event: hark, hear the bells ( the wishes you couldn’t burn, part two )
plot drop: so this is christmas ( and what have you done )
twas the night before christmas when hope mikaelson made a wish. and another, and another, and another. the consequences of each lasted for months inside her head, but in the real world time passed in a count of hours rather than months as her physical form lay peaceful and still in her bed at the mikaelson mansion.
said mansion had been painstakingly decorated for the most elaborate of christmas balls. twinkling lights, ice sculptures, an open bar and a strict dress code - fancy. and yes, perhaps a note had been added to jackson’s invitation that flannel did not constitute a formal outfit, but if that were the case the party responsible would never admit to it.
an hour before the ball began, the tidal effect of one final wish swept out across the world from its origin in mystic falls and set the world on a new course - or perhaps more accurately a corrected one. magic was returned, and those of supernatural origin had that origin returned; however the wish was not without mercy, emanating as it did from hope’s mind.
pregnancies that might have been snuffed out by the wish were instead protected, shielded from the consequences of their parents’ changed natures before being restored to their bodies to continue their natural path. no one’s lives were claimed in the transition back to a world of magic, no matter what circumstances they were in when the wish took place. and no one lost anyone that they cared for. with magic restored the dead could continue to return as well, that part of hope’s actions preserved.
which isn’t to say that the wishes were without consequence. hope’s mind, still processing the months of alternate timelines she’d lived and fearing for the existence of someone impossible, would not wake as the ball began around her. elsewhere a creature no one outside of triad yet knew, malivore, began to seek to recapture all of the creatures that hope’s wish had freed from its clutches. But as the snow began in mystic falls on christmas eve, those who understood that the world has changed know from where the change came.
what does this mean? all characters have returned to their original species before the wish turned them human. aside from the obvious physical changes that come with that, characters are identical to their wish selves. i.e. pregnant characters are still pregnant, everyone’s memories are retained, and all of them are aware that the world has returned to the way it was before.
how has the world changed? all characters were human for 2 full months from halloween night to christmas day. with magic’s return, the dead will start returning again as well as the spell hope cast 5 months ago is back in action. all creatures that had been previously located in other dimensions (malivore, prison worlds and any other dimensions) were relocated to hope’s dimension when there was no magic, therefore there is now a large population of monsters that used to be inside malivore, who are now walking around. malivore himself is seeking their return. the hollow has been dealt with - how is a question that only hope can answer.
plotting for the christmas ball: obviously both the length of the event and the fact that it’s occurring over christmas means that timing can be pretty elastic. feel free to plot dates, post outfits ( a channel will be added to the discord for this ), and to write out the moments that your characters feel magic return. also feel free to continue pre-event threads to completion. most of all this is an event and a plot designed to give us all some time to breathe , relax , and enjoy the holidays. i am so grateful to all of you for being here on this ride with me, and i can’t wait to see what we can plot together in the new year.
just go ahead and give this a like once read, please!
