I would rly love to read more of the winx books/magazines (not the comics bc ive alr seen them)
They have so many wacky stories and little tidbits of info for the side characters
Was this just an excuse to talk about Brandon? Yes.
Like, the fact that I had to get Brandon's parental background from a obscure Winx magazine from the Russian wiki? Bruh.
His father is literally the advisor of Erakylon and his mother is the Queen's help, I don't see how that would be difficult to incorporate into the series?
And also this girl from Mitzi's halloween party?
(Spoilers for the Winx book "Peace in the family". Kinda long info dump coming up)
Her name is Bianca Blackie. And apparently, she's the witch of spiders/insects. Bianca is also a journalist of a gossip newspaper.
How she didn't know the winx were fairies in the S2 party eludes me, but hey at least Rai bothered to expand more on their side characters right?
AND she was also previously Brandon's girlfriend.
She was Brandon's childhood friend and their moms were friends with each other. Her family is apparently among one of the richest in Erakylon as well. They dated a year before Stella and Brandon got together.
According to Brandon, she basically took a page out of Mitzi's book and "tormented him with her harrassment" until he agreed to date her.
Obviously, he didn't love her back, and broke up with her shortly after. The heartbreak made Bianca harbour a grudge against Stella, which forms the main catalyst of the story of the book (where she tries to ruin the solaria family name with bad rumours)
Also Stella is terrified of spiders.
Brandon also knows Bianca keeps a giant tarantula inside her room as a pet and catches insects for the spider to eat.
So what did you get from reading this? Nothing. I just wanted to talk about Brandon.
Anyway, here's my hc that Brandon is either:
1. Arachnophobic / Scared of spiders
Either Bianca made use of this fear to threaten him to date her
Or he developed this fear of spiders bc of his relationship with her
He can twin with Stella with the same fear of spiders
2. He squashes spiders with no fear
He got so used to handling and seeing spiders bc of Bianca. He has no fear of insects anymore.
He either neutral/dislikes spiders bc it reminds him of her haha
He WILL kill the spider that's scaring Stella tho :)
