History ComicBook / TheWitchBoy

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Charlie is the only person who's openly cool with Aster being a witch, if only because as a {{Muggle}}, she has no frame of reference for what magical folk would consider "normal" or "proper." Furthermore, she has two fathers and chafes at the gender segregation of her school's sports, further compelling her to sympathize with Aster for being "different."

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Everyone in Aster's woodland community is always barefoot, making them {{Magical Barefooter}}s and {{Earthy Barefoot Character}}s.

* HasTwoMommies: Charlie has two gay dads.

* DarkSkinnedRedhead: Aster has his mother's red hair and his father's dark skin. However, he is far from a FieryRedhead in personality.

* MixedAncestry: Aster, along with his sister, have an AmbiguouslyBrown father and Caucasian mother.

* MagicIsFeminine: Aster is part of a magical family in which boys are born to be shapeshifters and girls are born to become witches who learn magic. Aster is a boy who wants to learn magic but is forbidden by his family due to an incident in the past when his great-uncle learned magic and caused chaos. [[spoiler:It is ultimately revealed that Aster and his great-Uncle are born with the ability to do use magic despite being male]].

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Aster's father has brown skin and features which clearly are not Caucasian, but more than that isn't specified in the comic. His mother appears Caucasian with fair skin and red hair but his grandmother and great-uncle are apparently of Asian ancestry. The Netflix adaptation casting call asks [[https://twitter.com/parkkennypark/status/1380327958410260483?lang=en for a half-black, half-Asian boy to portray Aster]], if that helps determine anything.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Aster's father has brown skin and features which clearly are not Caucasian, but more than that isn't specified in the comic. His mother appears Caucasian with fair skin and red hair but his grandmother and great-uncle are apparently of Asian ancestry. The Netflix adaptation asks for a half-black, half-Asian boy to portray Aster, if that helps determine anything.

* AllThereInTheScript: The [[https://twitter.com/parkkennypark/status/1380327958410260483 casting call]] for Aster in the film states that he's a non-binary half-black, half-Asian boy.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Aster's father has brown skin and features which clearly are not Caucasian, but more than that isn't specified in the comic.

* TomboyishName: Charlie is an athletic tomboy who's mostly addressed with this nickname, and her full name Charlotte is rarely.

* AllThereInTheScript: The [[https://twitter.com/parkkennypark/status/1380327958410260483 casting call]] for Asher in the Netflix movie states that he is male non-binary.

Aster is one son of a magical family living in a hidden part of the woods. Traditionally, boys have been raised to become shapeshifters, who use their animal forms to defend their dwellings from demons. As for girls, they are trained in the arts of spells, becoming witches who maintain their homes and forest. Aster, however, has failed the shapeshifting ceremony several years in a row, and has much more interest in studying spells and becoming a witch.

* HistoryRepeats: Aster's family worry about his desire to learn witchery because his great-uncle Mikasi went mad after attempting to use witchery. [[spoiler:The connection goes further as Mikasi was also a man who was unable to transform into an animal spirit. However, Aster breaks the cycle by being comfortable with his magic in place of transformation, while Mikasi tried to use witchery to transform and so was mutated.]]

It received a sequel in October 2018, titled ''ComicBook/TheHiddenWitch'', followed by ''ComicBook/TheMidwinterWitch'' in November 2019.