FERAL

GIDEON MARX || 23/335 || DARK WITCH SHADOWBRINGER

[gideon-marx]

calliopethornton-watt​:

I’ve always been the one person who could stop him from doing something incredibly stupid, so with the event he’s behaving in a reckless manner that not even Rav can contain, I just need to know I’m there somehow to keep him safe when what happens next is my doing. Or maybe I’m the stupid and foolish one for trying the spell in the first place. Do you…Gideon, do you think I broke something in the past?

I understand, but despite all of this or how it’s started, your brother is old enough to make his own decisions and reap what he sows. You’re not always going to be around to curb his emotions, it’s what he does with it that will decide how he wants his own future to pan out. I... can’t say for sure, Calliope. That spell was a dangerous spell for someone of your caliber but there’s no point in beating yourself up over what’s been done-- we can’t change it now. You’re a witch a part of a powerful coven... we’ll figure it out.

[gideon-marx]

ravennachastain​:

Just as I theorized with Cassie, Alternate Ravenna and the boy’s intention may not have been Malcolm in the first place, but someone else from the current present. I’m only but making this up as I go, Giddy. Whether your powers connect to it or another reason entirely, I’ll practically be playing Mission Impossible with my alter’s mind and then we will have our answers. That isn’t changing my plans with the full moon, however. We’re still doing it timelines cracking be damned.

Not saying that we should stop with our plans, but only that the timing of timelines cracking near the full moon when magic is already awry-- that could even be the cause. Why else would two instances of future anomalies come to this present unless this is the convergence point. I have a feeling that even your alternate self won’t know what happened, Ravenna.

[gideon-marx]

ravennachastain​:

He’s mentally insane, love, let’s call it as it is.

Hence why Griffin was accompanied by another version of myself. Your magic casted a ripple effect with the prison holding Alec, Gideon, what if it holds the potential to crack the timelines?

So, your future self thought it was important enough to escort him into the past and potentially alter things? All I know is that this is happening at a weirdly curious time, no coincidence that it’s happening right before we’re dealing with Alec. The thing is, I don’t see how my ability to control darkness can result in time magic or mess with other timelines. This has never happened before.

[gideon-marx]

calliopethornton-watt​:

Well, it hasn’t happened yet for us then. 

My mother informed me Griffin and Rav were jumping through time portals and it sounds crazy when I phrase it that way, but I wanted to establish contact. I could feel something from him and I think he’s in danger. Actually no…that he is the danger.

I am aware of their time jumping, Ravenna let me know before they met up to leave. Truth be told, we don’t know what would happen if you also tried to establish contact with him. If it would mess with their spell or if it would even be your version of Griffin, with how erratic the spell they used is. He’s with Ravenna, Calliope. Griffin won’t be in danger and she wouldn’t let him do anything he would regret.

[gideon-marx]

ravennachastain​:

Why would he lie, Giddy? Other than to mess with my head, certainly, but the state of him was not of Alec’s abilities. He was genuinely furious.

He’s not exactly the most... sane.

So, saying that he actually saw Griffin-- that’s major magic. Something you and I wouldn’t do unless there was a reason to.

[gideon-marx]

calliopethornton-watt​:

Then I suppose it’s back to the drawing board I go. I guess if it were easy, everyone would do it.

You’d see a lot more people blowing themselves up. What are you trying to do? Maybe I can help.

[gideon-marx]

ravennachastain​:

And that attack has somehow led Malcolm on a one way trip to a new level of crazy that shouldn’t be possible. He came to me the other day and said I visited him with a no longer an infant Griffin in tow. 

An older Griffin? How much do you believe what he said?

[gideon-marx]

ravennachastain​:

I cannot say I won’t be troubled reaching the limits of our abilities, but the attack on Winslow is too severe to ignore as the last straw. Alec’s grown agitated in his captured state and begun a war.

I heard about the attack-- the one time Alec leaves someone alive, it happens to be Malcolm. 

[gideon-marx]

ravennachastain​:

I am nothing if not a perfectionist, Giddy, my measurements are always accurate. The reason question is in your opinion, will it work to fix our problem?

Theoretically, yes. This will need a lot more magic than me and you even with the full moon... I’ll need to tap into my powers, and I haven’t done that since Bonnie.

