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Cast: Lei Feng, Thea Pryce
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Getting some Twin Peaks: The Return vibes here, in a good way. Let's make some cosmic mistakes
I wondered if, lacking any nearbye witches the anchor might latch onto the first one too near it as it's new Witch, but this seems a little..clean.
But is it lacking nearby witches? Or is it that the witch didn't have powers before her/his door was activated (hence didn't know she/he was a witch?)
But yes, I think we are all wondering about that (what you said, I mean)...
Well, I am pretty sure Jack was the widdershins witch before the door was open, given he had his sight ability long before that.
Ah, but the Widdershins door existed, it was just closed because it had been too long since the last witch was around. This door on the other hand, it wasn't a thing, it was more like waiting to be created.
Didn't one of the other witches say they knew there was a witch in Widdershins, since the door had come back?
Ah yes, Nyree: [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/january-24th-2020 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/january-24th-2020")
But I'm not sure exactly what she meant. I have some ideas, mind …
The fourth door, or at least its outline – the promise of a door, or the premise of a door? – was already there. Just closed, even when all the other doors opened: [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/july-24th-2020 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/july-24th-2020")
… and it's still just an outline, isn't it? No knob, no hinges, no indication that there is anything there, not even a flat green where the door should be … just a brilliantly green outline.
A promise or a premise, still waiting to be realized?
Ah, a very good catch about Nyree, I didn't remember that!
The outline of the fourth door was always, there, sans the door. It was even there when they were fighting the sins, and it even creaked a bit during that time. But there was no door.
But now that you said that about the door coming back, I am assuming that the City door looked like that before it opened.
There is an interesting detail in the page you linked though, when the mountain witch heard all the doors opened, she was looking suspiciously at the fourth door's outline. Wonder what that means? Perhaps getting a full set of witches changes the rules somehow?
Or maybe you can't get a door without its' counterpart? Does anybody remember what Widdershins is supposed to be symmetrical with? Perhaps when that globe was shot?
EDIT: Oh, yeah, got it: [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/december-4th-2018 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/december-4th-2018")
So island witch got her "counterbalance", mountain witch was wondering about hers??? Maybe?
But can a wizard be a witch? No wizards can enter the Space Between. It would make more sense for the smartest, most attractive, modest and capable non-wizard in the vicinity to become the witch.
Oh no. Oh god no. Please don't let what I think you're implying actually come to pass...
That's how we know that Tim is going to be the next Witch
It has been shown that Witches are capable of the same magic as wizards.
Props to that one guy that called it. She's the witch.
No, no. Tim's the witch.
Pffft It's obviously Doris.
Hmm, she is conspicuously labeled the 'Fake Maid', but we've never gotten written confirmation what her real profession is. Very suspicious.
Assuming Tim isn't the witch in some weird twist, props me lol.
Patience is going to be so miffed if she doesn’t get to go down to the seabed and play with the giant octopus.
Play or Punch? Oh who am I kidding. With Patience those two terms may be interchangeable.
You break it, you bought it.
Uh, am I the only one worried that the door looks so twisted & distorted? That thing is downright Lovecraftian O.o
Also, a very rough translation of Thea's spell:
Multitude of Spirits, voiceless masses (?)
Obey, all of you obey
Obey! Hear me spirits
It's a door that only got opened. It hasn't been stabilized with a nice frame and knob and everything yet....that's probably a witch's first job. :-}
I hope so ^_^
When compared to O'Malley's door the shape got me a little worried, especially since deep sea locations and magic tends to lead to the appearance of or be connected to eldritch things from outside time and space
O'Malley's door - [https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/september-7th-2016](# "#")
The green actually reminded me of Envy, for some reason. I can't remember if they managed to "neutralize" him. Time for a re-read?
Hmm... y'known, no one ever said the Ocean Witch had to be human.
*Mystical whale noises reverberate from below*
I will be, if it is still looking like that after it finishes forming... But for now, it is being ripped into creation.
"Multitude of Spirits..."
Weird looking "door" in the wrong place.
I did say that circle looked familiar...
Fortunately, if what I think is true, no one aboard that ship can do anything about it... for now.
Of course this could be an April Fools page and next week we see what really happened.
Given how well drawn and colored and whatnot this is, it's a lot of effort to put into an April Fool's joke.
All the best ones require a lot of effort.
Typical Americans half-assing the spell and dumping the hole in the metaphysical constraints of reality any old place.
Because emptying the ocean toward the other side at a super high pressure sounds like a pretty bad idea ? :D
So, no tsunami?
well don't sound so disappointed...
?, yet.
wonder if it being up here is going to throw off Thea's plans somehow?
It's here because witches can't breath water? If they truly are somewhere around the antipode of Mt. Everest the water depth has to be several thousand meters.
At least that saves the other witches from an unexpected bath when they next open their doors.
So, random thoughts. She could be the fourth witch (already, by herself), just not showing "witchy" powers because her door was not active yet. Or it could be that there was no fourth witch prior, but now that a fourth door is active, it will select one.
