#does wizzy have a theory tag. idk

[hazeldragonblossoms]

Decay Is an Extant Form of Life

for today’s entry to wiztober 2023, i’m posting something more akin to a theory than a fic. i just couldn’t make it work as a story.

apologies if this has been brought up before, and fair warning for discussions of terminal illness and eventual death, but. have we considered that sylvia drake might have had cancer?

like, okay, i’m gonna get a little pepe silvia here (…pun not intended, noticed, and then very much intended). but cancer is, to me, the most likely (non-magical) answer. consider who we’re talking about, here.

sylvia drake is a theurgist. a life wizard. and a massively talented one, at that, if she was selected to teach at ravenwood.

it’s even noted by those who knew her, such as gloria krendell, how strange it is that she was killed by an illness.

but no other, more nefarious explanation is ever stated, or even implied. she just… got sick. it was a cruel twist of fate with no one to blame for it.

part of life magic is renewal, and healing, and growth, and new things. cancer is a mutation — a new thing in the body — that grows like a weed in a garden, stealing nutrients from other living things. it spreads, and it flourishes. and, like decay, it is an extant form of life.

just, y’know. one that kills things.

but the first spell a theurgist learns isn’t the healing sprite, is it? life magic is just as capable of killing as any other.