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❥ Character Information

Character Name: Eda Clawthorne
Character Age: mid-40s
Character Species: Witch! In the Owl House, witches are a humanoid species mostly differentiates by their pointy ears, and the bile sack attached to their hearts that permits them to do magic.
Current Health: About as good as it ever gets, so: hella cursed. It’s fine, it’s fine.
Outfit: A red dress, which is divided by a sweetheart neckline, above which it is darker. The hem is torn and higher in the front than in the back. She wears heeled black boots and has a detachable gold fang that perpetually sticks out of her mouth. On her chest is a large, dark, oval gemstone.

Character Canon: The Owl House
Link to History: badum tish
Canon Point: Season 2, episode 16, “Hollow Mind”. I’ll be taking her from the beginning of the episode, after Luz vanishes into Belos’s mind. Eda will follow Thirteen to go looking for Luz.
Canon Iteration: Original canon!

❥ Folkmore Roles & Attributes

Skills:

• extensive and often random knowledge of magical disciplines and other stuff


• mapmaking


• pranks


• sales(wo)manship


• petty larceny


• escaping law enforcement


Canon Abilities: Eda can shapeshift into a harpy woman! In this form, she can fly and has added speed and strength. Also, despite no longer having her innate physical magic, she can still brew potions and perform glyph magic, which does not depend on a functioning bile sack.
Role: Familiar
Role Qualities/Attributes: She can already turn into a literal harpy so I think I’m just gonna stick with that for now.
Role Reasoning: While Eda is a heroic character, she is still presented as pretty morally ambiguous, especially in the beginning of the series. She is a criminal and will proclaim this loudly and proudly to people who she thinks are like-minded, or at least not cops. The first thing she does in the series is blackmail Luz, the teenage main character, into helping her break into a prison. Pickpocketing is a favorite activity, and one time she accidentally gambles away her son, whom she may or may not have technically stolen as well. However, she is also a loving and helpful person who agrees to let Luz stay with her and become her apprentice when she sees Luz is very against returning home, likely because Eda, being a former teenage runaway, sees herself in Luz. She raises King as her own to the best of her ability and is not afraid to call out things she genuinely considers morally wrong, such as the dressing down she gave Amity for burning Willow’s memories – and even then, she was harsh, but not unkind. That said, Eda is not really a leading character and mostly acts in support of Luz, which is why I think the role of familiar will suit her well altogether.

❥ Personality

Please choose one of the follow options for your personality section. Please clarify which option you have picked and, if option 2, which questions you are answering:

OPTION 2 QUESTIONS (PICK 4-5) 100-300 WORD LIMIT EACH:

What was the most traumatic experience your character endured? How did this change them? Idk, probably the time her older sister it her with a life-wrecking curse when she was a teenager. Not that she knew her sister did it at the time; all she knew was that one day, she suddenly turned into a horrific Owl Beast, was called a monster and had stones thrown at her. And this curse was here to stay; she’s had it since. Episodes used to involve her turning into the Owl Beast and the Owl Beast taking control of her body. During such events, Eda retreats into a bleak, gray mindscape and is often chased around by the Owl Beast’s true form (her physical form retains some of Eda’s physical characteristics, such as her long hair, humanoid face and pointy ears). Usually, she keeps the curse under control with her daily elixir, but it can still be triggered by stress. Recently, though, she has has a key experience and made a truce with the Owl Beast in a dream, gaining her her harpy form – in which she looks like a bird-woman and is conscious and in control of herself. She has fewer episodes, but may still fully transform into the Owl Beast under extreme duress, and continues to take her daily elixirs.

What experience challenged your character's core beliefs? How did they handle this or change from it? I already detailed the time when she was cursed above, but there is another key event that shaped Eda’s worldview. As a teenager, she was sent to an academic competition to represent her school. There, she met Raine Whispers, with whom she would become fast friends and later have a relationship. They competed in various activities until the end, when Terra Snapdragon, head witch of the plant coven, who’d capered the event unannounced at the start, decided to pit the students against each other in a game of “Covens vs. Wild Witches”. The coven witches were encouraged to hunt down and capture the wild witches in an obvious effort at propaganda for the coven system that had been brought into existence by Emperor Belos. He wanted every witch to join one of nine covens and spread the idea that to not be a member of a coven is to be a wild witch and thus dangerous. Seeing how students were unfairly pitted against each other in what was essentially a PG battle royale likely influenced Eda’s later resistance to joining a coven, making her the most notorious wild witch in the Boiling Isles.

What is your character's moral code? Do they have one? Why or why not? Eda’s moral code is c r i m e. She is a rebel through and through, and as such often makes a living with scams, theft, and other such small-time crimes. At the beginning of the series, she’s much more morally ambiguous, engaging in activities such as gambling, casual child endangerment and that one time she straight up ate a guy (he was an octopus demon, but also her business rival). However, at the same time, she has a good heart and strong sense of justice and will likely help people out if they’re in trouble, and especially has a soft spot for animals. She is also not at all prone to holding grudges, as shown by how easily she forgives her sister, Lilith, for cursing her, after initial anger.

What are your characters dreams and nightmares? Do you believe they are more likely to obtain one rather than the other? At the canon point I have taken Eda from, events are quickly leading up to the big finale, the Day of Unity, in which Emperor Belos’s nefarious plans will come into fruition. Eda, at this point, does not yet know what exactly those plans are, though Luz is telling her about it in the TDM. But she does know it’s bad news. So her dreams and nightmares both revolve around successfully stopping this event -- or not. As the series is completed, we know our heroes will succeed, but not without sacrifice. Outside of that, it’s difficult to say if she really has any dreams. She spent a lot of her life living as an outcast, nearly alone, at the edge of society, and for a long time, she didn’t seem to have any hope of that ever changing, even as she made the best of it. After the arrival of Luz in the Boiling Isles, Eda’s life has been changing for the better – she has become more open emotionally and socially and is thus happier than she was. She herself would probably say that’s pretty good for now.

What famous folklore, legend, or myth would you associate your character with? Are they literally inspired by Snow White? Do they have similar struggles or energy as Red Riding Hood? Eda’s character definitely takes inspiration from different folkloric witch characters. I think it was confirmed that one is La Lechuza, a mexican legend of an owl with a woman’s face who preys on drunk men and children at night. According to the internet, there are many different versions of this character, such as one where La Lechuza is a woman during the day and turns into an owl at night. She may work for Satan, and is generally a bad omen and associated with death, as owls seem to be in several cultures. The other is Baba Yaga, the witch with the house on chicken legs in slavic folklore – though her house only gains legs in one episode of the show. Baba Yaga seems to have both a benign and a sinister form, much like Eda herself is often morally ambiguous.

❥ Player Information

Player Name: Val
Pronouns: she/they
Are you over 18?: very much so
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