at the expense of oneself.

the requirement for the final transformation is deliberately vague. it can be grandiose and self-destructive - a last stand, you, engulfed in blazing fire, shielding your friends with all that you’ve got - because worlds be damned, your loved ones are your first priorities. or it can be as uncomplicated as standing up to your shitbag father and trashing your old house; that asshole won’t keep you down any longer. all in all, there’s no right way to be a witch.

student spend their first three years of college on campus. their fourth year, the school finds them an internship. future guardian witches are hired by “hero-for-rent” organisations and sent on supervised off-world missions, alchemists and potion-makers are interned in Linphea, teachers are sent off across dimensions. they come back once every semester, to report their progress, and on graduation. similar system in employed in both Alfea and Red Fountain.

some fairies and witches definitely have beef with each other, and stereotyping/hate-mongering is ripe on both sides - BUT. so many of them are dating each other. just so many. you guys have never been in an (almost, there are still guy and non-binary witches/fairies) all girls boarding school if you think those bitches from Alfea and Cloud Tower are anything but gay.

Griffin is in an attrition war with the fairy-dating witches. they keep sneaking their SO’s into the Cloud Tower, who then have to be rescued because the castle is kind off sentient and keeps trying to eat the intruders-

it’s just annoying to be constantly dealing with! so Griffin literally puts anti-fairy charms on the school grounds.

(but then Griffin also has to call an emergency meeting with the entire school and reiterate that she is not actually homophobic - just against trespassers without entrance permits - and to please, stop sending hexes into her office-)

[ghostsprobably]

i just finished their redesign videos so here's the young versions of griffin and faragonda >:3c

^^^(their true dynamic)

[calissarowan]

Icy: Miss Griffin, I thought Cloud Tower was a progressive school!

Griffin: It is…

Griffin: But being progressive does not mean that it’s acceptable for you to set fire to Alfea just because it is a ‘girlboss’ move.

Icy: As a prominent figure in the magical community, you should be encouraging girls to break into a previously male-dominated fields like arson.

Griffin: I couldn’t agree more.

Griffin: Which is why you’re now going to break into the previously male-dominated field of being liable for seven hundred thousand dollars in damages.

(@elsa-fogen, I thought you might perhaps enjoy this.)

[darkpoisonouslove]

I am not taking criticisms.

[lmnrrtt]

i forgot to post it.. anyway happy new year!!

[nade0]

how stupid i was thinking she’d look like this in a reboot, i was literally cooked from the beginning 💀💀💀

[darlenicy]

So you remember the Gala for the new students event in Alfea in season 1, don't you? The one in episode 3. In the show Red Fountain and Alfea hold a party in Alfea to welcome the new students. I always wondered why it were only two of the magical schools and Cloudtower was missing.

So in my headcanon it always had been an event for all the three schools. They all worked together and held several events together to strengthen the bond between specialists, fairies and witches. However this bond broke:

In the last semester, the school year before Bloom attends Alfea, there had been an accident involving three witches and a fairy. The accident was mentioned in canon: Stella blew up the whole potion laboratory. In the show it's a funny accident, that shows how Stella has a hot temper. In my headcanon Stella didn't only blew up the potions laboratory, she also killed a witch by accident. It happened, that one night three witches entered Alfea to get Stella's ring. Stella however, was all alone, since she didn't have formed a friend group that year and the witches chased her through the nightly corridors of Alfea in order to catch her and her ring. She fled in the potions laboratory, where the witches faced her. The three witches were Icy and Darcy under the command of Lilith, a witch in her third year of Cloud Tower. Lilth has a special connection to the dragon flame and views it as her personal right to possess it. Since the royal family of Solaria inherited from the royal family in Domino (also my hc) Lilith suspected the dragon flame to be kept in Stella's ring. (False assumption as we all know.) I'll make a post on Lilith once I made her backstory up in my fanfiction. She however didn't fear any consequences. She wanted the ring and she would get it even if she had to kill for it. So she faced Stella, hurt her, tortured her (Stella has a big, fkn witch trauma) demanded the ring. Stella however all alone and scared af tried to defend herself, her powers went out of control and she blew up the whole laboratory with Lilith in it, whose body was burned to death. Icy and Darcy managed to escape and were only slightly hurt (and under shock, especially Icy who saw her friend, her leader dying. She has also a big fkn trauma and it's the reason for her hatred towards Stella. There will be only one fairy soon, whom ahe hates more). That all however wasn't made public. In fact no one really knew what happened: Faragonda and Griffin came to the conclusion that it was a usual fight between fairies and witches which went out of control. As a result Faragonda reduced the contact with Cloud Tower to a minimum and excluded it from the gala and all other events. Griffin is deeply hurt and pissed af. She always valued Faragonda as a close friend, an important friend. That friend who was once an enemy but helped her escaping Valtor. This close friend now turned her back on her and, as she sees it, betrays her. Not only did she lose her best student (Lilith), she also lost her best friend. That's why she doesn't prevent the Trix messing with the fairies. She deeply believes Lilith's death had been an accident and doesn't see the banter between Winx and Trix as something dangerous. How few she knew...

[snarky-art]

Old winx club kiss doodles from ???? ago from requests in the server

[griffinswitch]

Griffin sending the Trix to the Detention Dimension is so funny to me. Both the Fortress of Light and Omega Dimension could not hold these three witches, so what makes her think that it's the best place to send them as punishment.