I’ve talked about Caleb’s spells before. He needs order, a routine. like - his magic is very….I don’t want to say stable. Because that’s not it. But, the man studied his element. He became a master in that One Thing.
Like, if we were to see him in a fight, he’d be muttering incantations, he’s got his spells memorized, and there would just be a sense of control to all of it. It’s because of this control that Caleb is always the last to go down (or retreat) in a fight. He handles his resources, he knows his limits, he understands them and makes adjustments as needed. He is more than willing to cut his losses and run away if that’s what the fight comes down to.
Versus my girl Paige and my warrior prince Zach.
Paige learned from her grandmother, but did a lot of work on her own - she studied topics that were considered “taboo” by other witches (such as necromancy, blood magic, etc), and if someone saw the world as black/white (like her grandmother often did), then Paige was determined to find the gray between it.
In a fight, Paige is pragmatic - sure - but she’s also going to use every-single-goddamn-thing at her disposal. There’s a level of wildness and darkness to her. She has fought so hard that blood vessels have ruptured, her nose has bled, and her body has gone through convulsions as she tries to align the energy she’s working with. In for a penny, in for a pound, as they say.
Because it my world-building, magic needs some kind of exchange. And Paige is not afraid to literally use her own blood as a means to an end if the result is the survival of herself or the protection of others.
Meanwhile there’s Zach - who is the most mythical creature in my magical muse line-up. I haven’t talked a lot about his species’ magic because Zach isn’t very adapt in it. He was trained at a very young age to fight & that’s pretty much it. Magic - the teaching of it - was only given to the Healers/Scholars of his kind.
But, the methodology is the same. Magic demands sacrifice. Lucky for him, being non-human, his body is made of magical energy. The very, very limited & instinctual knowledge that he has of magic often comes at a great cost to him. It’s very draining regardless of what he’s doing.
So, to kind of wrap this all together. If Zach, Caleb, and Paige were in a room together fighting a common enemy. They’d honestly be a goddamn powerhouse because Zach’s wings are surrounded by a magical fire (Caleb’s element of which he has proficiency over). And Zach, by nature of his being, is a conduit of magical energy, which means Paige could easily tap into it without siphoning him of his strength. I mean I know that even if they did fight together they’d probably struggle to communicate LMAO because Paige and Zach would be like “fuck this we ain’t leaving until everyone is DEAD” versus Caleb who would be like “GUYS. WE ARE LOSING. WE NEED TO LIVE AND LET LIVE.”
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