#winx obscura

[landofanimes]

World of Winx Season 2

Obscura, Stella's Nemesis

[riveramorylunar]

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Magia Winx!

STARDUST CRUSADERS X WINX!LEITORA (Headcanons Gerais) 

Sinopse: Imagine sua surpresa ao dormir pacificamente com sua Pixie em Alfea e acordar em um universo completamente novo, onde ao invés de bruxas e fadas serem a norma, existem humanos com personificações das almas em uma coisa chamada “Stand”? A situação fica ainda mais inusitada quando se junta a um grupo de pessoas com esses seres poderosos, onde o principal objetivo é matar um vampiro causador de infelicidade há gerações. 

Abdul: 

Mesmo tendo visto todo tipo de coisa, uma fada vinda de outro universo com uma micro criaturinha é algo que não esperaria nem em seus sonhos mais bizarros. Ele está em choque para dizer o mínimo. 

Tem várias perguntas referente ao seu mundo, especialmente quando você citou que os poderes dele lembravam “A chama do dragão” em Alfea, de sua amiga Bloom. 

Ouve atentamente cada história referente as Trix, Bruxas Ancestrais, Valtor, dentre outros vilões, além de se impressionar em como criaturas que julgava mitológicas são diferentes na vida real. 

Corrige a garota educadamente sempre que faz alguma afirmação errada sobre o planeta ou sobre Stands. 

Te auxiliou a não cometer tantas gafes na terra. 

Conversa muito com sua pixie, já que ela é extremamente faladora e curiosa. 

Acha sua transformação extremamente útil, já que permite que você voe livremente, além de potencializar seus poderes, mas não entende por que você luta descalça. 

A habilidade que mais te admira é a de cura e captação de magia obscura. 

Tem muita curiosidade para conhecer Magix, Linphea e Domino. 

Polnareff: 

Inicialmente? inconformado, depois? extremamente feliz, mas ainda inconformado. 

Faria diversas perguntas de acordo com o que sabe de fadas: “Vocês produzem um pó capaz de voar?”, “Podem transformar abóboras em carruagens?”, “Pode fazer com que o nariz de um inimigo cresça caso ele minta?” 

Também faria cantadas cafonas envolvendo sua espécie: “Mon amour, a poção da beleza deve ter sido criada por você no seu mundo, pois somente isso explicaria tamanha formosura”, “Ma chère, creio que aquelas bruxas que tanto me avisou me amaldiçoaram. O único encanto capaz de quebrar tal infortuno é um beijo.” 

Ele ensinaria algumas informações erradas sobre a terra por achar engraçado, te avisaria depois de dar umas boas risadas. 

Outro entusiasta das suas vivências, as favoritas são as mais inacreditáveis de terem acontecido. 

Acha que a transformação te deixa mais gostosa, sempre que te vê na forma de fada fica boquiaberto. 

Você teve que utilizar magia de cura nele mais vezes do que é possível contar. 

Possui uma relação boa com sua Pixie, porém de vez em quando discute por discordar de alguma coisa que a pequena disse (ele sempre perde). 

Já perguntou para ela como te seduzir e a resposta foi: “nascendo de novo.” 

Ele colocou a micro fada no mesmo nível que o Iggy depois disso. 

Tem vontade de visitar Solária. 

Jotaro: 

Sua primeira reação foi: “Mas que porra é essa?” Porém depois de se lembrar da existência de Stands e de um vampiro que usurpou do corpo de seu trisavô; uma fada vinda de outra dimensão não era algo para se impressionar. 

Finge não ter tanto interesse nas suas histórias, todavia ouve atentamente as que incluem os especialistas ou lutas complexas. 

Solta um: “yare yare daze/mas que saco!” sempre que você faz uma afirmação óbvia sobre algo que acabou de descobrir sobre o planeta terra. 

Te dá cobertura para nenhum inimigo te atacar enquanto se transforma. 

Na luta com N’Doul te fez carregá-lo voando em direção ao usuário, ao invés de deixar a tarefa para o stand de Iggy. 

Você ficou com dor nas costas. 

Nem rivais, nem amigos possui uma relação mediana com sua Pixie. 

 Gostaria de viajar para Fonte Rubra e usar os equipamentos dos especialistas. 

Kakyoin: 

Ficou estupefato para dizer o mínimo, é o tipo de coisa que ele esperaria ver em um filme de fantasia, não na vida real. 

Como um amante da cultura geek, faria todo tipo de pergunta sobre seu universo, desde referente a cultura até sistema de organização da sociedade. 

Surtou quando você disse sobre a tecnologia de Magix, potencializado 50x quando citou os jogos e competições existentes. 

Melhor amigo de sua Pixie, quando ambos se juntam é fato que começará uma conversa nerd. 

Acha sua transformação linda, e diferente de um certo francês não é malicioso com isso, a parte que mais acha bela são as assas. 

Não te passa conhecimentos falsos sobre a terra, mas ri discretamente caso você cometa alguma gafe, antes de avisar porque não deve fazer isso. 

Assim como o Jotaro, possui vontade de ver os equipamentos de Fonte Rubra. 

Tem como reinos favoritos Zenith e Andros, porém gostaria de explorar toda a dimensão mágica. 

Joseph: 

O mais descrente de todos. 

Não, fadas não existem, você é uma usuária de Stand e essa criaturinha que te acompanha é... bem, alguma coisa! 

