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❥ Character Information
Character Name: Rowena MacLeod
Character Age: 300+
Character Species: Human (witch)
Current Health: Alive
Outfit: link (short-sleeved black blouse, red wide-legged pants, high heels and a black jacket)
Character Canon: Supernatural
Link to History: link
Canon Point: Funeralia (season 13, episode 19)
Canon Iteration: Original canon
Canon Iteration Explanation:
Character Age: 300+
Character Species: Human (witch)
Current Health: Alive
Outfit: link (short-sleeved black blouse, red wide-legged pants, high heels and a black jacket)
Character Canon: Supernatural
Link to History: link
Canon Point: Funeralia (season 13, episode 19)
Canon Iteration: Original canon
❥ Folkmore Roles & Attributes
Skills:
★ reading people for filth
★ multilingualism (especially old languages and sigils)
★ running in heels
★ lying/manipulating/being a queen
★ being the sassiest person in the room at all times
Canon Abilities:
★ WITCH. As a witch, Rowena's immortal, immune to ageing and disease but able to be killed by other methods. Rowena has been described by others as a very powerful and dangerous witch, given the liberties she takes in using her magic and her history of using it to hurt other people for her own gains. After practising her craft for centuries, she's incredibly knowledgeable about many forms of magic, skilled in spellwork (and creating spells), using hex bags and Enochian sigils or Druidic runes. Rowena is capable of using her magic to heal herself and others, transform people and objects into other things, astral project, move people and objects telekinetically, conjure illusions, curse others (and remove curses) and has an awareness of other magical (or supernatural) beings, being able to sense them. While Rowena knows many spells, she still relies on grimoires to cast spells that she has never used before along with ingredients.
After unlocking the seal on her magic, her eyes glow purple when she uses magic and her spells take a purple hue to them. She is additionally now able to teleport, see Reapers and in general her spells have become more powerful.
Whilst Rowena is incredibly powerful there are many limitations to her. She can be wounded and killed by injury (and will remain dead if her self-resurrection spell is inactive), can be overpowered by stronger beings, is weakened by iron (limiting her power), can be exhausted by overuse of her magic, and if she cannot verbally speak she cannot cast most of her spells. Rowena is also not a fighter outside of her magic nor physically strong and is easily overpowered.
★ NOTE. Whilst Rowena is incredibly powerful, for centuries she has had a limitation on her magic due to the Grand Coven sealing away some of her power. Whilst she has unlocked her full potential by removing the seal, she recently expended a great deal of magic attacking a Reaper and is currently in a weakened magical state. Though some of that strength will return over time even Rowena stated she doesn't know if her full strength will return. I will also have a hefty permissions post regarding Rowena's magic and won't use it against people without discussion -- Rowena might like to manipulate and control people but she doesn't do it to everyone she meets and I won't cross ooc boundaries. I am also very happy to play by the limits of whatever needs to be set power/distance-wise. She'll be very mad about her magic being limited (again) but it'll give her some motivations to try and unleash herself again (even though she can't).
Rowena also keeps a self-resurrection seal active on her person in case she dies. I'm happy to play by game death rules (especially consequences) even with this, for it to "insta-revive" her at the allowed events and make her come back slowly/normally by game standards otherwise (if she dies). Rowena will also not be able to open portals to other universes, reality warp or summon/banish people into and out of the city. As her spells tend to require ingredients she will have to spend time gathering these.
Role: Myth
Role Qualities/Attributes: Rowena will manifest claws and will be able to see in the dark. I'd like her claws to be tied to her magic, that they'll grow and extend when she's doing magic (and glow purple as her eyes do when she does magic) but be hidden otherwise. The claws will develop during gameplay (and maybe something else will happen later too!)
Role Reasoning: Rowena has done a lot of very bad, terrible shit in her life. Whilst the reasoning for her hardening and what she's done has been to protect herself (who can blame her after her life experiences?) she has become cold, and distant and is very willing to do something terrible if it means protecting herself and gaining more power. She will help the big bads to save her skin and do whatever she feels necessary to survive. Rowena is highly selfish in her motivations and though she can do good and can help save the world she will often offer that help with a caveat of what's in it for me?.
❥ Personality
The first time that Lucifer killed Rowena he snapped her neck and she (acted like she) brushed it off (though feared him). The second time that Lucifer killed her he tortured her first -- he showed her his true face, the one of the devil hidden beneath the vessel that he wears, before burning her and killing her. After Rowena resurrects (again), the fear that she'd already had of him is magnified -- she is terrified of Lucifer and any mention of him, wanting to have nothing to do with any plan that involves him (even stopping him) because of how afraid she is. Rowena remarks that she is haunted by the sight of his true face and this consuming fear is what pushes her to try and find the spell to unlock the seal that had been placed on her magic, something she had known about and had been fine living with because she was powerful anyway. But Lucifer had made her feel powerless and she never wanted to feel that way again, driving her to regain her full power so that she could stop him if he came after her again. For someone who is usually bold and fearless, she feels weak and vulnerable and hates every minute of it.
Sam Winchester. It's a funny thing, something that sneaked up on Rowena and took her a long time to recognise. Sam is the first person in centuries that shows Rowena kindness, that truly listens to her when she talks and he's the first person who believes in her. After spending most of her life shunned for her magic, Sam seeks her out because she's a powerful witch, and she's far from being on friendly terms with the Winchesters at that point. Whilst Rowena betrays the Winchesters from time to time, even trying to kill Dean, she never tries to hurt Sam, instead confiding in him and asking for his help. Their bond slowly develops through conversations, Rowena more quickly agreeing to help Sam than anyone else that asks, Sam offering her advice and caring, and along the way, he becomes something of her protege. When Rowena does attempt to kill him it's done with immense sadness, bringing her to tears at the thought because she doesn't want to kill him she just needs a means to an end, though it's something that Rowena can't go through with. After Rowena's own death, her final death, others comment on the impact that Rowena has had on him, on the fact that she has left all of her magical knowledge and collections to him -- her lifetime's work only accessible to Sam Winchester, her protege. The person that changed her life by being kind to her. Who became her family.
Rowena wishes that she had another chance with her son, though really, she wishes that she could redo much of what happened in his life because of her. She knows that she was a terrible mother and wishes that she could have been a better one, and whilst she claims that she didn't have a choice in leaving her son behind (when he was 8, due to her being chased out of town during the witch hunts) she also never went back for him. Rowena now, with more clarity and reflection on her life, would have gone back for him, would have tried better to raise him and let him make the choices she wished that he had the opportunity to make rather than following in her doomed footsteps. She never knew her grandson, Crowley and Gavin both died younger than they should, and neither had a good life. Rowena now would give them that or would try to. She is less afraid of love and choice.
Rowena is firmly in her Reputation era, something that she's been in for many centuries, but it's started to hit a big explosive part. Look What You Made Me Do, I Did Something Bad and This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things are titles that really sum up much of her life: she was shunned by witch covens, has spent her life looking over her shoulder and now, when she finally has magical freedom, is haunted by Lucifer and has been hunted. Rowena would argue that her terrible life choices and willingness to do bad things is a response and survival instinct based on what has happened to her: you did this to me, so look what you made me do. I did something bad because of it. You did this, this is why we can't have nice things. In her words: nice girls are pathetic, here's to evil skanks. She's here to seek power, and protect herself, and if someone has to die to get what she wants? Oh well.
❥ Player Information