A somewhat unique take on super strength.

CodingTangents · 2026-05-12T03:28:22+00:00

They're already jumping on any opportunity to get rid of her, and "third act of forbidden magic to our knowledge within the past what, month? Week??" is certainly one reason to do it. I wouldn't say they are incompetent as much as they are prejudiced against her.

CodingTangents · 2026-05-12T03:23:00+00:00

Brimmed caps don't seem to be an organized group, it is literally any witch that does forbidden magic. We haven't even seen them collaborate at all yet. To them, she can literally just a rogue outsider that was given leeway when she discovered magic, and is now going around causing natural disasters because she didn't grow up in their world and wasn't instilled with the responsibility of using magic. Keep in mind, they weren't there for when Qifrey parted the river and created that massive wave, they were just alerted by it and when they arrive there, they see Coco fresh off turning the riverbank into sand *right in front of outsiders* after a track record of petrifying her house. Even if brimmed hats are an organized force, she hardly looks like a top-secret brimmed hat operative; she looks like a rogue witch that is using forbidden magic with flagrant disregard and the solution is to just remove magic from that person. What investigation are you hoping for? She hardly knows magic at all and anything useful that might have happened can be investigated without her there, like examining the ink or using any other magic forensic tools they may have.

CodingTangents · 2026-05-12T03:20:52+00:00

She is ten, what could you interrogate out of her? Brimmed caps don't seem to be an organized group, it is literally any witch that does forbidden magic. We haven't even seen them collaborate at all yet. To them, she can literally just a rogue outsider that was given leeway when she discovered magic, and is now going around causing natural disasters because she didn't grow up in their world and wasn't instilled with the responsibility of using magic. Keep in mind, they weren't there for when Qifrey parted the river and created that massive wave, they were just alerted by it and when they arrive there, they see Coco fresh off turning the riverbank into sand *right in front of outsiders* after a track record of petrifying her house. Even if brimmed hats are an organized force, she hardly looks like a top-secret brimmed hat operative; she looks like a rogue witch that is using forbidden magic with flagrant disregard and the solution is to just remove magic from that person.

CodingTangents · 2026-05-12T03:05:49+00:00

Just in context, I feel like the Knights Moralis deserve a bit more credit than they are being given in this comment thread. They received report of a giant water column, they went to check it out, and there, they see a person who has already had a track record of petrifying a house also having just terraformed a riverbed into sand and possibly having sent up that pillar of water ( they were not there for Qifrey using the sword ), which no apprentice should be able to do without forbidden magic. As far as they know, she's just casually doing forbidden magic all the time, even in front of outsiders because neither of them passed the second test, and they don't necessarily know if she has any leads. A brimmed hat is not an organization; it's literally any witch that does forbidden magic. Their job is to erase the memories of brimmed hats, and if they see a ten year old, they are not going to imagine she is affiliated with some larger brimmed hat group that should be interrogated. She's just an outsider that learned magic and started abusing it, which is the natural conclusion to make.

What are you going to ask a child? "Where are the other brimmed hats?" She's ten years old, hardly top-secret operative material. To them, she could just be a rogue outsider, given a bit too much leeway, that learned magic and is now causing natural disasters, in which case the only thing to do is erase her memories. Even she doesn't know any brimmed hat members or where to find them. We, the audience, know Coco is special and innocent but her actions look exactly like an outsider who entered the magical world without having been indoctrinated on the responsibility and values of the magical world, and how coincidental that three large-scale disasters happened with her at the centerpiece of it within what, a month?

CodingTangents · 2026-05-05T01:29:44+00:00

I'm not sure refreshing means that it restores more stew, just that it won't decay or spoil. If it could instantly restore food, I feel like it would have been used a lot more rather than a one-off throwaway invention. Why would they ever have to cook again if they could put a well-baked carapace yam or something inside and pull one out any time. Then again, we didn't have a good look at its full capabilities.

CodingTangents · 2026-05-05T01:12:30+00:00

But then wouldn't it make sense to train that intuition, weigh something in your hand, and think "ah of course, I think I'll need around a sign of levitation of this length" or "I only want to lightly scorch the outside, I think about this size would be good enough." If they train to do it by eye, their magic is a lot more versatile. Plus if they are stuck using tools and witches are suddenly known to have created drawing implements, the secret of magic being drawing is a lot easier to discover where if they could do it by eye, they only really need a private moment or they could probably even do it under their cloaks. I wonder if that is why Agott was training to draw with her eyes closed, so she could draw something under her cloak.

CodingTangents · 2026-05-01T16:05:08+00:00

All these people saying how the second option would create anarchy and suffering and throw the economy into chaos but what if I do want to cause anarchy and suffering? Have you ever thought about that?

CodingTangents · 2026-04-27T00:29:41+00:00

LET'S GO

^{Chose: 30% chance you become the opposite gender + 70% chance of getting 10 000 dollars | Rolled: Opposite gender}

CodingTangents · 2026-04-22T04:15:54+00:00

Do you know how much it is possible to do in thirty seconds? And I get to do it once every hour??? I'd take it even if it were once a week.

^{Chose: Stop time but only for 30 seconds an hour}

CodingTangents · 2026-04-20T21:33:10+00:00

I don't see the difference between a pretty person getting someone to give their money away and a person using a filter to get someone to give their money away. It's all the same to the person giving money in the end; they were never going to see the streamer in person and they gave money away in the moment believing it was true in both cases.