Só passou a cogitar a possibilidade de realmente se tratar de um ser mitológico quando se transformou, mas ainda assim buscou achar uma resposta para isso. 

Depois de muito tempo finalmente aceitou, porém acha que algumas das suas histórias são mentiras. No mínimo irônico vindo de alguém que, quando mais novo, lutou contra 3 super-humanos com intolerância ao sol. 

Assim como um certo alguém, te acha gostosa na transformação em fada. 

Gosta da sua Pixie, apesar de não ser próximo. 

Iggy: 

Se une a sua Pixie para irritar Polnareff. 

Só para esclarecer:  

1-Referente as transformações: 

- A personagem está no nível enchantix. 

- Quando as personagens se transformam ficam dentro de um casulo. (canônico no desenho) 

- A transformação em fada é bem mais rápida do que pensamos, levando apenas míseros segundos para que todo o grupo se transforme e ela pode ser interrompida por ataques. (canônico no desenho) 

2- Referente aos poderes 

- S/n é capaz de ver stands. 

- Por uma questão de não deixar a personagem extremamente imbatível, os poderes foram reduzidos. 

3- Informações extra: 

Ela possui uma pixie com a personalidade da Digit, porém a pequena atua mais como uma conselheira. 

[feyres-divorce-lawyer]

finished snwh and asked my brother for something else to watch and he said the winx show netflix made and i though he was talking about WoW, which i said i alrdy watched and then he was like… actually new format

me: gimme a new film to watch

brother: watch the winx show netflix made

me *thinking he meant world of winx*: i already watched it

brother: you didn’t watch season two

me: yea i did, that’s when they got their nemesi. personal counterparts

brother: um no? they don’t have personal counterparts

me *now annoyed that he’s trying to be more knowledgeable about my interest*: yes each of them get their own personal nemesis. bloom’s is vertigo, flora’s is stoney, tecna’s is virus, musa’s is banshee, aisha’s is sinka, and stella’s is obscura

brother *still insistent*: no season two is the blood witches

me *fueled with indignation*: YOU ARE TRYING TO CITE THE DEEP MAGIC TO ME BUT I WAS THERE WHEN IT WAS- wait blood witches?

me *utterly confused for 2 seconds*: OH YOU MEANT FATE

me *now disgusted that he thinks i would willingly torture myself like that: yea you’re done. i’ll just watch uncharted

[emsartwork]

World of Winx Nemesis! Nemesises? Nemesi??

what.

Vertigo, Banshee, Obscura, Petra(Stoney) Metallica (sinka), and Virus

So the nemeses are created beings, drawing power from Bella Tinker and the Source of Dreams on Neverland. They aren’t “alive” technically, and are something more like moving dolls connected to the source, which in turn is tapping into each of the winx’s unconscious fears. While they appear solid, they’re kind of glitchy when it comes to the physical world, clipping through objects and walking “not quite right” as gravity affecting them is hit or miss.

Vertigo is... weird. She’s tapping into several fears of Bloom’s, but primarily Bloom’s fear that she’s a fake. They she’s not as good as people see her, that her accomplishments are virtue of the dragon flame and not HER, that one day she would wake up and everything about the winx her past and being a fairy would just be a very vivid dream. Vertigo wears at Bloom’s mental state with mirages and “glitches”, making her feel paranoid and panicked, She also impersonates Bloom a couple times, making Bloom think she’s had black outs/missing time. Bloom defeats her by accepting that she might not always know whats happening but she’s choosing to put her faith in herself and her own heart. 

Banshee taps into Musa’s tumultuous relationship with music and people. Musa views music as connection, she feels the most understood and authentic when speaking through song. Banshee layers whispers into Musa’s music, telling her everyone will leave her and she can never truly connect with others. In France Banshee uses her manipulation of sound to prevent Musa from properly hearing voices or music, further separating Musa from communication. Musa defeats her by meshing her own melodic style with the discordant noise Banshee creates, essentially accepting rejection and disagreement as parts of connection and using those to create and build from instead of cutting them out at the cost of the song.

Obscura pulls from Stella’s fear of rejection. Obscura uses shadow magic to prompt others to either only see the bad in Stella, or not see her at all. Stella is  eventually wrapped in the shadow of her own past rejections when she genuinely believed herself to be worthless. Obscura taunts Stella with a revolving flashbacks, pushing her farther and farther into shadow until she thinks Stella is completely with out light. Unfortunately for Obscura, Stella notices she is giving off a faint glow even trapped in complete darkness. Stella defeats Obscura by acknowledging the strength of her own light and realizing she doesn’t need others to see it to know its real (aka her worth and value aren’t dependent on other’s acceptance or rejection of it).

