So I saw a moodboard for Witchy!Billy, and I thought it was adorable, but then I got to thinking about Billy making protective spells for himself that don’t work, and being so tangled up inside that even the simple things that his mother taught him don’t seem to work anymore, and him getting angrier and angrier and more frustrated and his magic turning sour and his belief alternately fading and flaring into something hot and bitter and poisonous.
Possibly he still makes small protective things for Max. They don’t have a lot of his energy behind them, it’s not like he cares, but somehow they turn out better than anything else he’s doing lately, and that frustrates him.
Also, possibly he’s related at a distance to that family from Practical Magic. Mama moved clear across the country to get away from the curse, but if it didn’t exactly follow, it still came true- the man she loved died, and became something worse. Billy doesn’t know if he qualifies for the curse- the whole family aside from him has been girls since Pilgrim days, and if he’s queer maybe that skews him towards it but maybe it means he doesn’t deserve love either. He certainly doesn’t feel it a whole lot.
(but now I’m reeeeally feelin’ Billy making up a spell when he’s young, maybe with his mama helping him ‘if you’re sure that’s what you want to do’- spelling out who he’d fall in love with in order to make sure he never would, just in case, and Steve being it.)
