A Magical War | A Group-Write

@ castiel's vessel

I like aging normally until they reach 25. Or maybe after they've accessed the full extent of their magic, they begin aging slowly.

I kind of want my witch to be a newbie. But if I have to make her super old, I don't mind.

@ castiel's vessel
@ paper sirens.
@ She Said Poptarts

@ prism.

You don't have to make her old. Mine is only going to be somewhere between the ages of 22 and 26.

@ paper sirens.
I like 25 too because then maybe that could be when they access all their powers fully, like you suggested, which is why they would then start ageing slowly.

@ castiel's vessel

Perfect! I think maybe my character will be 25 but still unable to access all her power because she's been so distressed with the loss of her man.

Hey guys! I'm so sorry I haven't posted yet; I've been out of town on this college tour and it hasn't left me much time to get online.

Anyways, everything sounds good so far and I'm definitely pumped

1. Wandless, but maybe some have their lucky little instruments that are a bit like wands.
2. Maybe the feud could be going on for centuries like suggested, which could even be longer depending on whether or not witches/warlocks perceive time the same way as the muggles normals of the human realm do.
3. slow age-ing after 25 sounds good to me!
4. Everything listed sounds really good, and maybe if we added Sin Eaters, that could make for some really interesting encounters If we ever have a shortage of creatures, we could always turn on an episode of Supernatural or something.
5. Hm, if we all wrote from one side I think it would seem just a little bit biased. I can do both first and third person but am more comfortable with third person. I think third person would let us easily switch up the scenery and the narration between covens without any sudden changes in between chapters.

And since i've seen you guys have already started thinking about characters I'll just put up what I was thinking. It's just a tad bit cliche, but I was thinking my character (assuming I play one of the witches) is somewhat newly-recruited into the family/coven and is still trying really hard to tap into her powers. With that being said, she doesn't pay close attention to her boyfriend who maybe is purposefully holding her powers (maybe by a spell or charmed bracelet he gives her?), and he is working 'undercover' for the enemy coven of the witches.

@ waves
Can you elaborate on the "lucky little instruments that are a bit like wands"?? I'm not quite sure whether you're meaning like enchanted objects and such or something entirely else.

That's what I thought with the covens and such, but then I guess it would be more interesting for all of ut to write from a biased character because everything will be pointing towards the warlocks being really evil and bad and the antagonists, but in reality they're not and it'll be such a surprise to see that as well (if you get me).

Ooh, so maybe like a "promise" bracelet that he makes her swear never to remove, and maybe while they originally work together before their first bust up, something could happen to the bracelet like it gets burned or something and she has to take it off and as soon as she takes it off she comes into the powers and that could also add fuel to the fire?

My character's going to be like eighty-odd in terms of how long she's lived (unless the witches keep time in a different way??) and looks about 26-ish, so she'll be one of the older ones of the coven (maybe second oldest and the aunt or whatever is the oldest at like one-hundred-and-something years old) and I'm thinking that she was with a fellow warlock (/male witch?) to keep the magical bloodline pure but enchanted him to forget her but not move on to someone else as the war progressed (so like when she'd lived for like thirty years, she fell in love with him and he with her, but didn't want to risk it so she removed all trace of knowledge about her from his memory so she couldn't be got at through him, but didn't want to let go because she believed the war would end soon, so that's why she enchanted him to never move on) and he won't be mentioned really throughout the story because it's been fifty-odd years and sure she misses him but knows that they need to focus on the war first, and when we reach the end after the war and everything, I was thinking they'd have this reunion after fifty years. That way the romance aspect for my character is very, very minor and only appears really at the end.

Buuut, I can change it if needs be. Any of it can be changed.

@ paper sirens.
@ prism.

@ She Said Poptarts
Couldn't tag you above.

@ castiel's vessel

yeah, just like that, haha. Like enchanted objects passed down like heirlooms or "enhancing" items. Kind of like some singers or artists like to drink certain teas or something? Maybe some witches like to use a certain scrying bowl or orb or something along the lines. I was being pretty general in my first post lol.

