Thread:Enchanteddragons/@comment-32460917-20181023073254/@comment-32460917-20190202074823

Also I'm developing a previous character idea I've had: Vega's soulmate basically. The legend for Chinese Valentine's Day focuses on two people. They have Chinese names, but they're also associated with the stars Vega and Altair, which is how I've remembered them

The legend is the basis for the mini-plot surrounding Vega. Some soothsayer approached Vega while she was young and told her that she's was doomed to fall in love with someone she could never be with. At the time, Vega was too young to even want to consider romance, so that set her up to cut out romance from her life entirely as she grew older

Now Altair: her original concept had a power very similar to Chan's whimsy powers, so that gave me an idea on how to incorporate her in

She's a witch that Chan happened to chance upon while she was on the run. In exchange for power, Altair gave Chan advice on how to stop people from bothering her. It boiled down to 'you're a goddess you can do anything lol' though

Altair was the one who suggested Chan to turn invisible. If the mortals couldn't see her, they wouldn't hound her anymore. Simple. She also said that the goddess might have a better chance of hiding if she didn't look so uncanny, which was more of an offhand remark, but Chan took it to heart.

Altair didn't actually teach Chan anything. She just threw some ideas at the goddess and then gleefully accepted her power. Chan wasn't accustomed to using any of it though, and Altair ended up with a much greater share of power than either of them expected

To put it into perspective: Altair can use her power offensively, Chan can't.

//tangent: so there's this art youtuber I follow called TheZodiacLord. He's very chill and got some mad art/story skills. One of his characters, Sphinx, is a demigod. Not really the kind we normally associate with demigod, (she wasn't the child of a deity) it was more like she was blessed by a deity and her physical features changed. When I was thinking ab this character that crossed my kind and I thought, so Altair is kinda like a demigod in that sense?

After their exchange, Chan fled again and tried to do what Altair had 'advised' her to do. As previously mentioned, her grasp on her abilities was shaky; it didn't help that she was chased again as soon as she reappeared. It was hard enough for her to control her abilities normally, let alone while under stress

Chan didn't -- and still doesn't -- know any magic spells. What she did to feign invisibility was make people forget her presence.

She had intended for it to be something she could turn on and off. However, her magic overflowed. She basically used the full strength of her power for this one enchantment

The resulting enchantment ended up being way more powerful than it should've been, and even then there was still leftover magic. It trickled into other aspects; not only was it permanently present, everyone that she encountered forgot about her soon after, and mental barriers formed as another way of using up the excess. Her own memories started getting pushed to the side because of that

The magic began to gradually change her body as well. In an (earlier) effort to escape, Chan had moved to the modern sect. As she moved around with her new invisibility, she gradually began to look more like the residents of the sect; more mortal

That's the explanation for why Chan's the way she is. A majority of her power is still worming it's way around her, trying to fill in a crack

Chan's mental barriers pushed her prior memories into some dark corner of her mind. She can only remember vaguely that she had done something to a mortal, and that escalated into a chase that caused her to become the way she is. She doesn't really care anymore though; with a huge chunk of her power gone, her remaining powers are much easier to manage, and that's been enough for her

Chan's calmed down a significant amount by now. Magic is starting to return to her as well, but the enchantments are still very strong and irreversible (at the moment)

Chances are Altair doesn't remember Chan, and Chan doesn't remember Altair. It's been too long for either of them to still remember, especially with what the spell did to alter both Chan's memories and the ones of those around her