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Your name: Vivi
Your journal: vivider
Contact: AIM: a wild vivi, Plurk: vivider.
Other characters played at Passing: Minato Arisato [V2].
Character name: Willow Rosenberg
Character fandom: Buffy: the Vampire Slayer
Version: 1
Canon point: The summer between seasons 5 and 6.
Importing development from old game? N.
Background: Her page in the Buffy Wikia.
Changes from canon, if AU: None yet. (Dun dun dun...)
Personality: Despite the enormity of her presence in Buffy, Willow actually is not all that complicated of a character. She is almost painfully well-meaning, though she often causes a lot of chaos and messes up despite her intentions. She starts the series very shy and nerdy, but throughout the course of the series she gains a good measure of confidence - her days of hiding behind headstones on patrol are long over. As a seasoned and powerful witch, as well as someone who's both experienced and caused a lot of pain, Willow can be particularly unflinching in the face of danger, especially when someone she cares about needs help.
But that isn't to say that she's unflinching in general. Outside of crisis situations, she's very sympathetic and open-minded; she feels things deeply and readily apologizes. She's seen crying several times, and takes solitude hard. Willow is ultimately a social person, and her self-image relies heavily on her friends' opinions of her. The times when they reject her hit home. When she goes evil after Tara's death, it's Xander's continual proclamations of love and friendship that make her recover.
She's also incredibly loyal and forgiving. Her friends are everything to her, and she isn't averse to an old enemy becoming one of those friends. She passes up a chance to go to an Ivy League school in order to stay home in Sunnydale and support them, and never seems to second guess that choice. Willow is frequently overeager and even too trusting, but this trust usually ends up serving her well - she remains friends with Angel regardless of all that happens, up to hugging him in Angel season four. She helps anyone readily and judges infrequently.
That said, her roots as an outcast nerd aren't something that are entirely lost. She still finds intelligence sexy, and ostracism, as I've already stated, is something she's sensitive to. But this is also where her dedication and dependence on her friends comes from. When Buffy dies, Willow feels like she's been counted on to bring her back - she frequently tries to "make things better" and disparages herself when she can't. She takes care of Dawn responsibly and with extraordinary compassion, all the while conspiring with the others to resurrect Buffy. She lures a fawn to her and kills it bloodily, and although the act haunts her it isn't something she necessarily regrets. In fact, it's a kind of foreshadowing to Tara's death and the lengths she'll go to for someone she loves, whether that's platonic or romantic.
At her core, Willow wants to be special. She grew up ignored and neglected by her parents, no matter how perfectly she did in school, and was continually belittled by her classmates. She has her moments of jealousy and cattiness, and tends to latch onto anyone that shores up her self-esteem. She's matured a good amount since her time in high school, but the fact remains that a lot of what she does is determined by other peoples' opinions... And when she does start to stand up for herself, things get loud and messy.
Willow can be incredibly selfish. Time and again, the times she makes mistakes in the show are due to her own self-interest - from tampering with Tara's memories to making out with Xander way back in season two, and to bringing Dawn with her to get high on dark magic instead of taking her out as she'd promised, it's all drawn from that same flaw of selfishness. In particular she's given to being impulsive, as well: those spells of hers that don't work were often ill thought out and done on the spur of the moment. Both of these character traits feed directly into her eventual problem with addiction.
Magic is something Willow sees as making her unique, special, and loved. It's important to remember the root of her character, and indeed of most Buffy characters: parental neglect. Willow grew to replace that need for parental approval with need for approval from her friends, but in her selfish, impulsive way, she wants to set the terms for what they'll approve of. It hit her unbelievably hard when she realized what she'd done wrong, and that the support of her friends was conditional on what they decided, not what she wanted it to be. Magic wasn't a fix-all, and she really could mess up irreparably. Telling Giles that he was jealous of her power, heady after her success of resurrecting Buffy, was the first sign of her denial that anything that made her happy could be wrong.
But, at the same time, these kinds of flaws are common in people her age. They just don't usually have the power to change someone's memory or end the world.
Abilities: She's a witch, which means she pretty much does whatever the plot needs her to at the moment. She can do a lot of things on her own without any physical props, but said props open up the possibilities a lot more. Depending on where she is in canon, she can do more or less and is inclined to do more or less.