Petra is an odd one, Flora doesn’t have a lot of obvious fears besides loosing a loved one, but subconsciously she’s afraid of her own power. Flora is a healer, a supporter, and an observer by nature, but she knows she could be one of the most deadly/destructive magic users ever if she wanted to. Petra confronts Flora head on instead of laying a groundwork first like the other nemeses. Petra doesn’t give a shit about peter(who also happens to be there) but focuses all of her power on Flora, pushing her to her limits and forcing her to use more offensive attack magic and shaming her for defending herself. Flora eventually defeats Petra by accepting her dual nature of rose and thorn. Violence is part of nature, and even if Flora chooses to heal instead of 

Metallica is a triple threat, she taps into Aisha fear of being trapped, her insecurity about pushing people away to protect herself, and impulsivity. Metallica is another one that attacks directly (or at least she seems to). Her first attack she lets Aisha defeat her, giving her a false independence/confidence boost, while leaving a her gold rings as a lingering spell around Aisha that eventually activate, trap Aisha’s wrists and feet, and drag her to the bottom of the ocean. Aisha’s morphix lets her breath underwater but she starts to panic being trapped and powerless in the dark. She defeats Metallica by using a meditation technique Flora showed her to calm down, a light spell from Stella to see what was trapping her, a heat spell from Bloom to melt the rings, and then a frequency spell from musa combined with a metal spell she learned from tecna to turns them on Metallica in a calculated effort to ensure destruction this time.

Virus is pretty straightforward, Tecna is all about that control. She liked to know exactly whats happening and what to expect from any given person or situation. She is easily overwhelmed when things don’t go to plan, so Virus infecting all her tech, taking over her friends, and controlling Tecna’s environment is a recipe for panic and fear. Tecna defeats Virus by releasing her control and working purely off instinct instead of logic, she specifically channels her magic in the form of raw electricity, striking haphazardly instead of powering it through a circuit like she normally does creating an unpredictable attacks in bursts that Virus can’t avoid.

After each nemesis is defeated the girl’s Dreamix starts to change, but more on that in the Dreamix/Onyrix post.

Design notes! (for those who are interested? i guess?) These guys were pretty easy shape wise, the only one I majorly changed was Stoney, who has that weird bird(?) associated in canon lmao. The hardest part was actually picking colors, originally I was going to work off of the winx’s pallets, but every variation on that theme just turned out weird... eventually I ended up using the winx pallets, put that through a layer filter that made the colors more “dreamy” and off, then used the nemeses og colors as a base to lay the dreamy colors over them lightly. if that makes zero sense im sorry i literally had no idea what i was doing either.

“Dreamy” color versions below because they’re actually kinda pretty just not what I was going for

[darkpoisonouslove]

This was supposed to come out on Halloween but you cannot imagine the trouble this video gave me.

[drops-of-moonlights]

The Nemeses! Or the Nightmares, as I’ve been calling them in the summary. (I literally JUST got done with everyone earning Onyrix so I still have like. the rest of the actual plot to write but HOPEFULLY it’ll be done by tomorrow afternoon if Animal Crossing doesn’t consume all my time). Onto them specifically!

Maestro is Nabu’s Nightmare, representing most of his feelings on the fact he was born just to marry Aisha and do literally nothing else, and how royal expectations have made him feel like a puppet to her mother’s ambitions. Maestro takes on the role of a literal puppeteer, controlling Nabu and several other puppets in fancy clothing to dance for eternity as he feels the strings on his neck get tighter. He’s defeated by Nabu realizing that his purpose in life is just that - to live, to exist, to socialize, and that even if he was only a pawn in royal plays he still has friends and people that love him.

Vertigo represents how Bloom feels about her deeds as Shadow Bloom and all the damage she caused while on that form. Contrasting Bloom, Vertigo has powers over water, and uses them to force Bloom to once again hurt and damage copies of her friends in rock form, positioning her powers in front of Bloom’s forced palm and making it feel like she’s doing all of it. She’s defeated after victim-blaming Bloom, saying that it was her fault for falling for Bertrand’s lies and manipulation. This is enough to anger Bloom and pretty much decimate her, while explaining to her that while her actions are her own, being tricked was all on her manipulator.

Banshee mixes Musa’s fear of failure, of dissapointing others, and her tendency to repress her feelings. Banshee forces Musa to play horribly at a concert surrounded by all her friends, family and loved ones, making her play faster and faster hurting her arms. She’s defeated after insulting Aisha, as being the only person dumb enough to not see her for who she really is, and similar to Bloom, Musa snaps, counteracting with everything Aisha has done for her, the ways she has helped her, and how she can still manage to look at Musa for who she is and love her all the same, as well as playing on the positive sides of her negative traits.

Obscura plays on Stella’s old fear of rejection, her childhood fear of darkness, and her true fear of being alone. She forces Stella to relive her Primary school days, summoning all of her childhood bullies to insult her, then her current friends and loved ones. Stella can manage this at start having grown confident in the last years but the cuts start to get deeper and she finally cracks, yelling at everyone to leave her alone. Obscura complies and forces her into a void, where no one will ever be able to reach her, truly alone at last. This actually breaks Stella, as she will take on all the hate of the world as long as she’s not alone - being alone would prove her darkest thoughts right, and she can’t handle that. Obscura is beaten thanks to a subtle influence in Stella’s dream, making up her inner child to console her, and how even if she can’t believe it, she does have people that love her, and even alone, she will always have herself.

