player information ● name: Jae ● age:OLD LADY 30 ● contact: plurk is ninjae ● other characters: N/A
character information ● name: Sarah Wenham ● canon: The Covenant ● canon point: Post-movie ● age: 17ish
● (canon) background:
THE MESS OF THE MOVIE
Look at that Ipswich. That is a sweet Ipswich, you might say. WRONG. For like the majority of small New England towns that appear in fiction, it holds A DARK SECRET.
Way back during the Salem witch trials, see, there was this group of bona fide actual witch people who made like a vow of silence? Or something? They called it the Covenant, capital C, because even back then these dudes were dramatic. They also happened to be part of the five families who founded the Ipswich colony, say that five times fast. IT WAS BELIEVED that the fifth family died out (that becomes important, see, because since when is a family believed to have died out actually dead?), leaving the four successors of the Covenant, locally referred to as THE SONS OF IPSWICH because of their family heritage. And yeah all four are guys. Statistical improbability, yes. Does the story care? HELL NAW.
Enter Sarah Wenham, aka Sexy Lamp. She's fresh from Boston which the narrative NEVER TAKES INTO ACCOUNT AGAIN to attend Spenser Academy on scholarship. After conveniently falling in with the Sons of Ipswich via her roommate Kate, she decides lead Son is hot and agrees to run errands with him rather than going to see a movie with Kate because that's a great first date amiright. Also, Chase Collins, another transfer student, is there. I bet you can't guess what his not-dead family background might be. Anyway he goes with Kate to the movie. It's a Brad Pitt movie. That part is important (to Chase).
Errand the first involves a drive out to a shack in the middle of nowhere to deliver some medications to, presumably, a crazy old caretaker who lives there and fires a literal warning shot when he realizes Son is not alone. Hawt. Sarah is understandably weirded out by this but what's she going to do, hike back to town? So she sits in the car being freaked out until Son comes back and is like "yo lets go to the bar where all the teenagers who can't drink hang out."
So they do that, not much relevant to Sexy Lamp happens, except that she dances up on Son like a White Girl Hurricane to steal his attention back after he's all "brb bros before hoes." At the end of the night he drops her off and they have one awkward kiss and she goes to bed and dreams of HORRIBLE SPIDERS SWARMING EVERYWHERE.
Fast-forward a little, past the viewers receiving UNEXPECTED AND REVELATORY NEWS that Chase killed a nameless kid (literally referred to in dialogue as "the dead kid") during the party that opened the movie and has presumably been sending the dead kid's ghost/shade/darkling/whatever to fuck with the other witch-boys. Sarah's all RESEARCHING IT UP, finding out about spiders and their connection to the old Salem witch trials oooOOoooOOoOo spooky.
Sarah goes back to her dorm after dinner with Son and the most awkward noisy makeout session ever to discover ROOMMATE KATE HAS BEEN HOSPITALIZED! Why? Because she was bitten by a zillion spiders. Blah blah meanwhile the Sons of Ipswich discover the FURTHER UNEXPECTED AND REVELATORY NEWS that Chase is in fact the successor of the presumed dead fifth family. What did I tell you? That shit never sticks. In the middle of their "well shit, that's unexpected" discussion Sarah calls Son and Son makes the mistake of spilling the beans about Kate, who is dating Son 2. Son 2 storms off and gets HIMSELF hospitalized by Chase, destroyer of vehicles.
Then Chase goes to Sarah's dorm room wearing a Son suit (all magically disguised) and pretends to be even more moody and unable to enunciate than the real one, and Sarah is like this seems legit OH SHIT I'VE BEEN MAGICKED INTO CURSED SLEEP. Real Son tries to help and gets ultimatum'd and Chase is all gentlemanly and lets Sarah wake up and even fixes the mirror he broke before he leaves, what a good guy.
Sarah has had it up to here with these motherfucking witches in this motherfucking town, aight, so she tells Son that she wants to know the truth about what's going on and that she knows there's magic involved. Son is like "okay I'm gonna show you something and then I will REVEAL ALL." And he takes her back to that shack and introduces her to his moldy dad who's like forty but looks about ten billion years old.
SURPRISE, USING MAGIC SUCKS AWAY YOUR LIFE FORCE! I mean it was a surprise to Sarah but literally no one else because we'd been told that like, immediately. Magic manifests in the male line at age 13 and their Power "matures~" at 18 when they Ascend and after that if they use magic they get addicted and shrivel up like grapes. You can, however, will your power away to someone else! If you don't mind dying and shit. And that's what Chase wants Son to do - will his power to Chase, die and shit.
Sarah is like WHAT THAT FUCKIN' SUCKS? And Son is like Yeah I guess and then is like Yo let's get you ready for that dance I mentioned a while ago because sending you out into the open with the two least experienced witches as your body guards COULD NOT POSSIBLY GO WRONG.
