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Some deskmat each of them were super fun to work on

Awakening Grimma Fight

Ninian and Eliwood

Delicious in Dungeon

Transformers- Megatron

The way you answer the hunter question implies to me that the families/guilds passing down knowledge are also on that "only partially human" train. Does that mean they're generally like, descendants (however potentially distant) of supernatural beings? Or are they like...equivalent to neanderthals in the sense that we are *related*/in the same...category, kinda, but have traits & abilities that allowed them to survive and blend better than said neanderthals in history?

I like this answer, it always makes more sense to me for the magical community to be suspicious of the ignorance & assume there is more knowledge than they actually have. The whole "yeah we're a secret society bc no one can find us, no we're not examining that assertion" can tick me off sometimes. BUT ALSO YES, MAGICAL BEAUROCRACY. I am way more excited about the potential drama of "yeah I saved the boys now I gotta go to court about it" now 🤣

Ooo yes okay I was curious whether mortal instruments was on the inspo list, I only read the first book but I was getting very minorly recognizable vibes to relate to & worried I was just superimposing it where it didn't belong. I'm not familiar with The Magicians, but that part reminds me of some pieces of Dresden Files I've read, and also may I reiterate I LOVE the idea of complicated messy politcal and TRACKED magic, ehehe.

ALSO love the honmoon info, it sorta ties into how, if you're using the movie lore too, the "original" hunters who put it up must have had some kind of supernatural help, surely, if they were mostly or entirely human? so it makes sense that magic in line with it's purpose, i.e. stabilizing and protecting the realm from demonic corruption & doing things with some sense of logic or progression like contracts & oaths would help to strengthen a web that's already pulling from the area around you. & if you're doing a great big soul-grabbing scheme like Your Idol, the honmoon will be unhappy & tear apart from the energy...

Loving all this ahh. I am torn between showing u my whole conspiracy board and sticking to talking around the most story-related questions bc ~the reveal~ will be so satisfying. This is ur fault I hope you realize, your writing is too juicy I have to Savor...and reread. Again. <3

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🪐 ANON. I am grinning like an idiot at this whole thing.

First of all, yes, settle in with your coffee and conspiracy board — this is the kind of delicious overthinking I live for. Let me unpack some of this for you in bits because hooooo we are aligned on SO much, and you’re pulling on all the right strings (some of which might actually connect, some are red herrings that’ll hurt later, but that’s half the fun, right? 😈)

Hunters & Supernatural Lineage

Yes. Yes yes yes. You clocked that implication hard — hunters are not fully human in the modern sense. Think: diluted bloodlines from older, more magical times. The comparison to Neanderthals is brilliant — it’s not that they’re part-fae or demon necessarily (though some are, secretly), but they’re descended from lineages where humanity and magic coexisted more openly. There were deals, pacts, crossbreeds, and even just long exposure that changed people’s physiology over generations.

Now? It’s mostly faded, dormant genes—except when awakened. Hunters are the ones who carry those dormant traits forward in their bones, passed down through blood or oaths. And that blood remembers.

Magical Bureaucracy / Paperwork

Absolutely screaming. YES. YES TO COURTROOM DRAMA OVER SOUL CONTRACTS. YES TO MISFILED HEXES. YES TO ARGUMENTS OVER WHETHER A HOUSE BLESSING IS “TO CODE.”

Areum did file magical protection papers (standard blessings, location locks, emotional stabilizers for trauma recovery, etc), but because she went through a public-facing, neutral node, it’s visible on magical records that she used protections. That’s risky if the wrong hunter guild gets nosy. But she doesn’t care. She’s earned her peace.

Also: there will be a moment in the main storyline where someone gets hit with a curse and the only way to break it legally is... a long-forgotten contract clause that forces someone else to owe the bureaucracy a favor. You will see magical small claims court. It will be absurd.

Honmoon + Movie Lore + Oath Magic

YES AGAIN. The Honmoon, in this AU, is not just a barrier — it’s an evolving construct maintained by intent, memory, and accumulated oaths/sacrifice. So singing out of joy, love, or harmony stabilizes it.

Negative energy? Guilt-tripping, manipulation, demonic soul-rending concert schemes? Tears it apart from the inside. That’s why the “Your Idol” performance is dangerous — not just because of Baby’s hellfire, but because the intent is off.

And you’re dead on: the original Honmoon was built through collaboration. No way humans did that alone. That’s another mystery you’ll see cracked open slowly — there are signs in the old hunter texts of a sixth signature on the original barrier. But only five names were recorded…

Inspirations

Yes to Mortal Instruments light vibes — not canon world mechanics, but definitely that vibe of “ancient organizations protecting humans from a hidden world, except they’re messy as hell.”

The Magicians influence is more like, “Okay, what if magic worked like a science that was equally powerful and horrifying when misunderstood.” Also tracking spells?? Emotional casting?? Legal precedent?? YEP.

And you're right to mention Dresden Files too, especially with the layered secrecy and territory control.