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Hey, so like... In a Knight to Remember, Paige doesn't remember the full spell or whatever, but she actually does have an end to the fairytale with the Evil Enchantress bearing an heir, killing the prince, and ruling over the kingdom. Considering that it's her past life, I feel like that is actually what happened before the sisters changed it, and so I wonder what that heir was like bc I mean... Evil Enchantress was evil and so probably raised her heir to be evil, and it would have been neat for the sisters to face off against a child of their past life, especially kinda rubbing the salt in the wound after Phoebe's Source baby... miscarriage? (What do you even call that?) I also just loved the Evil Enchantress and the aesthetics of the episode, and I'd love to have more on her tbh.

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WHY THE FUCK IS IT OUT OF STOCK

If I calculated my budget right, I'll be able to buy and pay off my new laptop next month in full! Once I do, I may post a request for aesthetic requests, because I've missed doing aesthetics. (I'll also be able to post a new oneshot! It's been finished for awhile, but I want to post an aesthetic with it. It's current name is unchanged future trauma. :) (It'll be changed obviously when I post.))

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I have this weird theory, but was Zankou originally a genie?

As I was perusing the wiki, I read that its implied? that Zankou got powerful by stealing powers, and maybe its because I recently rewatched "Be Careful What You Witch For" but in that episode the genie had no problem stealing the dragon warlock's flight. And it would explain why Zankou couldn't be vanquished, before he could, because genies also can't be vanquished.

I understand stealing powers isn't something rare, it happens in the pilot! But something about Zankou, makes me think he might have been a genie who dreamed not of freedom but of power. Maybe a witch or warlock wished they didn't have this power or any of their powers, maybe they wanted to be mortal, maybe they didn't want the responsibility and Zankou took it for himself. Maybe thats why he can cast spells and make potions, basic witch powers.

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lmao, I did actually! I used to roleplay on Tumblr, and Pandora is actually the one from the Warren Witches that I wrote for! (She's basically an OC, so I guess that I can I say made her but idk.) I came up with all of this stuff for her, but I never ended up really writing her much. Her entire schtick is basically being a witch out of time, trapped in a world that isn't her own (a la Paige from Centennial Charmed). (I could expand on this tbh bc I think that the novel's short story has interesting implications about it tbh, but that wasn't the point.)

Since I was using the canon character, I tried to guesstimate what season that story was taking place, and closest I could figure was season six, so Richard is actually her dad! He still had a similar route with the magical issues as in the show though, so he and Paige still ended up splitting, and he wasn't the most involved in Pandora's life as a child but it improved when she got older. (The whole magic addiction he had going on made it difficult considering how magic-heavy Paige, and Pandora's, lives were/are.)

(I have a multiverse wip that I'd love to actually write and finish one day, and I really want to include Pandora and her universe bc I think it'd be a lot of fun.)

*poke* hey, somebody ask me about pandora, paige's kid

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*poke* hey, somebody ask me about pandora, paige's kid

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i'm like.... halfway? through the first piper/mark au next gen build finally and just. why is there a plot there. who put it there.

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#piper halliwell#...okay but. hear me out: au!piper met and learned with some of the phoenix witches in this universe#like i only rewatcched her intro clip but hear me out!!#her outfit reminds me of bianca's unchanged future outfit with wyatt and she uses athames and piper has a knife#she sets a trap for the lazarus demon in contrast to the way that the sisters typically rush in headfirst#she uses her powers rather ruthlessly to interrogate the lazarus demon lowkey torturing him#she is also (key argument here) clearly driven by the desire for vengeance as leo outright acknowledges#all im saying is  a griefstrickn piper combing through book of shadows to find a way to bring back prue save phoebe kill shax etc.#and finds the entry on the phoenix witches which obviously points out their history with vengeance#and she decides to track them down (to kill shax maybe?)#she succeeds obviously and like. the phoenix aren't ehre to get involved with the charmed ones but...#the charmed ones are dead. piper should theoretically be easy prey but shes also fully capable of killing a demon dead by herself#and so the phoenix see a powerful witch full of grief and a desire for vengeance and i mean#how can there not be a kinship when they took that need for vengenace and used it to create a legacy#and i agree with phoebehalliwell's thought that the phoenix probably arent too eager to see this powerful family of women destroyed#and piper is definitely heading towards it so they decide to instead give her the tools to achieve her vengeance#and i mean. the price is pretty clear here they get a CHARMED ONE as an ally like even if the sisterhood is broken#thats some badass magic man#alternatively au!piper still has her line and the phoenix try to get her to cross it (killing an innocent) or whatever#which is its own fun storyline but like#au!piper with the phoenix#abi speaks

