My witcher oc who has been with me from the start, im beginning to get my grasp on her design.
Obviously she has the feline armour but due to wandering I wanted her to also gain random pieces here and there from her travels, rather than a polished full set of gear.
Cyan and black would be her main colours, metal would be silver, and accent colour is red.
I also want her to be more cat like, so i tried to show it through her face but also the streaked eyeliner could resemble whiskers. Also the fur collar, thin hood, and shawls bundled by her neck not only provides warmth for her but also protection and appears almost like thick fur some cats have around their own necks.
As for her hair, I liked the idea of it being dreaded/matted as a way of displaying her established outdoorsy style. Unlike the women of her Nilfgaardian breed, she does not have a gilded boar-bristle brush to comb through her hair while gazing into a broad mirror at her intricate vanity. Instead her dirt-caked fingers rake through her hair, halted at the matts and barely able to see her reflection in muddy puddles. Elsje eventually gave up and allowed the dreads to form. Metal ringlets tie in her hair and decorate it nicely, she enjoys shiny things.
okay so i knew Schrödinger's name was a reference to yk Schrödinger's cat n all. but i didn't get the joke in the letter until just now. my fucking. dumb ass
cant say for sure. might be alive might be dead. like the stupid FUCKING box
(fun fact. the thought experiment wasnt (the real) Schrödinger arguing that quantum superposition was real and thats how physics works. he was basically saying how fucking absurd he thought the idea was. he made up the cat thing to say 'listen to how fucking stupid you sound')
So we know from TW3 storyline with the Mad Witcher Kiyan that a lot of the cat school is made up of Witchers with Elven origins. But I’ve never seen anyone mention that this could be the reason they tend to be more unstable? Essentially they use mutations meant for humans (presumably) on descendants of elves and it’s probably a bit fucked. We know elven and human ancestry can physically mess up a person, like is shown with Yennefer, so were most of these trainees physically disabled in some capacity when they were brought to the Cat School? Is that why more schools didn’t adopt this method? Does it have to do with them being slightly closer to the Source and having a bit of chaos themselves which makes them more prone to mental illness? Thinking of Eskel being shown to have proficiency in signs due to his inclination to magic, it seems unlikely. So it must be something more physical/emotional. I don’t know, just pondering. Also, we under appreciate Kiyan as a fandom, please give this poor lad some love, I beg you.
The Strictest School in the World by Howard Whitehouse
TJ Young & the Orishas by Antoine Bandele
Confessions of a So-Called Middle Child by Maria T. Lennon
Unicorns of the Mist by R. R. Russel
Beatrice Bailey by Sandra Forrester
The Armourer's House by Rosemary Sutcliffe
You Be the Jury by Marvin Miller
The O'Clock Tales by Enid Blyton
Cat School (Goyangi Hakyo) by Kim Jin Kyung
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Jill's Ponies by Ruby Ferguson
Jill unexpectedly finds herself the proud owner of Farmer Clay's piebald pony. But that's when her problems begin because ponies are expensive. Where will she find the money?
The Strictest School in the World by Howard Whitehouse
14-year-old pioneering aviatrix Emmaline Cayley is afraid of one plummeting to her doom. Fortunately, 12-year-old Robert Burns, an indestructible village boy, is not. Absurdly unafraid of bodily harm, "Rubberbones" is the ideal pilot for Emmaline's experiments with flight. But before Emmaline can perfect a flying machine with the aid of her new friend, she is sent off to St. Grimelda's School for Young Ladies -- to be cured of her decidedly unladylike ways. It is a school so strict, so severe, so forbidding that it makes the brutal misery in the tales of Charles Dickens look cheery by comparison. With a horrifying headmistress, terrifying teachers and food that is even worse than Aunt Lucy's, this medieval stronghold also houses a terrible secret and a mysterious way of keeping its prisoners, er, its students in line. All Emmaline can think of is escape. But no one has ever escaped from St. Grimelda's. And our heroine soon realizes that the only way out is to face her greatest fear.
