#magic beings

[mothmussy]

✨️💫

After many years of using magic,

A mage's body will slowly be dissolved,

Thus creating a being of pure magical energy.

It may still take the shape of who it once was,

But it is no longer the one you knew.

[kanene-yaaay-o-retorno]

And the rain continued to fall

Kanene’s Notes: I have no idea what this is. No proofreeading, only feelings sedrtyuiooiuyt.

Warnings, fun facts, random things and stuff:

* This characters do not belongs to me. They all belongs to Boku no Hero.

* Something around 600 words. -w-)b.

* Tô com preguiça de postar a versão em português brasileiro aaaa! Thankys for reading! Eat a snack, enjoy the silence and that nice playlist, take a nap and drink water! Byeioo!~

                       [~*~]

“Are you really my angel guardian?”

“Yes.”

Shinsou hummed and didn’t move from his spot, fingers playing with the grass under them, the cold feeling of the light rain hitting his skin still making shivers run down his spine, the adrenaline of running from his house to this clear field on that abandoned place in the middle of the forest starting to wear off, the tiredness of his limbs and prickling of his skin only making the young boy feel more awake than he has felt on the whole month. His eyes couldn’t quite see entire constellations, since some trees cut his vision, but, damn, the few ones he saw were already enough.

Enough.

What a bittersweet word.

“And now what?”

The winged man, his guardian angel, observed him for some pieces of time before sighing, sitting at his side, one of his gigantic black wing spreading above them, ceasing the rain in the small perimeter where they were. Outside there, the rain grew stronger, and never stopped, but Shinsou felt gratitude either way. At least he was being protected.

(At least someone cared, even if that someone was a magical being that only he could see and listen to.)

“Now nothing.” The angel answered, staring at the trees. “But you should go back.”

“And what if I don’t?” Shinsou snapped back.

“Then I presume we would continue to sit here.”

As sudden as the anger came, it went away.

“We?”

Somewhere near a cicada screamed at the top of its lungs.

“Of course.” The black haired man brushed the confusion without fanfarre, not unkindly. His voice was quite low, and maybe, if Shinsou really listened to, a little bit of soft too. “I am your guardian angel.”

“And if you weren’t?”

“I am.”

“You’re dodging the question.”

“And you keep caring too much for hypothetical choices you didn’t choose and scenarios that didn’t happen.”

At this, Shinsou clamped his mouth shut, the arms hugging his legs closer. The magical being winced right when the words came out of his mouth. He wasn’t good with this whole comforting stuff.

But he was the only one with Shinsou now. He vowed to protect and take care of that kid in moment his first cry filled the world and he did not go back at his word, even if that meant fighting against the younger’s own mind.

“Would you want me to stay?”

Shinsou breathed. In. Out. His hand scratched his neck, tangling his fingers on his wet hair. In. Out.

He nodded.

“Then I would.” Larger hands overlapped his, untangling his harsh treatment of his hair.

Shinsou stared at him. “I am so tired.”

He was not talking about the dull pain of his legs, nor the way his brain seemed to want to explode from his skull, or even why his face felt wet even when the rain didn’t hit them anymore.

The other blinked at him, no pity, no fear, just black eyes looking at him. Somewhat, that make things a bit better. “Then rest.”

“In the middle of nowhere?” A barked laughter.

“Walking to any other place would be a waste of energy.”

The laughter grew stronger. “Are you telling me it would be illogical to not take a nap?”

Rolling his eyes at the implication of his human’s words, the other flicked his forehead, pretending his own lips weren't twitching upwards in a small grin. “Cheeky brat.”

Then his other wing opened, invitingly.

Shinsou got closer, basketing on the warmth.

For a moment everything was quiet.

“What is your name?”

Words fell from his mouth before he could even think about them, a name choose before, much before he knew what was the true duty of taking care of a life was. “The Silent Guardian: Aizawa Shouta.”

“Lame.”

“Go to sleep, Shinsou.” He remarked, not unkindly. Shinsou hummed.

On the sky, the stars started to become blurry and yet shinier.

