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basics
NAME: Abigail Lauren Murphy.
NICKNAME The majority of the watch call her Abi.
AGE AND DOB: 30. 1st September, 1989.
CAREER: Lawyer. Mainly criminal though has done a number of things over the years. While technically Abigail serves the public you will find most, if not all, of her clients are Watchers charged with this or that or in need with help in a number of cases. Being a criminal lawyer has many, many uses as it not only helps when a Hunter or member of the Watch is caught up in that but gives her access to the police.
CURRENT RESIDENCE: Lives with the Watch at the Sanctuary.
MARTIAL STATUS: Single? widow?
SEXUALITY: Heterosexual.
HEIGHT: 5"6.
EYE / HAIR COLOUR: Grey/Blue / Blonde.
DISTINGUISHING MARKS: There are a good few scars over Abigail's body from the past 12 years. They tend to be hidden by clothing, Jared being the only one to know the majority of her scars and why she has them. She isn't ashamed but people tend to think the worst when they see a woman with as many scars as Abigail has. On the back of her neck she has runes for strength (Uruz), reliability/endurance (Eihwaz) and protection (Algiz). Each of the runes are spelled, enchantments woven into the ink.
supernatural
RACE: Witch.
ABILITIES INNATE ABILITY Simply put chaos is Abigail's innate ability, the ability which her parents bound, which they kept from her as they do with every generation of children in the Coven. Unlike many lines of witches the Belrithe's gifts don't seem to be connected to genetics in so much that certain gifts are not passed down and each witch has their own unique ability. While this isn't the way for all them the majority seem to gain their own abilities. Not that they know, of course.
Abigail's powers are connected to Chaos a variety of ways. First and foremost she can see, sense and 'read' chaos. Sometimes in the form of visions as she walks down the street, touches an object, passes a person with chaotic or generally negative thoughts or emotions. It's a kind of empathy when it comes to emotions; feeling fear, anger, pain, hurt anything which goes against the norm or spikes suddenly. Abigail has always chalked that up to ether, people subconsciously projecting. There's also a sort of connection to it, if she's around you enough she kind of subconsciously knows your wave length and tends to pay attention to it without even knowing it. Jared is one of those people, often just knowing when he is hurting or angry. Anna was another. Abigail believes it to be gut reactions, initiative thinking of a wife and a mother.
Then there are dreams. Abigail has had a few dreams over the years, but until she's unbound nothing to what she could have. Stark, very real dreams where it's like she's truly in the moment. Past, present, future, it would all be open to her. Which is good and bad; it leaves her emotionally vulnerable on many, many levels. This isn't Abigail just feeling a little bit of chaos she truly lives it whether is as the perpetrator or victim would depend on the chaos. She rides the emotion like she is the on one causing it or receiving it. This could mean for very, very bad dreams.
The best of her gifts would be the use of that chaotic energy which would be perfect in a fight. Drawing in the energy of the fight, that electricity which is alive during the rush of it she can transform it into other; a bigger hit in her spells, to push into her wounds to heal a touch faster and then, a twist on her healing, there is the ability to force this chaos, this dark and twisted energy through someone. What would it do? Hurt, a fucking lot, begin to rip them a part, hallucinations as the chaos piled on, their worst nightmare as they were subjected to the pure, unfiltered energy.
HEALING Abigail is very, very good at healing by 'pushing' herself into someone, transposing her spirit and force of will into them and to coaxing their body to re-heal by feeding it what it needs. In this respect she could do much the same to rip them apart piece by piece, she's just never truly realised it, give her time though.
WITCH: Like all of her family Abigail is able to use various means to create and work a spell. Herbs, objects, words, writing, etc. There are many variations and they family has a large spell catalogue, not that Abigail knows that as only the Matriarch of the family gets to see. Abigail is well versed in healing magic and is adapting ways to use it offensively.
ETHER: Able to connect though only really do so to Watch members or family. Abigail's presence on the Ether is like winter days; soft blankets against your skin, a roaring fire and then the sweeping bitter wind of a freezing night. Her leading presence is that of warmth, a motherly softness which wraps around you but when she's angry? hurt? distressed? she's the bitter ice or the core of the fire.
SKILLS: She's a good source of supernatural information for the Watch though her weaponry training is limited compared to the others, only having begun learning when she joined Jared in the watch. She has quite a good array of spells which can help though and her collection is ever growing, unlike her family she's thirsty for knowledge. Her caring despite everything she has been through, her unwillingness to give up even when she's faced with death. Abigail is a force to be reckoned with and she is stubborn to the end.
LIMITATIONS:
WEAPONRY TRAINING: Very little. Since joining Jared has trained her mostly.
GROUP: The Watch; leader.
history
FAMILY
FATHER: David Murphy.
MOTHER: Catherine Murphy.
SIBLING(S): Rosamund Murphy.
Abigail Murphy was born on a sticky September day as summer was slowly passing to autumn. It was a long, drawn out home birth as she became the second of the two Murphy girls. Abigail was welcomed into the Belrithe Coven. A coven of blood witches who kept mainly to themselves, living in a community of their own a few miles out of Las Vegas. While they have nothing against humans the Belrithe Coven have a strict rule of keeping to themselves and allowing only other witches to join their little community of peace. Humans have done only harm to their kind and they do not wish to become involved in them once again.
