Anonymous asked: Ugh, I hate the Wizards Rule episode, because it messes up the canon. PB never had a problem with magic before or after that episode. In the first Five Short Grabels she used magic to create the perfect bread for Cinnamon Buns sandwich. In Mortal Folly she gave Finn the gem to "protect him from the Lich´s spells". In the Sky Witch episode (after Wizards Rule) she has an instrument that detects magic. I think the writers messed up in Wizards Rule.
I hear you on that. I was having some trouble writing that response keeping in mind specifically her connections with Billy’s gauntlet and the Enchiridion from early seasons, not to mention the amulet that Shoko stole in The Vault.
So I went back and watched those episodes in particular and something that I noticed was: she never explicitly refers to any one of those things - the Enchiridion, the Gauntlet of the Hero, the Mortal Folly gems, the googoomamameter, or the amulet - as ‘magical’.
Repeating the Wizards Only, Fools GIF, the opinion that she puts forth is ‘magic exists, it just has a scientific and quantifiable explanation’. Her problem is pretending that magic is anything that simply can’t be understood and explained.
At the beginning of the episode, she gave a little more context to clarify that:
That’s the sense in which she hates magic. She’s rather earthy in that way. Ultimately, she refused to say ‘Wizards rule’ and show support for an attitude that she wholly disapproves of. Now, in Five Short Graybles, she DOES get a bit witchy…
…and this may sound like a cop out [I’m honestly just offering it in lieu of hard evidence], but it’s possible that, as she’s wearing her lab coat and goggles, she’d just initiated a chemical reaction and was ~performing a spell~ in jest while waiting for the reaction to finish. It wouldn’t be the only time.
It’s tricky to place Peppermint Butler’s magic on PB’s scale of ‘hating magic’ vs. accepting ‘magical’ outcomes as science, but we wager it’s still likely to be a deal-breaker for PB. PepBut’s connections and abilities, at least to us, paint him as a potential threat to her kingdom should his loyalties ever stray.