“Thank you.”

Aizawa hummed, carrying his fingers on the wild, messy hair of the one he vowed to take care of.

“I will protect you.”

Somewhere in the world the Sun began to rise, waking people to their challenges. However, right here, where Aizawa closed his large wings, covering them in warmth and not really the softest, but soft enough feathers, the moon had yet to hit its highest point in the sky.

[journeytothewestresearch]

What chinese language could be Wukong's first learned language (Mandarin, Wu, ...)? His native language must surely be the language of the Rhesus Macaque's, but what human language did he learn first? What other human languages beside Chinese dialects/languages can he speak? What animal or monster (dragons, demons, ...) languages can he speak?

I show in this article that Monkey was born around the year 500 BCE during the Zhou dynasty. (This is of course a rough estimate and should not be taken as gospel considering that the novel doesn't follow a strict historical timeline.) He is roughly 320-years-old when he sets out from the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit to find a Buddha, Sage, or Immortal to teach him the secret of escaping Yama's hand (i.e. death). This would put his arrival in the Southern Jambudvipa continent (China) around 180 BCE, during the Han Dynasty. According to Wikipedia, "late Old Chinese" was the language of the day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyaFKnUumAM But it should be remembered that Chinese changed by the time Wukong was released from under the mountain around the year 640 CE. The language at this time was "Middle Chinese": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX047xj6HtQ But we’re being way too literal here. The Journey to the West (1592) was written during the Ming dynasty, so all the characters are speaking Mandarin. Regarding your question about other world languages, the problem with the novel is that it falls prey to "provincialism", meaning that no matter how far the pilgrims travel outside of China, foreigners always dress and speak just like the Chinese. This is likely the result of the author-compiler not knowing much about the world outside of the Middle Kingdom. Because of this, Sun Wukong wouldn't need to know any other language than Chinese. Of course, this would be different in our world. Monkey doesn't seem to have any problem communicating with other magical animals or gods, spirits, demons, etc. I'm assuming the "universal language" of all magic beings in the book is Chinese.

[butterfly-winx]

Could you talk more about the Nymph transformation, and how to earn it and what the transformation should look like. (You need Sirenix, Faunus Corpus, Cosmix, a air transformation and a fire transformation first right?). I'm not sure if you ever clearly wrote it but a Guardian Fairy of a planet ties their core magic to the planet, can you talk more about it, and can any enchantix fairy do that? Thank you for your work:)

Hey! I’m gonna talk about guardian fairies in another answer if that’s alright. Let’s tackle the Nymph Quest.

It consiss of five transformations: Sirenix, Corpus Fauny, Fractalix, Ignitix and Cosmix. The Quest itself can be undertaken by any fey magic user of at least Enchanteur/tress level and can be done in a group or alone, but each transformation must be earned by every participating person individually. Some of these transformations are unlocked through a series of quest tasks (eg Sirenix), a single task(eg Ignitix) or through connection with an external agent (eg Corpus Fauni).

To help fey magic users start their quest, natural guardians linked to wild magic, such as selkies or Magifauna can bestow Harmonix onto the participants. Harmonix equalises a fairy’s powers in a new environment they are not innately suited for. In the case of the Winx this meant major adjustments for fire and light power users Bloom and Stella, while Layla barely got any boost compared to her Enchantinx, because her powers already made her very adapted to an underwater envirnoment. The looks of Harmonix changes depending on which creature granted it to the fairy in question.

The quest is designed to be completed in five years (one for each component), but it can be done faster. At the end of the period is a hard cutoff: if a magic user isn’t done with all five quests and was able to manifest a nymph form, the process is deemed as failed and they will lose their magic power. Equally failure at any of the five parts of the Quest evokes the same penalty. Attempting the Nymph Quest is therefore a high stakes challenge.

Thematically the transformations of the Nymph Quest, while they certainly appear to, don’t actually correspond to the elements. The nymph transformation was crafted by h’Agia, mother of all nymphs towards the end of the second Sorcerer Fairy War with the aim of unifying ALL uses of magic. For this she blended not only the principles of fey magic and sorcery, but examined the way other magic beings interact with the Flow and use it’s powers as magic. She has discovered the deep tie other beings have to Wild Magic that humans lack, who rather tend to get attached to Archane Magic through their bond with pixies.

