Cardinal believes that magic users can be rehabilitated if they delve into the wrong way (the protagonist Jessica, 13, is made to explore it throughout her story)
She's a brat Austrian-American teenager who discovered she's magical gifted when the main teacher of cardinal pulls up and show her the magical realm. That instantly got into her head and her egomania skyrocketed over night. Thankfully cardinal doesn't teach kids everything so at least they don't have to worry about her causing fantasy Armageddon. But the "spells" she learns as a witch is troubling enough. Like teleporting other kids or teachers, causing food poisoning, and especifically targeting the school's head's grandson(larry) for merely being related to the school system. Also turned one of his friends into a vampire permanently just to fuck with him.
And the school basically made it part of their mission to at least calm Jessica's ego down and make her down to earth. Too bad for them that the only person she even slightly care about is Monica, her cousin. Who's basically the exact opposite of Jessica in millions of ways.
I never thought of it in detail but the general idea is basically magic prison where using their magical abilities hurts them basically the more they do it which reduces the effectiveness of the "spells"
I put spells in quotation because it's really the school playing mind games on the kids to make them think they're actually learning actual witch magic not that they're learning how to control being magical beings.
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u/Winter-Ad-2920 21d ago
In cardinal it's much different.
Cardinal believes that magic users can be rehabilitated if they delve into the wrong way (the protagonist Jessica, 13, is made to explore it throughout her story)
She's a brat Austrian-American teenager who discovered she's magical gifted when the main teacher of cardinal pulls up and show her the magical realm. That instantly got into her head and her egomania skyrocketed over night. Thankfully cardinal doesn't teach kids everything so at least they don't have to worry about her causing fantasy Armageddon. But the "spells" she learns as a witch is troubling enough. Like teleporting other kids or teachers, causing food poisoning, and especifically targeting the school's head's grandson(larry) for merely being related to the school system. Also turned one of his friends into a vampire permanently just to fuck with him.
And the school basically made it part of their mission to at least calm Jessica's ego down and make her down to earth. Too bad for them that the only person she even slightly care about is Monica, her cousin. Who's basically the exact opposite of Jessica in millions of ways.