basic info;

Name: Judith.
Age: Early 20's.
Background:

Judith is an OC set in a noir type world that still teems with the supernatural and magic. Judith is a second-hand witch - a witch who's hereditary power skipped a generation - and her specialty is necromancy. She is a singer at the Dead Drop Bar where she performs for the living and the dead alike. Being the only necromancer in the nearby area, she is recruited by a detective to solve a string of grisly murders by looking for the spirit of the dead to discover the culprit. Unfortunately, Judith has had no real training beyond her abilities as a witch, and the process of recovering the spirits of the dead is far more terrifying than either of them understand. Things are only made worse when something begins chasing the both of them down, something that refuses to allow the truth to come to light.

The world she comes from is reminiscent of the 1920's where the supernatural have gone underground and hide in plain sight (think Fables in a speakeasy) to try to co-habitate with normal people. Judith wrestles with her own self-identity as she discovers her powers and struggles with maintaining a facade for the sake of her mother, who has no powers and has been ostracized by the magical community for it. Judith also struggles to befriend Robin, the detective she works with, because of the difficulties he has with accepting magic because of his own secrets.

Personality:

On the outside, Judith is fun and charming, a flame to which the moths gather. She shines like a beacon on stage and off under the right lights, agreeable with most folk, and friendly to patrons. The Dead Drop Bar is notoriously a fun and pleasant place, a hole in the wall where the dead and the living come to drink and settle their affairs, and Judith basks in the chance to be around so many people. She's a bit nosey, poking into people's lives and trying to help them make peace. She is a connector and empathetic to the dead especially, as the living still have a chance to change themselves while the dead are lost in their mistakes forever.

But not all is sunshine and roses with her, as it rarely is with anyone. She finds herself often in conflict with her mother for failing to meet expectations and her few unique characteristics are frightening to the other witches and people in the city. Even singing is not a trait she alone possesses, for any witch or wizard with enough power can sing like a chorus of angels, and she makes trinkets on the side to make herself feel worthwhile. Witches are a dime a dozen in her block and all of them are scrabbling for their piece of the underground. Judith longs for grander sights outside of the city but fears not belonging there either, and so she stays among what is most familiar despite despising the same old shit. She finds it is hard to form lasting attachments to people that aren't the dead, knowing they will move on in a similar fashion to everyone else. At her lowest, she can be an emotional wreck, which is all a part of the package she neatly ties with a bow and stuffs away with the rest of the skeletons in her closet.

Still, there is beauty to be found in discovery, and she does her best to find pockets of unknown and sunshine in the dreariness...even if most of it is found in the darker exploits of her necromancy, communing with the dead and touching the other side in ways no other witch could dare to dream.

Powers:

Judith is a second-hand witch, a person whose power skipped a generation. Like many of the witches in the city, she has learned to cast spells with thought and will, with words, and is an excellent herbalist. She makes charms in her spare time and reads tarot, as any other witch in the city could offer. Her specialty is necromancy, which gives her some interesting extra abilities that some of the other witches do not have, though many of them stem from the same place: magic is energy within everyone and everything, and it comes out in its own way. Powerful emotions fuel magic, the greatest of those being love and hate in that order.