Honestly, call me a hipster- But I reeaaaaaaly hope we don't get another character like The Doorman. I've already reluctantly accepted that Baba probably is more than she seems, given the whole "I don't need the patrons, the patrons need me," (though I kinda hope/think that's just posturing)
The more characters we get that are: "Normal looking person who's hiding that they're a ~supernatural being~ with ~great power~" the less cool the character who introduced that idea becomes, and by extension, the patrons themselves.
So, yeah, I think it'd be more interesting for her to just be a normal art student with paint/ink magic. The mundane is necessary in order for the mystical to stay interesting. Violet is perfectly fine being "Just a girl with art magic". She'll feel right at home in the cast, just like Holliday (Normal person who is a cowboy) and Paige (normal person with book magic).
I mean, Baba being more than she seems is just that she seems like Baba Yaga, an eastern European forest dwelling old ugly witch with a hut that has chicken legs that cooks and eats children and has some friendship/dominion over forest animals, but now translated into 1900s magical New York. The most forest dwelling old lady thing you could do there is be on a park bench, so now it has chicken legs, and the only animals are pigeons (and rats but that's taken) which are often fed by old ladies.
It feels like a very natural extension of the old witch classic in a fun and funny way that is more unique (to most audiences) than a black pointy hat on a broomstick or some magic academy professor.
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u/Skellington876 Sinclair 14d ago edited 14d ago
I cant wait for this shit to end when its finally revealed "OH SHE'S PLAIN ON PURPOSE CAUSE SHE'S A DEMON PRETENDING TO BE HUMAN"