so I figured I'd spam LJ with this AU too.

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So like three years ago or something, I got a world idea. It kept lurking really quietly in the back of my brain, and I never really built on it until about nine (or ten?) months ago, when I went, "huh-- I bet Gokudera would be a witch."

So that's how Witchkudera happened. Since Bus showed interest, I got sorcerer!Xanxus pumped out at the time too

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LOL WALLS OF TEXT. LOL CHARACTER LIMIT.

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Witches are the race that people will usually think of after warlocks; most people immediately associate witches and warlocks in this world, if not because of the similarities in their magic and the fact that both races have outward souls, then because they hate each other so much. To the point where, even though both are consciously working towards changing everything so there will be less hatred, Haru and Gokudera actually attack each other within five seconds of seeing each other. (Witches are even taught as children to stand straighter, or at least to tip their heads back and their hips forward or to the side, because if they tip their hips back and their heads forward they will appear more like warlocks.) Witches' souls manifest as flowers, but not normal flowers, like warlocks have normal animals. The stems and sizes of the real flowers do not matter; a witch's soul will always have large blossoms and smooth, thin, leafless vines. (The flowers themselves aren't chosen by genetics, but seemingly at random.) The vines can dip in and out of a witch's body, and grow and shrink at will, but the flowers (four for undeveloped witches and five for fully fledged witches) have to remain unchanged and cannot enter the witch's body, like the vines. The entire plant can be detached from the witch, which is usually only taken advantage of when they sleep and the rest of the time witches hold the flowers on their hats. They have elemental magic (I have to edit out Gokudera's thought readers and hex belt, because he would not be able to use those) like warlocks, but their magic comes in concentrates streams--out of all the races' casts, witchcraft has the most control. Their country also has the highest concentration of mines for just about every metal there is, so they can easily make their huge amounts of casting charms. (No two casting charms, by the way, are alike.) Witches, obviously, are not animal conscious. Their teeth are actually becoming gradually sharper over time (hundreds of years of time, not a lifetime of time, mind you), and their immune systems are suited to carnivorous diets, because eating plants is sort of cannibalism. They don't use paper or cotton, but instead tanned animal hide and wool or leather or such. They have strange hair colors, usually pastel shades--pinks, silvers, pale blue-greens-- that lean more towards cools than warms but aren't blatantly cool colors, either. Their hair is nearly always soft and silky and nice, so they're usually proud of their hair and keep it long; Gokudera's hair is freakishly short for a witch, and it's only because he singed a good deal of it off by accident pre-story.

Enchantresses are all pretty, duh. They have purple or blue eyes, and their magic is almost entirely centered around manipulation. They cannot, for example, make a boulder out of thin air-- they can, however, grab someone nearby and pull puppet strings until the other person does it for them. They can also change the way things look-- illusions, though most of the illusionists didn't actually transfer to enchantress-dom-- and summon objects regardless of size, so long as they know exactly where the object is (but they're pretty unmagical without other people's wills to bend). Enchantresses are naturally more powerful than enchanters, which is why the general plural is feminine and the country is matriarchal. Their country is the smallest of the races', because only like half of the enchantress race actually lives in the country, and the rest are all off in human countries, taking advantage of the easiest race to manipulate. They're often pretty condescending, since to them it's sort of like other races' minds are weaker-- but it'd be a bad over-generalization to say that all of them were. It isn't, however, over-generalizing to say they all have excellent balance and body control, perfect posture and natural dancers and flawless metabolisms and such, because they look good. Also, enchantresses are pretty much the least hateful race-- just, uh, simultaneously probably the most hated. Sorcerers in particular loathe them and want them all to die agonizing, humiliating deaths, and enchantresses are pretty passive back at them.