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FULL NAME Josephine Joyce Beford NICKNAME Jo ALIAS Heather Jones (pen name) SPECIES Human TYPE Witch (reformed) DOB June 24th, 1982 AGE 37 ORIENTATION Heterosexual RESIDENCE An apartment above Loaf Around OCCUPATION Small business owner (bakery); Author

PERSONALITY

The phrase, "Watch out for the quiet ones," couldn't more aptly describe Josephine. An introverted individual, not many know Jo is present because she is so quiet. She is content, most of the time, to be wrapped up in her thoughts on one supernatural species or another or one magical theory or another. She is a book nerd who is often found at the counter with one of her tomes or spell books at the front of the shop and those that do not know her well sometimes think she is cold or snobbish. This, in fact, couldn’t be further from the truth.

Jo, despite her previous actions and reputation, is probably the nicest, warmest person you will ever have the pleasure of meeting. She is very shy, however, but once you can break her out of her shell, she is a very pleasant conversationalist although you'll have to forgive her absent-mindedness. Because Jo is often pulled into her head, she has a tendency to lose her train of thought when another pushes it's way in so if she asks you to repeat information, try not to get too frustrated with the woman. However, should any of the coven come to her for help or advice, she is 100% devoted and attentive to that person. In fact, anyone coming to her for her assistance will get her undivided attention.

ABILITIES & SKILLS

As a capable leader of the Havenwood coven, Jo is extremely knowledgeable in an assortment of herbs, their properties, what they can do to help someone—or not—and knows of numerous spells that can be applied to a number of situations. She is more than capable of manipulating the four elements to her will, having more of an affinity to fire due to straying onto a dark path before finding her proper way again. Despite what a few in the coven will say of her, she's probably the best witch to come to for advice and help.

Even though one could say that Jo is nerdish, the coven leader is quite physically active. She runs several times a week and participates in rowing along with bird watching—a hobby she developed back in England. Jo is also a skilled writer and has her work published on the DL under the pseudonym, Heather Jones, a semi-popular romance novelist.

HISTORY

While many of the witches in Havenwood can claim a long lineage of witchcraft, Jo is not among them. The Bedfords didn't even come to the town until roughly the turn of the 20th Century—or so the claim is—and it was a handful of years after that, that Mae Bedford inherited the role of leadership in the coven. Since then, a Bedford descendant had held a seat of power in the Havenwood coven. Jo would come to be no different, but her road to leadership was a rocky one.

Born in 1982, it would come as a shock 18 years later when her family would discover the dark path she'd taken. However, before that time, one couldn't have met a nicer young lady. Jo, in her younger years, grew to be a very well-liked and thoughtful girl. She was the type of person that helped the neighbors and visited Old Mrs. Bryant every Sunday to play Gin and Slap Jack until she passed away when Jo was 10. It was a blow to the young lady, who had considered her a constant in her life. However, her passing wasn't just a blow to Jo, but one to the coven as well. The old woman had been a skilled witch among them and dispensed advice and teaching like it was candy, but she had focused much of her attention on her little neighbor who she knew would come to be a great and powerful witch. She had Seen it, but knowing that sort of information could go to anyone's head, kept the knowledge to herself in the hope the girl's parents, and the coven, could lead her to the right path.

While Jo had always been teased for being the teacher's pet or she'd been made fun of for being so helpful to others, she had up until that point been able to brush off the jabs to her character. However, after Mrs. Bryants passing, it became more and more difficult for Jo to keep her shield of confidence in place where there wasn't someone besides her parents telling her she was as good as, if not better, than those that put her down. There was no one to guide her when she stepped outside of the Bedford's home, no one that Jo was as comfortable at speaking her mind to than the old lady next door. She only had one friend in the coven her age and the rest of her friends wouldn't understand the mechanics of the coven were she to reveal her secret. By the time she was 13, she'd withdrawn from her best friend.

It was during that year when Jo had finally taken a full step toward a dark path. She'd been bullied again that day and as the jock walked away, the witch had furiously thought how funny it would be if the asshole tripped and fell in front of the whole school and broke something. In the next instant, it happened. Granted, Jo's entire wish didn't come true, but she was satisfied of the instant humiliation the older boy received after having just done the same to Jo. Over the next five years, Jo became less and less concerned about helping others and more and more about what her magic could do for herself.

She stole ingredients from The Nameless Page, got her hands on spell books that were considered too dark, spent hours secreted away in Miller's Wood reading, learning, and practicing any and all magic she could get her hands on. Jo became powerful. But, without another, more experienced witch guiding her, she lacked the complete control she'd learn by the time she would turn 18 and by then, her relationship with her parents—and the coven—had become strained to the point that major arguments tended to get magically out of control when Jo couldn't rein-in her anger or frustration. The summer after she graduated—barely—she nearly burned down the Bedford's home in a childish rage. Fearful that if she continued any longer, the Bedford's threatened expulsion from the coven if she didn't agree to be sent to England.

Jo agreed thinking she could slip away, but upon her arrival she was in for a rude awakening. The next four years were grueling on the young lady who resisted the coven's attempt to guide her out of the darkness, but after a year and a half of work, the coven was finally successful. Once Jo's issues came to light, her education became more fine-tuned and by 22, she gained the control and finesse someone her age and skill should possess. However, the hardest work was yet to come. Upon returning home, Jo received an understandably mixed welcome. Just as she did back in England, Jo worked hard—even more so—to repair the damage she had wrought in the coven.

But, despite making amends over the next few years, there were still those in the coven who were wary of the woman and protested when Meredith Bedford, Jo's mother, had to step down from her place as leader of the coven due to health reasons when Jo turned 27. Those who still did not trust Jo were extremely vocal about it, but through her actions, Jo has won most of them over. Only a few remain despite Jo's continued effort to prove herself.

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