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OOC INFO;
Player Name: Emily
Contact Info: iluvroadrunner6, iluvroadrunner6#1178, iluvroadrunner6
Current Character: n/a

IC INFO;
Character Name: Josie Saltzman
Canon: Legacies (The Vampire Diaries Universe)
Canon Information: Legacies | The Vampire Diaries | The Originals | Josie specifically
Canon Point: 116: There’s Always a Loophole, after she’s healed but before Hope gets wiped out of existence/memory
Age: 16
God Houses:

Sigyn: Josie is deeply compassionate, and wants to make sure that everyone around her is happy. She spends a lot of time caring for her sister, and has a caring personality enough where she doesn’t always put herself first when it comes to people she loves. Their being happy and safe makes her happy. At the same time, her compassion does have a limit and does not always extend to all people. When it comes to doing what’s best for her family, sometimes other people can bear the brunt of her need to protect them, for better or for worse.

Tyr: Even though she has been known to put her own wants aside to make other people happy, that doesn’t mean she can’t be assertive and stand up for herself. She often pushes her father (the headmaster of the school) for more progressive class structures (ie. pushing him to let the witches learn offensive magic in their classes in order to help them better protect themselves). She wants to make sure everyone is able to put their best feet forward when it comes to dealing with the supernatural world outside her school, and she will fight for that to the best of her ability. She is also the peacemaker when it comes to her twin, and a diplomat in her own way.

Frigg: Josie’s family is her utmost priority always. Being a twin, especially a twin from a complicated family line of twins, her sister is her best friend. She often winds up putting aside a lot of her own personal needs to take care of Lizzie and make sure that she’s happy. She also is incredibly close with her father, and will do anything to protect them both, even if it’s at the expense of other people.

Personality:

Jose Saltzman is a twin. And not just any kind of twin – she’s a magical twin.

While this isn’t a personality trait in and of itself, it has shaped much of the way that the world sees her – like one part of the whole that is the Saltzman twins. Initially the two girls are set up as opposites, both visually (Lizzie is blond while Josie is a brunette) and in terms of personality. Where Lizzie is erratic, confident and occasionally callous, Josie is kind, compassionate and steady, providing a grounding force for her twin as she rides the highs and lows of her manic and depressive flows.

In some ways, this can make Josie seem like a pushover, always setting aside her own happiness in order to soothe Lizzie’s ego, but in others, it allows them to play to each other’s strengths. As Lizzie astutely points out, Josie spends a lot of her time comfortable in this space and letting Lizzie have most of the limelight. However, as Josie grows, she starts to want a little more of her own spotlight and her own recognition, and asserting that with her sister starts to create wrinkles in their relationship. Lizzie is a bit of a bulldozer, however, and Josie doesn’t always know how to put her best foot forward smoothly – that is to say, as strong as they are in their sisterhood, this doesn’t mean that their relationship isn’t without wrinkles.

Asserting herself with other people isn’t as much of a problem. Josie has never been afraid to stand up for herself, her family, or what she thinks is right, and this is shown multiple times throughout the first season. When she and her sister nearly die at the hands of a giant spider and are only saved because a fellow witch knows more offensive magic than they do, she puts her foot down with her father and makes her case for offensive magic being added to their curriculum. When she’s elected to the Honor Council as a representative for the witches and is forced to make a choice on whether or not a student should stay when he believed to be the source of trouble being drawn to their school, she votes against it, choosing to protect her family first. As the season progresses, she starts to assert herself more with her sister, and that causes some of the more major aforementioned wrinkles, but eventually she and Lizzie work themselves out to rebalance their sisterly bond to something still hopelessly codependent but a little more evenly spread.

Coming back around to the “magical” part of “magical twin,” Josie is a witch and a member of a now dead line of witches called the Gemini Coven. She was also transplanted in utero into the womb of a vampire who wound up giving birth to her, so to say her family life – and the identity that comes in that – is an understatement. The Gemini Twins, intended to be the leader of said coven, have a long and complicated history involving a curse which Josie and Lizzie are just beginning to understand the full weight of, which was part of the reason for their extended rift. At 22, the Gemini twins go through what’s called a merging ceremony, where one twin will absorb the other. While their parents are both working to find ways to prevent this from happening, it’s a lot to place on the two girls who have a very limited connection to the coven itself, as the rest of the coven is dead, and their mother, who was also a Gemini twin, was never really a part of their lives, as she died before they were born.

Josie often longed for a connection with her birth mother, because as much as she loves Caroline, the woman who raised her, Lizzie was much more obviously a child of Caroline Forbes, whereas Josie took after the woman she never got a chance to meet. When she finally got the opportunity to meet her, it was ruined, naturally, because that’s what this universe does to good things, but she also got the chance to finally connect with the parent who had been absent in her life and get the validation she’d been looking for. That was one of the first steps forward in asserting her own identity separate from her twin—wanting to be heard for herself rather than as part of the pair.

Another aspect of her magic however, is that she’s a siphon. This means that she doesn’t generate her own magic, but rather she always needs to channel it from other things. While she’s in school, the wards often provide enough magic for her to do simple spells, but she can also draw power from magical creatures as all magical creatures in TVD land were created by witches. This need when it comes to her magic has made her resourceful, often needing to think outside the box. Having her own power for once in Asgard will be an interesting and novel experience for her, and seeing how she uses that power will be a big part of her development in game.

Given that Josie has spent most of her life in a boarding school run by her father, she’s also lived a fairly sheltered life, despite her supernatural status. She’s spent most of her life being taught that the outside world isn’t ready to accept who she is in her entirety, and that if her identity were found out, she could be targeted by unsavory supernatural threats. While that’s not at all untrue, Asgard also presents an opportunity to expand her reach beyond the confines of her school, and she if she can handle being on her own, without her dad and her sister to help anchor her.

Writing Sample: TDM threads! Billy's goes to 7 comments. **I used Frigg for her power set in the TDM threads but I’m not super married to it, so if you put her in another house that’s okay!