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Facts: Age: 44 Occupation: Criminal Defense Attorney Lineage: Howard Family (Mother of Sloane Howard, Cousin of Billie Dean Howard, Granddaughter of Monsignor Timothy Howard) Affiliation: Former student, Miss Robichaux’s Academy Primary Powers: 1. Psychic Manipulation
Description: Delia can sense and subtly influence the emotions of others. She can calm, unsettle, or amplify feelings around her, but she cannot force actions or thoughts.
Strengths:
Highly effective in negotiations or court (subtle influence over juries, witnesses, or opponents).
Can sense deceit, tension, or hidden emotional states.
Limitations / Costs:
Cannot manipulate her own emotions.
Overuse can overwhelm her nervous system, causing headaches, nausea, or emotional flooding.
Uncontrolled, her influence can backfire on allies.
2. Energy Blockages
Description: Delia can suppress or dampen magical energy in her immediate surroundings, including the powers of other witches.
Strengths:
Can neutralize threats from unstable or dangerous magic users.
Makes her a strategic asset in confrontations against coven members or hostile supernatural entities.
Limitations / Costs:
Overuse is physically and mentally draining.
Prolonged suppression can cause her own powers to temporarily destabilize.
Requires focus; accidental activation can disrupt allies’ spells or rituals.
3. Chrono-Empathy (Emotional Time Echoes)
Description: Delia can sense strong emotional residues at locations, feeling past traumas, joys, or conflicts tied to specific places.
Strengths:
Can uncover hidden truths about people or events.
Useful for investigations or understanding past conflicts in coven history.
Limitations / Costs:
The intensity of past emotions can overwhelm her, causing disorientation, nausea, or panic.
Cannot control or manipulate the events themselves—only sense their emotional imprint.
Frequent exposure can create emotional numbness or detachment.
Story: Crescent City, a small town in Northern California. It was the early morning of December 11, 1981, when Jessica Howard was rushed to the hospital. Twenty-two, exhausted, overwhelmed – and yet she gave birth to twins: Delia and her brother. Jessica had hoped the children would save her marriage, but reality was cold and unyielding. Three years later, her husband died – an accident that cast a shadow over the house. Left behind was a young woman who didn’t know how to raise two children, and two children who had learned far too early to protect themselves.
Alcohol arrived quietly, first in glasses, then in bottles. Shortly before the twins’ seventh birthday, Jessica made a decision. “A little trip,” she said, as she put the children in the car. But it was no trip. She took them to an orphanage and left with a promise she would never keep. Years later, Delia would understand that this was not a moment of desperation, but a cold, deliberate choice.
The first years in the orphanage were loud, restless, and uncertain. Delia clung to her brother – her half, her anchor. But while she withdrew inward, he sought escape outward, becoming impulsive, angry, obsessive. The day he crossed her boundaries broke something inside her. The siblings were separated: he was sent away, later serving time in a juvenile facility. Delia remained. Alone.
At thirteen, Delia began to read everything she could: books, newspapers, legal texts, stories about people seeking order in a chaotic world. Her powers had long since awakened, though no one understood them. Lamps flickered, doors snapped shut when she was uneasy. She could feel the emotions of others as if they were tangible – and places she entered spoke to her of past feelings. Subtle powers she could barely control.
It was Myrtle Snow who discovered her. Elegant, flamboyant, exactly as Delia imagined: the woman who would change her life. Myrtle saw not just the talent, but the danger it carried. She brought Delia to New Orleans, to Miss Robichaux’s Academy. For Delia, Myrtle was a savior, the only light in a life of shadows.
But at the Academy, the true trial awaited. Fiona Goode, already Supreme, immediately recognized the threat: Delia’s gifts – psychic manipulation, energy blockages, chrono-empathy – were powers that could destabilize any coven. Fiona intervened, subtle and brutal. A ritual that stifled Delia’s abilities, froze their development, and weighed heavily on her psyche. Delia felt the blocks, the buildup, the surges of power she could not control. Myrtle tried to shield her where she could, but even her strength was no match for Fiona.
The result was a fracture in Delia: a magical fracture, fragmenting her powers; an emotional fracture, making her distrustful and closed-off; a social fracture, isolating her from other witches. And from it arose an unquenchable desire: revenge. Not against Myrtle – she had done what she could – but against Fiona, who had broken and manipulated her.
At eighteen, Delia left the Academy. She did not return home immediately. Instead, she disappeared into structure: the Army. Four years of discipline, hierarchy, and rules she could rely on - rules that did not whisper, demand, or punish weakness the way magic had. When she returned to California, she studied law and built a life that promised stability: a criminal defense attorney in San Francisco, notorious for her calm voice, sharp mind, and the ability to read people and turn every word into a tool. Privately, she was cautious, controlled, suspicious – never again unprepared. Sable came and went, Colin stayed, a quiet equilibrium. Yet deep within, the old spark burned: the girl who had learned to feel power, and the witch Fiona had once broken, waited for her chance.
For the past never truly ends, and sometimes, in the stillness of night, Delia hears the echoes of the power she once possessed – and knows it is time to return.
Author’s Note: English is not my first language. I’m roleplaying a fictional character. This page/content is for adults only. Open to any RP requests!
