A Fistful of Sky: Difference between revisions

There is a family of "witches" that receive magical talents at the [[Puberty Superpower|onset of puberty]]. The middle child and protagonist, Gypsum LaZelle, is extremely late on receiving her ''gift'', and at the age of twenty, believes that she will never have magic at all. When her gift finally does appear, it turns out that unlike the rest of her family, her gift is to cast curses instead of ordinary spells like everyone else. [[Cursed Withwith Awesome|While this may not sound like such a bad thing]], the main drawback of magical powers is that they have to be used fairly frequently or the witch in question will build up an excess of magic until they become so poisoned by it. At that point he or she sickens and dies. This was the fate of a relative of Gypsum's, [[Blessed Withwith Suck|who refused to hurt other people with her curses]].

* [[Blessed Withwith Suck]]: Gypsum gets awesome magic powers... but the power of cursing means that she has to hurt someone, corrupt something or turn another magic awry if she wants to prevent herself from becoming sick.

* [[The Call Put Me Onon Hold]]: Of the ''late bloomer'' variety.

* [[Cursed Withwith Awesome]]: Even with the large amount of drawbacks of the cursing ability, it's still manageable with creative usage.