hey, i remembered these tags and realized that i never added them to the post lmao

CHARMED (1998-2006) Centennial Charmed

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Y'know how I mentioned a few days about developing characters more? I was just filling out the character outline for Wyatt in the series bible for my next gen series, and I was like. I gotta give this man at least one mortal friend and now Wyatt is on a trivia team. Don't quite know how that happened, but I am not mad about it lmao.

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Honestly, I still lowkey am thinking about just not acknowledging it one way or another bc a) I'm indecisive as fuck and b) ...I think it's funny but:

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If I calculated my budget right, I'll be able to buy and pay off my new laptop next month in full! Once I do, I may post a request for aesthetic requests, because I've missed doing aesthetics. (I'll also be able to post a new oneshot! It's been finished for awhile, but I want to post an aesthetic with it. It's current name is unchanged future trauma. :) (It'll be changed obviously when I post.))

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Okay, so we all know that the official family tree is fucked to hell and back bc what the fuck is any of that, but (I think! I'm having difficulty being able to make out shit on any of the images) that the generation before the 1920s cousins are four siblings, and three of them have the 1920 cousins. (This is all based around the family treeSo hear me out: Paige actually has a 1920s past life, but we just don't see her.

It looks like the other three Warrens on the family tree lived a lot longer, while the fourth, Brianna Warren, died in her twenties/thirties. (Yes, she is also the supremely skilled witch who separated the Lord of War from his sword.) So Brianna, this powerful and skilled witch, perhaps a bit of a globetrotter for her current era, one who searches out evil to vanquish demons, has a child and dies young. (Recurring theme in this family, isn't it?) Perhaps no one knows who the child's father is, perhaps he's evil or dead, doesn't matter. She's raised alongside her cousins, with their parents who are still there. (And I mean... A Paige!past life, a free spirit interested in the world who feels like an outsider in her family? A recurring feeling through her future.)

And P. Warren (to fit the other cousins' names) feels like she doesn't fit in, but y'know who also begins feeling like an outsider? P. Russell as she falls under Anton's sway and begins resenting her cousins. (And we can throw in something about P. Warren feeling so much weaker than her mother and unintentionally downplaying her own power bc of it, especially in comparison to P. Bowen, so P. Russell doesn't view her as a threat in the same way bc Bowen has the power and Baxter has the lover and business but Warren doesn't have anything except a desperate need to find a place she belongs that is so easy for Russell to exploit as she turns, something that may have intentionally held the potential to keep her good that is twisted against her family.) And so they become closer, but even Warren can't deny the way that Russell is changing, becoming harsher and more cruel with the way that her spells are changing and she's offering out curses or hexes (little ones, she assures her cousins who initially eye her out of worry but soon enough becomes suspicion), but Russell is the one who so wholeheartedly embraced her (with Bowen being as cold and aloof as her powers and Baxter being so fixated on her own life with her husband and business) that she hesitates and doubts herself.

