#legerdomain

So, it's been about over ten years since Ben 10: Alien Force aired, especially the season one episode, "What Are Little Girls Made of?", where it introduced the anodite concept for better or for worse. Anodites are free-spirited energy beings that possess a wide arrange of powerful abilities, including mana manipulation, flight, teleportation, astral projection, aura sensing, healing, and slight reality warping. Throughout UAF, they are perceived as bare humanoid figures with a purple color and light pink, aural hair, and so far, there were only female anodites shown, more specifically Verdona, Gwen Tennyson, and Sunny.

From what I can understand, many fans don't like this concept because not only does it take away everything about how Gwen learned to develop magical abilities on her own, but it also takes away the magic aspect of the series. Another thing that I understand is that UAF was heavily sci-fi and heavily alien-involved, which means that any concept that isn't entirely alien-based was either ignored or retconned into a new alien-based concept. Take, for example, the Dragon seen in the episode "Be-Knighted", where he was revealed to be an alien map maker and navigator, and that he was captured and imprisoned by the Forever Knights over 1,000 years ago. Basically, during the course of UAF, everything had to revolve around aliens, but I suppose that it had to, considering that the two series has the word "alien" in it.

Personally, I would revisit anodites as ancient, highly evolved, magical energy beings of human origin and/or various other species, and their homeworld, Anodyne, would be a terrestrial planet in the Legerdomain instead of a regular terrestrial planet. A long time ago, I found this deviation of a revised concept of an ancient anodite society, as well as another deviation of a malevolent anodite rebellion, with Verdona in the center.

And speaking of whom, I feel like revisiting Verdona into two different characters based on her traits; more on that in another post. I ought to do the same for Sunny as well. I feel like she deserves more potential. I would also like to involve the anodite concept with Charmcaster. Maybe she would seek out the anodites and coerce them to either make her powerful or she'll harness all of their energy to power herself instead; she'll most likely do the latter. And although people would like to see Gwen ultimately transform into an anodite and go wild, I feel like not making Gwen into an anodite, largely for the sake of her growing into a powerful sorceress on her own. But if she were to go anodite, maybe she would have been artificially transformed into an anodite.

Much like Charmcaster, s/o was also a resident of Legerdomain who escaped the magical dimension after Addwaitya’s takeover.

S/o’s parents sacrificed themselves while fighting Addwaitya, buying their young son enough time to flee to Earth, where he survived on his own for many years until the now 15 year old boy ran into Hex and his niece Charmcaster.

“I sense a lot of magic in you boy. Who are you?”

Hex asks him with a stern yet curious voice as Charmcaster stares at s/o silently with a hint of a blush on her face.

“Hmm…he’s kinda cute.”

She thinks to herself before s/o answers her uncle’s question.

“M-my name is s/o.”

“S/o?! Could you be the child of (Mother’s Name) and (Father’s Name)?!”

When s/o nods, Hex realizes that the teenager is a fellow survivor of Legerdomain, having known his parents before Addwaitya’s conquest of their home.

Hex proceeds to tell s/o that he and his niece are also from Legerdomain and asks if he would like to join them, which the young magic user happily says yes to, much to Charmcaster’s hidden glee.

Since joining up with Hex and Charmcaster, s/o had gotten extremely close to the white haired witch, eventually leading to the two developing feelings for one another.

As time passed, s/o became fed up with the way Hex treated him and his own niece, so he tries convincing Charmcaster to get away from her uncle.

“Why do you let him treat you so badly Charmcaster? All he does is berate and threaten you.”

“H-he’s the only family I have left s/o. Plus I’m afraid what he’d do to if I stood up to him.”

She tells him while looking down sadly.

“Hex may be a master magician, but you and I have magic too, and we can stand up to him together if we combine our power.”

“Why do you care about my well being so much s/o?”

Charmcaster asks him with a hint of hostility in her voice as s/o sighs and decides that now’s the time to confess.

“Because you’re important to me. I love you Charmcaster.”

He tells her honestly, making her blush profusely because looking at him warmly.

“….Hope.”

She says to him, much to his confusion.

“What?”

“That’s my real name. Where we come from, names have power, and I feel comfortable telling you mine because….I love you too s/o.”

She kisses him, which he sinks into as the two enter a long lasting relationship.

True to s/o’s word, he and Hope confront Hex, much to the skull-faced sorcerer’s fury.

“Charmcaster! You dare turn on your uncle?! Your own flesh and blood?!”

“I’m done with your harsh words and threats uncle! S/o and I are through following you!”

Hex turns his attention to s/o and glares at him.

“You turned my niece against me. For that, both of you shall face the consequences!”

The three proceed to fight, with Charmcaster and s/o overpowering Hex and leave him to his own devices as they begin doing their own thing together.

As a couple, s/o and Hope are quite the force to be reckoned with and are constantly found going up against the Tennyson family.

