#time witch: ic

[mykatzone]

Getting out of bed at midnight to hop on a Twitter trend/meme don't mind me!

[drawlody]

The failure of the Golb summoning ritual

Page 1-4 for my BETTY DONKED UP AU :D

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School is whooping my ass rn but ill try to draw as fast as i can B)

The AU premise

also sea lard cause that thing apparently float through space

[relaxtimestwo]

March 7th ꕤ Witch Hat Atelier AU (part 2) ⊹₊ ⋆

Finally finished March's character sheet for this AU! ε-(´∀｀; )

For more context, I made a sheet for Dan Heng here! All this might make more sense after reading that.

More on March 7th's AU lore under the cut ⁀➷

While investigating rumors of eternal, never-melting ice forming inside a cave, Himeko finds a pink-haired young woman covered in magical seals inside one of the icy structures. She doesn't recognise the sigils, but she is certain that it is forbidden magic. Using her buzz saw contraption, Himeko carefully carves out the ice. To her surprise, the magical seals on the young woman's skin quickly fade and disappear as soon as the ice is removed. She takes the unconscious young woman back to the Express.

The young woman awakens with no memories and is completely unfamiliar with magic as a concept, which is strange since even non-witches are aware and even rely on witches and their magic. Though this could be simple amnesia, there is a possibility that she might have been a user or victim of forbidden magic. Or worse, a criminal who had been sentenced to memory erasure by the Knights Moralis.

Unable to remember anything, the young woman decides to carve out a new identity as the Astral Express's second apprentice. She names herself 'March 7th' after the day she awoke.

Despite her lack of memories, March quick to grasp the basics of magic. Catching up to Dan Heng in no time at all. She enjoys making sculptures with her special homemade spell she calls "Six-Phased Ice". Himeko has pointed out that the sigil in the spell looks identical to the ones all over March's body when she found her.

[dumbledorathexplora]

Season of the wi..zard

[redrobin-detective]

Pretty wild that Marcy loved and treasured Hambo for a thousand years because it reminded her of her beloved caretaker. She sacrificed that beloved toy as a last request to a temporarily restored Simon which resulted in Betty coming to the future. Betty's actions would go to have great impact to Ooo, including finding a way to rescue Simon from the crown.

I wonder if Marcy ever thinks about how she traded a memento of Simon for the real thing.

[nrmtenjoyer]

THIS FUCKING IMAGE??????

Maybe that's why this "theory" was around back then

[slavonicrhapsody]

Ranni and Rykard as narrative foils: an unnecessarily detailed deep dive

Ranni and Rykard both seek the same thing; the end of the Erdtree’s reign. In the past, the two collaborated on the Night of the Black Knives toward this purpose. But nowadays, the siblings’ paths are diverged, and they seem to follow completely separate agendas. Why? What happened? What drove them apart?

A main point of difference between Ranni and Rykard immediately post-Shattering is that Ranni is said to have “cast aside her Great Rune,” while Rykard kept his. Regarding the Great Runes, Finger Reader Enia says: “Tainted by the strength of their runes, [Marika’s] children warred.” The Great Runes are a source of power that corrupts, which Rykard fell prey to while Ranni removed the temptation.

As collaborators and as siblings, it is likely that they fought about this; Rykard believing that the strength of the runes is necessary to carry out their goals, and Ranni seeing the corrupting power of the runes for what it is. The resulting circumstance is, of course, Rykard’s participation in the war of the Shattering and his descent into power-hungry madness. Ranni, however, never strayed from her original goals, patiently plotting from the shadows.

Set on these diverging paths, the siblings’ actions shape them into narrative foils of each other… putting the rest under the cut because I can’t shut up:

Though both Ranni and Rykard seek to bring down the Golden Order, only one of them is ever called blasphemous. One definition of blasphemy is specifically “the crime of assuming oneself the rights or qualities of God,” and I think this is the definition that most applies to Rykard.

The Taker’s Cameo item states that, “when Rykard turned to heresy, taking by force became the rule. The gods themselves were no different, after all.” Here, we see Rykard directly imitating the behavior of the gods, though he curses them.

But not only does Rykard imitate the gods’ behavior; he also imitates Golden Order and Erdtree practices, albeit in a corrupted way. He utilizes weapons and sorcery that are both intelligence and faith-based, much like his father Radagon’s Golden Order incantations. Even the very concept of the God-Devouring Serpent can be seen as a perversion of the Erdtree… Rykard’s practice of devouring heroes to be togethaaa as famileee echoes the practice of Erdtree burial, where in both instances, a great mass of bodies is brought together to merge into one whole (the Serpent King and the Erdtree, respectively). The Serpent’s actions actually fit the Golden Order Law of Regression shockingly well: “all things yearn eternally to converge.”