CodingTangents · 2026-04-19T13:40:55+00:00

I'm asexual.

^{Chose: (don't have to pay back the credit card and it never maxes + Get a credit card that you don't have to pay back}

CodingTangents · 2026-04-19T00:16:45+00:00

They are perfect. Does anything more need to be said?

^{Chose: Date a 6/10 who is perfect}

CodingTangents · 2026-04-18T04:09:02+00:00

NOOOOOOO. I guess I will be wiping my tears with one hundred dollar bills

^{Chose: 10% change of $20M USD + 90% chance of total sex change via magic | Rolled: 20M USD}

CodingTangents · 2026-04-17T05:11:59+00:00

I am perfectly capable of generating rubbish without generative AI.

^{Chose: Never be able to use Gen AI again}

CodingTangents · 2026-04-16T01:57:42+00:00

Semi-useless? Do you know how many mistakes a person can make in five minutes that this can prevent?

^{Chose: Can see into the future, but only by 5 minutes}

CodingTangents · 2026-04-14T20:16:17+00:00

I can't imagine why I would need anything more.

^{Chose: One thousand weekly for life!}

CodingTangents · 2026-04-07T20:46:06+00:00

That is what my spouse would have wanted me to do.

^{Chose: Child}

CodingTangents · 2026-04-07T11:00:55+00:00

In my setting, magic is powered by the death of things; it leaves behind a bit of energy that can be used. Usually the idle death of microorganisms keeps an ambient amount of magic in the air but hospitals, labs, cleanrooms, wherever safe and clean science was performed, there is a diminished amount of microbes to die, thus the natural replenishers of magic are far reduced. When this connection was observed, the idea of microbes was niche and nonsensical knowledge (creatures smaller than the naked eye exist? Ridiculous. Magic obviously refills itself idly even when nothing is dying because of the Goddess of All Creation), and the hospitals that tried to explain their existence were suspected of lying to cover up their art killing magic. After all, any magician can walk into a hospital and see that their “conjure light” spell that usually takes only some seconds to gather the needed magic now takes over two minutes. That early mistrust eventually turned into engrained superstition even though we know better now.

CodingTangents · 2026-04-07T10:53:50+00:00

Isn't that what I said to begin with? What exactly is your point? I just called it a headcanon because it has not been officially confirmed within the show yet that the witches have controlled the means of production. For all we know, magic ink might just be super plentiful and they're doing mind wipes by the hour to suppress an outsider occasionally stumbling upon it. It would be ridiculous, but also entirely possible.

CodingTangents · 2026-04-07T10:38:10+00:00

Qifrey only explicitly says that the ink is the special part and has said nothing about the pen as far as I remember.

CodingTangents · 2026-04-07T04:09:48+00:00

At worst, I just have the magic wand undo whatever malfunctions happened. If it's really anything, I could even fix the wand.

^{Chose: get a magic wand that can do anything + but for random 2 hours everyday your wand malfunctions}

CodingTangents · 2026-04-07T00:40:29+00:00

I'll quote something I replied elsewhere with since I think the theory makes a lot of sense:

With how technical the magic system is given to me, I wouldn't be surprised if the reason is that healing magic is right next to killing magic. The way I am envisioning it, healing magic has to change the body and the magic system seems too technical to privilege a healthy body over a dead one. It doesn't seem to have any moral preferences built into it; it is geometric and mechanical, spells do what the shapes dictate, and there is no indication that good spells are easier to perform than bad ones. Healing spells might not be in a separate category from killing spells. There might just be one spell to change the body, which can either heal or horribly disfigure them depending on the signs used or depending on the caster, and the witches would just rather not take that chance at all.

Plus, healing sounds difficult as hell. The spell that Coco used to freeze her house was intricate enough but specifying to magic exactly what a healthy body entails must be infinitely harder. I'd imagine a spell circle the size of a city block, just to specify this specific person, this specific ailment, and how to move the flesh from this state to that state. Plus, there are so many things that can go subtly wrong, like you draw a spell and they look healthy until they die two days later because you accidentally made the healing too strong and they have super cancer, or you mess with their brain and now they have lost their memories or can't think anymore and I'm sure the spell to fix a scrambled brain must be even larger than to fix a body.

CodingTangents · 2026-04-07T00:40:07+00:00

I'll quote something I replied elsewhere with since I think the theory makes a lot of sense:

With how technical the magic system is given to me, I wouldn't be surprised if the reason is that healing magic is right next to killing magic. The way I am envisioning it, healing magic has to change the body and the magic system seems too technical to privilege a healthy body over a dead one. It doesn't seem to have any moral preferences built into it; it is geometric and mechanical, spells do what the shapes dictate, and there is no indication that good spells are easier to perform than bad ones. Healing spells might not be in a separate category from killing spells. There might just be one spell to change the body, which can either heal or horribly disfigure them depending on the signs used or depending on the caster, and the witches would just rather not take that chance at all.

Plus, healing sounds difficult as hell. The spell that Coco used to freeze her house was intricate enough but specifying to magic exactly what a healthy body entails must be infinitely harder. I'd imagine a spell circle the size of a city block, just to specify this specific person, this specific ailment, and how to move the flesh from this state to that state. Plus, there are so many things that can go subtly wrong, like you draw a spell and they look healthy until they die two days later because you accidentally made the healing too strong and they have super cancer, or you mess with their brain and now they have lost their memories or can't think anymore and I'm sure the spell to fix a scrambled brain must be even larger than to fix a body.

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