While Hope has formed a rivalry with Gwen, s/o quickly becoming enemies with Ben, whom he enjoys fighting no matter what alien form the 10 year old wielder of the Omnitrix takes.

“That freaky watch of yours is no match for my magic Tennyson!”

“Heh, whatever you say s/o. I’m gonna enjoy kicking your butt!”

Despite being a pair of powerful magic users, s/o and Charmcaster often have their plans foiled by the Tennyson family, much to their annoyance.

“Ugh, that boy got the best of me again! A sorcerer like me constantly getting defeated by a child! Laughable!”

“Calm down s/o, I know how you feel, but we’ll get them next time.”

Hope gives her boyfriend a small smile, causing him to relax a little as the two escape from the scene before the authorities arrive to arrest them.

On the rare occasion one of them does get taken into custody, the other will waste no time in breaking them out.

“Took you long enough s/o. If I had to spend one more night here I was gonna lose it.”

“Sorry for the wait Hope, but it took longer to find you than expected.”

“It’s fine, let’s just get out of here already.”

S/o nods and hands his girlfriend her spellbook and magic bag as she kisses his cheek before they proceed to break out of the prison.

While they are technically dangerous criminals, s/o and his girlfriend do try to live a somewhat normal life by going out on dates like other teenagers do.

“This is honestly really nice. I enjoy spending time with you Hope.”

S/o tells her as the two snuggle on a park bench together.

“Me too s/o.”

While her boyfriend isn’t the jealous type, Hope very much is.

If a girl would approach s/o and talk to him, Charmcaster will not hesitate to scare the girl away by any means necessary.

“Was that really necessary Hope? You and I are trying not to garner unwanted attention remember?”

He asks her after she summoned a couple rock monsters from her bag, causing two girls he was talking with to run away absolutely terrified.

“Well excuse me if I don’t enjoyed seeing my boyfriend being flirted with!”

She scoffs at him as he shakes his head and kisses her cheek.

“They weren’t flirting with me babe, they just wanted directions. Besides, you know you’re the only girl for me. No need to be jealous.”

“I was not jealous.”

The sorceress pouts as her boyfriend chuckles.

“Sure, whatever you say Hope.”

He chuckles and hugs his girlfriend affectionately, making her blush as the two continue on with the date they were having.

Throughout the years of them being together, Charmcaster has a tendency to let her lust for power get the better of her, to which s/o always tries to save her from, sometimes with the help of their former enemies : The Tennysons.

“Babe, don’t let the power of the Alpha Rune control you! You’re better than that! Please, come back to your senses!”

He pleads, hoping to get through to his girlfriend.

Even if he gets hurt in the process, s/o will do whatever he can to help the woman he loves.

Should she ever badly hurt s/o during a power trip, a severe sense of guilt overtakes Hope once she returns to normal.

“N-no…what have I done?!”

She’ll immediately use any form of healing spell on s/o to make sure he’ll be alright.

“I-I’m so sorry s/o!”

Tears run down her face as s/o wipes them away and smiles at her weakly.

“Don’t be. No matter what you do, I’ll always forgive you Hope. I love you.”

She embraces him tightly, but despite her boyfriend’s words, Hope can never fully forgive herself for hurting the person she loves, despite his constant reassurance.

Charmcaster always had a strong desire to return to Legerdomain and reclaim it from Addwaitya, which she has done several times with temporary success even with her boyfriend’s support, but after years of constantly improving their magic, she and s/o face Addwaiya once again in the hopes of finally avenging their parents.

“Ah, the daughter of Spellbinder and the son of (Parents’ Names) challenge me once again I see. You two are persistent, but this time you will meet the same fate as all others who stand in my way.”

The magic turtle-like alien says to the two.

“You’re wrong Addwaiya, it’s you who will die today! You’ll pay for all the innocent lives of my people you’ve taken, including my father!”

Charmcaster exclaims angrily as s/o stands beside her.

“And my parents! Your rule over Legerdomain ends now! Ready babe?”

Hope nods at her boyfriend as they proceed to engage Addwaitya in magic combat.

After a long and arduous battle, the magical couple use all the power they can muster to wipe Addwaitya from existence, thus saving Legerdomain from the tyrant permanently.

Once Addwaitya is gone forever, Charmcaster and s/o collapse onto the ground in complete and utter exhaustion.

“We…finally did it Hope.”

S/o says to his girlfriend while breathing heavily.

“Yeah…I almost…can’t believe it. Thanks for fighting by my side babe.”

She smiles at him, which he returns.

“Of course. I love you Hope.”

“I love you too s/o.”

Gwendolyn and Charmcaster still keep in touch!

The voices of 5YL Gwendolyn (Julisa Lopez) and Charmcaster (Sam Slade) recently met up, which inspired this art.

But I come with this post with an idea, one based in the original series and also inspired by what Kai does in Omniverse much later in the show’s continuity. What if the Ghostfreak arc of Ben 10 was not based entirely on alien monsters?