Sahara doesn’t prey on any of Flora’s current fears but more on childhood trauma - of the one time Flora almost killed her sister as a kid thanks to unstable magic reacting to her anger, causing a slide. Sahara also focuses on Flora’s incredibly low-magic fighting style, of how she’s ignored her more offensive magic in favor of healing in fear of doing that again. Sahara has powers over sand and rocks, contrasting Flora’s plants. She initially traps Flora by recreating the event little by little, taking on the role of Miele, before revealing herself and attacking her with full force in a way Flora’s defensive maneuvers can’t do much. She’s defeated by Flora finally using her magic offensively, unleashing the full force of her magic and basically destroying Sahara on the spot with branches, trees and petals. (the name Stoney was dumb so Sahara it is)

Soffocara uses Aisha’s primary fear, as is one she can’t escape from - her future responsibilites as Queen of Andros and how conflicted she is with that. Her powers are over wind, and uses it against Aisha to force her to figurately and literally choke on her duty as a ruler and the desperate pleas of her citizens, as well as their dissapointment at how they’re stuck with her. She’s defeated by Aisha finally accepting her responsibilites as Queen, accepting that there’s no viable way out and that she will try, at least, alongside her need to defend others. (changed the name because I still don’t know what the fuck Sinka was supposed to mean)

Virus doesn’t play with Tecna’s most obvious fears, but does tap into what she considers her worst flaws - her lack of common sense and her forgetfulness. Tecna tends to be very scatterbrained when working on a project, blocking everything else, and is prone to overthinking and underthinking stuff a lot, not pausing to consider consequences.Virus “hacks” Tecna, so to speak, making her forget how to use magic or transform and forcing her to rely on solely her mind and physical abilities, which terrifies her. Tecna is able to beat her after managing to calm herself out and actually pay attention to her surroundings and Virus’s actions, managing to undo the hacking and starting to fight physically for the first time in her life.

Lastly, Miroir focuses on Daphne’s sense of failure - the fall of Domino as the background for their fight, but also how Daphne feels she has done nothing but cause suffering around her because of her actions and inactions - because she didn’t properly deal with Campana all those years ago, she’s loose once more wrecking havoc, because she placed her trust on Politea the country was frozen for almost two decades, as well as the possibility the only reason she ever contacted Bloom and forced her into the role of Princess was for her to be free and recover her kingdom. She uses Daphne’s own reflections to fight, reminding her of all she’s done and how she’s screwed up. Miroir is defeated thanks to Daphne (after managing to defend herself at a sudden attack and with an adrenaline rush) yells back saying that yes, she screwed up, because of her thousands have suffered. But at the end of the day she’s trying to be better, and she had no control on what Politea did or on Campana coming back - those were their decisions, not Daphne’s.

[heather-l-wood]

World of Winx: Nemisis'

[winxsonicfan]

Well here’s what I been doing for 28 of December till January 3rd… The Nemesis of the Winx and in my order… Wha ya think… (Sorry tha it ain’t digital, was in the mood and time on doing my icon and these characters on paper and color it there also…)

[unastellachebrilla]

Suddenly the sun comes up And the dark is gone We made it to the dawn And I don't miss you anymore When the sun comes up I can feel my love coming back again 

Give a little light to get a little love back Give a little light to get a little love back

[so-were-heroes]

I thint that it would be really cool if Sinister Six was inspired by the Nemesis of World of Winx: https://youtu.be/I0Rc9r3-64A

I mean, imagine Catherine of Aragon using Banshee’s Screams as a way to deflect attacks?

Or Jane Seymour petrifying others like Stoney?

Or Katherine Howard as Virus, like, entering other people’s body to control them, and also moving like her?

Or Anne Boleyn as Vertigo and Hypnotizing Everyone?

And Anne of Cleves as Sinka and just absorbing others powers?

And Parr as Obscura would definitely be scary.

We’re still a couple chapters away from Sinister Six, so there’ll be time to decide on power, but I do like Katherine Howard as Virus and Catherine of Aragon as Banshee

[winx-reboot]

I think I’ll borrow some of the design of the Nemeses from World of Winx for Polarix. Like Banshee’s high color, Obscura’s black hole aesthetic, Virus’ color scheme, and the overall gothic designs.

[riveramorylunar]

I think I have a problem

I find all these Winx villains hot

[fromsolaria-archived]

STELLA  ,  OBSCURA  &  WOW  S2  TRAUMA  TRIP.

obscura  ,  coherently to her powers  ,  waits for stella to be completely in the dark before manifesting herself.  now  ,  we know that stella doesn’t deal well with darkness because prolonged exposure to it weakens her.  at the beginning you can see that she’s worried  &  scared and honestly i headcanon that’s because obscura is the one nemesis that looks more like the ancestral witches outfit wise  ,  and it probably triggered stella’s memory of when LILISS tried to posses her in sotlk  ---  in fact her first instict is to run away.  cue the alley being darker and darker  ,  symbolizing that obscura is messing with her mind.

one of the things that strikes first about what stella’s schoolmates say is that she’s LOUD  ,  that one could hear her across town even with music blastic at high volume.  to be fair stella is indeed loud  ,  but i think that theatrical & dramatic would suit her personality better.  the point of stella is that she’s neglected by her parents but is also a people pleaser  &  she thinks that she can achieve affection from others by being the extreme embodyment of what she represents:  solaria  ,  its suns and all the jazz.  

one of the boys  ( that looks a lot like ROBBY from og winx btw )  says something that reasons a lot with stella’s character:  “you try to ditch her but she keeps following you around like a lost puppy”.  and it’s true  ,  because again  ,  stella is indeed lost and in need of someone who would actually care about her.  cue her statement  “no one likes me  ,  i’m alone.”  and then darkness again as it gets clearer & clearer that stella’s mental health is not as fine as she lets people believe.

