#alfea

I had soooooo much fun painting the boots and the outfit!!! I really like this piece, it's so glittery and fun :) tell me, who should I draw next?? I was thinking about musa maybe...

~also, slightly unrelated, I'm rewatching my little pony from the beginning and I got some tinkerbell books, so you may expect art of them in the near future :) I might even do crossovers?? like mlp characters as winx fairies or something!!

ok I'm rambling too much I'm sorry

✨ BACK TO THE ART ✨

Bloom’s dragon fire consumes her from the inside, leaving lightning-like tissues of scars along her limbs - be careful, rumbles the Great Dragon from within, don’t let your emotions consume you. Bloom wails from the pain and clutches whoever is in the vicinity - but cannot fully stop it. just prevent it or treat the aftermath.

Musa gets migraines. Stella becomes ill when she doesn’t get her daily dose of sunshine. Aisha’s senses get muddy sometimes, almost as if she’s submerged underwater. Nabu experiences uncontrollable tremors in his arms, when he creates too many of his phantoms. all of those are - yes, horrible to experience but manageable enough for the school (and the Magic community at large) to tell them to just suck it up and weather through.

once you get your enchantix though, you start developing… unique abilities. almost like, in achieving the final fairy form, you became one with your brand of magic.

Bloom starts producing smoke. Like - she snorts at something funny Riven or Sky say, and literal puffs of smoke emerge from her nose. It’s jarring at first (“Bloom Peters, when did you start smoking? do you know that it kills??”) but quickly becomes endearing once they realise it’s not life-threatening in any way (after speed-running through like fifteen Magix apothecaries). Among her other ‘oddities’: too hot to cuddle with (only Stella can stand the high temperature, since she has a resistance to heat), becomes strangely overprotective and a little possessive, her eyes sometimes become a startling orange hue as if she’s embodied by the great dragon himself (it’s just a party trick).

Stella becomes more ethereal. In certain lights, her skin looks translucent - like a mirage weaved with moonlight. Her hair glints in the sun, almost too bright to like at; her touch feels phantom-like. She becomes even more beautiful, but less - human, earth-bound, Stella-esque. A curse and a blessing, that one.

Musa’s hearing gets really fucking good. She has a steadily growing dossier of blackmail on every student in Alfea - simply because shut doors or longer distances are no longer obstacles for her. It’s annoying too, because she can’t exactly turn it off - and now she gets to hear all the things people say about her, behind her. but here’s a consolation - she can influence other creature’s emotions through the melodies she hums! like how in canon, she pacified the bird Roc and brought mirth to the arguing fairies.

Flora gets much sturdier. Her skin harder than bark; her body able to withstand thirst and hunger for much longer than the rest. It’s honestly so intimidating. Here’s this sweet young woman — known to cry for trampled flowers and cut weeds!! — absolutely bodying a sharp ass ice shard that Icy attacked her with. It just — crumbles upon colliding with Flora’s body. insane and frankly so so hot for others to see.

As per the negatives… I like the idea of Flora being able to connect to the memories of nature around her and literally absorb the pain/fear/anguish of whatever she witnessed.

Aisha and Bloom are similar, in a sense that both of them are vessels to primordial divinities of their universe — Bloom is the holder of the Dragon Flame, and Aisha is the child of the Infinite Ocean. therefore, both experience a more extreme transformation than their girl friends. like, Aisha’s dreams are infiltrated by visions of past and future; memories of those who were lost to the Ocean. she dreams of Politea, of Tritanus, of her mer cousins and ancestors, and even those who were not yet born. if Aisha was not so mentally wilful, she might’ve folded under the weight of those prophesies.

Aisha can also breathe under water and her body gets the musculature it needs to be on par with her mer cousins while swimming, because why the fuck not?

Suddenly, Cloud Tower is a thing of the past, and while Red Fountain is still standing, you'll often find Specialists in Alfea either way because of a series of special courses?

Okay, leaving aside how unnecessary that is because Saladin, you know, Red Fountain's headmaster, is a wizard himself so it would have made more sense if his own school offered magic courses, by focusing most of the action in Alfea, they're robbing the story of so much!

