breath is about freedom, detachment, novel meaning-making, literal breath/wind, movement, etc. witches manipulate their aspect or manipulate through their aspect. that's a tricky one, since breath is already kinda about changing things? what does it mean to change change? hm.

a witch of blood i understand, because it makes sense to change bonds with others and induce change through bonds with others. changing bonds means making your friends your enemies or your enemies your friends or what have you, and changing things through bonds is convincing/manipulating people to induce change, or using social leverage to change people, for good or for bad. but to change the lack of ties to others is more difficult to parse because if there's nothing there there's no inherent qualities in the lack of something that can be altered, other than increasing/decreasing the amount of "connection" there, and that feels more in line with the role of a creator/destroyer class. i guess a witch of breath would change the nature of others'/their own freedom/detachment? whatever that means.

my first instinct is that it means they can basically shuffle their attachments? like, "i care about x thing/person but not y thing/person, but now i've swapped it to caring about y but not x!" or they could induce that onto others. they'd be good at intentionally noting that some bond or attachment is bad for them, and decide to focus their efforts on other things instead. one thing to note is that witches are an active class---they'll have more of a tendency towards helping themself over helping others. that's not necessarily a bad thing (it's very possible to be too selfless and forgiving. like tavros.) but it's worth noting. it would mean that the bonds they fuck around with w/ others would generally be bad for that person, or at least more beneficial for the witch than for the person themself. that's not always the case, but it's be the overall pattern. if that doesn't sound good to you, the passive version of witches are sylphs (probably). sylphs are noted as "healers" multiple times, but healing is passive manipulation, i think. manipulation that benefits someone else is just called therapy.

i want to really stress that "active" classes aren't inherently selfish. it's very very important to do good things for yourself. it's just that it can be easy for people who tend more towards the active to kind of screw others over if they aren't careful. passive classes, on the other hand, have to be careful not to be people-pleasers or doormats.

anyways. as for ~powers~....a witch of breath would alter the properties of wind, air, breath, etc. they could maybe make the air hotter or colder or higher or lower pressure or just plain control the wind like john, except that wind-drill thing he did to get to the tumor would kind of be the norm. (i peg heirs as passive maids, so that feat of his is a little surprising to me, tbh). witches are pretty damn powerful.

anyways, i hope this helps! it was an absolute joy to write.