next we see her walking with AISHA  &  TECNA.  now  ,  i headcanon that it’s them because aisha represents royalty like her but with an actual supportive family behind her back  ,  while with tecna i think it’s more of a logic vs emotions thing.  they both mirror stella in some ways despite being the least you’d think of.  

then we see stella interacting with a bunch of people:  first the two girls talking to each other ; stella gives one of them a fashion advice that the girl didn’t ask for  ,  resulting in lashing out at her.  then it’s the two guys ; stella tries to catch the phone of one of the two guys and seems like she wants to take a cute picture of them  ,  but the guy lashes out as well.  finally we have the lonely girl ; stella asks her if it’s her first day at school and promises she’ll be okay  ( she also says she looks very pretty )  and this girl seems to bothered  ,  telling her something along the line of  “thanks i feel so much better now”  and leaves.   ( not gonna lie this whole sequence seems super gay coded but anyways )

aisha  &  tecna appear again  ,  the first telling stella that she’s superficial while the second asserting that every time she acts nice towards someone it’s just to boost her ego.  stella eventually lashes out at them  ,  asking that if they’re so smart then why don’t they fix the whole thinkerbell issue on their own.  ( which they can’t bc in s2 stella is shown to be pivotal in regards of fights against tinkerbell’s shadows ) 

tinkerbell  &  the shaman  ,  looking through the mirror  ,  point out that stella has a self destructive tendencies  &  in some extent reckless behaviour which is very important although rainbow keeps glossing over it.  cue stella being surronded again by darkness  ,  until young stella comes down shining like the goddess she is  &  asks young adult stella why is she dwelling in these past issues since they moved on from them throughout the years.

in contrast to obscura’s hisses and mind games  ,  we suddenly hear someone  ( it’s BLOOM but whatev )  telling stella that she’s very good with people and that she makes everybody feel better.  this gives enough power to stella to gather strength & encapsulate obscura in a ball of light  “my friends are my light and they will always love me”  which ultimately turns obscura to ashes.

[moonlightreal]

Winx Club season 8/1

In which the Winx are back and younger than ever.

Welcome to season 8!  I love this show, I love everything about it... including the parts I don't like, because I can snark at them.  So warning: there will be some snark when I see something dumb.

About the new art style:

Why I don't like it:  The girls have gotten a little more samey-samey with the loss of their individually shaped features, and Tecna's eyes shifted from turquoise to blue.  I know that's a tiny thing, a slight eye color change but it's one more step towards them all looking the same.  It feels like by the time we get to season 20 they'll be six identical fairies!  Also the girls now look twelve.  There’s been no mention so far of them de-aging so it's just the art style change, but... ok most of y'all wouldn't care but I'm writing a fanfic that parallels the show and now I have to decide whether to de-age my characters or what!

Why I like it: They're sooooo cute! They look like Moondreamers or Lady Lovelylocks or some 80s dolls!  I love it!

I have a theory about why the style change.  This is only a guess since I don't know animation, but is it possible they're using a program with sort of mannequins, and they're now using the same bodies for both Regal Academy and Winx?  To save money maybe, since now the animators will only need to learn one style?  Is that even the way computer animation programs work? Animators, help me out here!

And yes, Musa and Flora are now basically Caucasian looking.  This is not cool.  I have acknowledged it and written to Rainbow about it but since there’s nothing else I can do I’m going to enjoy my show in spite of it.  That’s my response to the color change; your response is something you’ll have to decide for yourself.

1 Night of Shooting Stars

We open at Alfea where some minor fairies are watching shooting stars.  Familiar minor fairies!  It's not just the Winx who have a new look; the whole class has been ported over.  I'm really happy about this!  I was sure they'd just do a whole new background cast and we'd lose more continuity, but here are Evie and Lori, those two dark skinned and indigo haired girls, and other familiar faces.

The Winx are up on a sort of bridge over the courtyard-- Alfea has had slight upgrades for the new season and it looks great.  And so do the girls!  They're so detailed, the layered outfits and all their accessories are so fun.  Their necklaces sway when they move, even, props to the animators.

Bloom is delighted by the shooting stars but Musa’s not feellin’ it, she was hoping for musical inspiration but it isn’t coming.  Flora, Tec and Aisha join them and it turns out Musa wants to write the new song for the concert tomorrow!  Tecna conjures her “astroscope” so they can watch the stars, and starts to explain something but Aisha shuts her down. Kiko pops up on the other end of the astroscope and scares Musa when she looks through.  

Out comes Stella, for a selfie!

In the Italian, Stella says “Selfie time!” in English.  Heh.

But Musas’s glum face spoils the selfie.  Stella says there should be no problem since, “You have ME to inspire you!”

Kind of not a great intro for the girls, but now we leave them and cut to Twinkle being chased by star-eaters.  Which are cool, as villain minions go.  They look like dark purple puffs or blobs, I’m getting a very Original My Little Pony vibe from them.  A whole swarm of them are chasing tiny Twinkle through the rings surrounding planet Magix.  They merge into a giant blob that roars as Twinkle flees towards the planet below.

Musa’s spidey sense tingles!

The star-eaters display their power of splitting into tadpoles and joining together again.

The Winx are concerned: this star is coming down awfully close!  Twinkle zooms above their heads and crashes in the woods.

The girls arrive in the scene we saw in the trailer and are immediately charmed by the sleeping Twinkle. Stella identifies her as a Lumen, “a creature of pure light that lives inside stars.”  They take their find back to Alfea to take care of her.

