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Character Profile: June
Name/Nickname/Pronouns: Juniper Sage Larue, June, she/her
Magical Being Type: hereditary witch
Age: 38
Gender/Sexuality: Female, Pansexual, Polyamorous
Profession: June fixes magical messes. This suits her just fine, because it means she's never really tied down to one place. She consults for people in town and people out of town who have run afoul of magic, whether they be issues created by themselves or issues that happen to them. She also works with kids who have magical blockages and teaches them alternate ways to approach magic, but she doesn't really advertise this to people when they ask her what she does. She sends a lot of things back from whence they came, which causes the public to have a sort of negative perspective on what she does, but June is actually very thoughtful about situations wherein ghosts and other creatures can be considered citizens. She takes her work very seriously, because she never knows if she's going into a situation where people are just salty about a ghost taking up space in their house or if it's a true malevolent situation. Her job is one of the only things that really matters to her, so she can be sensitive about it, but she'd never let anyone know.
Family: It's rather a crap shoot as to whether June is on the ins or the outs with her parents. June blames it on the fact that they essentially named her "Witch Witch McWitcherson," but their issues with each other stem a lot from the fact that June won't just settle down. The only person June can stand being around for extended periods of time is her sister Willie, and even that interaction can cause June to feel strained. Her magic doesn't really fall in line with her family's particular flavor of magic either, which has caused issues in the past with regards to her relationships within her family unit. She tends to not go to events where her whole family is included, because they tend to be cluster-fucks of the highest regard and contrary to what other people may think, June's not really here for the drama. The last big event she went to was Willie's wedding and even then, she bowed out at the beginning of the reception because she has some modicum of tact and didn't want her sister's happy day to end up being focused on whatever latest family drama June would bring. The jury's still a little out on whether it worked like she wanted it to or not.
June and Willie have an additional brother, who has left Hexham to go find himself in Fa(k)e Canada. June calls him their "accidental sibling" a lot because he is much younger than they are -- he gets really mad about it for some reason, go figure.
Important Relationships to Other Characters: Three years ago, June got super drunk and accidentally summoned Bart. This should not have been possible by any stretch of the imagination, except for the fact that June and Bart are actual, real soul mates. June is very angry about it. She cannot send him back from whence he came. She's tried. They do not get along super well in their day to day lives. June finds him to be a colossal stick in the mud; he finds her endlessly frustrating. However, that being said, June does find Bart to be someone she can go to when she needs comfort, which is not really a thing she can say about anyone else, including her sister. June also does not appreciate or like when other people are mean to Bart -- it's very much a "you can't be mean to him; only I can be mean to him" situation. She low key considers Bart to be her arch nemesis ("Which is not a normal thing people do, June," Bart says. "How would you know, Bart?" June says churlishly. "You're not even a normal human."), and has been known to spit on the ground when other people say his name.
Another important relationship to June is Edith. Edith is a nine year old girl June first met when she was called to consult on a case involving blocked magic. June comes to the family expecting something very different than she finds -- by the time June is able to meet the family, the girl escalated from exploding inanimate objects like tea pots, a bookshelf, and assorted stuffed animals to exploding a live bird. June very early on sees that the frightened family's anxiety triggers Edith's anxiety and ramps up the severity of where and what the girl's magic focuses on. The family is afraid that the girl will blow up someone in the family and don't do a very good job of concealing this fear. June shows the girl several ways to reroute her powers away from exploding things, but it isn't quite enough to keep the family from being frightened of their daughter. June very nearly almost leaves after the job is completed, but turns back at the last moment and offers to take Edith under her wing.
Magical apprenticeships aren't necessarily rare but they aren't common with those so young or for those with hereditary magic, but the family jumps at the chance. So, June brings Edith back with her to Hexham and makes it nearly all the way home before she realizes that she is wholly ill-equipped to take care of another living human being, so she ends up at Bart's apartment with Edith. After introducing Edith and explaining the situation, Bart agrees to take her in. They bond pretty quickly -- it definitely helps that if Edith accidentally explodes Bart, he won't die. All in all, it works out -- June gets to be a kooky aunt and magical mentor and Edith gets a family who aren't afraid of her.
Other Relevant Character Notes: June has a cat named Phillip. Phillip may or may not actually be a dragon; June isn't sure, but she has her suspicions.
June also practices a ramshackle version of astragalomancy. She has a fancy set of knuckle bones that she uses for serious situations, but it's more likely that you'll see her gather four or five items from wherever she is currently, draw a circle on the ground with her ever present piece of chalk, and bend at the waist to drop the items. She's eerily accurate at reading how they fall, despite the fact that she hardly ever uses the same pieces twice. Once, she predicted a thunderstorm down to the minute using a penny, a broken pencil, and three tacks.
