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Magic & Familiar Meme!

inspired and built on the familiar meme by AL✨

Tell us about your character's familiar and magic!!!
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Character Name: Canon: Familiar Name: Species: Why did you pick this familiar for your character?: Explain its significance (if any!) Special features: Powers/charm point/anything else worth mentioning How do they communicate?: And can/do they speak with anyone other than your character Personality: Relationship with your character: are they close? Do they get along, or is there friction? Visuals: images! Magic Magic Types: Why did you pick these types for your character?: How does your character cast their magic? What does it look like/are they flashy or subtle/do they use a mana focus (wand, etc) of any sort How does your character feel about their magic?: What magic and familiar would your character choose for themselves?: If different from what they got! Anything else?:

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Character
Name: Bean
Canon: Enderverse

Familiar
Name: (none yet)
Species: Formic Hive Queen
Why did you pick this familiar for your character?: I was originally going to pick a pseudodragon because of Bean's small stature/association with Dragon Army, but then dragons were capped, so I had to think of something else. The Formics are the primary enemies of humanity in Ender's Game, as they have attempted to invade and conquer Earth on two separate occasions. The plot of the book culminates with the human fleet reaching the Formic homeworld, and Bean and his friends commanding the battle that would lead to the extinction of the Formic race. I chose a hive queen as Bean's familiar because it would cause a lot of complicated feelings for Bean, namely guilt, confusion, and anger.
Special features: She's a giant ant who communicates telepathically and has gossamer wings that she can use to fly.
How do they communicate?: Hive queens communicate to their drones through instantaneous telepathic communication, and Bean's familiar is no different. She communicates mostly with expressions of emotions, images, and sensations rather than with actual words.
Personality: She is highly intuitive, and can sense things that people might try to hide about themselves.
Relationship with your character: Bean was at first resentful and uneasy around his familiar, but they have developed a sort of working relationship/understanding of each other.
Visuals: cw: buglike alien

Magic
Magic Types: Light and Technomancy
Why did you pick these types for your character?: Technomancy I picked first because he's a sci-fi character so I wanted something to do with technology, and then light I picked honestly because it seemed convenient with the prompts on his TDM.
How does your character cast their magic? He casts magic through concentration, without showy incantations or hand gestures. He uses it intuitively, and thinks of it as nothing more than a tool for his convenience.
How does your character feel about their magic?: He tries to avoid using it whenever possible, as he is struggling to accept that magic even exists. He's convinced that there's got to be some kind of scientific explanation behind it.

What magic and familiar would your character choose for themselves?: If given a choice, he wouldn't even be here to begin with... but if he absolutely had to be here, he would choose a dragon familiar. He'd probably stick with technomancy and be torn on the other one between healing, kinetic, and cognitive.

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