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NAME: Katie
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CHARACTER

NAME: Julia Wicker
CANON: The Magicians
CANON-POINT: the end of 2x13

DOSSIER

HISTORY: http://themagicians.wikia.com/wiki/TV:Julia_Wicker

As the wiki only goes up to a certain point in season 2 I will be filling in the rest:

After the loss of Marina and the knife to kill Reynard Julia is in desperate need of a friend and she finds herself locating Kady who has been in a drug den of sorts. She helps her friend get clean and then asks her for help -- she wants to bring Marina back from the dead, which means breaking into Brakebills and copying down a book because she can't take it. She runs into Margo there, they thrown down some snark at one another and they go on their ways. They manage to bring back Marina temporarily to learn forty years ago someone banished Reynard from this world and that woman is the key to everything.

So Kady and Julia start doing the whole research thing to find information but then Julia starts getting sick and they realize horrifyingly that she isn't sick --she's pregnant. She doesn't know if it's Richard's or Reynard's but she knows one thing -- she can't keep this baby. So they decide to go to the clinic to get an abortion. It should be simple right? Nope, nothing is ever simple in Julia's life. Something evil overcomes the doctor who is supposed to do her procedure and she stabs herself in the eye. It turns out half-god babies have ways to protect themselves. Great.

Julia and Kady have two missions now, getting rid of the baby and finding Dana, the woman who banished Reynard forty years ago. Julia manages to find the woman and discovers she was impregnated by Reynard too -- the baby's power is what helped her be able to banish him. Dana basically says Julia has no choice but to have the baby and tries to trap her but then Kady comes to her rescue and they run off with Dana's Haxenpaxen, a creature that will hide them from Reynard.

Finally they find some witches who say they can get rid of the baby but it's going to cost a lot of money so they do what anyone would: they get the others to help them rob a bank. It doesn't go well, a bunch of people die, but then Julia rewinds time and saves them and in the end despite all of the obstacles against them (one of the witches has been sending monsters to kill Julia just in case they can't ge the money) and Julia is able to get the magical black alley abortion.

Nothing is ever easy though and she's lost something important in the process. Her shade. The shade is like a part of her soul, the part that works most like a conscience, and without it the difference is staggering. She's laughing and giddy and more than a little reckless. She tries to track down Reynard's son only to run into Reyanrd himself -- but she's rescued by Quentin and taken to Fillory. Julia convinces Margo to let her help convince a Dryad to help in the war against Loria -- and when he's an asshole to both of them Julia gives him a spell that will burn his entire forest down. So there's that. Margo understandably locks her up for this.

When she's taken back to Earth Kady and Penny get pretty worried about her reckless, thoughtless behavior without her shade. They've located Reynard's son, Senator Gaines, and Julia wants to kill him to harness his power, which you know, is not great. So they compromise and kidnap the guy instead.

When she runs into Quentin who is possessed by the Nifflin version of Alice they strike a deal to get Quentin to release Alice if Alice kills Reynard. But Quentin ain't down for that and all is without hope -- until Gaines shows up and he's who Reynard really wants so our intrepid heroes live to survive another day. And Julia gets locked up. Again. By Kady this time.

The next time she's let loose it's by Dean Fogg, Brakebills isn't a prison after all. She knows she's supposed to feel bad about the things she's done but without her shade she simply doesn't. But on a drug trip Quentin meets her shade and hey, now it's time for them to start trying to find a way to get it back. They question Dean Fogg and find out in one of the other timeloops, Alice was very interested in shades. With the Tesla Flexion device Quentin is able to go to that other timeline and talk to Alice. They discover shades go to the Underworld but to get there they need an ancient one. And Julia is pretty sure that means a dragon.

The quest to find said dragon leads them into the sewers of New York which is pretty gross. And it turns out the passage to the Underworld costs them leaving behind the Fillory button which is pretty sucky for two kids who grew up obsessed with Fillory. When they go to the Underworld Julia finds her friends who were killed by Reynard -- including her former lover Richard, whose body Reynard wears now. It's an uncomfortable moment but Richard ends up being the most helpful person they've talked to in the Underworld. His distraction allows them to enter where they find both Julia's shade and Alice's -- and in a surprising turn Julia chooses to save Alice's for Quentin instead. It's during this time that Julia learns that Our Lady Underground was Persephone, and she's been missing for a long time.

When they get back to the real world Quentin and Julia work together to revive Alice back from being a nifflin. After that Julia meets up with Kady again to go back to their plan to kill Reynard. Julia is still shadeless but she feels like Kady will keep her in line. Senator Gaines, Reynard's son, helps them by having them kill him to harness his power to kill a god. Penny also gets a book about killing Gods, it seems like everything is in place.

But when Julia goes to confront Reynard and kill him Persephone appears, revealing herself to be Reynard's mother. She begs Julia to show mercy, to not lose herself completely, and Julia agrees, letting Reynard go. And in exchange, she gets her shade back. Kady is pissed and wants nothing to do with Julia after this, after everything they've gone through.

Getting her shade back isn't easy on Julia. She seems drained from the weight of all the trauma she's gone through and can be found on the couch, smoking and trying to forget. It's there that Eliot reaches out to her with some kindness and implores her to help him save the world. Working with Quentin in Fillory they manage to kill both of the gods there and that means magic is saved right?

Wrong. The old gods are pissed and use a plumber to shut magic off.

Except months later Julia, who had returned to Yale and law school, meets with Quentin and shows him something. Sparks. She can do magic.

But how?

The closing shot of the season is Julia finally smiling.



WHAT ARE YOUR CHARACTER'S STRENGTHS?:
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 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.

