Wish

Stern-And-True-Justice, Vengeance, Tenacity, Unrelenting, Unforgiving and Drama (step-sisters)

Encanzo (step-father)

Looter and Xar (step-brothers)

## Biography

Wish is a fighter and a Warrior by birth, but not the ideal fighter her mother hoped for in a child, given her small stature and one useable eye. She also has magic. And not just any magic, but The-Kind-Of-Magic-That-Works-On-Iron, despite the fact she was a warrior. The reason for Wish's impossible gift was because, long ago, when her mother was a wild young princess, not so unlike herself, Sychorax had fallen in love with a young wizard called Algorquprqin (or Tor for short and is now known as Encanzo). However, soon afterwards, tragedy struck, as Sychorax, who's throne had been stolen when she was young by an evil cousin, finally got her wish of gaining the throne when her evil cousin died. Since the queen of Warriors cannot marry a Wizard, though Sychorax no longer wanted it, for the sake of the warriors, she had to, since, if she did not, one of her evil cousins who rule, with their overbearingly cruel taxes, and their wars-of-vengeance, and their endless thirst for such delicacies as blood-of-werecats-mixed-with-evertaste-berries-and-whipped-cream, which may have been delicious, but was costly in human lives. Because of this, Sychorax travelled through the Witch Mountains to the a giant-built castle known as Castle Death, where a incredibly powerful wizard named Pentaglion lived with his giant, Proponderous, one of the last true ancient giants in the land, frost sprite, Eleanor Rose (which wasn't her true name but it was a pretty one) and baby Loner Raving Fangmouth Werewolf Lonesome, was experimenting in the mystic and dangerous art of looking into the future, with whom she tried to look into the future, where she saw if she did not become queen, a curse would fall on the wildwoods and the witches would return (although it is possible that the vision actually showed what would happen if she did try to avoid it, as the curse fell on the wildwoods anyway). Trying to avoid this future, Pentaglion gave Sychorax the Spell of Love Denied and as Sychorax drank it, the love within her died. Sychorax became the warrior's queen, and married a warrior as she was supposed to. And Algorquprqin, who became the great wizard Encanzo, king of the wizards and all the magical wildwoods, married a wizard as he was supposed to. But behind Sychorax's cold iron breastplates, a true loves kiss still remained, and, when she gave birth to her daughter, Wish, the kiss gave her daughter magic, despite Wish being the child of two warriors. Sometime before the beginning of the series, Wish's father died in a battle against the Grimogres. Finally at the age of 13, when a wizard's magic comes in, Wish's strange magic began, and plenty of odd things began to happening to her. Needles wriggling to life in her hands, rugs inexplicably moving beneath her feet or curling up at the edges when she stepped on them. Objects she touched, slipping through her hands like water or tingling with electricity when she put her fingers on them… things that she thought she had put in one place, turning up unexpectedly in another… her hair lifting up when she met particular people or entered certain rooms, and softly wriggling itself into a bird’s nest of tangles… clothes ripping… shoes coming loose… keys going missing…. She’d thought it was just her being forgetful, and clumsy, and absentminded, even more useless than she generally was, but in fact it was her magic. A some point in time, a boy named Bodkin, who was about wish's age and came from a family of Assistant Bodyguards to Iron Warrior Royalty, became her assistant bodyguard, much to Bodkin's intense discomfit, because he didn't like fighting, her had a medical condition that caused him to fall asleep in occasions of extreme danger and trying to control the uncontrollable little princess was impossible, as she seemed to have no idea what rules were. She also unknowingly enchanted a iron dinner spoon to come alive, and when she found out, she decided to keep it as a pet. Finally, a day before the series began, Wish found a large, ancient-looking Iron sword with the words, ONCE THERE WERE WITCHES ... BUT I KILLED THEM, which she decided to keep for a bit, despite the announcement on the morning of the series' beginning about the sword's disappearance from her mother's Underground Dungeons.

## Physical Appearance

> "*Warrior princesses, of course, ought to be impressively tall and absolutely terrifying, like Wish’s mother, Queen Sychorax. But Wish was neither scary nor large. Wish had a curious little face that was rather too interested in the world around her and hair that stuck out too wispily, as if she’d accidentally hit some unnoticed bit of static electricity. A black patch covered her left eye.*"
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Unlike her mother and her siblings, Wish is not intimidating in stature. Instead, she is small and skinny in build. Her hair has a wispy texture, as if she was electrocuted.

