Sorry, Sunday's are even more exhausting for me right now.
I had a random thought. I'm especially interested in your opinions, @Dyna-X and @Aquarius. I wonder if feathers is a self-taught Wiccan or witch (she tends to go back and forth between the terms). I think that would explain her mishmashed beliefs and pronunciations. I could see her being one of those who, if she was part of a coven, never really interacted face to face. She's more of a solitary person from everything I've seen. Unless the attitude came later, and whether she knows it or not, she comes across as a very arrogant know-it-all. I don't think most covens would put up with those sort of antics. At the very least, they would not approve of her constant violation of the "harm none" rule. Even making threats is considered inappropriate behavior to most.
There's nothing wrong with being self-taught, but her outright behavior over the whole thing comes off less Minerva McGonagall in Harry Potter and more Nancy Downs in The Craft to put it into modern terms.
I think she genuinely involved with a coven in the NROOGD for at least a time, but it didn't work out for her and like you guess, she is mostly a solitary practitioner. I think she understands the rules whether they be written or not as subjective as they apply to herself and very objective and black and white as they apply to others. I believe her knowledge is fairly advanced when it comes to magikal practices that may benefit her and less well rounded when it comes to traditions unless she found a given practice entertaining. She is ambivalent about what hand path she takes and is probably a type of chaos mage that keeps a cultural shell of being a witch (imagery, decor) because that is all she has ever known and is somewhat insecure in her spiritual identity. Part of her prefers the more mainstream appearance identity and this has I think created kind of a schism in her mind.
BTW, Last night's pronunciation of Samhain was to line herself with the band's pronunciation (She knows the correct one.)