And finally Baxter and Bowen tell her their suspicions, that Russell is lost to them, but she refuses to believe it. (She can't deny it, but she's still their cousin, it can't be.) That spell and plan in Pardon My Past was premeditated obviously, but Warren couldn't commit to it. Exactly why she's not there that day has multiple options: she was searching out a way to vanquish Anton and save Russell from herself, Baxter and Bowen deceived her into being away bc they weren't sure who she would side with, or even she knew about the plan but left because she couldn't be apart of it. Either way, she comes home eventually, and Russell is dead and the aftershocks rend apart their family even further and she leaves once again, becoming her mother and chasing down evil to destroy those who destroyed her mother, her cousin, her family. (A lot of the illustrations in the Book stem from her, a nod toward Paige.)

And eventually, she dies and is reincarnated and Phoebe doesn't consciously recognize her, but Paige's past life was the only one uninvolved (as far as she knows at least) in her past life's death and they'd been close in their past lives so it's an unconscious friendliness that explains why she pushes their friendship/sisterhood so hard is bc of that past still resonating in her soul. And Paige's uneasiness with her and with her relationship with Cole stems from the knowledge of what was going on with Russell and Anton, and she unconsciously reflects it again. And Phoebe gets upset bc again (all of this is unconsciously, none of them know about the way that their past lives are rippling into their present lives) Paige isn't defending her and is being untrusting just like the past life but- This time, Warren and Baxter save Russell. Paige and Piper save Phoebe, and that's the difference.

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Heyyyy, so does anyone have an au suggestions/requests if I did AUgust? (Will I actually complete it? Idk, but I really wanna try lmao, so help a gal out.) Can be based around ships, swaps, show aus, etc. just any suggestions! (can drop on this post or in inbox, i have anon on.)

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the future is always changing (don't let me stop you) | a phoebe x coop fic featuring chris & coop and chris & wyatt ; posted on ao3 & ffn

in the aftermath of the 'uncle coop' revelation, coop and phoebe really need to have a discussion that coop doesn't know how to approach. luckily for him, chris is here to help! sort of. chris and love advice don't go together very well. look, chris doesn't really want to be giving advice anyway, but time travel has messed up enough today, y'know? wyatt, quit laughing at your brother.

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Okay, so I'm actually intrigued at the wide variety of responses in the poll results lmao. (Will say that it's kinda funny that no one thinks Clarence is in charge. I'd read a fic years ago (so can't remember much about it) where the (main) Angel of Death had done fucked up shit and got in trouble and Clarence was the one who was in charge, which I thought was interesting. Not my personal perspective, but interesting nonetheless!)

Also, I feel like I made it sound that I have a definite idea on how I think it all works, which I do not! But I have thoughts.

While I think that the main Angel of Death is the one "in charge" basically, I think that Clarence is... kinda his equal anyways? While the main Angel deals with normal deaths, Clarence comes in when it's something much more fucky with the Grand Design and all (so cases like time travelers dying outside of their time, ppl dying in parallel universes, etc.) It's much more rare (obviously), so he typically establishes much more of a rapport with his... Victims isn't the right word, I guess charges? Because those deaths are filled with so much more fear and uncertainty, even for death, bc this is not where/when you're meant to be and what will happen. (I think answers vary on that.) But he strives to be a friendly face to follow into the Great Beyond. (My bf and I finished watching the first half of the Sandman like last week, so v much Death of the Endless's perspective/vibe if that makes sense!) And he is in a unique position as an Angel of Death bc while the main Angel has more of a direct report situation (I'll get to that in a minute), Clarence either has very, very few or none bc, well, the deaths that he handles are very rare that there isn't much need for it.

(Also I love imagining their relationship bc Clarence is very jovial whereas the Angel is much more serious, so I imagine that Clarence is the type to tease the Angel, who is just. pretending he's above it all. (Meanwhile, the Angel is def a petty motherfucker, you cannot convince me otherwise.))

