I Started Liking These Two Casually And Now I Actually Do Love Their Dynamic. Definitely Have Not Been

I started liking these two casually and now I actually do love their dynamic. Definitely have not been on Ao3 or anything.

I think the two would make a good witch and familiar pair. I can imagine Max in a little witch hat while Rei being a literal tiger by his side. That would be epic.

I usually hate projecting my own original story onto canon characters, but I think the universe really does fit. It is one of my favorites.

In this universe anyone can be a witch. Magic is a commonplace here. There are two ways to become a witch. The first way is to be born with some mana inside. Though, it is rare to be without mana. Once trained and recognized by the government as someone with high enough mana, people can be an official witch.

Another way is to form a contract with a magical being to share their powers. This is uncommon because magical beings usually look down on witches and those who have smaller magical cores than them.

All people are able to form contracts and get as many as familiars as they want. Strong familiars only recognize strength and will form bonds with people they like. They choose their partners, not the other way around. Smaller, weak ones are usually the ones misused and abused.

Having more than one familiar can be very taxing depending on the relationship. The sharing of magic between the two can range from draining to synchronous.

Familiars come in different forms. Some of them can be demons. They can be spirits hiding as animals. They can be mythical animals. Familiars is a very general term.

To start the story, Max is just an ordinary kid. His dad works at a repair shop and his mom works for the magic defense department of the government.

He finds a cat in the alleyway of his dad's shop while he doing part-time and cares for it. The small cat was so touched by it that he leaves presents of meat buns and small shiny objects. Max finds out later that the cat is not actually a cat but Rei, a spirit praised for his devotion and noble determination. Rei is a pretty unpopular spirit in that area and no one really knows who he is.

Rei unlocks Max's latent powers, forming a bond between the two and Max has to be transferred to a school for witches. Rei and Max are able to make a contract with one another, more that they will be roommates than they'll have the usual master-servant relationship. This is unusual since Rei is always in a small weak cat form and looks more like a pet, which is the ideal vision of a familiar servant. Max does not believe in that.

The two of them face magical challenges together and work well as a team unexpectedly. Rei still is a mystery since he is able to use large bursts of magic. He helps Max train a lot for these challenges.

I had been thinking about a concept surrounding A Whisker Away and I have been absorbing too much hero academia (plus spider-man).

I think it would be really cool if the protagonist worked for the Mask Seller and helped gather masks. It looked like he had extras so they would be the "masks" of the living and the dead. Usually the Mask Seller swaps masks for people, but he can take away their "masks" too (playing a bit of god).

In exchange for keeping her ability to switch between bodies, she becomes a sort of grim reaper for him. While the Mask Seller makes contracts with people to switch masks, the protagonist takes both masks at the end of the contract. The contract states that after an extended period of time, they die and their masks belong to the Mask Seller.

She also keeps a half mask and is able to be half-cat. It helps with being able to collect masks. The protagonist has the power to collect any masks she wants. Helps with disguise and getting rid of her enemies.

Her biggest weakness is her crush and the elderly. She loves helping them and protecting them at all costs. Her grandparents were the ones who took care of her during her parents divorce and they died afterwards in an accident.

She often visits her crush's grandpa and drops off food she doesn't want to eat from her new stepmom. She enjoys spending time with him and helping him.

Her crush knows about her, but thinks she is too weird. At school she has no friends left and is often bullied, but smiles (sometimes creepily). He doesn't know she helps take care of his grandpa.

She often encounters many criminals where she has to take masks. She fights them off and accidentally keeps crime rates down. Her neighborhood is not safe and many strays have been disappearing too.

There is a group who wants the power of the reaper and the Mask Seller. The group has been taking in people and cats to try to get masks for themselves.

Ok, here me out. My favorite movie concept is A Whisker Away and how does Rei not fit in?

Let's take out the main plot of love and make it Rei learning to face his problems. He lives alone nearby the city, in-between his village. He has not had the courage to go back to his village ever since he ran away to live alone.

In Whisker Away there is a cat mask seller who trades bodies, but I want Rei's village to be the origins of the cat masks. Rai's family are the original mask sellers and Rei took one of their masks for himself to run away.

He uses the cat mask to visit his family in secret and to watch over them, never able to face them in his true form.

He also struggles to reach out to his peers at school since he is behind. He is seen as an outcast for his academic performance and looks.

He one day stumbles upon the new transfer student Max and his foreign friends Takao, Professor, Hiromi, and Kai. He is jealous of how easy Max has it and is too afraid to approach him.

Max befriends Rei in his cat form and Rei often looks out for him. Max teaches Rei to face problems head on. He instills courage in Rei and even befriends him in his human form.

I've been watching too much beyblade and now it has unlocked a memory of my OC I made in the height of Metal Fusion. Time to have a small crack at some old beyblade story (inspired by some canon beyblade like X and 2000).

Jackie is a two year champion who is bored of the game she once loved. She has become pretty apathetic to everything and has not seen a challenge in a lone time. None of her teammates recognize her.

She recently helped build a Beyblade school and it has become very popular. It is known for being super brutal and pretty unlivable currently. When classes are done, everything is decided by Beyblade. The more wins, the better it is to live there. Food, uniforms, and hierarchy are some examples. Sometimes wealth, information, or secrets are also rewards.

It has become a sort of battle tower. Something entertaining until the summer tournament starts. Anyone can take down the currently champion on the off-season.

The story starts with a girl named Katja who enters into the school. She loves the game and plans to get to the top. She becomes the new girl to get picked on because of her appearance.

She befriends a really adorable girl named Nicole who also gets picked on. Katja has always been a bit of a crybaby so she relies on that older sister figure of Nicole.

She makes enemies with the best blader on her level, Kephry. They battle it out and Katja turns out to be better than everyone expected. Kephry is immediately smitten with her and they become rivals/friends.

They get introduced to Kephry's repairman Nads. She's in a special group at the academy and does not fall under a strict hierarchy unlike everyone else. Repairman are needed throughout the whole year, but sometimes are not respected. The best repairmen are the ones who work for the upper floors.

Katja then confesses that she came to the school to bring her sister home. She moved out to live there and Katja misses her a lot.

Now Katja must rise to the top to meet her sister.

Pokemon Games' Logic does not make sense.

I was actually really happy to write that about witch!Max and familiar!Rei. I think we need more cool and awesome AUs for beyblade.

I just had a cool backstory idea for Rei the Familiar so I'll just write it down.

Rei is a descendant of the Tiger from the fable of the Great Race. His powers are not as powerful as the original, but he has adapted and learned.

He has travelled to many places, sometimes showing off his true form or powers. He has been compared to a god and been praised for his loyalty towards humans.

During this journeys, many have turned on him for his powers and tried to use them for their own deeds. Rei cannot stand these types of people and have reigned thunderstorms for years upon those who try to use him for selfish purposes. Many see him as cursed now.

He has learned to read people very well. Upon meeting Max, he knows he is a good person but very flawed just like everyone else. He does not fully trust him, but he returns good deeds tenfold. This is why he has agreed to become his partner and work with him to succeed in school.

Sometimes, Max and his friends remind him about the good of humanity despite how corrupt their world is now with the witch hierarchy and reliance of magic. They show high promise and have proven they are worthy of his friendship.

It would be cool for Rei to know Takao, Kai, and Max's ancestors. Their family crests were not just a coincidence by their grandparents. The four of them share some sort of bond and were destined to meet.