🧙♀️✨️🕯(for the Halloween ask meme)
Oh, sweet! Thank you, Artie!
🧙♀️- Which fictional witch do to relate to?
Not to be topical and trendy right now, but Elphaba from Wicked! Down to some core themes of my life. It's one of my very favorite books.
Some of the traits I originally related to her with when I first read the novel as a teenager have shifted a bit as I grew older, but back then I was also ostracized, prickly, devoted, justice-seeking, and bookish. Even down to wearing simple black clothes, shapeless and covered.
I certainly felt like I was of two worlds and I didn't really belong in this one. And I often had negative traits assigned to me by people who didn't care to get to know me, let alone rationalize or defend me. I got in trouble for a lot of things I didn't do as a child/teenager, both in school and at home. I was snarky and analytical and I have always stood up for the underdog, and rebelled against power being wielded to harm them. Even rejecting the religion I was raised with and having spent time doing "missionary" work (I've volunteered at soup kitchens and library programs for years).
There is just so much of my life's themes in her story, and it affects me on a very personal level, the way her story goes. It could move me to tears every time.
The musical is nice too, of course, and Defying Gravity gets me every time, because there are some lines in that song that are STRAIGHT out of my life! But the book, as usual, had me feeling closer to the character.
+ Arguably also Raven, although I'm pretty sure Vic's the only one who calls her a witch and that's only in the New Teen Titans comics. Not even the narration ever called her a witch, specifically!
(Well, there WAS that one line from Terra in the '03 cartoon calling her "Witch" too, but I've amused myself into headcanoning that she actually said "bitch" and they had to censor it for the kiddie show.)
✨- Hocus Pocus or Halloweentown?
You know what? I actually don't know those movies. They're kids movies, right? I think Hocus Pocus is a Disney one, maybe? I've probably "seen" them, at least in the sense that they were playing on the tv while I happened to be in the same room engaged in other activities (reading most likely, or maybe conversing). But I'm not much of a movie person, and I generally prefer my Halloween movies with a lot more horror. That was the case even when I was in the age demographic those movies are aimed at!
