Name: Winifred "Winnie" Sanderson Age: Three hundred and thirty seven Thirty-five Occupation: Performer Sexuality: Pansexual Pronouns: She/Her Big Three: Scorpio sun, Aries moon, Libra rising
Headcanons:
The eldest of the Sanderson sisters, Winifred took looking after her younger sisters very seriously, especially after their mother passed away and their father spent most of his time working. Though she was about to marry John Pritchett the moment she turned sixteen, looking after Mary and Sarah had always been much more important to her than fulfilling what the church wanted of her. That, and John was kind of ugly, anyway. Her real sights had been set on one Billy Butcherson, but Winifred doesn't like to discuss how that ended. She's still bitter about it to this day.
Their happened-upon witch mother came at a time when the girls had needed her the most: the Sanderson sisters had been exiled, and they were looking for a new home to call their own. Winifred felt some of the responsibility come off her for the first time in her life, and it was the safety with their coven that kept the sisters safe for decades.
Emily Binx had been a necessary sacrifice for them to stay alive, even if the girl had led to their first death. Winnie doesn't really regret what happened to the girl--she was better off dead than alive, anyway, in the kind of society they were raised in. Thackery had been sacrificed as more of a personal vendetta, a joke, really, though Winifred only slightly regrets this after how much annoyance he'd caused them a few decades ago.
The Dennisons and their little blonde friend had been the sisters' only hope of staying alive after they were brought back one Halloween night not too long ago. Though he'd brought them back from the dead, Max had also been the one who'd sent them back to the grave, and that's something Winnie won't soon forget. She blames him, and the stupidity of her sisters, for the failure that had been that particular Halloween. Winifred would've had it all handled had it not been for how miserably her sisters had failed and the leap of an adjustment to modern technology the trio had had to make.
Though she largely considers her encounter with the Dennisons and Allison a failure, one good thing did come out of it: Winnie had managed to put a curse on the two girls before she'd been burst into smithereens. Allison and Dani would become witches one day, once Winifred came back to life. Call it blind luck, or belief in herself, but Winnie had a feeling she'd be back, and so too would the powers she'd placed on the two girls when they were children.
It was only recently that Winnie had been brought back to join her sisters beyond the grave again. Once the borders to Echo Isle had opened, something had shifted, letting the possibility for magic as strong as the sisters' combined to thrive. It was once the border opened that Winifred found herself Earth-side again, rising from the cemetery where the Dennisons had banished her thirty years ago. It's only been a few weeks, and she's still getting used to how much has changed from the last time she'd appeared until now. Now that she's back on the island, Winnie has focused all of her efforts on finding her sisters, though it's quite difficult when she doesn't own any of the modern technology to contact them. She did hear about some big festival a few weeks ago though, from the newspapers, and she's hoping they might come across each other at something like that soon. Otherwise, she'll continue the search until she's reunited with them and her spellbook.
It's not in the same way as Sarah's, but Winnie's singing voice can, and does, charm people. She's found that her audience can essentially react however she'd like them to when she's performing. Though she's only publicly performed twice since she was killed the first time, Winnie's working on honing in on her hypnosis power through declaring herself a singer. It would be easy to make a living as a performer if she could simply hex all of her audience to come back the next time she sings. It seems the sisters can't make it far these days without a steady paycheck, and Winnie has a feeling neither of her sisters will be the one to step up and bring home the bank for them.