Where's the world-building? Where's the chance to explore the other schools and all the missions taking place outside of Alfea? Where's the different aesthetics that make the world so vast and rich? Because the three schools were super important, especially during the first three seasons. Cloud Tower in particular was a huge plot-relevant setting countless times!

-The Winx went there to retrieve Stella's ring.

-Bloom and Sky returned to learn more about her past and got tricked, kick-starting their distance that would result in Bloom fighting Diaspro and learning the truth.

-The girls had to attend classes for a while in an effort to protect its part of the Codex.

-Valtor brainwashed the witches and turned the school into his headquarters...

And so on, and so forth.

Naturally, with the new direction the show is taking, we can bid all that goodbye. As well as all the plot-points taking place in Red Fountain.

And now you're telling me the Trix are attending Alfea alongside the rest of the witches because their school is no more???? That's just plot convenience and Rainbow refusing to use the money their blatant AI saved them on creating more backgrounds. How many times did the witches had to rebuild their school in the original, yet they always returned because it was their home?

And then there's Red Fountain!

I haven't watched the reboot and I most likely won't, but something tells me the Specialists' school is barely featured (if at all), and it certainly doesn't show the guys' rooms, or the arena, or the dragons... I'd be surprised if a single one of their teachers actually made a comeback.

And don't get me started on Red Fountain's re-opening in season 2! That was epic!

They really took all the fun out of the school setting just because they were too lazy to render more buildings in CGI...

Keep in mind, this is a work in progress!

SMUT REQUESTS ARE OPEN FOR WINX!

Winx Rewrite links:

Book 1 (Pre-season): The fall of the last drop of the dragon's blood

CHARACTER PROFILES:

Our Girls:

Stella Sunbright

Bloom Firestorm

Flora

Musa Utashima

Layla/Aisha Asherah

Tecna

Our boys:

Brandon Arkwright

Sky Valencia

Riven Burvis

Timmy Suutre

Helia

Nabu

The villains:

Icelene Montclair (Icy)

Darcy

Stormy

Lord Darkar

Valtor

Belladonna (Icy's ancestor)

Liliss (Darcy's ancestor)

Tharma (Stormy's ancestor)

Other important characters:

Diaspro Zaphyra

Varanda Aetherdance

Allette Alvar

Calyphra

Orianna Asimora

Catelyn Jane

Sableye Winters

Alfea's staff:

Headmistress Faragonda

Professor Griselda

Professor Palladium

Professor Wizgiz

Professor DuFour

Professor Thalassa

Professor Zaheer

Professor Aquenne

Professor Akhom

Professor Agnes

Red Fountain's staff:

Headmaster Saladin

Professor Codatorta

Professor Saul Silva

Professor Ikram

Professor Bellona

Professor Caligula

Professor Sylvana

Professor Boman

Professor Raymond

Professor Raziel

Cloud Tower's Staff:

Headmistress Griffin

Professor Zarathustra

Professor Eldiltrude

Professor Rhiannon

Professor Ambrosia

Professor Hecate

Professor Larissa

Professor Melantha

Professor Morpheus

Stella's family:

Family tree

Radius Sunbright

Luna Starborn

Elliana Firestorm

Caius Sunbright

Ácrux Sunbright

Umbra Nightstar

Orion Sunbright

Seraphina Sunbright

Sabina Sunbright

Kael Sunbright

Brandon's family:

Family tree

Nicholas Arkwright

Lilian Arkwright

Mason Arkwright

Kendra Arkwright

Matilda Arkwright

Kaia Arkwright

Theo Arkwright

Sky's family:

Family tree

Dorian Valencia

Erendor Valencia

Samara Valencia

Timmy's family:

Family tree

Timmy's dad (soon to be named)

Timmy's mom (soon to be named)

Willa Suutre (Timmy's older sister)

Riven's family:

Family tree

Riven's older sister (soon to be named)

Renata Burvis

Layla/Aisha's family:

Family tree

Teredor Asherah

Niobe Asherah

Maverick Asherah (Crown Prince of Andros, Layla's older brother)

Layla's twin younger brothers (soon to be named)

Planets:

Solaria

Selenia

Magix

Domino

Andros

Eraklyon

Linphea

Melody

Zenith

Isis (name may be changed)

Harmonic Nebula

Niphalia

Cedaro

Dovera

Prompt 3: Alfea Grounds