Abolishing Anomaly: The Anti-Magician Danielle Obrove’s Perfectly Normal Life; Or…
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Danielle Obrove is a student at Suinaegoiters High, the premiere school for budding young magicians to hone their craft. Whether specializing in a particular magical tradition or seeking to devour as much knowledge on as many subjects as possible, Suinaegoiters is sure to have a curriculum to suit each student’s needs. The current catalog includes courses in a variety of magical subjects, ranging from invocation, Weirding magic, conjuration, animancy, abjuration, transmutation, technoturgy, and even magical blacksmithing, along with many more besides!
However, Danielle Obrove isn’t attending Suinaegoiters for any of the
traditional magic courses. Quite the opposite, in fact.
Danielle Obrove’s very existence runs contrary to magic itself. No spells can be cast, no potions can be brewed, and no rituals can be effectively performed within a ten foot radius around the girl’s body.
This phenomenon has been coined the “relative normality field” by the faculty and administration at Suinaegoiters, because they believe that the effect doesn’t so much “cancel out” magic as it does impose a different set of universal laws upon anything entering its radius. The effect inflicts so-called “relative normality” because the wizards of Danielle’s world have observed dimensions where magic doesn’t exist, and define what’s “normal” as simply a matter of perspective. A magic-less world is as strange to them as theirs might be to a magic-less world, understand. There’s really no telling what “normal”
actually is! That, and calling the effect an “abnormality field” would just hurt Danielle’s feelings even more.
Obviously, being centered in a ten-foot sphere of anti-magic at a magical high school hasn’t made Danielle a lot of friends.
The staff at Suinaegoiters have insisted that Danielle remain in attendance at the school, rather than go to an institution for non-magically-gifted people. A phenomenon that effectively cancels out magic is something that the magicians of the world definitely want to monitor. It wouldn’t be as
noticable at a non-magic school, and Danielle might not be so ostracized by her peers, but at least under her teachers’ watch, the mages will have some chance of stopping the relative normality field if it, say, grows out of control and engulfs the universe. If the phenomenon is in fact a largely magic-based effect, they may be able to counter its expansion somehow.
Danielle’s life at Suinaegoiters has thus been an isolated one. Most students are sure to avoid her whenever she walks by, and those few that have attempted to be her friend haven’t been able to keep it up for very long. Magic users become
very uncomfortable when feeling their powers and abilities stripped away.
With no one willing or capable of becoming her friend, Danielle focuses on her studies, which include the mundane subjects like math and writing that one might learn at a non-magical school. Her world possesses all the trappings of a “modern” society as well as magic--cars and smartphones exist alongside broomsticks and carrier owls--so Danielle knows there’s a place for her out there
somewhere.
Until the time that she discovers where she belongs, Danielle Obrove remains an anti-magical girl fully entrenched in the world of magic.
Additional Information
There are several nuances to note about how Danielle Obrove’s relative normality field operates:
Despite being ostensibly a zone of anti-magic, Danielle’s teachers believe that the effect is generated by some sort of spell. If could potentially be removed, thereby “curing” Danielle.
Danielle is still aware of and can perceive magic created outside of the field’s radius, but she can not interact with it.
Most known magical techniques cannot be used within the field. Magical spells have no effect, magical reagents for potion-making are rendered inert, and preparing rituals ultimately yields no results. Similarly, magical effects cannot cross into the field, and the contents of completed potions are transmuted by the field into water and carbon.
Inherently magical creatures, such as drakes or pegasi, cannot pass into the relative normality field at all. Half-human hybrids or humanoid magical races like elves and faeries
can enter the field, but often express severe discomfort as their unique abilities fade away, though living creature’s magical abilities are always restored when exiting the field’s range of effect.
Strangely, one “abnormal” ability that Danielle shares with her world’s magically-capable individuals is the capacity to swallow and digest large objects. This was discovered early on during her attendance at Suinaegoiters during an unfortunate incident involving the head of the school theatre club and a very tall ladder.
Although it’s a common ability, it is not commonly exploited within Danielle’s world, nor does Danielle go out of her way to use it. Swallowing a beloved school thespian didn’t necessarily boost her popularity.
There may be other peculiarities Danielle Obrove possesses, but no more have been discovered as of yet.
The Hither and Thither Expanded; Or, Drawing Back the Curtain!
Danielle Obrove is the alternate universe analogue of the shapeshifting healer, Danielle Obrove. She is not her former life, her blood relative, or a close acquaintance. She's the Obrove if Obrove were a anti-magical student at a magical highschool, while
the Skinweaver is Obrove in the form of a caretaker intent on ending universal suffering by consolidating all life into a single form!
More Obroves can be found on their alt list,
here.
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