About the depth, I don't know, I mean is "how high" a consideration? And if it is, are we going with opposites (one high, one low) or are we having the doors in symmetrical positions around the globe? Because if we are going with symmetry, then maybe the door needs to be somewhere high.
But all in all, the globe is pretty large, it seems that a few kilometers of altitude/depth would be details if we are counting the distance between the doors...
Well, the Widdershins Anchor is at the bottom of a very deep pit (where Lux pushed Acedia) and the Mountain Anchor is at the top of the mountain. Neither witch has to go all the way to the anchor to get to the door, so why wouldn't the door manifest on the ship?
Yup, and not only that, but when the German guy (whose name I forget now) moved under the anchor he summoned Envy, because he was "at the place" (and Mountain Witch warned him about it, too, as he was entering) - altitude doesn't seem to matter, being on the same vertical line as the anchor seems to do the trick!
The interesting question is, will Thea (or whoever the fourth witch is) need to get a ship to get to her door every time? And what does that mean anyway? We haven't seen how the witches' powers are affected by their doors...
Well, that middle panel looks more than a little familiar: [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/september-7th-2016 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/september-7th-2016")
Thanks for the link, I was wondering if I remembered those other doors correctly... and I did! It seems that we have a blue door, yellow, red, and now green!
And it just occurred to me that Thea is wearing green!
Yup! Remember when O'Malley said he liked blue?
So is Tim. ;)
Ooooh!
Aha. Fourth witch is a giant sapient cephalopod which lives in the ocean depths.
It's going to come to get its door back...
There was a theory about the Deep Sea Anglerfish Witch in the comments a while back, as I recall.
So some others have noticed that this "door" doesn't really have a door, and I'm wondering if we've been making the same faulty assumption about anchors as Pryce has.
Pryce described this anchor as "shut tight as a stuck door". That's presumably why he tried to recruit a witch, why he brought a magical battering ram--obviously he needs some kind of force or manipulation to pry this thing open and access its magic, right? But this portal isn't shut at all. It's open. It's here. It's easy.
I guess what I'm saying is...I think there's been an unconscious assumption that witches happen because they're needed to open their anchors. The key to the lock, so to speak. But if there's no door in the first place, doesn't it make more sense is that a witch's purpose is to close the portal off? The thing about a door is, it can open and shut.
Currently, the portal is open, and it has no door to close. Unless something changes real fast, well. To use an industrialist metaphor: I wonder if we're about to see the magical equivalent of an oil spill.
Or perhaps the lack of a door signifies that this Anchor no longer has any need for a Witch. I don't even know what the implications of that might be.
That's definitely a witch door. Will one of the other witches been in the witch-space?
Hey~ Witchy woman~
OCEAN WITCH?!
So if Thea is the witch of the fourth anchor (acknowledging that this is still a big if), does she have previously undocumented soul-esthesia, or will she be developing it? It seems like even family-feeling might not be enough for her to overlook her father's less than savory aspects if she already had those senses.
Soul-esthesia! I love it!
+1 for inventing soulesthesia. It is a word now.
Since Mal already has Sight, and Mountain and Island have smell and hearing (IIRC), then its touch or taste. Since she is unlikely to have been going around licking people much its quite possible hers is Taste but she's never noticed (and THAT would give a whole new meaning to "How can I tell if he loves me ... its in his kiss")
Island witch mentioned hers is smell/taste when she first met Harry, and the two senses are interconnected... So it has to be touch or similar for the fourth witch. Maybe gettting a crawling sensation/hot/cold whatever?
Lei's close enough that the door could be for her. Mountain Witch doesn't climb all the way to her anchor so presumably vertical door displacement is a thing; this is mirroring.
Beware the door that wants to be opened.
Reminiscent of Tolkien's bone-chilling line in Lord of the Rings, "The ring is trying to get back to its master, it wants to be found."
Yer a witch, Thea! </hagrid>
Interesting that the Door is apparently forming on board a ship (which moves). Is the Door located relative to the seabed, or to the ship? If the ship moves, will the Door move with it?
So . . . you're messing with magic that you don't really understand, but _think_ you can probably control . . . that in any case, promises to unleash a tremendous amount of energy . . . and then you hear the wizard-in-charge start using words like, "Wha?" and "Oh!" and "Why?"
Those words are pretty high up on the List of Words You Don't Want to Hear Your Wizard Say.
This might be a good time to be elsewhere. Maybe even on another planet.
If you are messing with magic that you don't really understand, you are going to hear your wizard say "why" if she isn't a vegetable. I think this level of chaos is exactly what they bargained for.
That's it! That's it!
The fourth witch is a PLANT! (Ambiguity intended.)
Oh boy, I bet you that anchor has been waiting to catch a witch for ages.
How dare you question convenience!
Now I wonder just what "Sea Change" means.
Not an ocean witch, a boat witch.