Character Page - The Witch
Oct 30, 2019
Creator
An orphan raised in the care of Father - a severely devout man - the Witch, watched the spiders weave their patterns, and listened to the whisperings of the birds, warning of what was to come.
For speaking of such blasphemy, her tongue was cut out, and thus she was formerly known as The Girl With No Tongue and held within a single room, hidden away from the world but for glimpses people saw of her from the high window.
This was not a prison to the Witch, but protection she accepted, for there is something ever hunting her and the Father shielded her from it with iron nails to purge the blood. He was too covetous to burn or hang her, and so kept her instead to purify.
The Father, like so many however, succumbed to the madness, leaving the Witch unprotected.
Luckily for her, she always had a shadow following her and waiting for her to accept its offer.
Malevolent or benevolent, her intent is as yet unclear, but it was she, as an old woman with the bleeding palms, who gave the silver bullet to the Hunter - as well as the Knife of Nails to the Stranger.
She carries her casket of nails as a burden, everywhere she goes, the weight seemingly growing with each step.
The pendant she wears is used to mark others and is linked, as are the iron nails, to her revival. She learned many years ago that there is power in pain and death.
Pale and waif-like, the Witch was seen as devoid of pigment in the Father's house, her hair has grown sooty however - as a reflection of the taint
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Such a tragic character! So the Father supposed that the ones who brought this upon the world would hurt her if she were to warn everybody about it? Or he simply didn't believe her and thought no one will? Gosh... makes me wonder if he was involved as well, or simply overprotective gone to extreme lengths. I wonder what the shadow is or wants... is it a different version of herself or something else entirely? So she managed to somehow come back from the future as an old woman in order to help the Hunter and the Stragner out?
Lol just realized most of my sentences end in a question mark, but the whole thing made me think further.
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