The point of these comparisons is to show that Rykard isn’t actually making any meaningful change to the current world order… his plan is to essentially devour the current corrupt gods, and replace them with a new corrupt god (himself) that perpetuates the exact same practices. He and Ranni once sought to free the Lands Between from these corrupt gods, but he has become precisely what he hates most of all!

Ranni, on the other hand, does the opposite. Since the beginning of the Shattering, she has staunchly refused to engage with overt power grabs and warmongering. Instead, she has extricated herself from the system entirely, slaying her empyrean flesh and casting her Great Rune aside.

Regarding her new order, Ranni seeks to “betray everything, and rid the world of what came before,” tearing up the system from the very root. Her master plan is to completely remove the influence of the gods from the Lands Between, so rather than stay and rule as god-queen, she leaves: “As it is now, life, and souls, and order are bound tightly together, but I would have them at great remove. […] I would abandon this soil, with mine order.”

In Ranni's new age, life and souls are no longer directly tied to or influenced by the ruling order like they were during the age of the Erdtree. It makes perfect sense why Ranni would want to remove this influence, as she was born an empyrean with the Two Fingers' influence in her very flesh — one of her most crucial lines of dialogue in my opinion is when she says of the Two Fingers, “I would not be controlled by that thing.” with the most iron conviction in her voice.

In this way, Ranni is Rykard’s narrative foil: Rykard falls victim to the corrupting force of power, but Ranni resists the temptation. Rykard ends up imitating and becoming the gods which he hates, while Ranni is able to truly remove their influence. While Rykard trapped himself within a vicious cycle, Ranni was able to escape, freeing the Lands Between from the cycle as well. It's such a tragic end for two siblings who used to work together.

[mynameisvarian]

Ice(d) Simon AU

Brief explanation: Simon somehow dies at winter wonderland or something so Winter King whips up an Ice clone simon to replace the original simon and stuff happens so he makes his way to Ooo, Meets Marceline and dies again because without Winter's magic he can't survive maybe, who knows 🤷

Betty finds out about his death:

Notes: Sorry for the lack of posts, Been busy learning animation and if you noticed, I used CapCut on another device to draw these! Woo! Looks way cleaner than how I normally draw huh? :D

[druidkitty]

Just a couple of Snow Queens in their ice lair.

[electric-ecclectic]

She hasn’t committed any petty crime in a while. She’s feeling… peckish.

[lunasapphire]

I think I have figured out life - (life of tea, definitely not life on its own😂)

Make tea on a Sunday, but make enough for like a whole party, then get a ice cube tray like a big silicone one, and boom you have tea for a whole week!😅 I wanna say you could do this with both hot and iced? - just pour hot water over the ice cube of tea?

why it took me so long to get an ice tray and to figure out that I can freeze tea i dont know, but life changer for me!

[yourfaveisclasspected]

FINN THE HUMAN is a WITCH of HEART!

Requested by anonymous!

[fatestouch]

During the announcement, it was likely noticed that both Cecil and Azrael have to escort their sister away. What wasn't seen was that Morgan was silenced with magic before she could openly protest.

The Miracle Princess typically held herself as a calm, gentle lady. But even she had her limits.

"Morgan, you need to calm down."

"He's going to get away with it again," she hisses, once the spell is dropped. "Again, and again, he's going to keep doing this, the Emperor will make his fucking excuses, and he'll get away with it again--"

"No. He will not." Azrael mutters to her silently, eyes watching the still gathered crowd. He listens for a moment... and hums.

Vasyri was speaking up first... unexpected, but not unwelcome. "We are not the only ones who see through the Emperor's lies, but we must be careful. What we must be now, is patient."

[crimeronan]

This au of princess Luz au is horrifying! But in the immediate aftermath of Belos dying (I refuse to think about a different outcome), I wonder if in a certain way things actually better specifically for Amity? Like having a much deeper understanding of Luz, and obviously having fully proven to herself (and to Hunter) how much Hunter is important to her?

amity would CERTAINLY have a much better understanding of luz and conscious appreciation for hunter. i am pretty soft for the mental image of amity meeting up with hunter again and just Throwing her arms around him and hunter being like [secretly very pleased] What Are You Doing. What Is This .

similarly she'd have a much higher level of trust in luz's good intentions, at least assuming some of the worst possible things don't happen in this timeline. in the main timeline, she already has this quiet sort of understanding of luz, bc she suspects belos was abusive even if she never actually saw it. but seeing exactly what's at stake here and exactly why luz did what she did would be..... Enlightening.

luz would just need to play belos well enough to avoid any uh. grimwalker amity horror. bc belos knowing that luz """wants""" a grimwalker of amity, and luz knowing that she could ask amity to cut off one of her own fingers to keep belos from just straight-up killing her......

well. that would. suck. for everyone.

[transformedgirlspringbracket]