TJ Young & the Orishas by Antoine Bandele
Fourteen-year-old TJ grew up normal in a secret community of gifted diviners in the heart of modern-day Los Angeles. His powerful sister was ordained to lead his people into a new age of prosperity, but her mysterious death in Nigeria threatens to destroy the very foundations of TJ's world.
Desperate to pick up where his sister left off and uncover the secrets behind her questionable death, TJ commits himself to unlocking the magical heritage that has always eluded him. So he enrolls in Camp Olosa-a remedial magic school for the divinely less-than-gifted in the humid swamps of New Orleans.
But little does he know, TJ is destined to cross paths with powerful spirits of old thought lost to the orishas.
Confessions of a So-Called Middle Child by Maria T. Lennon
Confessions of a So-Called Middle Child stars the hilariously cheeky reformed bully and tween hacker Charlie Cooper as she tries to ditch her middle-child reputation and make cool friends at her new school in Los Angeles. But being cool isn't as easy as it looks. Charlie has to face down the mean girls and decide between right and wrong once and for all when she learns the terrible truth behind Marta the Farta's bad attitude and loner status. And Charlie has to do it all in outfits meant for the runways!
Unicorns of the Mist by R. R. Russel
Deep in the heart of a mist-shrouded island, an impossible secret is about to be discovered.
Twig is used to feeling unwanted. Sent to live on a pony ranch for "troubled" girls on a misty, haunted island, Twig is about to discover the impossible — someone who needs her.
Jolted awake from a bad dream, Twig follows the desperate whinny of a terrified horse out to the stables. There in the straw is a bleating little scrap of moonbeam. A silver-white filly with cloven hooves and a tiny, spiraling horn.
A baby unicorn.
Now Twig knows what secret is hiding in the island's mist: the last free unicorn herd. And a mysterious boy named Ben who insists that this impossible creature is now Twig's to care for. That she needs Twig's love and protection. Because there's something out there in the deep, dense shadows that's hunting for them...
Beatrice Bailey by Sandra Forrester
Beatrice Bailey is tall, skinny, and about to turn twelve years old. On that birthday she will get her official classification as a witch. But will she be named an ordinary Everyday Witch or a specially empowered Classical Witch? When the big day arrives, the Witches' Executive Committee can't decide how to classify her. At last, they agree that her Maximum Magic Level must be tested, and to pass the test she must break a spell that has been cast by the evil sorcerer, Dally Rumpe. Thus begins Beatrice's series of adventures. Breaking the spell takes Beatrice and her three best friends to several dangerous realms within the witches' sphere. In this tale, their main challenge is to get past an enchanted hedge of thorns and a fire-breathing dragon to undo the spell that has cast the land in snow and ice. Author Sandra Forrester promises further bewitching adventures in books to come. In each adventure, Beatrice makes new friends who help her when she goes on to face dangerous new encounters.
The Armourer's House by Rosemary Sutcliffe
If only she'd been born a boy, Tamsyn would never have been sent away to Uncle Gideon's - the armourer's - house when her grandmother died. She could have stayed by the wild sea that she loved with her Uncle Martin, the ship merchant.But instead, she is bound for busy, bustling Tudor London, and the armourer's house, far from the coast and far from her beloved ships. Homesick and lonely in the loud family of cousins, it isn't until she meets the strange old Wise Woman that Tamsyn is finally promised her "heart's desire"...
You Be the Jury by Marvin Miller
The reader is provided evidence for ten courtroom cases and must decide whether each defendant is guilty or innocent.
The O'Clock Tales by Enid Blyton
A magical collection of over forty tales. Join Sneaky the elf as he steals a growing spell and gets a terrible fright; or Snip and Snap the brownies as they play a trick on the Red Goblin; or lazy Kate as her bed takes her to school!
Cat School (or Goyangi Hakyo) by Kim Jin Kyung
Beodeul is a cat, and the story is about the cat school where Beodeul goes and learns how to live together with humans. It also tells of his travels to Japan, China, and India.
