I always wide-eyed people who call Estger the Original witch because a) just completely inaccurate there were witches well before her and that’s noted in the episode explaining her origins, and b) the spell that made her famous was stolen from Ayanna Bennett who was an ancestor of Qetsiyah, the originator of that spell. Pretty much everything she did was built on the backs of the Bennetts, they just don’t get the credit–they never get the credit they just always end up in the servant position while the show kept trying to pass it off as “best friend” or my personal favorite “handmaiden”.

The moment Esther is introduced, the first white witch on the show, is the moment witches started getting more agency, but only of they were white. With her introduction the number of black witches, the default up until that point, starts dwindling, and it was as though Plec was saying, “ah, witches I can finally write for” because it was only then that they stopped being servants.

So after observing this I don’t mess with white witches on the show whether it be Hope, or Wonder twins, or even Liv and Luke. I need more than them being white to explain their emense power and agency, which Kai had. I knew why he was so powerful, first dependent on the amount of power he absorbed, then due to the fact that the collective power of the Gemini coven.

And then there’s Bonnie, there’s almost a “chosen one” attribute to her, but she never gets to enjoy it, she never gets to have agency over her magic which is what eliminates her from that category, but that doesn’t stop people from complaining. Over the years I’ve seen more complaints about the Bennetts being apart of every big magical event than I have about Hope, and the wonder twins near God like level of magic which is crazy when you consider they’re all plot-hole characters to begin with. It angers people that Bonnie is supposed to be so powerful which after all she had been through I don’t understand why. There’s more explanation for her prowess as a witch than there has been for any other character, but they didn’t have issues with that.

So in short, I’m tired of the “white chosen one” narrative too especially even within these narratives the Bennett line has done more impressive things, they just are never acknowledged.