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✥ NAME & DEVICE USERNAME: Sarah Bishop | ivory doll
✥ CANON: All Souls Trilogy
✥ DEAD / ALIVE / IT'S COMPLICATED: Alive, last she checked.
✥ ARC OF ARRIVAL: Arc IV
✥ INVENTORY:

✘ what she was wearing
✘ including a ring marking her as a member of the Knights of Lazarus

out of character

✥ PLAYER: Ashley
✥ PREFERRED CONTACT:

formallyintroduced or PM
✥ BACKTAGGING: Definitely.
✥ THREADJACKING: If it makes sense.
✥ FOURTH-WALLING: Probably not.
✥ ACTION vs PROSE: Either!
✥ DEAL-BREAKER SCENARIOS: I'm not interested in engaging with rape scenarios. And not a deal-breaker, necessarily, but I'd appreciate warning for images of snakes.
✥ YOU'D SACRIFICE A VIRGIN FOR: I guess I'd really, really love an Em.
✥ ANYTHING ELSE? My tagging schedule can be a little erratic. Sometimes I'm more available during the week and sometimes I'm more available on the weekend.

in character

✥ PHYSICAL VIOLENCE LIMITS: Sarah isn't entirely without means to defend herself, but violence is generally against her nature (despite her temper), and look, she's old and tired and has been through a lot of hell in a short time recently, so let's have a good long talk first.
✥ OPEN TO MANIPULATION? I'll say tentatively, with discussion. But she is not very trusting. She's the opposite, really.
✥ ...AND MIND CONTROL? Again, tentatively, maybe. She has telepathic ability and a kind of sixth sense, but also, just by nature, she's kind of open.
✥ WHAT KIND OF MENTAL PRESENCE DO THEY HAVE: Sharp at the edges, anxious for sure, but warm and open. Sarah is very frank, definitely abrasive at times, but ultimately not big on putting up many pretenses. She has a surprising amount of anxiety and a huge amount of heart when people take the time to get past the shouting and abrasiveness.
✥ ...AND MAGICAL? Yep. She doesn't have the kind of innate magical talent that draws on wielding elements (though she is aligned most strongly to Earth) so she relies on witchcraft, the more traditional art of spells and potions and charms. But she's actually quite a powerful witch, and quite a studied one, in that regard.
✥ RELATIONSHIPS: I wouldn't say no. But she might have some things to work through. She lost her wife (essentially) roughly two years ago and she's from a canon point where she's been seeing another woman for roughly a year now.
✥ WHAT PUSHES THEIR BUTTONS: How long do you have? Look, the list is long. Her buttons are easily pushed. She's quick to temper.
✥ WARNINGS ON THEIR LABEL: Content warnings for interacting with Sarah may include some discussions of death and/or murder, violence. She's quick to anger, has a sharp tongue, doesn't take much into consideration who she might be offending. Also, while she's mostly worked through her prejudices toward other Creatures, some hints still linger, and while it's focused on witches, vampires, and daemons, I understand the underlying theme may not sit well.

Sarah is a talented witch. Rather than an innate skill in magic, her skill is in witchcraft - spells, charms, and potions. Her power comes from words. The power of any given spell is often not only limited by the skill, power, and creativity of the witch wielding it, but also by the age of the spell. She also isn't prone to using witchcraft to do harm, as she believes that harm will come back onto you. She has a particular talent for healing. All that being said, if you would like to opt-out of this entirely, please comment below.

She also possesses a sort of witchy sixth sense, and I'm going to group a few abilities together under this umbrella. For starters, she can tell when a fellow witch is lying. This is tied into a witch's instinctive nature in her canon, and is usually determined by a particular sense of anger and contempt they feel when being lied to by another witch, even via telephone. She also has the ability to recognize a witch, vampire, or daemon. There's also plenty of evidence to support that she has some amount of foresight & telepathy, as she is known to run her fingers over envelopes to read what's inside before she opens them and tends to know what people close to her (such as her niece or partner) are doing/if they're in trouble/etc. Her level of foresight is less like having a premonition or vision as some witches do, however, and more like, having a bad feeling all day. Her innate talent just isn't that developed. In a similar vein, she can sense ghosts, but she can't truly see or hear them.

If you'd like to opt-out of any/all of the above, please comment to let me know! Alternatively, if your character is any of the above and you're interested in her picking up on their species/catching them in a lie, I'm happy to know that, too.

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