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IN CHARACTER

Character Name: Julia Wicker
Canon: The Magicians
Canon Point: 3x13 “Will You Play With Me?”

In-Game Tattoo Placement: On her right ankle, in white ink, is a small tattoo the face of the white lady, complete with her antlers
Current Health/Status: Healthy
Apparent Age: 23
Actual Age: 23
Species: Goddess. She was born a magician but Persephone planted a seed in her that made her a goddess.

History: Show | Julia

Hometown/World: New York, New York

Personality:

Julia is extremely determined. When she wants to do something very little can stop her. She remembered magic when Brakebills tried to make her forget. She found to learn magic other ways. She was determined to take Reynard out, no matter what the cost. When her mind is set on something there's little that can be done to sway her course. She's determined to the point of being blindsided sometimes. She gets so fixated on her own issues she ignores the bigger picture -- like when she sides with the Beast even after he nearly killed everyone else. In season three we begin to see this shift as she becomes more focussed on channeling that determination to help others and because of that she becomes a force to be reckoned with like when she helps Fen free the enslaved fairies.

She's also extremely intelligent, she was going to Yale for Law School before she heard about Brakebills and she's always been an excellent student. In an alternate reality she's seen to be a bright witch in Brakebills, someone who really flourished in that environment. She's a quick learner in that way, she picks up on learning magic pretty swiftly. In the other timelines she is a Knowledge student, she is drawn to the discover of magic. She is often compared in universe to Hermione Granger as being the brightest in her class. She also shares Hermione's drive for justice.

She can be vicious and cruel when she wants to be, like when she helps Marina trap Quentin in a world where he thinks he's truly insane, or when she burns down an entire forest of Dryads because one dude was misogynistic and gross (though to be fair, she was essentially lacking her soul when she did that one). She is sardonic and not afraid to goad people on or call them out. She is brutally frank and this is seen especially when she calls out Our Lady Underground and Reynard about him raping her and what it did to her. When she is confronted with Reynard again after she's begun to grow his seed of magic she tells him that it grew bigger in her than it ever could in him. She is not afraid to let him know that she knows she's better than him.

She's also impulsive and prone to making poor decisions that backfire on her. She is extremely reactive as a character and often acts first and thinks later which leads to a lot of misery for herself and sometimes the people around her.

She's loyal to the people she cares about. She loves her friends deeply, especially Quentin and Kady, but in the third season we really see this extend to the rest of the cast in her interactions with people like Josh and Alice, people she never was close to before, but feels compelled to try to help now.

More than anything else, Julia is passionate, she is someone who feels and cares deeply about things. She believed with all her heart that Our Lady Underground could save her and her friends. She thought she could stop Reynard. She loves Magic. She loves Fillory, she and Quentin dreamed of going there when they were kids.

And she's resilient. She's been put through so much but she never breaks, not completely, she keeps going and she keeps fighting. And she owns her stories, her scars, with grace and humility. She never feels ashamed of the things that happened to her, nor is she afraid to call out the people who have hurt her. She is brave and much stronger than she realizes.


Personal Moral Codes:
>power is a gift, not a right -- Julia has been mistreated by those in positions of power over her time and time again and it has left with a very strong sense of what is right and that power should be used to help and not hurt people. this is especially highlighted when she discovers the fairies on earth are being enslaved and encourages fen to help her free them because it's the right thing to do. no one deserves to be enslaved

>I can't go around not trusting people, I'm too fucked up already -- Julia was the victim of, among other things, a brutal sexual assault and despite that we see her, especially by the third season, choose to trust people and open up again. She could have stayed angry and withdrawn, but what would that have done?

>don't be a dick -- this is pretty self-explanatory, if you're a dick to her, she's likely to be one back. treat people how you want to be treated

>it's okay to break the rules are unjust -- tying back to the idea of power and who wields it julia doesn't mind breaking rules if she thinks they're doing more harm than good. she's kind of the definition of chaotic good.

>people are stronger together -- for the first two seasons Julia, for various plot related reasons, is often splintered off from the rest of the group, but in working together with everyone, and especially her best friend Quentin, in the quest to get magic back she's realized that her strength only becomes that much stronger when she works with other people.

Insecurities/Personal Demons:

Julia's biggest personal demon, without a doubt, is the PTSD she carries from her sexual assault. At the end of season 1 of the Magicians she and the coven she was working with tried to summon a god but they got a trickster God, Reynard, instead who murdered everyone except Kady who got away, and Julia who he brutally raped. She spends most of season two distraught by this, especially when she discovers she's pregnant and is denied regular medical access to get an abortion. She gets a magical one which causes her to lose her shade for a while, which also makes her devoid of the ability to tell right and wrong. Eventually she gets that fixed, but she still has a lot of unresolved trauma. We see her have nightmares and hallucinate Reynard several times throughout season 3 and by the time she finally confronts him again it seems like she's made so peace with what happened, at least somewhat. Partly because the reason she has magic when nobody else does is because Our Lady Underground gave her his magic, and she's been able to do some good with it. It's grown more in her than it ever could have in him. Sometimes gifts can come out of terrible situations.