Appearance: June is very tall, but slouches approximately all of the time so she registers as a particularly slouchy 5'9. She's got long brown hair that she usually keeps up in a bun or a top knot. When her hair is down, it's messy and curly from where June runs her hands through it. She's doing everyone a service by keeping it pinned up. Her eyes are on the grayer side of blue and she only makes eye contact when she really wants to freak someone out; most of the time she gazes just over the right shoulder of whoever she's talking to. June has a particularly sly look to her face, which makes it seem like she's always getting up to some sort of trouble -- and usually, she is up to something. She's thin like a waif and turns pink in any amount of sun, so she tends to lurk from shadow to shadow. Her standard outfit is a t-shirt, jeans, and bright lipstick and despite all of this, she is one-hundred percent not someone you'd want to meet at the end of a dark alley, because who knows what she's getting up to down there.
Something hinky, probably.
Personality: There is probably alcohol in that soccer-mom water bottle June carries everywhere. If she isn't working, June is probably working on actively being drunk. If she asks you to hold her drink, she's probably about to get into trouble magically.
She's three-hundred percent a flake and five-hundred percent not concerned about it. She leaves conversations in the middle of them, because something different catches her fancy. She starts a lot of projects and never finishes them. She is simultaneously very confident and very not, but she'll never let you see her vulnerable. She would like to avoid everyone ever but also puts herself in situations where she has to be around people. She will actively avoid being touched by most people, but is definitely the sort of person to go through someone else's stuff just to see what they have.
She has "favorites" around town and will actively antagonize them in order to see their reactions -- Willie is a great example of this, but she's also extended her reach to Bart's neighbors. She keeps showing up in the apartment of Bart's new neighbor because she forgets that someone actually lives there now. She may or may not have tried to convince him that she was a ghost and it was totally kosher for her to be there. The "ghost" noises she made were totally believable, so believable. There was literally no reason for him to tattle on her to Willie.
Honestly, people these days.
Backstory: June has lived her most of her life in Hexham. Her entire family has lived in Hexham for as long as they can remember. June, of course, finds this repugnant and often travels outside of Hexham for work and pleasure. As a result of having spent so long in one place, however, June knows most of the shortcuts and secrets of the town, especially since she spent most of her youth as a miscreant trouble maker. There are some sigils spray painted on buildings that refuse to be washed off that can be attributed to June. Every so often, she goes back to recharge them. Not everyone is sure what each of them do.
June struggled a lot as a child because her magic was different enough from the rest of the family's magic that it stuck out just enough to make it something talked about in hushed tones. Larues are particularly good finders, but no one in the family can find things quite like June can -- that is, by calling them to come to her and not actually being things June wanted to find, like summoned shadowy creatures that lurked in the hallways of the family home and wouldn't go away until June gathered the gumption to sent them away. Whereas June's family is much better at finding lost objects and fixing what's broken, June is more adept at breaking things, whether they be rules or things that need to go back where they came from.
Her magic was just different enough that there was no one to tell her how to handle her burgeoning powers, which meant that June came up with her own unique ways of coping with her magic. She's very good at interpreting spells into her own distinct flavor and getting the result that she wants, simply by wanting it enough. The minutiae of magic -- the stones, the herbs, the candles, the particulars that witches use to channel their magic -- aren't what's important to June. If June has an inkling of being able to do something, she'll try it. It doesn't always work out as she intends, but it works out often enough to be something June is confident in.
June's been in a lot of situations, magically, that she hasn't wanted to be in. The early years in which she actively started summoning things were particularly bad, because you have to figure out what the rules are before you can start breaking them and finding the loopholes and June has never been very adept at following the rules in the first place. This often resulted in bumps, bruises, and broken bones. She spent a lot of her teenage years in slings and with parents who frowned a lot, wondering what they could do to stop their kid from seeking out things that hurt her. June isn't a person who backs down from things that scare her. She wasn't at fifteen and she isn't at thirty-eight.
June's figured most of it out now, though. Her magic lies in liminal spaces, which tends to make her a gateway or a threshold. She can summon both live beings and creatures and inanimate objects to her and she can send them away. She's figured out a way to banish herself specific places, almost like teleportation. Her magic exists in the space between -- between the past and the present, between the day and the night, between what has happened and what will happen. It thrives in uncertainty and transition, the mayhem that precedes the calm. Her magic feels like an empty train station at two o'clock in the morning, like a church with no people in it, like someone's gone in during the night and moved all the furniture in the house two inches to the right -- like something that's gone wrong, but also right.
