#castor.

Meet VIDIA OMA. They are SEVENTY ONE years old and hail from OAHU, HI. Vidia embodies the star, CASTOR. They use she/her pronouns. Their faceclaim is JANEL PARRISH.

Castor reminds me of "green with”, a child’s desperate wish, complete silence, I want what I deserve, transformation magic, fate steps in and sees it through, the thick smell of incense, quiet contemplation, it’s finally my turn.

BIOGRAPHY

The Granters live cliffside in Hawaii, nearby the Mauna Loa volcano. Their retreat center is peaceful, humble, but beautiful. When Vidia was ten years old and received her star mark, she was dropped off on the doorstep of the Granter Sanctuary. She was stripped of all her possessions, her belongings, and her powers. While inside the training part of the sanctuary, the Granters must give up their magical powers for a total of ten years to become truly humble before they are granted their magic back. She doesn’t remember her life before the Granters, doesn’t remember her parents, and doesn’t know if she has a family who loves her.

When Vidia entered the training session of the Sanctuary, it was only to determine whether or not she would be able to mentally withstand the loss of everything-- food, other than bread and water, magic, pleasure, anything. She had to become completely numb and unbiased in order to grant wishes from an objective point of view. Vidia, at first, drank the Kool Aid, so to speak. She was wholly convinced that at the end of the day, she would be granted her powers back and then some. She wanted to grant everyone’s wishes and make everyone else happy. Everyone but herself.

Vidia didn’t think she needed much, after all. The Granters took vows of silence for the training periods, so the fact that she was able to converse with her fellow Wish-Granters was a gift. After ten years of not using her voice, the gift of conversation was something she never took for granted ever again. Hearing people’s opinions? Incredible. But what Vidia loved to hear most were wishes.

Sometimes they’d come in a whisper in the middle of the night when she couldn’t sleep, the tell-tale twinkling of a wind chime before she heard a precious mortal child’s voice, asking for a pony or for a best friend or for ten million puppies. Sometimes, Vidia had some kind of choice in the matter, sometimes she didn’t. Wishes are opportunities, she’d been told. You can’t just give everyone what they want all the time. But you can give them the chance to take what they want. So if a child wished for ten million puppies, she’d create a spell that would make a stray come across their path. A pony? Bring a traveling circus into town. A best friend? Magically have a new child move into that school.

The best part of the Granters Academy was the Crystalline, a basin that served as special portal in which you could see the effects of your wishes. Vidia loved going to see the Crystalline, and every time she would see the face on a wish she’d granted, she would feel more and more exhausted but couldn’t understand why. It felt good to help others, and Vidia didn’t need anything for herself. The more wishes she granted, the more tired she became, and it started reflecting in things such as her appearance, her personality, and her magic. Her hair became brittle and broke at the strands, she would grow irritated with conversation, her wishes wouldn’t be as creative or as kindhearted. She grew bored with the job.

She wasn’t supposed to go into the Grand Caster’s office for her weekly check-in until the Grand Caster was present, but she did. She wasn’t supposed to see the Grand Caster taking the Crystalline and drinking from its depths like a woman who was dying of thirst. She wasn’t supposed to see the Grand Caster’s hair suddenly grow long and dark, her wrinkled skin suddenly appear smooth, and her thin lips become full and plum again. But she did. And it changed everything.

Her entire world of benevolence, of selflessness, of doing kind acts for others was all for naught. While she was giving away her life force to grant wishes, the Grand Caster was using the energy bestowed in the Crystalline to keep herself young and beautiful. Vidia was wasting away for nothing, for someone else. Now, normally, Vidia would have been okay with this. She’d been taught to be selfless, taught to be humble and kind, taught to give up everything for someone else. But in this case, Vidia didn’t like anything. She didn’t like that she was being used. She didn’t like that she was being tapped without her consent. And she really didn’t like the fact that the Grand Caster was taking their magic for her personal gain, instead of for everyone’s personal game.

So Vidia didn’t end up going to that weekly check-in. She ran away and used a glamour to hide her appearance, taking refuge in an inn where she met someone whose magic was meant to help her. Someone who showed her that her beauty was meant to be extolled for the world to worship. Someone who showed her that life shouldn’t be about caring for others, it should be about caring for yourself.

Vidia and her companion found their way to Polaris, where she has fully transformed from her kind and humble self to someone who knows what she wants and takes it, no matter the cost. Her magic is limited in the sense that she cannot conjure things for herself, only for others. And she hates that. She hates that her entire life has been about others, looking out for others, and nobody is looking out for her.

So now, she does what she wants. She works a job at The Phoenix Feather and uses the money she earns to pay for things that she wants. She is a confessed materialist. She goes out for fancy dinners, to taste food she’s never had before. She decides that even though she wants things, having them is something a little different.

And there are still things that she wants, which she cannot have.

But she’ll get them.

Don’t worry.

INCLINATION

Castor appears to be one of the brightest stars in our galaxy, but is actually comprised of six individual stars. Castor aptly sponsors those who are gifted in magic, but Castor’s primary inclination lies in wish fulfillment. If a mortal wishes on a star in the sky, Castor is one of the first to hear and the first to attempt to grant the wish if it is in their ability to do so. Otherwise, they must consult with a witch who specializes in that sort of magic in order to get the wish fulfilled.

CONNECTIONS

Filling one of the roles of Duyen Huynh’s Seven Devils (Envy)

I Want You to Want Me: Vidia is now used to getting what she wants, when she wants it, except for when it comes to this person. For whatever reason, this person absolutely avoids her advances and isn’t falling at her feet, and Vidia absolutely hates it.

Thief in the Night: This is the person Vidia found in the inn who showed her what life could be. Vidia’s magic is pretty restrictive, it doesn’t work on herself and therefore she can only perform magic for others. This person tends to do Vidia’s dirty work for her, whether it’s a glamour spell, a potion, or anything else Vidia needs. She can pay them off with sex or she could have some kind of blackmail on them, whatever’s more fun.

Mutual Trauma: Another Granter, who knew Vidia before but doesn’t know Vidia after. This Granter also got out of the convent and has come to Polaris to learn magic the proper way.

This is because the siblings have different fathers. Leda, who is an NPC, was cast as Filipino. Her children, namely Helen ( fathered by Zeus ) and the half-siblings Clytemnestra, Castor & Pollux ( supposedly fathered by Tyndareus, but rumored otherwise ) are at least 1/2 filipino. The parentage of the “mortal” princes is subject of much debate, and will have quite a significant relevance plot-wise. This being said, we only suggested fcs that respect the 1/2 filipino rule, as this is the only lineage they have in common. Hope this answers your concerns !