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Made another rewrite/redesign of the main four. This time, I did the old-school magic witch girl, Sage🌿🔮
Description:
“ Growing up in the small town of Pebble with her best friend Rosemary, she grew up sheltered and longing to explore more in life. At a young age, she was taught by her family the old ways and traditions of magic, becoming a bit of a prodigy, well experienced in the land and it’s magical elements. Enough she even got some special attention and offered a chance into High Guardian Academy! Anxious but ambitious, she along with Rose, set out to finally explore the world! Though even as a prodigy, she has a lot to learn from the Academy and Lyngarth, especially about new magic, something her overprotective family tried to keep away from her. She’ll have to step out of her comfort zone, open her mind and try not to fly into a tree with her terra-sphere. Already failed there but at least she’s still trying. Though how much will new magic and everything else change her? How much will things change between her and Rosemary? Will she still be the same Sage?”.
Character:
She’s not too different from her old self either like Rosemary. She’s still kind and caring but shy and anxious, curious to learn about new magic. Using old magic her whole life, something a lot of people don’t practice as much now a days, she along with old magic tend to be looked down by people such as Amaryllis in more favour of new magic and even face prejudice. This tends to make her a bit more insecure than she is already.
Regardless she’s proud if perhaps sometimes insecure of her roots and hopes to show people there’s still value to it. At the same time, she also wants to understand new magic and new ideas in general, even if it can be stressful and overwhelming for her, sometimes…ok a lot. She’s very ambitious and despite her fears, wants to prove something to everyone and the world, that she can handle it which can sometimes make her make her overzealous and lose herself in the heat of things.
I want to deconstruct her and Rose’s relationships, “two different friends who despite all their quirks, help balance each other out”, Rose has been her biggest support in life, and she’s always put Rose’s and others wants and needs before her own as well as keep Rose so far from getting herself killed. Overtime as they change and Rose makes more friends, Sage struggles with the huge change in their relationship, eventually having to confront how much they depend on each other so much, to the point of it being somewhat co-dependent and needing to be more independent for not just becoming a Guardian but from each other as well.
I also think her having some outdated values could work, like the stuff she said to Snapdrgaon about girls and guys in ep 6. Growing up in a traditional family/enviroment she may believe in things that wouldn’t be up to date, today, perhaps even problematic. Not only will she be learning new things but also re-learning some old views and ideas. At the same time she also doesn’t want to have to change her entire identity just for others to like her more and forget her roots, old magic and self. She has A LOTTTTTTTTTT on her mind.
She’s also not as worried about her family disapproving her practicing new magic as they understood she’d most likely be learning it but can still act a bit overprotective and advise her to be very careful. This makes her both a bit anxious but also cautious, using new magic, understanding that despite it being easy, doesn’t mean there’s no costs.
Redesign:
The biggest criticism for her canon design is that it’s too bland, even if it’s meant to have the traditional witch look🧙♀️ So I added different colors and designs to help make it stand out better. I used cool and more mellow colors in contrast to Rose’s brighter and warmer colours.
They never specified her ethnicity so I decided to make her Latina-coded. I went for a mix with the traditional witch look, with traditional floral designs and fashions of Mexican culture🇲🇽 Encanto, Coco and other designs online were huge inspiration for her outfit. I also wanted to have a bit of a cottage-core look, for her simpler-lifestyle origins. Also changed her face to have more Hispanic features. Gave her braids, got huge inspiration from Encanto. Also bc I think they’re cute on her and fit her witch vibe🧙♀️
Made her a bit more on the overweight side. I wanted to make her body type look different from Rose’s who’s on the more fit side.
Changed her eyes from red to purple💜
Kept her name as I think Sage is a good witch name, especially since sage has been used for things such as healing and in fantasy stories, magic and witchcraft. I wanted her design to say that more, from the sage on her hat to the designs on her apron. I even made the under brim of her hat look like a leaf🍃 I wanted her to have a more floral/plant motif, close to nature 🌸🌿
Gave her leggings. As a witch who goes on a broom a lot I’d wanna make sure I have something under so people don’t see too much under my dress👗
Wanted to give her a type of baking, cooking look for the food theme👩🍳Gave her an apron since she does traditional witch stuff like make potions so it’d be good to keep he dress from getting messy. Also gave her a a belt with mini pouches for extra storage for magic ingredients.
Put her terrasphere on her hat instead. Because of her connection with nature, the terrapsher takes form as a giant sage flower, wrapping itself around her hat with sage. Thought it’d add more to her hat too.
Wanted to give her a circle motif with her terrasphere and in her design, added other round details such as her berry designs on her apron and beauty marks🟣
Gave her two beauty marks on two of her cheeks. Also for the circle motif and in Hispanic culture, they’re considered a symbol of beauty. And I thought it’d be something interesting to add on her face like giving Rose freckles. Plus I read on different sides, they can mean different things. On the right, it means you’re a caring person who values friends and family and on the other side, it means you’re more introverted and perhaps even arrogant or self absorbed.
Fun Facts:
Headcanon VA’s. Cristina Vee, plays Marinette from ML and Marjolaine from Little Witch Academia, Eden Sher who plays Star from Svtfoe or Katherine Lynn Rose who’s behind ATLA musical.
Skills: knowledgeable in old magic, especially nature-related magic, high in intelligence and resourcefulness, ambitious and also knows baking skills, especially for anything magic related.
Weaknesses: Struggles using new magic, anxious, doesn’t do great under pressure and low in confidence and strength.
Staff is relatively the same, but has more plants on it and it’s curled to the sphere more🧙♀️ With her name and powers being close to nature, she could be a nature witch🌿 There are other types and Sage would be one that uses nature related magic.
Smells like sage a lot🌿
Carries around a backpack with her for more storage for spell and potion making. Even has a mini cauldron.
Also 15 in this version like Rose.
What do u think of her? I’d love to know💖 Here’s a link to my redesign of Rosemary
www.deviantart.com/dnpanimatio…
And a link to my rewrite she’s based on.
dnpanimationstudioclone.tumblr…
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