#i have his enchantix sketched out

[queen-ofsunflowers]

The last member of the male cast to round everything out is Aether! Much like his sister, Aether is a fairy as well and one of the lost royals of Khaenri'ah. And when I say lost, I literally mean lost. No one has a clue as to what happened to him after he allowed Lumine and Dainsleif to flee to safety in Khaenri'ah's destruction.

Unlike Lumine and her friends initially, Aether is an Enchantix level fairy. Though his physical form is trapped in the darkest pits of who knows where, he is still able to contact Lumine through her dreams with the boost in power he found himself with. Aether is determined to guide his sister as best he can until the day that they are reunited and their kingdom is restored to its former glory.

Bennett | Xiao | Kazuha | Alhaitham | Lyney | Aether

[floralovebot]

oughhh i am in such a helia mood i feel like i haven't talked about him in ages but also i've said literally everything already what more can i say oughhhhhhhhh

[snarky-art]

Musa and Aisha in their enchantix! I still haven’t figured out how I want the wings to look but that’s ok I think.

Info on their relationship in my version of Winx Club below!

So when Aisha arrives at Alfea in season 2, it’s pretty much the same as in the original show. She doesn’t really know what to do. Anne was the only person her age she had ever really interacted with. The rest of the time she was pretty isolated and surrounded by adults. She has trouble figuring out exactly how to act around the winx and is really scared of messing things up.

Musa is also used to feeling like that. She has a lot of separation anxiety and fear of abandonment which she had manifest in the defense mechanism of not letting people get close so she couldn’t get hurt. She’s gotten better at handling it though ever since joining Alfea and getting a super close knit group of friends. As a result though, she can understand best how Aisha is feeling and is able to help in little ways the others can’t.

Musa does the most to make her feel more comfortable and at ease (the others do too but it just hits a little different coming from someone who really gets it, ya know?) and as a result they become much closer much faster. They find themselves talking more openly about their fears and insecurities and experiences when they’re alone and a they just end up having a really strong bond.
In my version of this, Musa and Riven did get together at the end of season 1, but they breakup around ¾ths of the way through season 2. They realize it just isn’t really healthy for either of them and they both bring out the worst in each other. They both have some insecurities from previous relationships and just their family life in general (Riven’s mom abandoned him, Musa’s mom is dead and her relationship with her father is pretty strained although it does start to get better after the concert episode in season 2), so Musa is the one who ultimately takes the initiative to break it off. They both aren’t happy and Riven takes it especially hard, but Timmy talks some sense into him and he starts working to get better around the end of season 2/beginning of season 3.

Another reason Musa breaks it off is along with realizing how much worse she feels with Riven and along with how much worse she is as a person with him, she has a moment of realization where she just goes “oh, but with Aisha, I DO want to be better, and I trust her so much more completley,, oh no.” and she’s basically like “now we don’t have time to unpack ALL of that right now” but along with ending her relationship being better for both Riven and her, she needs to think some stuff about that over.

Musa is in denial about liking Aisha for a while and tries to stifle it and convince herself it’s nothing or that it’ll go away. This isn’t because she’s having a Gay Panic or something though (in my thing she’s bi and has had partners of other genders before). The panic comes from at this point, Aisha is one of the closest people in her life despite them only knowing each other for about a year and she doesn’t want to ruin something good (cue abandonment issues). Musa handles this physically by being more shy and easily flustered and also by eventually talking to the winx about it. Tecna ties but in my thing, Tecna is borderline Aromantic (demi is what I’m thinking of for her, still haven’t figured it all out though) so she’s not very good at giving advice for it, but she’s happy to listen. Flora gives soft advice and a listening ear, ever the romantic, and Stella is too but she’s much more loud (she also feels bad about trying to hook Musa up with so many dates and her and Riven broke up now that she knows Musa was having a crisis the whole time, granted the date with Jared was a good thing since Jared and Musa became good friends so Stella won’t apologize for that one and Musa decides that’s fair), and Bloom is pretty awkward with relationship stuff so she does the “are ya winning, son?” approach to all of this. Musa appreciates that they’re all trying though, despite the various degrees of success.

Aisha doesn’t really talk to anyone about her feelings for Musa, which she realizes she has shortly after gaining her enchantix. During the first attack on Alfea in the their third year of school, when she sees her enchantix for the first time, and how sure of herself she was about doing what she could to save Galatea’s life and save all the ancient texts and tomes, she’s like “yup that pretty much confirms everything for me.”