She wears a black patch over her right eye, which is a Magic Eye. It is larger than her left eye, and marked by a deep scratch. The skin around her right eye is heavily bruised. It is said to be "a color that no one had ever seen before", and is described as being "both warm and cold at the same time, a colour that reminded you of volcanoes, of thunderstorms, of electricity, of POWER". Caliburn deduces that her right eye is "the colour of Magic-that-works-on-iron". Wish has a limp, and so one of her legs is a bit funky.

## Personality and Traits

*"I like you, I know you mean well, but let's face it, the reason you haven't got any friends is, you're a bit weird, and weird doesn't go down well in Warrior fort. You need to try and be more normal."*

—Bodkin to Wish

Wish is an unconventional Warrior. It is said she is lonely, and does not fit in. Wish is kind; when her pet spoon ran away, she tried to console it like one might an animal — by stroking it and making soothing noises. She is also quite protective, most notably of her spoon and cares a lot about her companions, particularly Squeezjoos. She was against the idea of removing the spoon's magic from it, despite Bodkin claiming it would be a painless process, and would not release it into the wild.

Wish does not think very highly of herself. At one point, she described herself as ordinary. However, she is not content with being mundane. Wish wanted to keep the Enchanted Sword for a while under the pretense it was hers so she could feel special.

Unlike other Warriors, Wish have a more positive view Magic, especially after meeting and beginning her adventures with Xar. It is clear she does not understand her mother's apparent hatred of it. Her logic is that some Magic being bad does not equate to all Magic being so. She has a curious nature; she frequently questions the Warriors' view towards Magic, much to Bodkin's distress.

## Abilities and Skills

*"That's impossible... what are you saying? You're saying that I can die and come back to life?"*

—Wish to Xar and Caliburn

* **Magic Eye**: Very few Wizards are born with a Magic Eye. It grants one very potent Magic, but at the expense of being difficult to control. Often, it will belong to an enchanter with more than one life. Wish's Magic Eye is unlike any other Magic in that it is able to work on Iron.
* **Magic-That-Works-On-Iron:** Wish possesses an extremely rare form of magic in the form of Magic-That-Works-On-Iron, which does exactly what it sounds like it does. The Kingwitch wants this magic so that he and his Witches can destroy the Warriors. Wish's Magic is what gave the Enchanted Spoon life.

*"What we have just witnessed is one of the most extraordinary sights in the entire universe: that of a Great Enchanter regenerating themselves."*

—Caliburn after Wish's first regeneration

* **Regeneration**: Being a Great Enchanter, Wish has more than one life. When she loses one, she is able to regenerate herself. When she does this, her body will reform entirely if damaged. But they don’t know how many lives she has so she could die and not come back to life because she used all of her lives up.

## Possessions

*"That pet of yours is a SPOON!"*

—Bodkin upon discovering the true nature of Wish's pet

* **Eyepatch**: A black patch Wish wears over her Magic Eye. It is necessary as Magic Eyes are very powerful Magic and hard to control, but it is unknown why Wish was wearing it before she knew she had a Magic Eye.

* **Enchanted Spoon:** A large, iron dinner spoon that was enchanted into being alive. As Magic enchanted objects are banned from the Warrior fort, Wish is forbidden from owning it. However, she is quite attached to it, treating it like a pet.
* **Spelling Book**: Formally Belonging to Xar, the Spelling Book was given to Wish by Caliburn before Xar and his companions escaped Iron Warrior Fort in The Wizards of Once in case Witches or other users of magic with evil hearts and strong dark magic came after her. Under her ownership, Wish would add the words " I ❤ Spoons" with a picture of her spoon next to it. She also wrote out her "New Yeer's Resolutions" and past quite a bit of her time when she was in Madam Dreadlock's Punishment Cupboard reading through the Spelling Book, including the Write Your Own Stories Section, where she spent some of her time reading Xar's collection of made-up Stories about Xar being the Boy of Destiny and writing her own stories, along with her "Noo Year's Ressolushuns" and the ingredients and instruction of how to make A Spell To Get Rid Of Witches
* **Enchanted Key, Fork, and Pins**
* The enchanted key, fork and pins are more of wish’s companions like spoon they are alive brought to life by wish even though she brought fork to life by accident like spoon she still loves them and there her really good companions