Therefore each of the five transformation copies aspects of the five non-human magic beings found in the Magic universe, while the Nymph transformation itself represents the human aspect while also bundling the previous five. 

Sirenix is the obvious merfolk magic mimic. It allows fairies to access the Infinite Ocean and travel between planets the mer way.

Corpus Fauni is built on the same roots as elven magic, with the most noticeable influence of sorcery as well. It requires bonding with a Magifaunus though to filter pure wild magic for the fairies to use. Its other effects include the ability to shift into or merge with the bonded Magifaunus.

Cosmix is representative of centauri magic. The centauri, while entirely terrestrial base their magic on cosmic power fluctuations and astrology. For fairies this mainly translates into gaining the ability to survive in space and wings that allow them to cross massive distances in the blink of an eye (these wings are not suitable for on planet hovering flying though)

Fractalix is largely the same subspace manipulation gnomes use to shrink and teleport between the folds of sub and supradimension. With this transformation fairies are able to enter subdimensional spaces, whether stable like the Golden Kingdom, or unstable. There is a strict time limit however to how long it can be used, as magic digests and fairies run the risk of loosing skin and limbs to subspace - literally.

And finally Ignitix is the harpy magic equivalent. Though sentient magic using harpies are long extinct by the time the Winx are born, their legacy as the first fire using civilisation remains intact. Their magic harvests energy from atmospheric pressure, lightning and geothermal heat. Ignitix  bestowes considerable extra firepower to fairies (literally and figuratively) is also very limited in use: like sorcery it draws on powers a fairy doesn’t necessarily have at the moment and can therefore only be evoked 3 times in a nymphs lifetime (which is very long). Sometimes evoking it is not a conscious thought, but rather a last resort, in this way compensating a bit for the nymph transformation’s biggest drawback.

...which is that after completing the whole Quest and gaining the nymph form, fairies lose their Enchantix. Being a nymph and having all these forms to draw from more than compensates in general. However it has to be said that the nymph transformation(s) are fundamentally more suited for Elemental aspect magic users. Abstract aspect users may have better applications of their powers in spell-crafting and being an Enchanteur/tress than a nymph, but that is ultimately a personal decision.

Hope you enjoyed the read!

[calamity-flames]

Some possible OC doodles / character design doodles!

Weird jester-like creature that exists in whatever realm my long tail boyo exists in. Both are on the smaller side but Jester boy is taller. Also has longer arms! He’s kinda like an insect and a monkey, and is magical and mischievous, while tail boyo is just a cute kid (he will outgrow Jester boy given time)

And a plant boy!!!! He’s adorable and I love him and he’s short (though he seems to change size often??) he’s just super cute haha

[takineko]

In shows where there are magical beings with all sorts of powers and then humans with modern tech side by side I always wonder why the ancient magical beings are “more advanced”? Shouldn’t they be lacking in tech because they didn’t need it? Wouldn’t they be shocked and in awe of the abilities of mortal humans because they figured out how to do stuff without magic that only their top magic users could do previously?

[butterfly-winx]

Non-human magic users and the Magic Being Recognition Act

Several millions of different creatures inhabit the Magic Universe with differing amount of cognition and levels of magic sensitivity. It should be of no surprise to anybody that humans, above anyone else, have tried to enforce a hierarchy between all of them based on aforementioned traits. 

Most humans are not inherently magic sensitive the same way eg. selkies or non-physical entities are. A large number of them is born with magic sensitivity, enough in fact that they developed 3 distinct magic streams to specialise their craft in, but still what they value most is intelligence and expression of organised societal life as they understand it. 

For the longest time intelligent species fought their wars among themselves, humans in their Magic User Wars, Centauri during the Big Expansion and of course Merpeople in their never ending Turf Wars. But once peace has been wrought, it could only be kept at the expense of unifying against another threat: intelligent magic users of another species. 