Other baggage she carries around with her is that she was denied access to Brakebills and learning magic in a traditional way. Learning magic as a hedge witch is much harder and more dangerous and despite her natural talent and ability to learn and adapt a lot of her peers have looked down on her for being a hedge witch instead of a "properly" trained magician.

And finally, she has a lot of guilt. Her actions were often rash and careless in the past and got people hurt, even got a few people (like Alice and Marina) killed. She's acutely aware of the hand she had to play in those events and takes ownership in them. It's why when she's devising a play in Universe 23 to help them with their version of the Beast she refuses to use Marina as bait -- she did that with the Marina in her world and it got her killed.

Never again. Fuck that.

Abilities/Powers/Weaknesses:

So Julia originally was just a very powerful hedge witch who flourished despite having a much harder route at learning magic than those who went to Brakebills. However, at the end of season 2 Our Lady Underground (Persephone) plants a seed of magic in her that has grown into goddess levels of powers. It's why she still had magic when nobody else did in her world.

These are some of the ways we see this manifest:

Cosmic awareness: Julia is able to hear the needs and prayers of people both near and far from her, even on other planes. Sometimes the pull is so strong she just ends up popping up where she needs to because she hasn't learned how to completely control this power yet.

Empathy: She mentions she can often feel people's feelings, especially their pain and suffering, and it seems to work on a telepathic level.

Portal creation: what it sounds like on the tin, a way to create portals and pop up places

Healing: She is shown to have strong healing abilities like when she rescues Kady from a drug overdose or when she heals Marina 23's scars, or Dean Fogg's blindness.

Horomancy: she can freeze time.

Battle magic: again, another one that is basically what it says on the time, she can cast powerful spells used in battles.

Natural magic: she's able to regrow the forest she burnt down while she was shadeless

She can also do a lot of basic magic like create fires, summon demons, steal money from atms and banks. You know, the usual.

She doesn't have any real weaknesses we know of except for her compassion and connection to her friends and the people on Earth. Iris and the other gods seem to think this is a weakness. And it sorta is, she does end up expelling a lot of her magic to recreate the seven keys.

Which leads to the next section pretty well


Ability/Power/Magic Warping:

So because she used up a bunch of her magic before she came I think some powers she just wouldn't have access to at all like creating portals, horomancy, popping up to help people in the knick of time/cosmic awareness or growing forests. Nobody wants an overpowered character who can just wave her hand and fix things, what's the fun in that?

For her empathy I think it would be interesting if it sometimes acted up on her and during events where there's a lot of fear or anguish/angst maybe it becomes debilitating to her, or maybe sometimes she even feels planted emotions, like she thinks it's other people's anguish and pain she's feeling but really it's just the place fucking with her.

For her healing I think it needs to just be scaled back so she can't just rush in and heal people who are dying but maybe she could still do minor things like scratches or headaches? I will leave that up to your discretion, along with any other power nerfing that you see fit. I realize she's a little OP in some ways, and I definitely want it to be more balanced and fun for everyone.


Inventory:
1. The Goddess Umbrella she gets from hanging out with Iris (it doesn't do anything, it just looks cool)
2. The set of clothing she was wearing
3. Her half of the best bitches necklace she shares with Kady
4. The Fillory and Further books
5. The truth key (it revels hidden truths/beings to people, but it could easily be powered nerfed and just be a key)
6. The cassette single for “Under Pressure” by David Bowie and Queen because I think I’m hilarious


Writing Samples:
one
two (the second one is from an earlier canon point, if that doesn't work let me know and I can whip something else up)

OUT OF CHARACTER

Player Name: Katie
Player Age: 31
Player Contact: autoclave @ plurk or PM

Other Characters In Game: N/A
In-Game Tag If Accepted: Julia Wicker: Katie
Permissions for Character: Here
Are you comfortable with prominent elements of fourth-walling?: Yes

What themes of horror/psychological thrillers do you enjoy the most?: I definitely like psychological horror and suspense more than anything else, things that build up/off people's psyches. Like the recent wave of horror like Get Out, the new IT, and The Quiet Place that play on atmosphere and personalities more I def find more appealing. I also like over the top campy stuff too, I just saw Jennifer's Body for the first time recently and loved it.
Is there anything in particular you absolutely need specific content warnings for?: torture porn ala Saw/Hostel stuff, rape/sexual violence, body horror, asylum/bad mental health care horror (think like forced lobotomies, things like that), suicide, demonic pregnancies/body agency stuff like rosemary's baby. That's the main ones that are coming to mind right now.