## Relationships

### **Family (mother)**

#### **Queen Sychorax**

*"But you have willfully and inexplicably decided to go in an entirely different direction! I'm not sure why you think it's a good idea to look so ODD... so lopsided... so..."*

—Queen Sychorax to Wish after asking why she can't be more like her sisters

Wish is somewhat of a disappointment to Sychorax. She thinks that Wish is a failure as a Warrior, and should try harder to be a fearsome and terrifying princess. However, the ending of the first book reveals that she does care for her daughter and is willing to listen to her when the time calls and was horrified when it was revealed to her that the blue dust raining down after Wish imprisoned the Kingwitch in a giant ball of iron in Twice Magic and was relieved when Wish regenerated. After getting over her relief, Queen Sychorax became determined to lock her daughter up in her iron fort so the witches could not get their claws on her, and was enraged after catching her daughter three weeks after wish broke her promise and ran away with Xar, Bodkin and their companions, calling her a embarrassment and traitor and a disgrace to her tribe, a sentence that caused wish to rebel against her parent.

> "*In Wish’s eyes, her mother was the most wonderful, beautiful, splendid person in the entire world.*"
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#### **Step Sisters**

All powerful, traditional warrior girls who do their mother proud. Wish does not have a good relationship with Stern-And-True-Justice, Vengeance, Tenacity, Unrelenting, Unforgiving and Drama, the latter often calling her a weird little rat and other mean names.

### **Friends**

#### **Bodkin**

Her bodyguard and staunch ally, who has stayed by her through the most harrowing adventures. Although Wish is a lot to handle as a person, due to her habit of not appearing to known what rules are, Bodkin truly does care about her a lot, and tries to protect her in any way he can despite his fainting medical issue. Their friendship is nice, but, in Warrior company, is very professional, and stays inside the boundaries of the rule book. Despite this both of them trust each other completely and Wish was terribly afraid of Bodkin's fate when he left Pook's Hill on a Shadow Quest for the Scales of the Nucklavee of the Western Whirlpool, immediately pursing him.

#### **Xar**

The boy who kidnapped, then befriended her. A terrible flake, and very aggravating, but good-hearted and cares about her. It is revealed in Twice Magic that Wish and Xar are technically distant siblings in a way, because of an incident involving their mother and father respectively that had happened so long ago. Other than that, Wish and Xar have a charming friendship, and they work together really well despite being a bit opposite to one another. They do get into their fair share of arguments however, mostly out of ancestral habit and because of how wizards and warriors have been raised to hate each other like poison but mainly they get along well. After Encanzo and Sychorax married and formed the United Wildwoods, the two became step-siblings

#### **Enchanted** **Spoon**

Spoon. The best spoon. One she created with her Magic-that-works-on-iron.

#### **Squeezjoos**

Like Xar, Wish greatly loved the young sprite, striking a friendship with him almost immediately, Squeezjoos taking a liking to her hair, saving her life by taking the witchblood that would have dripped on her hand had he not intervened. This was what partly causes the warrior princess to help Xar sneak into Iron Warrior Fort to save the hairy fairy and was relieved when Squeezjoos was saved and saddened when both when't separate ways, Wish remaining in the fort while Squeezjoos and Xar were escaping back to the Wizard Camp and was delighted to see him again in Twice Magic and was heartbroken when they had to leave a witchblood-infected Squeezjoos on the Isle of the Nucklavee with a ball of iron-imprisoned the Kingwitch and the invading Witch army at the end of Knock Three Times, promising to rescue him, since, as the Unknown Narrator clarifies, he (the Kingwitch) has Squeezjoos and Xar and Wish will never abandon Squeezjoos.

## Appearances

* *The Wizards of Once*
* *The Wizards of Once: Twice Magic*
* *The Wizards of Once: Knock Three Times*
* *The Wizards of Once: Never and Forever*

## Trivia

* Wish is not in fact her real name. In fact, her real name is never disclosed, except for its lengthy nature. Later, she changes her name to Morgana la Fay, as is wizarding convention.
* Wish is heavily implied to have dyslexia, as she has troubles with spelling and says that the letters “wander around in her head, and she forgets what she was spelling.”