#everaftermagic

Valentine's Day with the Rookwood Gang 💗

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Oh, well, it can mean different things depending on the witch, but for me a five layered circle is five layers of different magical set-ups all working together. For the spell I did I had five objects representing the elements circling the outside of the layer, followed by three objects representing the gods in my pantheon. It went like that until I had five layers that were all working together to accomplish what I wanted. 

Woo, aha, this is going to be an interesting answer... Hm... Al, wanna help me out here? “Nah, I’ll let you get his one.” ...Thanks ever so, dear. “Of course, darling.”

Alright, so! ...I have no fucking clue how to get a familiar. Mine’s a spirit as well, and he’s on another dimension parallel to our own. One we can’t /see/, but one we can sometimes hear. I can...sort of ‘hear’ him in my head, but not really a voice, so much as a thought. It took a while to figure out what was /my/ thoughts, and what was /his/ words. “She got it in the end, though. And I do sometimes slip and have an accent.” And adorable irish one~ “Mhm.”

Right, so. He’s been there for a while, but it took a long time for me to realize who and what he was. And...I don’t know how he became my familiar, he just sort of...did. “And then boyfriend.” Woo, wow, that’s a whole OTHER story I won’t be getting into anytime soon. But, yes. It was more that I slowly became aware of him over a long period of time, years, actually, before I realized what he was.

Keep in mind my magic is a fair bit stronger than when I was that age, so it took a while for my magic and him to kind of...sync up. “You’d probably be better off asking people who aren’t us. We’re kinda shit at explaining this.” Yeaaah. He’s more like...a tulpa, I guess? Thoughtform? “Spirit tulpa who was /something/ before meeting her, but became so much more after.” Aw... “You are weak.” I AM WEAK!

Mm...it’s sort of hard to explain, and I’m betting everyone with a familiar will tell you the same - or at least how it’s different for each person. For myself, my familiar is a spirit named Alvarro, a humanoid shapeshifter who can change into a golden wolf.

I don’t know how to explain fully, but I’ve been hearing and interacting with him in his spirit form for quite a few years, and realized one day that he /was/ my familiar. A helper and holder of my magic, someone who could calm me with my attacks, and keep a key for the magic I locked away so as to not harm myself.