That's exactly what I was thinking. I was thinking my character with the enchanted bracelet would always feel the good and bad effects that the warlock put on them. So not only would the bracelet, necklace, ring, whatever, constrict her powers but it would also make her feel more "at ease" so even if she were to take it off, she wouldn't want to because the power of the enchanted item has such a strong affect on the stability of her emotions. In this way, he not only manipulates when her powers come into play, but he keeps her believing that the bracelet (and in turn himself) are both necessary for her to keep trying to unlock her powers.

I think he could maybe be masquerading as a supernatural or complete human, all depends on what we decide in the future - but he would always avoid meeting the 'family' my girl calls her coven.

Your idea for your character is both saddening but really cute at the same time. For some reason, I thought of Captain America, aha.

@ waves
Ah, I get you better now. That sounds good. Like "family" heirlooms that have to be kept because otherwise it would throw off the magical power of the coven (or that's what they think - in reality it wouldn't do such a thing but they don't risk it?) and they don't want that.

That sounds even better! So when she finally does take it off after whatever happens, it would be such a bad moment for her because her emotions would become unstable at the same time she comes into her powers?

Oh my gosh, I didn't even think of that! But Captain American is cute so...

@ castiel's vessel
Exactly
So not only would she need the emotional guidance of her coven, but she would be so enraged and convinced that the warlocks were lying to her and her family of witches that maybe she does something she wouldn't have done normally (or while she was under the influence).

I know it's not often that authors kill off the main romantic interest but that's definitely a possibility and that could be something that happens with this plot -- maybe because the use of death through magic is something that is a serious offence not only to the person murdered but on the killer's soul and magic abilities. That's an idea or, the bracelet or whatever the item is acts like a drug to her and she has no choice but to put it back on and hinder her own magic at the threat of being so deleterious to her own health that the sheer power of her abilities smothers the 'spirit' that ever magical being possesses.

Basically, this relationship isn't really sweet or cookie-cutter -- it's everything malicious and bad about an addicting relationship. But then again all this is just adding more food for thought, although I'm certain this is the path I'm going to take with whatever characters I'll be writing unless something needs to be adjusted or changed.

Oh gosh, I think Chris Evans as your fc would be totally ironic, not to mention deliciously beautiful

@ waves
I think it would perfect if she ends up going "bad" after taking it off (only temporarily) and ends up killing her romantic interest (that traitorous swine! ). It would cause a lot of conflict and drama and no one would suspect it because they're good witches after all. I think that'd be such a good idea for you to do if you're willing to do so.

I love bad relationships like that.

There's some lovely food for thought. I might just have him as my fc.

@ castiel's vessel
I think what would happen is that the witches stage a little intervention because one of their own witches has done something in cold blood but eventually they test her and approve that it was the effects of her withdrawal from the bracelet that affects her erratic (albeit very poor) decisions. With that after her appeal to the coven not to be stripped of her powers or something, he haunts her in her dreams and here's another twist: he's actually alive.

Maybe he was able to survive and linger in the in-between world but he would need her help to come back to life. (kind of like how Sam was trapped in that cage with the archangel if I'm remembering it correctly in Supernatural and then when he came back he lost his soul? Sorry if any of that's inaccurate - I haven't watched it in such a long time.) I think the spell he put on her with the bracelet would be something that let him take little bits and bits of her heart as the days grew on and eventually, if she doesn't bring him back from purgatory, she'll have to live without her own soul. Now, I'm not sure if all of this will fit into the story but I'd like to try and fit most of this in there since it sounds pretty exciting and devious to me

Bad relationships are just so fun to write as long as no one objects or wants to do something really similar before, I really want to just stick with this idea

There's nothing that could go wrong with Chris Evans. Ever.

@ prism.
@ castiel's vessel
@ waves

What if the coven members are all related, full of aunts, cousins, siblings, distant relations, etc? I think it'd make more sense as to why waves.'s character was taken into the coven. Maybe she's distantly related to all of them, but hadn't been as exposed to magic throughout her life? Just an idea.