In my version Aisha is a lesbian and she’s known for a WHILE. Anne was her first crush and she also liked some of the princesses and nobles that she would meet or see at the many fancy diplomatic meetings she would be dragged to. She’s very secure in her sexuality and romantic attraction (homophobia isn’t really a Thing in my version per se, but there are some concerns about lineage in upper circles for royalty and leaders, since not all queer couples can have children biologically and sometimes adoption is hard depending on the circumstances, ESPECIALLY if there is a form of magic that is needed to be transferred from one member of a family to the next member and it isn’t a guarantee or even possible for some magic to latch onto someone and become apart of their core if they aren’t biologically related). Aisha hadn’t mentioned it to her parents though. Her parents and her don’t have the most open relationship due to the very controlling and stifling nature of both the court her parents rule over and just their general demeanor which leads to the next issue: arranged marriage on Andros, which is something her parents still partake in, and that really makes both Musa and Aisha feel like their hearts are being grabbed and twisted. Once they tell her, she’s about to tell them but they leave soon after telling her because they have stuff to do and also they would rather speak to Aisha once she’s “calmed down some.” The next time she has time to tell them, shit with Valtor starts to hit the fan and it gets put on the backburner.

By the time Nabu shows up, it’s pretty rough. Once Aisha realizes who he is she’s mad because of course she is, this is the person she’s expecting to be with. Nabu is understanding of this, and gets it completely, especially since he originally lied about his identity. Aisha does take a breather though and they talk it out some. He wanted to see who he was arranged to marry like in the show, and Aisha says she honestly never wanted to see him, and he laughs and says that’s fair. They do end up having a “best bros” dynamic though eventually. AIsha tells him about Musa, and he says he’s so sorry about this whole thing and eventually they do meet up with their parents like in the show and they talk to them about everything finally and their parents tell them that the arranged marriage isn’t necessary in the end. It works out and Aisha and Nabu do a sickass secret handshake they made and all is well. The relationship between their kingdoms is also really strong regardless of marriage too due to their eventual life long friendship.

Aisha also eventually talks to Flora some about how she should go about asking Musa out and about whether or not she thinks it would be a good idea and Flora and Chatta (ESPECIALLY CHATTA) are doing EVERYTHING they can to not blurt out that Musa hasn’t been able to shut up about liking Aisha for over a year and a half at this point. 

Over the season their relationship continues to get stronger. 

TW: talk of e*ting disorder. Please skip this paragraph if that is triggering to you. I will have the next paragraph start with -paragraph over- so skip to that if you would like

I also have a thing in my version where Musa struggles with an e*ting disorder some just do to anxiety and insecurities and that was one of the ways those things ended up manifesting (that’s how it was for me and I’ve put a little bit of myself into each of these gals and pal (Tecna is nonbinary in my version and although they’re fine with being perceived as a woman and is cool with she/her pronouns and general slang terms like “gal,” “dude,” “bro,” etc., they still prefer overall being acknowledged as a nonbinary person by people who don’t know them very well (all pronouns are cool with them also. This stuff I just mentioned is how I am as a nonbinary person and I thought it fit Tecna too). This is why I have her looking a little thinner in my earlier sketches, since those take place in season 1 and 2. Aisha goes out of her way to help her however she can and Musa feels guilty but eventually Aisha just tells her to accept the help because she cares about her, she knows that Musa wants to get better (she started wanting to really work to stop skipping meals in the middle of season 2 and being less afraid of putting on weight. Her relationship with Riven wasn’t helping her mental state and this was around the point where she realized things probably weren’t going to get better unless she worked really hard on both herself and with setting better boundaries. Aisha was the only one to know about her skipping meals more than was healthy as it ended up coming out on one of their many late night heart to heart convos they like to have) and because it isn’t taking a toll on her mental health, and she promises to let her know if it does (Aisha also learned more about healthy boundaries during her time with the winx way to go, queen). They do meal preps together, get a healthy workout routine that doesn’t involve Musa dropping dead from exhaustion every time, and they get help pamphlets and Musa ends up seeing a counselor on campus to get some help and by the middle of season 3, things are a lot better, and while it’s still something that Musa is going to struggle with off and on during her life because that’s how this stuff tends to work, she has the tools to help herself better and she also has a really good support system and knows therapy is still an option if she needs it after her time at Alfea. The rest of the winx find out eventually too and are, of course, super supportive and proud of her.

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The main takeaway from that paragraph is that Aisha and Musa are very close and supportive of each other and that I mention Tecna is nonbinary (all pronouns acceptable, although tends to prefer they/them)

Along with that being yet another huge thing that relates to them wanting to help each other grow and become better people, they just end up realizing that if they could choose a day where they could choose anyone to spend time with for the whole time, it would be each other.

By the end of their third year at alfea/the movie (unsure which yet exactly, but it’s in that time frame) they get together and they stay together for the rest of everything:)

[aleniksimmer]

Hi, when it comes to making winx costumes, will you be doing lovix, sophix and crystal sirenix from the eighth season and enchantix from the eighth season or just these plain costumes?