But evil is watching them!  Or at least a turban-wearing lackey of evil with a bunch of star-eaters around him is.  Obscura says, “Oh no!  That Lumen managed to reach the Winx!” so he knows who the Winx are.

In the Winx common room Twinkle is still asleep and the girls and Faragonda admire her cuteness.  I think she’s got some kind of charm ability!    Stella gives us some more information, “She’s from Lumenia, the star that lights Solaria.”  and Faragonda says Lumens never leave their stars except for serious reasons.

The next morning—daylight shots of Alfea, great cg—Twinkle wakes up, gets scared of Kiko, there’s some chaos and room destruction, Twinkle flies around screaming until she bangs into Stella.  Stella introduces the Winx, “We’re fairies and this is our school.” and asks why Twinkle came.  But Twinkle can’t remember.

Tecna scans Twinkle and detects “a memory lapse.”  The Winx offer to help her remember but Aisha thinks scaring her is the way to go!  So they try to scare Twinkle, who just laughs.  Short slapstick scene.

Then Bloom gets a text: the boys are coming!  Their ship lands in the courtyard to a rockin’ beat.  The girls stand with little hearts around them, Stella twirling her hair.

The boys look so weird in this art style.  I will try and probably fail at not mentioning this every time they appear.

And oh heavens, Brandon still has a deep post-puberty voice in his 12-year-old body.  I think this may be the same voice actor from last season.  Voice weirdness aside, he brought Stella a big pile of presents.  These two are the best couple.

Helia is showing Flora a picture he did of “a rose from the planet Iris, but its beauty is nothing compared to yours.”  Wasn’t Iris where Diaspro’s from?  Flora blushes and it’s cute.

Sky and Bloom kind of twirl each other around and laugh, which is sweet.

Timmy and Tecna are already up in the dorm working on a Lumen amnesia curing device, which explodes. Twinkle bounces and chirps, “Again!  Again again!”  Ok she is a little bit adorable.

They get the memory viewer going and its screen shows Twinkle’s memories of being chased.  She freaks out and flies into the air glowing brightly.  Then the memory viewer overloads.

Cut to the courtyard, the girls ponder what they saw while Twinkle looks glum.  Kiko tries to cheer her up. Stella says that Lumens are peaceful creatures with no enemies, so the girls don’t know what was chasing her.  Poor Twinkle is very down, and Stella prescribes music to cheer her up.

Over at Red Fountain we’re in either the ship or a locker room.  The boys are tired out, they’ve been on a mission to the Omega dimension before the Winx called!  Points to the writers for remembering the names of places!  Also points for how the boys are powering-down their suits, it’s a neat little detail that they do this.

The boys talk about how they wish they could’ve helped the Lumen, then do some reminiscing!  They had a mission on the planet Hypsos where they beat a horde of space mutants and destroyed an opal dragon??  And apparently neither of these was as scary as the landing!  Timmy, who was the pilot, droops.  Then he blames Helia for not being able to read a star chart.  It looks like they’re about to fight when…

A Mysterious Figure arrives!  Wearing a kind of ship-captainish coat and purple neck scarf.  Codatorta said he could come back.  The boys are pleased, more pleased than most of the fandom is!

The mysterious figure is not Venomiya, so there should be no sabotage at the Winx Band concert we go to next.  More great cg Alfea.  Is there an official map anywhere, of what rooms are what?  There are some weird outbuildings and stuff. I’m not even sure if the bridge is new or if it’s just that the girls didn’t hang out there in previous seasons.  And did the wings attach differently before?  I can’t tell if the school has changed shape or not!  I think it has...

And there’s a blast from the past, it’s Knut the ogre, Alfea’s handyman!  He’s back after many seasons, helping set up the lights for the concert with Kiko’s help.

And here’s Grizelda, and the new art style has not been kind to her!  She looks younger and has a more WoW art style look, and I don’t like it!  And whaaaaaat happened to her voice?  She does the ‘I’m watching you’ thing at Knut.  she’s not very nice.  I mean, she’s not supposed to be nice, she’s supposed to be a scary lady so that’s good.

The concert is being held at the top of the steps in front of the main door to the school.  All the minor fairies hang out on the steps or in the courtyard to watch.  It is so nice to see the same minor fairies as before.  They’re super excited to see the Winx in their—freaking adorable—concert outfits.  The girls are all in brightly colored fake fur and music note themes, with streaks in their hair.  Bloom dedicates their first song to ‘Our new friend from far away.’  and Twinkle giggles with delight.

And then… concert transformation! The girls’ PURSES do magical girl henshin routines and transform, Bloom’s into a microphone, Stella and Flora get guitars, Musa has a keytar and Tec gets a three-piece piano while Aisha’s got drums. Ok, I love this.  I know, it’s gotta be a gimic to sell toys, but sparkly henshin instruments, it’s wonderful!

The song’s all right, it’s Winx pop just like every song in Winx and I don’t think the voice actresses are in any way professional singers, but it’s fun.  Miss F, Grizelda and Palladium are in the audience.  Twinkle loves the music. Knut seems to be trying to pick up on the minor fairies, but Grizelda shuts him down.

Then the concert is rudely interrupted by a portal opening and delivering a bunch of star-eaters!  Twinkle sees them and remembers what happened to her and flies for help!

