''Witches' Reign'' is a crossover roleplay hosted on Dreamwidth. It's premised on the characters from various worlds finding themselves in Balamb Garden twenty-one years after the events of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', as a side effect of Ultimecia's attempts to make time one single moment at the climax of that game.

As either Cadets, Instructors, or [=SeeDs=], characters are expected to learn the rigors and rules of a top-notch mercenary organization and accordingly work with it until they can find a way back to their homeworlds. That, however, is much easier said than done.

It is found [[http://witchesreign.dreamwidth.org/profile here,]] though the last update occurred in 2014.
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!!''Witches' Reign'' provides examples of:
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* AcademyOfAdventure: Even without the shenanigans of time compression, Garden teaches kids how to use magic and mystical forces as well as the usual SpySchool fare.
* AllAnimalsAreDomesticated: Subverted: Claire is mildly weirded out by the fact that this world's chocobos are not, unlike the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII XIII]] world's.
* AllElectionsAreSeriousBusiness: Grell threatens to kill people who don't vote for her for Homecoming Princess; Tom thinks something would have exploded if she or Sharpay hadn't won their respective titles. Subverted by all the other [=SeeD=] candidates, who didn't care about or want their titles.
* AmazonBrigade: The roleplay's roster consists of a disproportionate number of cute, friendly, capable girls.
* BagOfSharing: If the school has access to one canon Guardian Force, every character can junction it.
%%* BeachEpisode: Kiden throws together a weekend trip to the beach. IntoxicationEnsues.
* BigBrotherInstinct: [[ComicBook/SonicTheComic Espio]]. One reason not to mess with Tobias.
* ClassTrip: While Garden is on break in Esthar, students are invited to the presidential palace and to Odin's laboratory.
* CompetenceZone: Subverted. The minimum age for taking the [=SeeD=] field exam is 15, which many of the younger kids, heroes or deadly assassins in their own canons, are not impressed with. The maximum age for attaining [=SeeDship=] is 25, but the Headmaster seems to have turned a blind eye to several of the older characters, and some of the immortals are outright lying about their ages.
%%* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Barnaby considers Pinkie Pie one. %%Why?
* DullSurprise: [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Seifer]]-mun's reaction towards everything. Including you.
* ElaborateUniversityHigh: Balamb Garden, reprising its role from its home series.
* EyepatchAfterTimeSkip: Tobias, though it's less a typical eyepatch and more of a medical one.
* FantasticRacism: Many of the natives of the [=VIII=] world do not look kindly on off-worlders, most notably an [=NPC=] GirlPosse.
%%* FantasticReligiousWeirdness: Played straight with [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Damian]].
* FoodFight: During the superpowers event, fuelled by Zephyr's sudden ability to generate baked goods and Kiden's sudden invisibility.
* FundraiserCarnival: Subverted: The carnival was originally just part of homecoming, but then the Garden Festival Committee decided to give the funds to charity.
* GlobalAirship: Besides the Ragnarok, Espio has donated his own airship to Garden. On the other side, an old-school Final Fantasy style airship -- a literal ship with propellers instead of sails -- has fallen into the hands of a different faction.
* GuestFighter:
** [[Creator/DCComics Impulse]] holds a superhero party, attended mostly by the DC and Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}} casts, but also [[AlternateUniverse Miracle]] [[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya Mikuru]], [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Pinkie Pie]], and [[Manga/DogsBulletsAndCarnage Luki]].
** Played with when ''enemies'' from other worlds start turning up and destroying things... including ComMons from Franchise/{{Pokemon}} in the tall grass.
%%* GymClassHell: Jecht's swimming class.
* HeroicBSOD: [[ComicBook/SonicTheComic Espio]] goes through one when he sees his home reality implode.
* HighSchoolDance: Valentine's and homecoming dances are added to the graduation ball returning from the original game.
* HumanityEnsues: Temporarily achievable via a potion invented by [[Literature/HarryPotter Professor Slughorn]].
* HypocriticalHumor: Sharpay breaks curfew to have a New Year's countdown with Tom, and clears out the secret area to do so by telling everyone off for breaking curfew.
* IncrediblyLamePun:
** This being a spooky jamjar game, there was an event that involved a [[http://witchesreign.dreamwidth.org/403803.html portal to the jam dimension]].
** No one was happy when the mod revealed [[http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/042/1/c/strangely_obsessed_with_tubs_of_jelly_by_perinigricon-d4pd5d1.png where the jam actually came from]].
