I’ve been drawing tons of stuff for my crappy OC plotline set in 1909 England :-)
fig. 1: Aɴ Assᴇᴍʙʟᴀɢᴇ ᴏғ Cʜᴀʀᴀᴄᴛᴇʀs.
fig 2: The tetchy Earl Hereford glowers terribly at an old flame outside the House of Lords. The old flame does not notice.
fig 3: ... Anyway
fig 4: A Scottish bride is shoved, kicking and swearing, to altar
Some characters are @pinstripebowties‘, AS ALWAYS. WHAT ELSE IS NEW
Genderflipped Elain (I think his name was Evian? Like the water company lol) is basically very close to how her father acted as a teenager (her dad's a short, swearing Irish guy hoo boy).
Where Elain is a little more soft and has more of a sense of camraderie with her fellow (wo)man, Evian has a stronger sense of hypermasculine independence and an arrogant belief that he doesn't need anybody. I think Elain's ambition and disregard for authority is also multiplied.
Also, like most teenage boys, he acts like a swaggering sex god when he's actually a virgin and is constantly doling out unwanted sex tips (but Elain does this too).
“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.” ― Neil Gaiman
Witches in-universe are simply humans that are genetically predisposed towards magic, the knowledge of which is passed down from mother to daughter through the maternal line.* Rather than straight-up conjuring, witchcraft generally manipulates what nature has already brought into being; in other words, magical herbs, potions, healing, enchanted fires and magic circles all fall under the domain of witchcraft. In addition, they can occasionally see into the past or future, alter the weather and bolster or kill crops.
Elain was raised by her grandmother in northern Wales; like her mother before her, she was unnaturally ambitious for a pagan witch whose job was to uphold the pattern of the natural world with few personal desires. Gifted with unfortunately large amounts of power and little responsibility to govern it, she would often seek out spells greater and more powerful than necessary.
Self-confident and forthright, she drew the ire of the Unseelie court when she competed with a fairy for the affections of a human. As revenge, she was transformed into a child (a teenybopper preteen, to be exact), supposedly to bar her from using her physicality ever again. Mostly, it just serves as a mild annoyance and an unending reminder that the fae are assholes.
The human was taken down into the mounds and never seen again, and Elain gained nothing but a smaller body and an extreme over-sensitivity to imagined infringements upon the people she holds dear. Her monotonous life is once again thrown into disarray when she tries to summon a familiar spirit, and instead gets a sullen shaman with a thousand-year-old destiny set in stone.
*All humans, in theory, possess vast magical reserves that normally remain untapped. The most common ways that humans use magic is often in regards to protection against evil: only humans are able to employ faith-based protection methods (religious symbols, IE: crosses) and salt lines.
wenyan is like one of those poor generic harem anime leads he's got one girl and one rabbit after his dick and he's all like "wtf i just want to pass my exams and complete this unpaid internship"
@dustbunnythumper: sorry for rabbit's stupid hair and bunny ears