#but her whole character so far is 'i hate the class clown. im book smart. i diet and im in love'

[lecliss]

Sakura gets a second point for being the first to complete the tree climbing at being better at chakra control, but at the same time it just feels like she was made good at it so no extra training segment time would have to be put into her getting good at it and it can be all about Sauce and Nart. Idk that feels too pessimistic but also could totally be true.

[liquidstar]

can we see the swaps :o

i actually got a few asks about this :D im gonna post pics of them (in the same tiny style i used for their normal refs) and go into detail about how the characters change under the cut! 

before i do, for anyone that doesnt know, this is something i did both for fun and as character development exercise where i took pairs of ocs and swapped their situations and magic and all that stuff with each other. anyway here goes!

First up is Amary, I think In Rue’s place she’d have more of a pastel punk vibe, but still wear a lot of black to sort of compliment the shadow magic. That’s the real downside to this swap, a lot of the colors don’t match up with the persons magic lol.

As for Rue she doesn’t lose her gothic edge but it’s more lolita fashion based, with a lot of gold to compliment the light magic. Unlike how she normally is she wouldn’t be very confrontational at all, but she wouldn’t be as obsequious to rules as Amary normally is. 

Aloe in Sorrel’s place would probably have 10x the social anxiety he already has, but other than that he wouldn’t be TOO different. He’s just Aloe with all the optimism gone, which is… Sad. But his determination is still 100% there, it’s just that now he’s moreso driven by a desire to prove himself out of spite rather than admiration. 

Sorrel on the other hand kind of loses his angst, replacing his skateboard for roller skates and using mobility to make up for the fact that he’s a passive wizard. He’s a lot more… Preppy, taking after a different sibling’s haircut.

Normally Carnation is a smart and classy scholarly type, but when swapped with Pine I think her intense curiosity to learn would be what drives her to be a tech wizard, unlike Pine who wants to create. I think she’d be very into reverse engineering things and she’d probably be kind of like Entrapta from She-Ra 2018.

Pine was always pretty prideful of his creations, but when he becomes the “perfect smart kid” like Carnation normally is, that aspect of himself would take center stage. He would be really arrogant and cocky, rather than grumpy.

Fennel is usually a really happy-go-lucky type of idiot, but if he’s forced into a position where he has to behave proper and dignified on count of being an heir he’d probably just… Lose his goofy side. That being said though, he’s still an idiot, it just takes people more by surprise when he opens his mouth. His arc would just be about accepting silliness if anything.

On the flip side though, Geran wouldn’t have to act regal anymore, so he’s free to be as goofy as he wants. He takes up a much more “class clown” type of personality, but the part of himself that hides away his emotions isn’t gone, it’s just that now he only does it to negative ones.

Unlike his sister, Musk was NOT built for empathy magic, he’s not emotionally intelligent at all. And he’s also got far less control of his powers, meaning he has to feel everyone’s emotions all day whether he wants to or not. Crybaby would be an understatement, but can you blame him?

And in contrast, Gallica wasn’t built for logic and reasoning, she’s normally creative and empathetic. She doesn’t lose those aspects of herself when swapped with her brother, but because of her mismatched magic she ends up with a serious case of impostor syndrome, but she hides it. 

Protea becomes a lot less shy in Daisy’s place, and I was going for a bit of a gardener look with her overall dress because I think she’d still hang on to her desire to make things (Even if not potions). She’s still use sign language when she can’t talk but on top of that I think she’d use rocks to signal things to people by making them into shapes. 

Daisy is still a furry lmao. But seriously, in Protea’s place daisy would probably adapt a more… Scene look. And she’d probably act a lot more saccharine, but unlike Protea she’d be a lot less meticulous when it comes to potion making. There’s nothing wrong with just eyeballing it.

Maggie when swapped with Tam would be… Sort of a cheerleader? I mean, what else do you get when you combine a jock and a ballerina? Normally Tam is overconfident, but Maggie in her place would sort of use that overconfidence to hide any insecurities she may have.

Tam in Maggie’s place would be a lot more mellow, they’d be a sort of a hippy type, but they’d still retain that aforementioned overconfident personality. The only character I can think of that would work as a comparison is Phoebe from Friends. Not that I’m a fan of the show but… That’s what they’d be like.

Holly has always been hung up on how people perceive her, normally it’s because she wants to be in the limelight, but when swapped with Hyacinth I think she’d just be… Super hung up on embarrassment, she’d be afraid to put herself out there because she doesn’t want to be embarrassed. 

Meanwhile Hyacinth retains their whole “I wanna be a great amazing hero like the one in my books” shtick, but they lose their social anxiety and become… Sort of cocky, like they gain a huge hero complex and act like a (future) grand adventurer. 

Aster when swapped with Reed would have become a wizard to pursue a new purpose and want for saving people (especially kids) but she ends up using it as a form of escapism and blatant disregard for her own well-being. She gets better and becomes a teacher, of course, but that doesn’t completely solve the issue.

On the other hand Reed is a lot more cleaned up, he just looks like a GoodBoy, but this is all totally an illusion, he’s still a mess he just doesn’t let it show. I think he’d still retain his want for time travel, but instead of looking at it through a straight-forward way, since he has space magic, he’d think of it in the terms of “bending space”

Since this is a swap AU that INCLUDES Iris and Crocus. Making Crocus the new good guy and school principal. Their core personalities stay in tact but the benevolence and malevolence is swapped, Crocus always wanted fun. Instead of fun through chaos it would be more like, fun through freedom. His interest in humanity would be less so about a question of mortality and life (Like Iris’ normally is), but one of independence and spirit that humans have.

And of course, on the flip side, Iris. Swapped iris would hate humans because they cause disorder, and Crocus would like them because their individuality is fun. So in that sense the monsters that Iris makes would probably be very different from Crocus’, a lot more calculated with the intent being just to harm and set things straight based on how she wants it to be, a complete and literal God complex (Because she is one)

And that’s all the ones I’ve done! If you wanna know about any others feel free to shoot me an ask but I probably won’t draw any more unless you specify that you wanna see them too! That goes for other characters in THIS swap or these characters swapped with different ones, really this is a super fun way to stretch your creativity when it comes to character development.