As for the structure, the Angel of Death is the head one in charge, and I think that there are other, lesser angels of death as well. (Worth noting that most of the deaths we see the Angel of Death arrive for are magical in nature, which I feel like might be something that higher ranking angels mostly do because we see countless times throughout the show that demons or evil beings target beings to try to gain their power (Muses, Sandmen, etc.), so higher angels deal with magical deaths bc they outrank... almost all beings. (The Angel of Death answers only the Angels of Destiny, and the angels of deaths' hierarchy still places them above most beings. They are the most neutral magical beings (besides the rare personal attachments such as the Angel of Death with the sisters) and are of vital importance to the Grand Design.) I think that angels grow stronger over time (maybe even as they reap souls?), and the main Angel is the eldest of them all, except maybe Clarence.

I don't think that there are many angels of death, and I think that they're... not necessarily loners, but it's incredibly rare to find two (much less more) angels of death together. They're just too busy for that, and I think there's this mindfulness about the way that evil operates and it'd be too tempting. (While it's incredibly hard, I think it is possible to kill an angel of death (but maybe not the Angel of Death... and Clarence, like I said, they're equals).) Honestly, while I like the mystery surrounding their origins, I do think that the Angel transforming Piper makes me think that's how angels are made. The key difference is that they're already dead souls who are asked to become an angel (bc it means that you will never pass onto the afterlife unless you somehow are killed (again, incredibly hard) or give up your status (which may or may not even be possible)). Tied to that, I think that angels are normally people who understand the need for death and life's end and have this kind of harmony/understanding of the world/Grand Design. As to how they're chosen, I think that can remain shrouded in mystery. (While I like the transformation aspect, I'm not totally set on this either bc there's so much fascinating folklore with death that I kinda wanna research more on other possibilities. Challenging death to a game is such an iconic piece of folklore that I think it might be neat to loop in, but idk for sure, y'know? Plus, the lore behind church grims with the first buried in a cemetery, like there's a lot there that you could do.)

Extra: next gen episode idea that I want to do when I finally post my series lmao. A mortal lineage endowed with gifts to protect Death's Scythe, an artifact capable of killing anything with one strike (even angels of death), calls upon the Halliwell family to ask for aid when their home is attacked and the scythe is stolen as evil sets out slaughter angels of death to claim the souls they carry and protect for their own.

Okay, so I just randomly started thinking about the Angel of Death today bc I remembered Clarence, the Angel of Death from s6 who is there to take Chris's soul when he's fading out of existence, existed and it got me wondering. Because I feel like the early implication of the show was that there was just One Guy (who I will refer to as the Angel of Death bc wtf else am I supposed to call him) doing it all, but then Clarence appears later on (but is acknowledged to be a special case so) and Piper is transformed into an Angel of Death for awhile, y'know? So thoughts:

What if Clarence is actually the main Angel of Death, but he's just disguised to avoid dealing with the sisters since a) he's encountered the Halliwells before and b) is unsure on if Chris would know his appearance and brush him off/try to fight him? And the thing with Piper was always meant to be temporary/as a punishment so she isn't a "real" angel.

If Clarence and the Angel are separate Angels of Death, then who is in charge? The Angel of Death bc he's the one we see the most? Clarence bc he deals with "special cases"? (Also consider: Clarence becoming an Angel of Death bc he, like Chris, was erased from time/stranded in a time he no longer existed. He picked up old!Phoebe's soul in s4 maybe?) Or are there even more Angels of Death, with one of them (or a council akin to the Elders even?) being in charge?

If there are multiple beyond those two, how many do you think that there are? Would it be a large group, akin to the Whitelighters & Elders or a small group like... Idk, the Tribunal? (I was just thinking about it, and idk if we have any group of species that are small, which makes sense for other beings who have much less grand cosmic power, y'know?) What does that structure even look like? Does each have their own area or category? How does one become an Angel of Death (transformed like Piper, born and raised to become one, or just magically formed as an adult for the job?)

I went back and forth on if I would do a poll bc I was initially and then thought it was confusing, but I still wanna know, so I'm gonna do it anyways. At some point, I'll reblog this and share my thoughts, but I don't want to sway anyone first, so. But anyways!

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Put a hold on a book about monsters across cultures/world to flip through for next gen/fic ideas, and it's here!!

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There are so many episodes I would given to phoebe

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