The important part is that June makes it work for her, and she does.
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Magical Being Type: hereditary witch
Age: 38
Gender/Sexuality: Female, Pansexual, Polyamorous
Profession: June fixes magical messes. This suits her just fine, because it means she's never really tied down to one place. She consults for people in town and people out of town who have run afoul of magic, whether they be issues created by themselves or issues that happen to them. She also works with kids who have magical blockages and teaches them alternate ways to approach magic, but she doesn't really advertise this to people when they ask her what she does. She sends a lot of things back from whence they came, which causes the public to have a sort of negative perspective on what she does, but June is actually very thoughtful about situations wherein ghosts and other creatures can be considered citizens. She takes her work very seriously, because she never knows if she's going into a situation where people are just salty about a ghost taking up space in their house or if it's a true malevolent situation. Her job is one of the only things that really matters to her, so she can be sensitive about it, but she'd never let anyone know.
Family: It's rather a crap shoot as to whether June is on the ins or the outs with her parents. June blames it on the fact that they essentially named her "Witch Witch McWitcherson," but their issues with each other stem a lot from the fact that June won't just settle down. The only person June can stand being around for extended periods of time is her sister Willie, and even that interaction can cause June to feel strained. Her magic doesn't really fall in line with her family's particular flavor of magic either, which has caused issues in the past with regards to her relationships within her family unit. She tends to not go to events where her whole family is included, because they tend to be cluster-fucks of the highest regard and contrary to what other people may think, June's not really here for the drama. The last big event she went to was Willie's wedding and even then, she bowed out at the beginning of the reception because she has some modicum of tact and didn't want her sister's happy day to end up being focused on whatever latest family drama June would bring. The jury's still a little out on whether it worked like she wanted it to or not.
June and Willie have an additional brother, who has left Hexham to go find himself in Fa(k)e Canada. June calls him their "accidental sibling" a lot because he is much younger than they are -- he gets really mad about it for some reason, go figure.
Important Relationships to Other Characters: Three years ago, June got super drunk and accidentally summoned Bart. This should not have been possible by any stretch of the imagination, except for the fact that June and Bart are actual, real soul mates. June is very angry about it. She cannot send him back from whence he came. She's tried. They do not get along super well in their day to day lives. June finds him to be a colossal stick in the mud; he finds her endlessly frustrating. However, that being said, June does find Bart to be someone she can go to when she needs comfort, which is not really a thing she can say about anyone else, including her sister. June also does not appreciate or like when other people are mean to Bart -- it's very much a "you can't be mean to him; only I can be mean to him" situation. She low key considers Bart to be her arch nemesis ("Which is not a normal thing people do, June," Bart says. "How would you know, Bart?" June says churlishly. "You're not even a normal human."), and has been known to spit on the ground when other people say his name.
Another important relationship to June is Edith. Edith is a nine year old girl June first met when she was called to consult on a case involving blocked magic. June comes to the family expecting something very different than she finds -- by the time June is able to meet the family, the girl escalated from exploding inanimate objects like tea pots, a bookshelf, and assorted stuffed animals to exploding a live bird. June very early on sees that the frightened family's anxiety triggers Edith's anxiety and ramps up the severity of where and what the girl's magic focuses on. The family is afraid that the girl will blow up someone in the family and don't do a very good job of concealing this fear. June shows the girl several ways to reroute her powers away from exploding things, but it isn't quite enough to keep the family from being frightened of their daughter. June very nearly almost leaves after the job is completed, but turns back at the last moment and offers to take Edith under her wing.
Magical apprenticeships aren't necessarily rare but they aren't common with those so young or for those with hereditary magic, but the family jumps at the chance. So, June brings Edith back with her to Hexham and makes it nearly all the way home before she realizes that she is wholly ill-equipped to take care of another living human being, so she ends up at Bart's apartment with Edith. After introducing Edith and explaining the situation, Bart agrees to take her in. They bond pretty quickly -- it definitely helps that if Edith accidentally explodes Bart, he won't die. All in all, it works out -- June gets to be a kooky aunt and magical mentor and Edith gets a family who aren't afraid of her.
Other Relevant Character Notes: June has a cat named Phillip. Phillip may or may not actually be a dragon; June isn't sure, but she has her suspicions.
June also practices a ramshackle version of astragalomancy. She has a fancy set of knuckle bones that she uses for serious situations, but it's more likely that you'll see her gather four or five items from wherever she is currently, draw a circle on the ground with her ever present piece of chalk, and bend at the waist to drop the items. She's eerily accurate at reading how they fall, despite the fact that she hardly ever uses the same pieces twice. Once, she predicted a thunderstorm down to the minute using a penny, a broken pencil, and three tacks.