Humans are fortunate in their physiology, for it does not make them locked to planets with specific topographies like other species. Goblins and gnomes need rocks and obligate minerals in their diet to ensure healthy development. Merfolk you’d hardly find in a place without ample interconnected waters. And what environment benefits Merpeople is often a hazard to Centauri’s delicate ankles. Elves (and  in primordial times Harpies) have had a better chance at adapting, sharing the ability of humans to terraform their living space. 

Humans and Elves share so many similarities, they were initially thought to be a magic sensitive and non-sensitive iteration of the same species, how gnomes and goblins are essentially the same creatures. It was of course later revealed that humans were more than sufficiently magically competent to escape that classification. Humans and Elves have stood side by side, categorising the vast expanse of life emerging in the Magic Universe. Fuelled by the sense of superiority deeply ingrained in both peoples, they got along well in their intellectual discussions. However, at the end of all things their opinions diverged on what they saw each other as, and how that related to their place among all other creatures of the Universe.

Elves of course saw humans as inferior. Humans have just finished their war waging, compared to the other beings, so they could only be called Young. Elves saw categories between ages of emergence: to them a species was either long standing or newly emerging, defining the worth of their contribution to the world. You just couldn’t trust someone who has just invented organised religion as much as you could believe those who have seen cycles of emergence and dismantling.

Humans, as stated before, priced intelligence so much they’d separate ogres as a distinct species from trolls, despite the two being exactly the same kind of creature, with variation emerging depending on which planet you observed them on. In their system, of course equally seeing the Elves as inferior to themselves, humans who had come up with the categorising system were the most intelligent and deserved to be named at the top. They designated the phylogeny as humans vs non-human: Complete classification of Creatures found in the Magic Universe, it said.

This caused incredible discourse and Elves involved in the project either left or were forcibly extruded from the research environment where their voices could be heard. Humans having spread to most parts of the Magic Universe presented the dominant culture on most planets. Through their hegemony, the term “magic creature” was popularised, slowly stripping the rights of every non-human inhabitant of the planets.

In many places this lead to the development of so called Split Societies, where instead of fighting, the previously societally integrated beings withdrew from human influence and founded their own kingdoms, nowadays best observed on Earth and Manubra 47. 

Magic Being Recognition Act

Though pushback after a while appeared futile, resistance to the human rule did not cease. After hundreds of years of campaigning, the still incorrectly termed, Higher Intelligent Species banded together, comprising of Gnomes, Elves, Centauri and Merpeople and demanded a change in terminology and equal treatment.

Their arguments were based on their kind sharing magical responsibility and a magical consensus in the form of their representatives in the Golden Kingdom. If they could sit there side by side, why could they not do the same in the physical world. They further cited the criteria of the original classification system, according to which they were all considered the same level of advanced civilisation: they formed societies, taught skills and left records and reminders of their existence. They engaged in religious practices as well as empirical discovery of the world around them.

Their demands were the abolishment of discrimination, respect of the sovereignty of their territories and equal rights and opportunities of integration into human society. 

Together with human spouses and allies, the affected species organised protest and campaigns across several planets until the movement caught on and the leaders of the magic Universe had no other option but to respond to the demands.

The Magic Being Recognition Act, as imperfect as it is separating only the large four from the rest and elevating them above being termed a ‘creature’, is still a ground breaking resolution in political rights. Levelling the playing field across all species of the Magic Universe, it established what we call today Hybrid Societies.

Its implementation is so recent that many living Gnomes still remember the times before it and Elves and Centauri often stilly feel the age old prejudices regurgitated against them in daily life. They have gained equal rights on most plantes, but for example the objectification fo Elf women has not ceased yet (as it is largely tied in with misogyny and objectification fo all women as well) and gnomes are still banned from practicing trade and finances professions in no less than 61 countries Universe wide. One hopes to imagine the situation will improve and gradually lead to the integration of more minor magical species such as Pixies or Selkies into the everyday life of thriving societies of the Magic Universe.