Stella observes the sun-eaters don’t look too scary, but then they all pile together into one big one.  Oh no!  The minor fairies, unable to fight since the artists haven’t designed transformations for them, back away in fear.

Faragonda and the teachers—Wizgiz appears too—direct the minor fairies to take cover inside.  The Winx transform.  Butterflix time!

Twinkle is impressed.

The girls fight but the giant eater can portal in and out and break apart whenever it wants.  Only Stella’s sun power seems to have any effect!  Then they get an idea: Twinkle lit up with the memory viewer, maybe she can help here!  Stella gives her some power and little Twinkle is just so happy!  She lights up like a sun and the big eater breaks apart into little eaters that all look despondent and flee back through their portal.

Since Twinkle has remembered everything, now she can tell her story!  The girls and Grizelda for some reason meet with the headmistress in her office.

Twinkle is the messenger of Lumenia, on a mission from Queen Doranna(?) to the “most powerful fairies in the magic dimension.”  The stars are in danger!  The eaters are eating their light!  I do like that there’s a reason the Winx are going to be called to save the world again, that Doranna specifically requested them.  

Then there’s… Faragonda tells them this is a delicate mission and to be cautious.  Stella breaks in with, “caution is our middle name!  well, more of a nickname.” Heh.

Then Bloom has an anime moment, she goes to the window and puts her hand up to her reflection, with a serious expression.  Not the kind of moment we usually get in Winx, and I really like it.  “Tomorrow we leave for Lumenia, Queen Doranna can help us understand what’s going on.  This is a mission for the Winx!”

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World of Winx 2 Review

After spending my time watching World of Winx 2 yesterday, I have to say that I have quite enjoyed my time watching this season. The series begins by showcasing the Winx in silver outfits (love them by the way!) playing their gig at Gardenia with Annabelle and Louise before heading on a worldwide tour as a musical group.

I will divide my review in several parts. Feel free to read the entire review for the full experience or whichever section that catches your eye:

~The Nemeses~

As the season progresses, each Winx will have to fight and defeat her own nemesis created by Tinkerbell in order for the Winx girl to overcome her fears. Bloom was facing Vertigo, who was infesting Bloom’s head so only she can see her. Vertigo played Bloom’s weakness - her friends - in an attempt to hurt the Winx.

Stella’s nemesis, Obscura, went on to manipulate Stella with illusions and mimicry of her friends and children from Stella’s past. It was revealed how Stella’s gravely hurt when everyone mocks her. This really hits Stella deep, as she’s always optimistic and Obscura managed to tap into Stella’s childhood when she used to be bullied by others.

On the other hand, Aisha’s nemesis, Sinka, takes advantage of Aisha’s impulsive and hasty nature in order to charge up her energy using Aisha’s attacks to to overpower her.

Flora’s nemesis Stoney, Tecna’s nemesis Virus, and Musa’s nemesis Banshee, take on a much different approach; especially Banshee. Those nemeses rather exploit the Winx’s physical weaknesses as a battle tactic. Banshee shot energy blasts that seem to be wind-based while Stoney destroyed all the nature around Flora, leaving her helpless for a while. Virus was able to take control over the Winx’s brains (except Tecna’s) and played with the girls as puppets in the sake of destroying Tecna.

Overall, the nemesis were solid enemies. Their only problem is, despite all of the power they’ve got, the key to defeat each one of them was simple. Bloom and Stella had to believe in themselves and their friends, Musa had to play some soothing music, Aisha had to patiently wait for her nemesis’s power to wear off, Flora simply tapped into her powers to counterattack Stoney, while Tecna had a little help from Matt (who would’ve thought!) as he telepathically spoke to her, telling her to let go of logic and to follow her instinct; in which she did, and was able to defeat Virus using Peter Pan’s sword as a weapon.

I guess the logic behind the slogan of “the bigger they are, the harder the fall” applies in this case. I wasn’t really impressed by how the nemesis were defeated, but at least the girls put up a decent fight. The appearance of each nemesis was striking and scary to say the least. They were fit for such ruthless enemies. The designs were well thought-out and they really highlight what Rainbow’s animation department is capable of. But enough talking about the nemeses, I’ll move onto the next part of my review.

~The Plot~

The season revolves around the Winx trying to find Peter Pan’s son, Matt to make Tinkerbell good again all while trying to perform their concerts around the world and helping troubled allies in Neverland. It was fun to watch the Winx travel to London to meet Wendy Darling (Surprising to see her an old lady, isn’t it?) in hopes of finding a clue about Peter Pan. It felt refreshing to see the Winx take guidance from someone older than them once again. One thing I disliked in the early parts of the season, however, is that in one of the episodes, Smee tries to kidnap Matt based on Jim’s order, although it was later revealed that Jim betrayed Smee and pretended he had nothing to do with the kidnapping. In fact, almost an entire episode was spent chasing after Smee! It felt like this was never utilized very well, leaving me daunted.

Once Matt was safe, Aisha had no issues being verbal about her disliking of him. She was tasked into training Matt to be a real warrior in order to help him face the queen, but soon finds out that she lacks the patience and faith in Matt to complete the training. The Winx ask Jim for his help in training Matt, but he also wasn’t able to assist Matt in his disconcerting task . As a final spark of hope, Jim suggested taking Matt to Tiger Lily; the best fighter in Neverland. Jim mentions that Tiger Lily will be able to help him train to be a true warrior, but once the Winx were able to locate her, even she admits she cannot help him.

