#thats not quite true. there are a few other elder witches that could pose a threat to her if she decided to go rogue. theyre all friends too

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Witchverse is so weird and its hard bc i dont want to completely rewrite a bunch of history, but then i have to sit there and come up with a believable good reason that Birdie didnt step in and prevent any of the atrocities that happened since humans first migrated to the americas and its like. Hmmmm

#toy txt post #birdiebossasswitch #ocs #witchverse #this is just one aspect of difficulty on multiple levels. #like the best i can come up with reason wise rn is like. witches arent allowed to meddle in human affairs with magic. #so like they can participate in their community and shit and do things to prevent these horrors without magic. but they cant use magic to #participate in a human war. #which feels a bit hollow? i made Birdie way too powerful and now she also cant use that power to singlehandedly fix things bc ethics #thats not quite true. there are a few other elder witches that could pose a threat to her if she decided to go rogue. theyre all friends too #so nobody wants to ruin it. also i dont know what the consequence is for violating that rule. i know its some level of banishment and #ostracism. but like how do u prevent just a bunch of shitty witches from going rogue anyway and saying fuck the council? #is it fear? fear of the council hunting u down in earnest and since uve been banished from the council no one will protect u from them? #like zoinks idk abt that. i want the witch council to have SOME problems but not like..that #the rule is meant to exist as a sort of. 'everyone thinks They Are Right. on every side. even if its wrong. so we have to outlaw it for #everyone so no one can accuse us of hypocrisy'? or smth. #idk its just really rough and troubling. to look back at history and see how much fucked up shit theyd have to live through and not #let them go feral and stop it. they do do little things obviously. human things. #idk i just dont feel like ive nerfed them enough and like. i dont want to nerf them. but. i want a better reason that Birdie doesnt #singlehandedly go apeshit on European colonists. so far for that specific one i think #she happened to be going through A Depression(tm) at that period of time so when they showed up. in California. #Pan (who is not as earthshatteringly powerful as Birdie) was like 'oh MEGA bad vibes' and she grabbed Birdie and they steal a spanish ship #and kill the crew and Birdie puppets their corpses to sail the ship and sometimes probably catch fish for food maybe? they were in a hurry #and didnt exactly prepare for a long trip #but basically the point is that they Leave. theyre traveling and exploring (which also helps to get Birdie out of that depression funk) #probably visiting islands and ppl and eventually landing in asia and meandering from there for many many years until they get back to Cali #which even then. idk there's So Much. and then unfortunately im really attached to Victorian Birdie #and ive come up with. she hates victorians BUT she loves the dresses so much. and the house. which is why she still wears them. #fucks sake. i keep running out of tags god Dammit #why do i do this to myself. i insist on talking in the tags everytime and then i run out of space and then im like oh ill reblog it with