Gallowgate by K.R. Alexander (MG)
It Ends in Fire by Andrew Shvarts (YA)
Scholars and Sorcery series by Eleanor Beresford (YA)
A Hundred Vicious Turns by Lee Paige O’Brien (YA)
My Name is Magic by Xan van Rooyen (YA)
Bonus: These are all prose novels, but for a YA graphic novel set at a magical culinary school, check out Basil and Oregano by Melissa Capriglione
Double Bonus: The anthology The…
I sometimes think sunny think about basil more than basil think about sunny, even though most people see basil a bit yandare ,stalkerish. From the og I don’t believe he has those traits, you can say he is very obsessed, but to me is more of his desperation calling for help towards sunny, the only person known what’s he is hiding.
Basil is not as clingy , maybe emotionally but not physically. What I meant is he considers other feelings than him but at the last tree days it’s probably his limits.He behaves too well to the point he breaks and starts acting weird. A lot of people believe is, Basil was about to commit suicide after getting the photo album. He was already in a very low point of his life, if he is obsessed with sunny he would have wanted to see him one last time but he didn’t. But sunny appears, and he still probably decided to kill him self anyway, giving away his precious item to sunny even before knowing sunny is leaving. Then was the river scene, I personally think he might have the thought to drown himself after one last time seeing their old favorite hang out spot . But unexpectedly met Aubrey and her friends. (This might be more of a stretch)
Let’s compare the hiki route, where the last scene with the siren, many assumed it’s because basil still committed suicide, and that siren is for him. In this order, he probably didn’t get the photo album and trying to get it, before getting it the last straw was his grandma passing away.
All of these, there’s never any creepy clingy behavior of wanting , forcing himself to seeing sunny, he made up his mind very long time ago actually . And the only difference is sunny wanted to see him (or not
We think last month's Patreon illustration- featuring the mysterious Clary Caraway- is perfect for #magicmonday
In MBB Clary is one example of a magical boy who has passed on magic to the next gen. We'd personally love to see more generational magical boy/girl/enby stories hbu?
Every person is grow from nature, not from people. Maybe someone grew from a sapling, or a cloud, or a clam, basically anywhere you can think of. Every part of this universe has magic, and it seeps into the people it creates, giving them magical powers. People usually emerge as an age between newborn and toddler, and it's common for adults to take in the children.
Magic
Every person has a few basic powers like levitation, telekinesis, teleportation, etc. But they have a unique set of powers given to them by where they were grown, which can allow them to manipulate their world. Magic is inherently part of people and everything. It can't be created, destroyed, or removed from people.
Marks
Marks appear on various places on people, and it shows many aspects of their magic.
The lighter the mark, the more powerful the person. If it's flashing, the person is getting tired. This can be emotionally, mentally, physically, magically, etc. The shape of the mark shows how they were grown and what type of magic they have. If someone is using magic, the part of their body doing the magic (usually the hands) turns the same color or pattern as their mark, and a glowy haze surrounds it.
The planet
They live on somewhere that is not earth, but similar. Animals are also grown the same way as people, but are more common. Animals and plants also have magic, so there's a deep connection between them and people.
I wanted to share a headcanon I've had for a while in regards to Basil. Feel free to agree or disagree. I am not a mental health professional. I just have a lot of personal experience with OCD and this particular symptom of it.
So I think Basil either has OCD or, at the very least, some kind of mental disorder that causes magical thinking.
Magical thinking is a disorder associated with OCD and schizophrenia. People who suffer from it are very superstitious. They put a lot of power into the supernatural over reality and are more likely to explain something away as being done by some sort of force than just accept a normal excuse for it. To me, Basil's behavior is in line with this.
It can get worse without treatment or in moments of distress. And Basil spends most of the game in distress.
One of the things that can also happen is thinking that personal thoughts can influence the external world without acting on them. That makes me think of how he always expected sunny to just come back to him despite them both not actually communicating with eachother for nearly 4 years. Because he believed in it so hard, he thought that was enought to make it true. And it would also explain why he reacted so strongly to finding out that Sunny was moving and it led to that breakdown in the bathroom (among other things).
And also there's the little things like leaving those egret orchids for Mari and his grandma. That symbolism was powerful and like magic to him. And it makes me think of some of the rituals involved with OCD.
I also think it plays into why he was so adamant something else must have killed Mari. Basil full on believed there was a super natural force behind it. And I think he had such deep abandonment issues and attachment to Sunny, it was less damaging to his reality to accept the existence of something supernatural than that Sunny could be responsible for something so awful.
I really dislike the framing Mari's death as a suicide and im not a fan of how it was presented to us. But. If Basil suffers from magical thinking, fully believing there's a supernatural cause behind Mari's death, it makes a lot more sense to me that he would take such extreme measures. Magical thinking can make people think in these paranoid extremes.
I don't particularly think that the writers had an exact diagnosis in mind for Basil. (Or maybe they did. Who knows.) This is just something I feel fits.
magical boys appeal to me in the same way magical girls are supposed to. as a transmasc badass feminine men solving problems through the power of friendship and beating badguys with friendship lazars is exactly what i want to see.