Miss Chief

Miss Chief, secretly Lisa Davies, is a witch and was, for a time, a superhero in Colonial Bay.

Description
As Miss Chief: This young woman stands 5'9" tall in a short, deep blue dress with a greatly plunging neckline, trimmed in gold. Matching gloves and boots are at the end of her otherwise bare arms and legs. Her high-cheeked face isn't much concealed by the narrow blue mask about her green eyes. Both her cape – which fades from deep blue to purple, with a gold diagonal stripe – and her blonde hair wave dramatically in the wind. Even when there is no wind.

As Lisa: Lisa is 5'9" and good-looking of both face and body, and evidently knows it. She gives the impression of taking great care of her appearance: she's generally dressed in youthfully fashionable clothes that suit the occasion, and not a single black hair on her head ever seems out of place. Her smile is quick and bright, her laugh easy, her demeanour friendly, though at times she seem distracted.

Origin
Certain ancient gods were notorious for their affairs with mortals, but only a few of the demigods born of such unions achieve equal fame. Most found themselves in an odd position, at home neither with the gods, who saw them as inferior, or the mortals, whom they saw as inferior. So they invented a new identity for themselves, as "witches" and "warlock", above the "mortals" (though not truly immortal themselves). When the gods withdrew from regular contact with the mortal world, the witches and warlocks chose to forget them and imagine themselves and the greatest beings, though they were seldom worshipped as gods: the new religions tended to frown on "witchcraft".

Though they themselves partly withdrew to the pocket dimension of Thaumatopolis, the witches and warlocks never broke with mortal entirely. While they disdained mortals, in practice their whole culture was copied from them, and they were always drawn back to it seeking novelty which the smaller, longer-lived and more jaded witchly populace could not provide.

By ancient law, witches and warlocks look after their own, and their own are any of their relatives, no matter how distant, who have magic powers – relatives who do not are mere mortals. Witches and warlocks tend to marry each other to keep the bloodline pure, but even so there are the odd mortal children even from such unions. In the late twentieth century, one such was Karl Sonneborn: as such he was cast into the mortal world, disowned by his parents. Still, he had some magical potential, which was sensed by Harold Engstrom, a college friend. Harold tempted him and another friend to summon a demon to grant them powers. As soon as the demon appeared they realised they couldn't control it and barely managed to lock it away.

To Harold the cost was great: his physical and mental health gradually, if slowly, slipped away. But despite the failure the encounter with the demon had awoken some magic power in him and awoke it fully in his descendants: his daughter Linda and her two children, Vicky and Lisa Davies.

Powers
Other than her longevity, which is a consequence of godly descent, all of Lisa's powers are magical. She can teleport great distances, and even to the witches' pocket dimension of Thaumatopolis, sense magic, dispel magic, or change her clothes at whim. She also has some standing wards to protect her from harm.

Her particular talent, however, lies in the magic of animation: of bringing inanimate objects to life, at least to some degree. At the simplest she can make objects able to hurl themselves at targets or ensnare them (light animated objects can generally fly, though heavier ones are limited to the ground). She can even animate many things at once – though the strength of such objects is limited, it's very useful for doing chores! Such simple animation is essentially under her own control, but she can waken still more awareness in objects so that they can function independently. With more effort still she can give an objects so much life it has free will and will "live" till "killed" or the magic is dispelled (such objects display their own personalities, probably deriving from the "psychic impressions" they contain of the sort retrocognitives read). She can also give objects more zoomorphic features, similar to what a cartoon version of the object might have.

She can waken any object's awareness to the point she can talk to it, without giving it the ability to move. Indeed she can talk to just about anything! She can question such objects about the past - their memories extend beyond their point of awakening.

While objects can mostly be relied upon to do what she asks of them – most are grateful for having been "brought to life" – ultimately they all have free will to some extent, and there's always a chance they'll do something surprising.

Most of the magical abilities involve a spoken spell and/or conversation with the object (not necessarily in a language understandable to others). Normally when the objects speak back it's not audible to others, though she can convey the power of speech.

Personality
On the one hand, Lisa is a caring person, ever willing to lend a hand to help someone (or something!) else. Her grandfather in particular raised her to be mindful the consequences of her actions on others – and especially not to put lives at risk.

On the other she's fun-loving and somewhat reckless, taking great delight in use of her magic powers which her parents had her hide so long, and in the world of witches Eglantine has revealed to her. It is not impossible that she could be lured into that world for good, if her human friends don't ground her sufficiently.

For now, being a superhero is common ground to both sides of her personality – she can use her abilities and help people at the same time.

Relations
Lisa's current relations are unknown. It is probable that she lives in Thaumatopolis currently, and that those close to her are likely to be there.

History
Linda married a businessman, Ed Davies. Karl taught magic to both his daughter and granddaughter, but never again made contact with other warlocks or witches. Ed opposed his wife and daughters practicing magic, afraid what people would think. Linda all but gave up magic, while Vicky and Lisa practiced secretly while growing up in Altoona, PA.

Things changed when Lisa was 15: Dancing Coyote and Eleven came to the house. It transpired that someone else was trying to set the demon free in exchange for powers. The heroes thwarted the plot with the aid of Vicky, then at CBSU, and the demon was more thoroughly banished.

However, this drew the Witches' Council's attention to the fact that three previously unknown witches existed. They promptly made contact to attempt to return them to the fold, as their laws required. The three reacted differently to these events, and so the council adopted different approaches.

Linda shuns magic for her Ed's sake. With her they are playing a long game, hoping she'll "come to her senses" as he ages more rapidly than her. They are, however, inclined to plague Ed, whom they generally find annoying even for a mortal.

Vicky, now calling herself Victoria, has become a grim demon-hunter, keeping back the evil secretly gnawing at the world. She doesn't like the witches' attitude to life, but they are using the ever greater need for magical knowledge she has in her quest to reel her in.

Lisa, though, delights in her magic. To her they sent "Cousin Eglantine" to be best friend and teacher. Of course, having been raised as a "mortal" Lisa is still far too fond of mortal for the witches' taste, but she likes the witches' lifestyle. For now she is between two worlds, and enjoying herself there.