#weirdghst

i like both- personally, i think gwens magic being pink while the rest of her aesthetic is blue contrasts really well and is pleasing to look at. but i can still appreciate the os where her magic is blue

so for fun- a combo- a cotton candy anodite if you will

Magics doesn’t actually have a lot of holidays and those that they do observe all center around their creation myth and core faith.

THE big one that happens every year is their Creation Day celebration, commemorating the creation of their planet from a lifeless asteroid by h’Agia, mother of all nymphs. It is a two day celebration that coincides with the start of the year for this very reason. Everything is shut down for those days and there are only the festivities run by volunteers. 

Other than that they have a cosmic event turned into holidays that returns every six years once the planet is in position again to delight in the glittering shower of meteros passing by daylight as a distant nebula obscures their sun briefly.

Because these are a staggeringly few cultural days, off the Magics Council also just made the executive decision to allow each month to have one three day long weekend to promote rest and recuperation of the working people. 

So all in all Magics has 14 (+1 every six years) national bank holidays, which impacts the school term times very little. All four schools (yes Betta included) start in October and run three terms of three months with one month break in between each. So it would be October to December, February to April, and June to August. The weather is very moderate, so they’re not to sweaty in those summer months and neither too cold in the winter ones.

For religious and cultural celebrations the students want to observe back home with their family they will need to apply for days off. Alfea keeps a very detailed calendar (curtesy of Griselda) on all the holidays of the Magic Universe for this purpose. The applications are almost always immediately granted, Griselda just checks if friends aren’t fibbing to get out of deadlines together. The days missed can be made up for easily and the generous holidays between terms allow the teachers to be flexible with deadlines and exams for people who had big cultural events happen just before the end of term. 

Those students who can’t travel home for monetary or visa reasons for every single holiday that is dear to them, the City Council actually has programs arranged in collaboration with all the schools. Students of the same faith and interested visitors are welcome to share the experience, hear other people’s stories and share what is dear to their culture.

He is a fairy! After the events of season 1, Faragonda thought it would be a good idea to bring in a dedicated Dueling Professor. Alfea is first and foremost a magic school, not a warrior school like Red Fountain and the Paladin satellites, She and Wizgiz usually cover most of the classes about attack/defense, but Bloom’s presence at the school would encourage other threats and Faragonda wanted the winx (and the student body) to get specific training and be able to fight if necessary. Avalon was originally a student of Faragonda’s and made a name for himself as head of security at a top secret potions factory, and part time bounty hunter. Avalon is Dominian, and after Bloom’s heritage was revealed he was absolutely ecstatic at the chance to teach the last surviving royalty of his home planet. This is mostly why Sky gets so jealous in season 2 era, not because Bloom and Avalon are attracted to each other, but because they share heritage and Bloom is desperate for any first hand information about/connect with her planet(another reason Faragonda offered him the job). He is unfortunately mind controlled for most of season 2, only being at Alfea for a week or so before Darkar sinks his claws in, and is just telling Bloom what Darkar wants him to. He’s also DEFINITELY not as suave as Darkar!Avalon lmao he’s not a dork exactly but he ain’t ~*cool*~ either.  and yes Paladium and Avalon are an item (after season 2 era tho because. mind control.) Paladium initially dislikes Avalon, but finds his fellow professor much improved by the lack of evil undead overlord controlling his every move. (also likes dem freckles)

Avalon is Fairy of the Celestial, which is a rather vague way to say he uses air/sky/light/justice spells. 

I honestly can’t wait for the transhumanist revolution to engineer all mental and physiological weaknesses.