I'm debating on having another semi-romantic interest for my character, despite the fact that she's lost the one she loves. If there was, I'd make him one of the supernaturals the demon is trying to recruit.

OMG. I'm going to catch up on this tonight, and edit the first page.

(Never mind.)

@ waves
An intervention sounds good because they could fear that she's going evil and if she does, they cannot allow her in remain in the coven for their own safety. Maybe during the intervention period they bind her powers so that she has them but cannot use them until they can determine whether it's the effects or not, and when they do find out it's the effects they unbind them?

Wait, in Spn Lucifer was using him as a vessel which is how come he willing went into the Cage and he was soulless because Cas didn't realise that his soul was missing when he pulled him from the Cage and couldn't go back in to get it. So what, when she kills him she was killing a part of her soul as he had it? And she has to either work out a way with her coven to retrieve her soul from him without releasing him from purgatory or live without her soul? Or am I getting confused somewhere?

@ paper sirens.
Yeah, it makes sense for them all to be related. We should create a family tree as well as we plan more of the story.

@ castiel's vessel
@ waves

Ooh, the plot thickens!

castiel's vessel:

An intervention sounds good because they could fear that she's going evil and if she does, they cannot allow her in remain in the coven for their own safety. Maybe during the intervention period they bind her powers so that she has them but cannot use them until they can determine whether it's the effects or not, and when they do find out it's the effects they unbind them?.

I like this. They should do some sort of examination on the bracelet/necklace/thing, too.

castiel's vessel:

So what, when she kills him she was killing a part of her soul as he had it? And she has to either work out a way with her coven to retrieve her soul from him without releasing him from purgatory or live without her soul?

Maybe the only reason he's able to stay in purgatory instead of moving on to the spirit world after she "kills" him is because he is so closely connected to her. Perhaps the fact that he has her soul makes her a sort of life source for him, which is how he potentially is able to come back.

castiel's vessel:

Yeah, it makes sense for them all to be related. We should create a family tree as well as we plan more of the story.

I agree. We should figure out how many members are in the coven. Do the witches eventually die of old age, or are the immortal unless killed? Maybe after a certain amount of time, they can make the choice to continue living or die.

@ paper sirens.
Yeah, the bracelet/whatever it is that was cursed will need to be examined closely to determine the curse, how strong and try and deduce what effects would come from it, etc.

Exactly. So because he has a part of her soul, it keeps him bound to the living world and they have to work out how to reclaim that soul without him coming back (I think) on top of the war and the looming deaths of other witches.

I don't think the coven should be too big, y'know? And I was thinking what if some family members don't get magical powers? Like it runs down their bloodline but sometimes it skips a generation or even a sibling because maybe the magic is sort of "alive" in a sense where it has to make sure the person will be strong enough to cope with it when they're older? This could work nicely because they're one of the oldest powerful covens so therefore the magic cannot fall on someone who is weak otherwise it risks it becoming extinct? And I like the immortal unless killed as well as choosing to continue living or dying after a certain amount of time. We could do both because it would work like that, I think.

castiel's vessel:

I don't think the coven should be too big, y'know? And I was thinking what if some family members don't get magical powers? Like it runs down their bloodline but sometimes it skips a generation or even a sibling because maybe the magic is sort of "alive" in a sense where it has to make sure the person will be strong enough to cope with it when they're older? This could work nicely because they're one of the oldest powerful covens so therefore the magic cannot fall on someone who is weak otherwise it risks it becoming extinct?

I think maybe 10 to 20 members should be the norm. I really like this idea. Alternatively, we could do where if a witch has children with a human, some of them are without magic and others have it. Either way would be fine with me. If we used your idea, would they basically exclude those who don't have magic? Like, they're useless to the coven and are, therefore, outcasts to the family?

castiel's vessel:

And I like the immortal unless killed as well as choosing to continue living or dying after a certain amount of time. We could do both because it would work like that, I think.

Maybe it is encouraged among the witch community to choose to die after some time in order to make way for a new generation of witches, but not all of them choose to die. Which explains why there are only a few aged witches and the rest are gone (besides those that have been killed over the ages).