Ehh...tbh I don’t know xD last season of Winx I watched has been the 4th one when it came out (2009) and still at the time I wasn’t able to watch all the episodes of the four seasons cause I had to “catch” them when they broadcasted on the local tv.

I just recently tried some quick google images search of the various transformations but they are a mess in terms of consistency (apparently nickelodeon decided it was good to change some designs along with censorship) so, since I’m lucky enough to understand the original version dub, I’ve started rewatching  the whole show from the first episode of s1 that can be found on the official yt channel. I might also dig in my childhood boxes where I have a sticker album and some articles of the authors with original sketches when the show was still pretty new.

But again I’m doing it very slowly and only when I have free time due to university (and miraculous is still my top priority in terms of sets).

So, in conclusion, first I need to watch all the seasons and then I can come up with a “plan of actions”. The only thing I know for sure is that I want to make the original Enchantix costume at some point because they are my favourite xD 

[emsartwork]

Fairy animals!!! info below

Fairy animals aren’t naturally born, they’re formed when a natural animal is exposed to large quantities of wild magic. While animals change individually, a lot of them evolve in similar and categorical ways (ex: large fluffy dogs will look similar to amarok, horse/deer types will have similar characteristics to Elas, etc). Fairy animals are characterized by bio-luminescence, a longer life span, low level magic abilities and human-esq consciousness. both fairies and witches can form bonds with them, though witches rarely use them as transformation sources. Bonded fairy animals have access to their person’s magical abilities and vice-versa. During Head mistress Mavilla’s time at Alfea fairy animals were used as a stepping stone for fairies who had earned their enchantix, earning Faunix(my name for butterflix) right after enchantix as part of the curriculum. One of Faragonda’s first act as head mistress was to establish the Alfea natural park and start collecting fairy animals from their home planets as their wild magic mutations could cause harmful imbalances to themselves, other animals, and their environment. 

Flitter: Techuirrel’s are caused by zenith squirriels/chip monks etc. interacting with zeniths core. Zenith’s early stage as a planet was very unstable, the core regularly had to discharge extra magical energy, which is why the techuirrels were so important. Flitter can’t actually fly, but can generate small lifts of hot air to glide on and electrical “jumps” from metal to metal. He can also repair small objects using electricity and his claws as a soldering tool. Flitter is female in my version (the english dub has a dude voice and he/him pronouns but the Italian version is a lady squirrel apparently) 

Shiny: Shinygreeds are a common result of large birds(not birds of prey, peacock, turkey, and chicken types) with wildmagic. The neck and tail feathers are frequently elongated after exposure, with a bright color coming in around the neck. Shinygreeds are attracted to shiny objects and often eat metal and jewels, they produce light or flame and have some healing magic. My version of Shiny is male, because in bird species the male is usually brighter and more colorful than the female so it seemed to fit.  

Critty: Quillcats natural animal source are small wildcats (the socttish wildcat, caracals, and bobcat types), their markings and fur length can vary but quills or barbs are common. The quills are actually poisonous and result in localized numbness in large creatures and paralysis in smaller animals. Petting a Quillcat is semi dangerous, but as long as you go in the right direction and don’t piss the cat off you should be fine. probably. Critty is female, and doesn’t let any one besides Musa touch her. Once Riven returns she likes to mess with him though. 

Squonk: Cry-crys originate from frogs and salamander type animals. toads result in a similar looking animal but with no water affiliation. They are almost always cool colors, but their tail length and fin shape can vary. Cry-crys are naturally shy and sensitive, they have a natural camouflage technique where they can dissolve their body into tears(not actually, its more like a slime and its very durable), but they can also store water in their fins and shoot it out. Squonk is male, he’s easily startled by the other fairy animals, but does get along with aisha’s pixie piff. 

Elas: base animals are deer and horse type animals. Elas actually a Qilin, but qilin and unicorns are kind of on a spectrum, and elas is like in the middle of it. if the fairy animal is more horse like, has one smooth horn, deals with poison magic, and is highly aggressive with any one they don’t know, its on the unicorn side. If the fairy animal is more deer like, has scales, has two branched horns, deals with fire magic, and is docile its on the qilin side. 

Amarok: Magiwolves are one of the few fairy animal species that don’t have to be relocated to alfea natural park as they fit perfectly into the Lynphean ecosystem. They can hunt alone, but tend to form small packs of 3 to 5 wolves. magiwolves are typically non-violent towards humans, and will even protect lost children or injured people in the forest. They stem from large dog types animals (wolves, coyotes, dingos etc) and gain a mane and flowy tail, usually with an extra color from their environment. Magiwolves have low levels of magic for a fairy animal, but have magically enhanced stamina, strength, and senses.  

Here are the size comparisons with the girls!!

also bonus sketch of squonk i thought was cute

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