* [[InformedJudaism Informed Islam]]: Subverted with [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Damian Razem]]. Although he seems like a Muslim who's more show than tell, his constant use of Arabic and subtle obedience towards his religion indicates that he's more than just talk.
* InstantFanClub: That same NPC GirlPosse happen to be Trepies, and also think [[HotTeacher Snow]] is quite good-looking.
* LeaningOnTheFurniture: If there is any furniture, it's [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Seifer]]'s now.
* MilitarySuperhero: Played straight for any of the characters from either the Franchise/DCUniverse or Franchise/MarvelUniverse, as they're superheroes who have graduated or will graduate and work for Garden as part of its mercenary force.
* MistakenForPregnant: Espio leaves his turnip stash in Marco's dorm room without telling him; Marco leaps to the conclusion that it is a message from Grell in vegetable language.
* TheNapoleon: [[WesternAnimation/InvaderZim Zim,]] since his classmates are mostly normal-human-sized... and he ran into [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII Snow]] not long after enrolling.
* NextSundayAD: Despite being set twenty-one years after ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', it appears that science has not progressed.
* OrganizationWithUnlimitedFunding:
** Now that students are sponsored by outside groups, Garden has the money to quickly build an adults' lounge on a newcomer's request while they have the dorms renovated.
%%* PapaWolf: [[Manga/OnePiece Marco]]. Another reason you don't mess with Tobias.
* RealitySubtext: When the game moved to Dreamwidth, the characters received wireless-capable laptops and much of the world outside Garden also got a technological upgrade.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Characters applied as [=SeeDs=] have at least a year of handwaved history within the setting, and including CR in this handwave is an option.
* SchoolPlay: The drama classes put one on every quarter, having so far performed ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' set in the first Sorceress War '''WITH LASERS!''' and ''Theatre/{{Cats}}''.
* ShipperOnDeck: Did some characters talk to each other? Miss Tattler ships it now.
%%* StatusEffects: The subject of an entire event within the game.
%%* {{Subject 101}}
* SuperPowersForADay: The focus of a month-long event - some powerless characters received powers, some had new powers swapped for their old ones, some swapped powers with other people, and some unlucky sods were BroughtDownToNormal. Powers received include:
** TheEmpath: Selphie absorbs the emotions of anyone she touches and [[PowerIncontinence can't turn it off]].
** {{Flight}}: Joe, Dick; Danny Masters gets Clark Kent's flight.
** FriendToAllLivingThings: Squall and Sharpay, with the latter's friendliness extending to [[FriendToBugs bugs and monsters]]. Equius also receives Tavros' friendliness.
** IntangibleMan: Clark Kent gets Danny's ghost powers in return.
** {{Invisibility}}: Kiden, who also starts turning things she touches invisible.
** PlayingWithFire: Rolo gets Zuko's Firebending; Espio also gets firepowers.
** TimeStandsStill: Zuko gets [[BlessedWithSuck Rolo's Geass]], making people think this has happened.
** WingedHumanoid: Rinoa gets stuck with the wings from her Angel Wing Limit Break ''all the time''.
%%** HealingHands: Tom.
%%** AnIcePerson: Riku.
%%** MindOverMatter: Cid Raines.
%%** PrehensileHair: Goose.
%%** SuperSpeed: Danny again.
%%** SuperStrength: Danny again; Tavros gets Equius'.
%%** XRayVision: Redglare.
* TeacherStudentRomance: Nothing has developed exclusively in the game, but [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII Snow]] was the Martial Arts Instructor, and Serah was just a student.
%%* ThanksgivingEpisode: Danny invites people to celebrate it with him at the last minute.
* TimeyWimeyBall: Time compression is the cause of, and solution to, every issue that needs a handwaving.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood:
** Garden at large and baked goods.
** Espio has an obsession with turnips. He'll eat them, hoard them, steal them, talk to them, threaten people with them and generally takes it to a ridiculous level. Even the Headmaster has noticed that he loves the things.
* WelcomeBackTraitor:
** Seifer, after the entire events of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', had no trouble getting back into the Garden and resuming his classes. Not everyone has welcomed him, though.
** Done again when Seifer takes TheSlowPath to returning, as a gunblade-smith rather than a student.
* YouthIsWastedOnTheDumb: Applies to practically half the cast, but special mention goes towards [[WesternAnimation/InvaderZim Zim]] for publicly asking for people's DNA samples on the BBS where the teachers could spot him... and Damian for hitting a weapon at Souless![[VideoGame/TalesofSymphonia Colette]] and getting attacked with freaking Judgment in retaliation.
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