
Powers: CA
Well, the Witch and the Heir are the active-passive pair for the Manipulator classes. While the name may imply the Witch class being female-exclusive, there has been no indication of such a thing in the canon. These classes tend to have a more familial bond to their Aspects, the Witch having a more parental bond as compared to the Heir’s filial one. The Witch manipulates their Aspect to conform to them, to do what they desire. They teach it, and with this potential, comes a tendency for the Witch to deviate from their responsibilities by inverting. Jade Harley and Damara Megido (as the Witches of Space and Time, respectively) both inverted, although the former was by natural passivity, and Damara’s was more of a sudden shock. Anyway, both ended up inverting, denying their responsibility to act…well, I would say selfishly, but that’s not quite right…they acted in a way they were predisposed to, Damara immaturely, and Jade as more of a planner than someone to jump right into things.
So, the Witch of Hope, what can they do? Well, the Aspect they would be manipulating is Hope, and Hope is the Aspect of energy and faith. This means that, while the Witch would be unable to create faith in themselves, they could alter the allocation of people’s faith, like how people distribute existing experience points and the like when starting up a tabletop roleplay, or an RPG. While their actions after the fact might inspire more faith in them, they cannot directly make themselves an object of faith. While this might not seem horribly helpful, let me tell you now that faith is a very powerful thing, and a change in faith results in a change of actions. The Witch of Hope will always be defended by people’s intrinsic faith in them, something that, while they cannot understand, they do not have the will or desire to not trust.
In addition to the power of hope and faith and the like, the Witch of Hope would be able to manipulate the pure energy of Hope, teach that energy to weaponize itself, to defend them naturally. Its eyes would extend further than the Witch’s, and when it is finally taught to defend the Witch, it will do so easily and nearly without fail, shooting lasers to get rid of enemies, bringing up shields in response to people’s attacks. This immunity to most attacks will be like an involuntary muscular response in its being the responsibility of something else, but it requires a very skilled Witch, though, so practice, practice, practice. In the meantime, though, shooting people with lasers of pure Hope energy is pretty cool.
This Witch would originally have inverted themselves into the Seer of Rage. They would originally be more passive, able to see why people among their friends are angry. They would intrinsically know if people are angry and why, which they would then tell their friends in the hope of it being fixed. Once they get into the game, though, they stop noticing problems among their friends and start fixing them.
In any case, the natural faith that is placed in the Witch of Hope and their skill on the battlefield and inclination to fixing problems would make them an optimal choice for leader…except Witches don’t do responsibility. They would be a soldier, not the king. Skilled, incredibly so, but they wouldn’t want to go anywhere near the head position of the team, and given their newfound insensitivity to their friend’s anger, that may be all the better for the team.