[gideon-marx]

The measurements on this spell seems incredibly disproportionate, I don’t see how this will work the way you want it to.

[gideon-marx]

calliopethornton-watt​:

Griffin and I always thought there was more to it than that, like even our parents don’t really talk about them either. Normally, I wouldn’t push the subject knowing how much it hurts you both, but I know what and who I saw, Gideon. It would make little sense why he wanted me to find Dante or Lily, for that matter.

Alec was killed well before the hybrid attack-- he had threatened Henry’s life and I was forced to incapacitate him, but with my powers as they are and the fact that I didn’t use them... I went too far. He was killed that day. We stopped Rowan during the hybrid attack, and we forced Dante under a sleeping spell-- he later was freed from the spell, but the thing is? Raphael Sinclair and Lily were the ones that ended up killing him-- they died in the process.

None of the people you are talking about are alive today, Calliope. I don’t have answers for you. Whoever you spoke to, wasn’t the person I know.

[gideon-marx]

dimitri-pierce​:

I concur, the variety of different spellings for words that look and sound exactly alike is downright cruel as well as maddening. I prefer hunkering down in my spell books with reliable latin.

At least the spell books are all concise-- I don’t know what I would do if they were like the modern English language; I shudder at the thought.

[gideon-marx]

wilburn-watt​:

Children were probably a sin back in your coven. Now your chance to start, better late than never.

I have to ask, is there a way to tell if…the twins will turn out like their mother? Witches, I mean? I just need to know what my parental future holds.

In my prior coven, yes. Children were more of a burden. In my first coven, it was more of a giant village-- children were encouraged as they were almost guaranteed to be a wielder of magic. I wouldn’t hate learning how to care for children if you’re willing to leave them with me.

Unfortunately, it’s hard to tell this young. Since you were a human when they were conceived, it could be either or. But, the Thornton line is also one of the strongest in history, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re both witches. Seeing as they’re fraternal as well, they could also be different. There’s too many variables to count this early.

[gideon-marx]

calliopethornton-watt​:

I always commended Rav for staying headstrong knowing she could’ve fallen in shambles losing her family, I do, but that doesn’t explain any clam up from you if there’s bad blood. In the case of Merriman, I talked to a dead man who basically said he was locked away by a spell gone wrong casted by you. Does that sound familiar?

I don’t typically talk about them because, to put it lightly, they were anything but friendly and I like to not relive those memories. Ravenna was the one who took me in and showed me what a family was -- everyone else detested me for being weak. I didn’t like using my abilities, still don’t. My abilities killed Alec, so I don’t know who you spoke to... it wasn’t him.

[gideon-marx]

alec-merriman​:

I’m dead either way you look at it, right? I don’t exist if he returns. I die and many others will perish along with me. His anger is spiking inside of me, Gideon, I can feel it boiling under my skin when I look at you. 

I could end it. One bullet, one knife, solves the problem.

Of course he would be angry, I’m the one who did this to him, but you have to remember, you are not some mirage I created-- you are just as real as he is. You hold the power just as much as he does, yet you think that you’re powerless. You are in control, so fight back until we are able to find something safe.

Is that what you want? To end your life in that manner?

[gideon-marx]

ravennachastain​:

Have you seen the state of him recently? Gideon, I have researched and researched every spell book I own in addition to any in Cassie’s library and I’ve come across no helpful indication of what your magic caused. No clues to fix it. We’re out of time and options.

I understand airing on the side of precaution, practicing patience even, but there is only one way. Repair the damage internally myself. 

No. Absolutely not-- you don’t know what that could do to him and you. If anyone is going to repair the damage, it needs to be me. If you use your magic directly, it could be like using gasoline on a fire. 

[gideon-marx]

calliopethornton-watt​:

Consider that a challenge accepted.

My visions, that’s what’s going on. Speaking of vague explanations now that I’m reminded, let me pose you this question, Gideon. Why do you and Ravenna never talk about your old coven members? Like Alec Merriman? Or Dante Aryes? 

We never talk about them because they aren’t relevant to anything. Calliope, they’re dead. Ravenna and I are the only ones left from the Chastain Coven. I don’t talk of them because we all were never really on good terms. Ravenna, I suspect, doesn’t talk about them because despite everything they’ve done, they were still her family. No amount of bad deeds and time can take away that pain.