At the end of the series, Willow is capable of flight, telekinesis, regeneration, superhuman strength, teleportation, ressurrection, telepathy, force field projection, energy manipulation, invisibility, pyrokinesis, sonic scream, electrokinesis, clairvoyance, precognition, portal creation, absorbing life from others, locating people and objects at a distance (even when theoretically protected from such spells), being impervious to physical damage, memory manipulation, and mind control. This mind control even extends to demons that are immune to mind controlling magics.
Basically, what I've listed above is what she's shown with in canon. I actually agree that it's an insane amount of power, but that's canonly referenced as being true as well. Whatever she needs to be able to do or be able not to do for someone else's plot, I'm very open to.
Writing sample: [This was originally written for a lastvoyages app, and uses its setting.]
Willow was scared, scared of so many things, and the lack of Earth on the Barge made her feel so very nervous besides. Usually she could feel it, focus on it when things got wacky - like when certain coven members looked at her like she was a kind of bug that would destroy the world if they didn't squish it right away. She felt that way about herself a lot, so she knew where they were coming from.
Maybe it hadn't been a good idea to come here, but going back to Sunnydale seemed like an even worse one. Willow hadn't exactly finished her rehabilitation course; the irony of her coming here instead wasn't lost on her. Not lost at all. It was on purpose. If she did go evil again, the other wardens would smack her down to inmate, and she'd deserve it.
She just missed Tara so much. And going back, seeing the place where she'd been killed, where they'd been happy together, where she'd tortured someone... It was all too hard to contemplate. Not to mention Xander, and Buffy, and Dawn. No, it really was better to be here, she just had to woman up and post.
Willow took a deep breath, opened her laptop, and resolved to be fully and completely honest. Even if there was no one there that would know she had her resolve face on.
Voice sample: I've never actually played Willow at this specific canon point before, so if you need me to write up a sample for that, just let me know.
Otherwise! This post shows my early season 7 voice for her (just the post, not the comments). Her IC contact post has a good variety of threads for her season 3 self.
Your journal: vivider
Contact: AIM: a wild vivi, Plurk: vivider.
Other characters played at Passing: Minato Arisato [V2].
Character name: Willow Rosenberg
Character fandom: Buffy: the Vampire Slayer
Version: 1
Canon point: The summer between seasons 5 and 6.
Importing development from old game? N.
Background: Her page in the Buffy Wikia.
Changes from canon, if AU: None yet. (Dun dun dun...)
Personality: Despite the enormity of her presence in Buffy, Willow actually is not all that complicated of a character. She is almost painfully well-meaning, though she often causes a lot of chaos and messes up despite her intentions. She starts the series very shy and nerdy, but throughout the course of the series she gains a good measure of confidence - her days of hiding behind headstones on patrol are long over. As a seasoned and powerful witch, as well as someone who's both experienced and caused a lot of pain, Willow can be particularly unflinching in the face of danger, especially when someone she cares about needs help.
But that isn't to say that she's unflinching in general. Outside of crisis situations, she's very sympathetic and open-minded; she feels things deeply and readily apologizes. She's seen crying several times, and takes solitude hard. Willow is ultimately a social person, and her self-image relies heavily on her friends' opinions of her. The times when they reject her hit home. When she goes evil after Tara's death, it's Xander's continual proclamations of love and friendship that make her recover.
She's also incredibly loyal and forgiving. Her friends are everything to her, and she isn't averse to an old enemy becoming one of those friends. She passes up a chance to go to an Ivy League school in order to stay home in Sunnydale and support them, and never seems to second guess that choice. Willow is frequently overeager and even too trusting, but this trust usually ends up serving her well - she remains friends with Angel regardless of all that happens, up to hugging him in Angel season four. She helps anyone readily and judges infrequently.