Appearance: June is very tall, but slouches approximately all of the time so she registers as a particularly slouchy 5'9. She's got long brown hair that she usually keeps up in a bun or a top knot. When her hair is down, it's messy and curly from where June runs her hands through it. She's doing everyone a service by keeping it pinned up. Her eyes are on the grayer side of blue and she only makes eye contact when she really wants to freak someone out; most of the time she gazes just over the right shoulder of whoever she's talking to. June has a particularly sly look to her face, which makes it seem like she's always getting up to some sort of trouble -- and usually, she is up to something. She's thin like a waif and turns pink in any amount of sun, so she tends to lurk from shadow to shadow. Her standard outfit is a t-shirt, jeans, and bright lipstick and despite all of this, she is one-hundred percent not someone you'd want to meet at the end of a dark alley, because who knows what she's getting up to down there.
Something hinky, probably.
Personality: There is probably alcohol in that soccer-mom water bottle June carries everywhere. If she isn't working, June is probably working on actively being drunk. If she asks you to hold her drink, she's probably about to get into trouble magically.
She's three-hundred percent a flake and five-hundred percent not concerned about it. She leaves conversations in the middle of them, because something different catches her fancy. She starts a lot of projects and never finishes them. She is simultaneously very confident and very not, but she'll never let you see her vulnerable. She would like to avoid everyone ever but also puts herself in situations where she has to be around people. She will actively avoid being touched by most people, but is definitely the sort of person to go through someone else's stuff just to see what they have.
She has "favorites" around town and will actively antagonize them in order to see their reactions -- Willie is a great example of this, but she's also extended her reach to Bart's neighbors. She keeps showing up in the apartment of Bart's new neighbor because she forgets that someone actually lives there now. She may or may not have tried to convince him that she was a ghost and it was totally kosher for her to be there. The "ghost" noises she made were totally believable, so believable. There was literally no reason for him to tattle on her to Willie.
Honestly, people these days.
Backstory: June has lived her most of her life in Hexham. Her entire family has lived in Hexham for as long as they can remember. June, of course, finds this repugnant and often travels outside of Hexham for work and pleasure. As a result of having spent so long in one place, however, June knows most of the shortcuts and secrets of the town, especially since she spent most of her youth as a miscreant trouble maker. There are some sigils spray painted on buildings that refuse to be washed off that can be attributed to June. Every so often, she goes back to recharge them. Not everyone is sure what each of them do.
June struggled a lot as a child because her magic was different enough from the rest of the family's magic that it stuck out just enough to make it something talked about in hushed tones. Larues are particularly good finders, but no one in the family can find things quite like June can -- that is, by calling them to come to her and not actually being things June wanted to find, like summoned shadowy creatures that lurked in the hallways of the family home and wouldn't go away until June gathered the gumption to sent them away. Whereas June's family is much better at finding lost objects and fixing what's broken, June is more adept at breaking things, whether they be rules or things that need to go back where they came from.
Her magic was just different enough that there was no one to tell her how to handle her burgeoning powers, which meant that June came up with her own unique ways of coping with her magic. She's very good at interpreting spells into her own distinct flavor and getting the result that she wants, simply by wanting it enough. The minutiae of magic -- the stones, the herbs, the candles, the particulars that witches use to channel their magic -- aren't what's important to June. If June has an inkling of being able to do something, she'll try it. It doesn't always work out as she intends, but it works out often enough to be something June is confident in.
June's been in a lot of situations, magically, that she hasn't wanted to be in. The early years in which she actively started summoning things were particularly bad, because you have to figure out what the rules are before you can start breaking them and finding the loopholes and June has never been very adept at following the rules in the first place. This often resulted in bumps, bruises, and broken bones. She spent a lot of her teenage years in slings and with parents who frowned a lot, wondering what they could do to stop their kid from seeking out things that hurt her. June isn't a person who backs down from things that scare her. She wasn't at fifteen and she isn't at thirty-eight.
June's figured most of it out now, though. Her magic lies in liminal spaces, which tends to make her a gateway or a threshold. She can summon both live beings and creatures and inanimate objects to her and she can send them away. She's figured out a way to banish herself specific places, almost like teleportation. Her magic exists in the space between -- between the past and the present, between the day and the night, between what has happened and what will happen. It thrives in uncertainty and transition, the mayhem that precedes the calm. Her magic feels like an empty train station at two o'clock in the morning, like a church with no people in it, like someone's gone in during the night and moved all the furniture in the house two inches to the right -- like something that's gone wrong, but also right.
The important part is that June makes it work for her, and she does.
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