However, one surprising twist of events takes its toll to reveal that Tiger Lily is in contact with the spirit of the World of Dreams, disclosing a prophecy that Matt will save the realm with his father’s (Peter Pan) sword. I did not expect Matt, the blabber mouth and braggart, to be prophesied into saving Neverland. I found this to be a clever twist, as we never really saw the Winx relying on someone else in order to defeat a villain in the finale.

To be blunt, I am unfortunately not a big fan of the plot. I expected to see more of Neverland and its wondrous areas, but we ended up discovering it’s all deserted and barren of all life and colors to the point it was not an interesting element anymore. Matt had fallen in love with Tinkerbell by simply staring into a constellation that aligns as her face, and Tinkerbell shared the feelings after meeting him for three minutes. The Winx never transform to aid themselves even when nobody’s around. I was also annoyed by how the Winx wanted to give Tinkerbell a second chance even though she destroyed Neverland, kidnapped talents, banished Jim, and other heinous acts after she simply apologized.

Matt ends up saving Tinkerbell from the hands of Jim, who banished the Winx and ordered the mermaids living in Neverland’s lagoon to keep an eye on Tinkerbell. Once she was freed, she turned good again and helped the Winx in the final battle against Jim. Jim basically turned Neverland’s own version of the Tree of Life into a giant flying battleship, opening a portal to the World of Nightmares in an attempt to cross it to rule both worlds. He was eventually trapped inside the WoN as Smee had previously stowed away and pushed Jim off of the ship.

As I said earlier, I am not very pleased with the plot. Although it was entertaining and original as it took surprising turns, I feel it could have been a lot better. There were no brilliant magical tricks, not enough transformations, and certainly no glamour. The season felt it lacks the magical element and sense compared to the other seasons of Winx, as the girls have never showcased their abilities in a way that left me feeling astonished or at least visually impressed.

~The Transformation~

There isn’t much to say about Onyrix, as its requirements were ... none. The spirit of the World of Dreams simply gave the Winx the power of Onyrix to help defend the realm from danger, and its transformation sequence made me chuckle at times. It still doesn’t beat Butterflix’s cheesiness, but it sure felt like it was another fashion show cough Tynix cough. The Winx were dressed in what resembles jumpsuits that look elegant at the top, to hilariously end with what resembles 70′s disco pants’ bottom.

Aisha’s wings were resampled from her Harmonix, while Bloom’s hair and wings were taken from her Butterflix. Not to mention that Tecna’s Onyrix feels no different from her Dreamix. If no one has noticed yet, every girl is wearing her secondary color as her main one, except for Musa and Stella. There has been some frequent pink, dark lime, purple, and green in Bloom’s, Tecna’s, Aisha’s, and Flora’s clothing colors respectively. Those colors weren’t exactly always present in the Winx’s transformations, but they did play a theme of their own as secondary colors. In Aisha’s case, it was mostly a mix of blue and green, but we’ve seen Aisha with some purple as a complementary color at times.

~The Secondary Characters~

I have to say, the show really conveyed the side characters very well this time. They didn’t feel useless or out of place like we’re used to, and they all played important roles to help the plot further evolve. The pirates were ill-mannered yet loyal, Tiger Lily was harsh yet supportive, and I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw that the Crocodile and Alligator Men were actually on the same side as the Winx!

I quite enjoyed how the secondary characters had a spunk to them; they all had an aura of fight and zeal I couldn’t help but to love all of them! On a final note, the fact that each character remained an indispensable part throughout the show throughout felt like a huge improvement from Rainbow’s part. It was just like Flora said in the sixth episode: “A single snowflake looks so fragile, but we all know what they can do when you put them all together!”

...Though one thing was left unexplained. How did the pirates lose their magic in the first place?

~The Plot-Twisted Ending~

Okay, so Venomya is actually a witch whose name is Baba Yaga, inspired from the Slavic folklore of so many stories. I have no idea why did the witch wait until the end to reveal her identity, and in the midst of a concert as well. Baba Yaga flat out chased the Winx from a country to country to write bad reviews about them, until eventually revealing she wants to summon a coven of witches.

Though I guess it was an anticipation mechanic by Rainbow to further raise the anticipation (although it seems to make little sense to me.)

I’m not sure what to make of the end. Will there be a third season of WoW? Will the live action movie be based on Baba Yaga? Will the eighth season be based off of her even? So many questions aroused in my mind, and the cliffhanger ending of the season left me hooked and definitely hyped for what’s more to come!

Overall, I am impressed by this season.

However, I can’t help but feel disappointed that the Winx did not use any spectacular magical spells. The show obviously was a great entertainment for me with its diverse characters and engaging story, and the plot certainly feels darker than ever (even more than season 7.) You have the mermaids manipulating Tinkerbell to commit suicide, a deep yet naive concept of love at first sight, creepy-looking villains, and ruthlessness showcased by Tinkerbell’s actions in the past and Jim’s sadistic future vision.

In spite of all of this, the experience felt less magical than ever before. Don’t get me wrong, there was plenty of action, just not enough magic and sparkles to give me my daily dose of Winx fantasy. WoW2 was great if you want to watch Martin Mystery or Totally Spies with a twist of magic, just not enough to give me the usual fairy tale vibes.