That said, her roots as an outcast nerd aren't something that are entirely lost. She still finds intelligence sexy, and ostracism, as I've already stated, is something she's sensitive to. But this is also where her dedication and dependence on her friends comes from. When Buffy dies, Willow feels like she's been counted on to bring her back - she frequently tries to "make things better" and disparages herself when she can't. She takes care of Dawn responsibly and with extraordinary compassion, all the while conspiring with the others to resurrect Buffy. She lures a fawn to her and kills it bloodily, and although the act haunts her it isn't something she necessarily regrets. In fact, it's a kind of foreshadowing to Tara's death and the lengths she'll go to for someone she loves, whether that's platonic or romantic.
At her core, Willow wants to be special. She grew up ignored and neglected by her parents, no matter how perfectly she did in school, and was continually belittled by her classmates. She has her moments of jealousy and cattiness, and tends to latch onto anyone that shores up her self-esteem. She's matured a good amount since her time in high school, but the fact remains that a lot of what she does is determined by other peoples' opinions... And when she does start to stand up for herself, things get loud and messy.
Willow can be incredibly selfish. Time and again, the times she makes mistakes in the show are due to her own self-interest - from tampering with Tara's memories to making out with Xander way back in season two, and to bringing Dawn with her to get high on dark magic instead of taking her out as she'd promised, it's all drawn from that same flaw of selfishness. In particular she's given to being impulsive, as well: those spells of hers that don't work were often ill thought out and done on the spur of the moment. Both of these character traits feed directly into her eventual problem with addiction.
Magic is something Willow sees as making her unique, special, and loved. It's important to remember the root of her character, and indeed of most Buffy characters: parental neglect. Willow grew to replace that need for parental approval with need for approval from her friends, but in her selfish, impulsive way, she wants to set the terms for what they'll approve of. It hit her unbelievably hard when she realized what she'd done wrong, and that the support of her friends was conditional on what they decided, not what she wanted it to be. Magic wasn't a fix-all, and she really could mess up irreparably. Telling Giles that he was jealous of her power, heady after her success of resurrecting Buffy, was the first sign of her denial that anything that made her happy could be wrong.
But, at the same time, these kinds of flaws are common in people her age. They just don't usually have the power to change someone's memory or end the world.
Abilities: She's a witch, which means she pretty much does whatever the plot needs her to at the moment. She can do a lot of things on her own without any physical props, but said props open up the possibilities a lot more. Depending on where she is in canon, she can do more or less and is inclined to do more or less.
At the end of the series, Willow is capable of flight, telekinesis, regeneration, superhuman strength, teleportation, ressurrection, telepathy, force field projection, energy manipulation, invisibility, pyrokinesis, sonic scream, electrokinesis, clairvoyance, precognition, portal creation, absorbing life from others, locating people and objects at a distance (even when theoretically protected from such spells), being impervious to physical damage, memory manipulation, and mind control. This mind control even extends to demons that are immune to mind controlling magics.
Basically, what I've listed above is what she's shown with in canon. I actually agree that it's an insane amount of power, but that's canonly referenced as being true as well. Whatever she needs to be able to do or be able not to do for someone else's plot, I'm very open to.
Writing sample: [This was originally written for a lastvoyages app, and uses its setting.]
Willow was scared, scared of so many things, and the lack of Earth on the Barge made her feel so very nervous besides. Usually she could feel it, focus on it when things got wacky - like when certain coven members looked at her like she was a kind of bug that would destroy the world if they didn't squish it right away. She felt that way about herself a lot, so she knew where they were coming from.
Maybe it hadn't been a good idea to come here, but going back to Sunnydale seemed like an even worse one. Willow hadn't exactly finished her rehabilitation course; the irony of her coming here instead wasn't lost on her. Not lost at all. It was on purpose. If she did go evil again, the other wardens would smack her down to inmate, and she'd deserve it.
She just missed Tara so much. And going back, seeing the place where she'd been killed, where they'd been happy together, where she'd tortured someone... It was all too hard to contemplate. Not to mention Xander, and Buffy, and Dawn. No, it really was better to be here, she just had to woman up and post.
Willow took a deep breath, opened her laptop, and resolved to be fully and completely honest. Even if there was no one there that would know she had her resolve face on.
Voice sample: I've never actually played Willow at this specific canon point before, so if you need me to write up a sample for that, just let me know.
Otherwise! This post shows my early season 7 voice for her (just the post, not the comments). Her IC contact post has a good variety of threads for her season 3 self.