@Holy SoldierSo um...
Me and Vita worked pretty heavily together on the twins so I can probably answer a few of your questions regarding her character I guess? ^^; I mean she's a black mage in the fact that she uses primarily offensive spells. I'll admit that she was most likely basing all the non-elemental laser spells on the fact that she
really likes Touhou, but I figured that would probably be fine because of stuff like D&D (which has non-elemental spells like Magic Missile and Eldritch Blast* as low level spells way before you get stuff like Fireball and Lightning Bolt), and because admittedly one of my favourite fantasy anime is Slayers and in that universe black magic and elemental magic are two seperate things. I assume some of the first new things she'd learn over the course of the RP would be elemental spells anyways, but yeah. As for the witch-y trappings... I assume that's just how the girls of Loch Wor traditionally dress, really. The animate broom spell was actually a suggestion of mine for two reasons: to give her a "utility" spell, and to help emphasise her laziness.
I'm not entirely sure what the "Dark Souls" stuff you saw in there was, but then I've never played any of those games so... Yeah. ^^; I know that wasn't exactly what she was aiming for, though, since whilst she's a fan of the series she kind of made it clear that she thought this isn't the kind of game for that sort of stuff. ...That and I'm pretty sure a pair of mage twins named Hocus and Pocus who come from the punnily named Loch Wor (both of these are my fault, since I kind of like punny names for fantasy stuff ^^;) wouldn't exactly fit into a Dark Souls kind of setting from what I know about it anyways. XD
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Okay I know Eldritch Blast is a warlock spell and not a wizard spell but it's probably the best example of a low level non-elemental "laser" spell.