She's loyal to the people she cares about. She loves her friends deeply, especially Quentin.

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.




WHAT ARE YOUR CHARACTER'S WEAKNESSES?:

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. She is a person who believes that the ends justify the means no matter what.

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'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 also really smart, which while a good thing she is also keenly aware of it and it sometimes leads to her being pretty cocky.

WHAT EVENTS OR CIRCUMSTANCES IN YOUR CHARACTER'S PAST HAVE IMPACTED THEM THE MOST?:

CW: Rape, Abortion, Violence

The first most important event for Julia is her Brakebills exam -- she fails (well, actually, she only fails it in this timeline, in all the other time loops she passed, but that's besides the point) and she's supposed to forget magic and that world exists. Julia rebels against the idea and cuts into her own skin to make sure she remembers it. This leads into her discovering the magical underground network of Hedge Witches and a lot of her problems stem from there.

The second is that at the end of the first season she and the hedge witches she joins with try to raise a goddess they only know as Our Lady Underground who is supposed to help the weary and struggling. What happens instead is that they summon a trickster god names Reynard the Fox. Reynard murders most of the rest of their group and violently rapes Julia as she allows her friend Kady to escape. These events are so brutal at first Julia asks for Marina to erase them from her -- but she gets them back pretty quickly and once she does it sends her down a path of revenge that dominates most of her season two arc.

From the rape she ends up being pregnant and even though she's told a demigod baby is the perfect tool to defeating Reynard her idea about having a baby is fuck no. She's denied access to a legal abortion so she robs a bank to fund a magical back alley abortion that basically results in her losing her shade, which is essentially her soul and conscience.

When she finally confronts Reynard, ready to kill him, near the end of the season Our Lady Underground, actually Persephone, reveals herself to Julia and begs her not to kill Reynard because he's her son. Julia decides to choose mercy and lets him go -- and because of that act she's gifted her shade back.


WHAT MOTIVATES YOUR CHARACTER?:
A strong sense of will and determination motivate Julia more than anything else. She's always someone who has prided herself in not giving up. In the first season we see her motivated by her love of magic and determination to prove herself as an apt Magician in a world where she's been told she has no talent for it and in the second season she's motivated by revenge and the will to prove that Reynard hasn't destroyed her. Spite is often an underlying motivation for her as well, she loves proving people wrong when they underestimate her.

WHAT IMPRESSION DO OTHERS TEND TO HAVE OF YOUR CHARACTER?:

Heinous Bitch is the term used most often. That is to say that most of the main cast outside of Quentin and sometimes Kady don't particularly like her. They often look down on her or think that she's completely disloyal and cruel. Or crazy. But there is a general consensus that even if she's a bitch she doesn't deserve to deal with half the shit she gets saddled with, this point is made particularly clear in her abortion storyline. Also because she's a hedge witch instead of a student at Brakebills there's generally a lot of gatekeeping and classism involved in how some of the characters look down at her.

IN WHAT WAYS DOES THAT IMPRESSION DIFFER FROM WHO YOUR CHARACTER REALLY IS?:
To summerize Julia as simply a Bitch is to do her an injustice -- her motives may seem self centered but often it comes down to them simply not alligning with the plans of the main Brakebills group. Her experiences were vastly different because she was denied access to mainstream magical education. She cares deeply to those close to her which can be seen when she protects Kady against Reynard and over and over again in her friendship with Quentin, even without her Shade she still chooses to help him bring Alice back because she wants her best friend to be happy. She has a huge heart, it's just a little damaged.

HOW DOES YOUR CHARACTER HANDLE CRISIS OR ADVERSITY?:

Julia is a character who is seemingly constantly in crisis. To say she has bad luck in the two seasons of the show is an understatement -- she tries to soldier through and be strong but she does have breaking points and sometimes seems to just shut down from overwhelming trauma. This is seen when she goes to rehab after Kady's mother dies or when she asks Marina to wipe her memories of the rape or at the end of season 2 after she gets her shade back and all the trauma hits her at once and she curls up on the couch smoking and having flashbacks. She deals with crises as best she can but she's human and sometimes it can be too much, she doesn't know how to be strong all the time. If she feels she's being wronged she often defaults to anger and righteousness because those emotions are easier to feel.

WHICH 5 THINGS WILL YOUR CHARACTER REMEMBER UPON ARRIVAL, AND WHY DID YOU CHOOSE THEM?:

IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE YOU FEEL WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER?:
1. Magic. She fought tooth and nail to remember magic and she's earned the right to remember it now. She'd remember that she had to fight to recall it -- and it's more the concept of it existing and her love of it and the memory of keeping the memory of it that she gets back more than the knowledge how to completely use it.

2. The name Reynard, it'll be associated with feelings of fear and anger, but vague on the details

3. Fillory -- She'll remember she's been in another world before, a world she read about in books

4. Quentin -- her childhood best friend, the one person who understands her better than anyone.

5. Getting her shade back, though without context she'll just remember it as meeting a child version of herself.


SKILLS, ABILITIES, & PHYSICAL WEAKNESSES:
Julia is a witch who is mostly self taught but as powerful as some of the Brakebill students, if not more so. She can conjure fire, teleport objects and helped summon a God, albeit not the right one. From her canon point magic has been cut off but she's still able to use it so I want to work through her slowly rediscovering it in Pines. Spells are generally performed threw hand motions and often need physical ingredients in order to work properly. In an alternate timeline her focus at Brakebills was Knowledge, which means she's drawn to the discovery of magic. She has tattoos to show her high ranking as a hedgewitch.

INVENTORY: Just a normal outfit, a jacket, blouse, pants, shoes, bra and underwear. Probably her half of her best bitches necklace too.

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