Really in Abigail's eyes her childhood was a good one. She was home schooled by the adults of the Coven in not only the usual subjects but magical too. It was all very ordinary for her and she never had to hide what she was; they were all witches and very open about it, no humans were allowed in their little community. She learnt of spells and herbs, of the ways of Wicca as their Coven followed and she was a happy child so long as she was learning.
Abigail was always curious - she was one of those children who would always ask why? - and this led her to finally visiting Las Vegas, against her parents wishes. From a young age she'd had instilled in her how troublesome Humans were, how they would hate her for what she was and try and kill her. Instead she found Las Vegas a glittering wonderland of new experiences. And one Jared Williams. She was completely lost and alone in the big city, overwhelmed by everything. Luckily he took her under his wing for a day and showed her the sights. It was the beginning of a whirlwind romance. Abigail couldn't keep away from the city or more importantly Jared. As expected her parents disapproved of her sudden urges to live in the city, disapproved of Jared and how he was 'tainting' their little girl.
A few months into their relationship Abigail was let in on some of the details of his life as a Hunter, by accident. She'd been waiting for him one night with the plan to surprise him and instead he returned from a hunting trip - victorious but a little worse for wear and they ended up having a long talk. She told him she was a Witch, with the Belrithe Coven, and he told her bits and pieces; enough for her to want to know more.
Moving into Las Vegas was a huge step but the right one Abigail felt. She felt betrayed by the lies her parents had fed her and wanted to help against the supernaturals who were not like Jared and herself. She was easily wrapped up into the world of the Watch, easily drawn in as she saw the horrors which the city endured every day from those who lurked out of humans reach. It scared her, terrified her in fact but she couldn't just walk away, not from the Watch and not from Jared. Being a part of the Watch was hard. She was an idealist, a romantic at heart and her light softness jarred against the harsh reality of what went on outside of her coven, it was a steep learning curve.
In deciding to stay with the Watch Abigail knew she had to find a way to help out. She wasn't a natural born fighter like the rest, she picked it up with training but it was never quite there, not like the others so she enrolled into college, deciding to become a lawyer for the simple fact that it would help the Watch when one of their own got in trouble with the police, which they tended to do.
When Jared asked Abigail to marry him her answer was instant; yes. There was no a tiny bit of hesitation to Abigail and it wasn't long until they were married. As hard as life still was she wouldn't have wished anything different. She found it hard to watch him hunt night after night but she knew she could never ask him not to, it was him to the very core of his being and it was that drive which made her fall in love with him in the first place. In marrying Jared she cut herself off from the Coven. She had told them her plans and they had refused to listen and Abigail ended up banished for her inability to bend to their will. At the age of 22, nearing the end of her time at university, Abigail found out she was pregnant. It was unplanned and thus just a little bit of a shock but she couldn't have been happier at the thought of having a child with Jared. There were moments when she wondered if bringing a child into the world they lived in was a good idea but she would never consider getting rid of their child, ever. On the 23rd November 2011 Anna Williams came kicking and screaming into the world. It was one of those births in which Abigail cursed the day Jared had come anywhere near her until her baby girl was in her arms and he was by her side. For four, nearly five, years nothing could touch the small but content family.
In 2012 the world was thrown into disarray and while Abigail had believed she had seen hardships it was nothing against the next five years. She watched as the world she fought for crumbled around her; the streets were littered with death, the buildings brought down around her, disease ran rampant and everyday they lost someone new. It took a lot out of Abigail, watching what people could do to each other, how they would rip each other a part. Those years were desperate and bleak, harsh but in those times she found her strength, she found her place amongst the Watch. Together Jared and Abigail stepped up as leaders, taking the roles in their stride. They lived and breathed the Watch which had become a family, a tight knit group which faced the onslaught of war and the battering ram of supernaturals together.
Abigail doesn't know why she woke up that night, a mother's intuition perhaps, but something stirred her. She woke Jared as she rose, giving him a nudge because she just had that feeling. Together they went to check on Anna only to find her bed empty. Abigail knew, body tensing and her knees threatened to give way at the sight of the empty bed and open window. She was instantly wide awake, bursting out across the ether with cries for her daughter. The next few weeks were a blur; tears ran into numbness which ebbed into guilt and finally anger at the world. Had she not saved enough people? Did she not deserve some goodness? Abigail was a broken shell, hallowed by the loss of her daughter and the vibrancy she once had dulled. For months she was angry, quick to emotional outbursts, picking fights because she needed somewhere to pore the energy, she threw herself into finding her daughter but nothing she tried worked. In the end it tore Jared and Abigail apart, leaving them emotionally battered and bruised and separated. The fights escalated, guilt and anger thick and something neither could work through as they both held the loss of their daughter on their shoulders.
As the world rebuilt so did Abigail, piece by piece she gave herself a semblance of life. She had not moved on by any means, not got over the loss of Anna or the space between her and Jared but she began to live once more rather than just survive. It was slow going and every time she sees a little girl with blonde hair she's wondering if it's Anna, heart catching and hope rising for a moment. It's hard still, picking up the pieces but she's trying.
extra
● Still owns the house her and Jared used to live in with Anna. It is still in pristine condition and she visits often, there is always food there just in case, the beds are always clean. She often spends the night when the nightmares become too much.
● Has a serious, serious love for Michael Jackson and when she's seriously stressed out she can be found dancing around to it.
● Wears her wedding ring on a chain around her neck, she hasn't taken it off since putting it there and won't, unless, it is to wear it again.
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