(It goes wrong.)
Fast-forward to Chase and Son's FINAL SHOWDOWN while Sarah just chills out floating and unconscious in the background. They're like VWOOM. And FSHOOM. And it looks ridiculous as fuuuuuuck. But then Son's dad does that whole willing of power shit because even broke clocks can be not shitty parents twice a year or something. And lo he's all juiced up and throws Chase into a fireball thing. And Sarah wakes up! And is like what the F just happened. And then Son is like I dunno sweetcheeks lemme casually fix this broken car windshield after going on and on about the addictive properties of magic. And Sarah is like well that's sorta freaky and uncomfortable--
● abilities: It’s implied by the movie (or by its plot holes) that she has psychic abilities and a certain level of clairvoyance. She sensed when magic was being worked around her and she dreamed of HORRIFYING SPIDER INFESTATION shortly before her roommate went to the hospital after being bitten by hundreds of spiders. Post-movie, she’s embraced the idea of having abilities of her own and has been studying and practicing, enough to read auras, have more consistent prophetic dreams, and to have successfully astrally projected. Once. Given that this is conjecture on my part and headcanon re: post-movie activities, I’m happy to nerf or disregard.
● strengths:
Intuitive: She takes nothing for granted, and trusts her instincts. In most things (though perhaps not people things), they're pretty good. She's always had a strong level of intuition and supplements it with an addiction to learning whatever she can about topics that interest her and the situations she finds herself in. Where some people would try to dismiss the strangeness going on around them, she saw teenage boys using magic and pursued a line of thinking that said "Well, maybe there's magic in the world." She's open to impossible possibilities, provided they can be proved in some way.
Driven: She's intensely driven and very quiet about that drive. When she decided she wanted to go to Harvard, she worked until she got a scholarship to a prep school that funnels students into Harvard. WHen she decided she liked a boy on campus, she insinuated herself into his life by volunteering to keep him company while he ran errands. When she sets her eyes on a goal, she knows that going straight at it isn't necessarily the best way to get it, or the most efficient. She uses her energy and her skills more carefully. She's comfortable playing a long game, and in some ways views life as a chess match to be won with as few casualties as possible.
Empathetic: She tends to make and keep friends very easily. She also cares deeply about the wellbeing of those around her, even if her relationship with them is brief or shallow. She’ll go out of her way for others, sometimes to her detriment. She has very little temper. Even when she's angry, it passes quickly. She's more interested in trying to reason out other peoples' choices and trying to understand why they would act a certain way. The energy of anger gets redirected to investigation.
● weaknesses:
Too Trusting (no seriously this is a legit weakness): She tends to see the best in others even when it’s not there, excusing or forgiving bad behavior and justifying away repetitive mistakes and misdeeds. She's not naive - she's too smart to be truly naive - but she's the sort who believes at bottom that, given the option, people will choose to do the right thing, even if they’ve shown that they won’t.
Counterintuitively, Not Trusting Enough: She doesn’t tend to rely on people, and places a premium on independence over emotional attachment. We never see her get in touch with her parents. She doesn't voice her worries about the weirdness happening around her, just privately researches witchcraft on her own. She's willing to accept help if it's offered, but she doesn't reach out, and if she feels crowded by kindness she may withdraw.
Easy to Read: She can’t keep her emotions to herself. If she’s upset, she cries. If she’s mad, it shows. Regularly throughout the movie she makes declarative statements about her feelings because the writers have never spoken to an actual human girl in their entire lives. She wears her heart on her sleeve and isn't apologetic about it, but that emotional openness makes her state of mind easy to read and potentially easy to manipulate.
● job skills (optional): She's very organized and studious?? But she's a teenager with few marketable skills beyond a willingness to learn and endless curiosity.
● housing (optional): Communal housing with castmates (Caleb Danvers and Chase "Car Killer" Collins)
Sarah Wenham || The Covenant || Not Reserved
● name: Jae
● age:
OLD LADY30● contact: plurk is ninjae
● other characters: N/A
character information
● name: Sarah Wenham
● canon: The Covenant
● canon point: Post-movie
● age: 17ish
● (canon) background:
THE MESS OF THE MOVIE
Look at that Ipswich. That is a sweet Ipswich, you might say. WRONG. For like the majority of small New England towns that appear in fiction, it holds A DARK SECRET.
Way back during the Salem witch trials, see, there was this group of bona fide actual witch people who made like a vow of silence? Or something? They called it the Covenant, capital C, because even back then these dudes were dramatic. They also happened to be part of the five families who founded the Ipswich colony, say that five times fast. IT WAS BELIEVED that the fifth family died out (that becomes important, see, because since when is a family believed to have died out actually dead?), leaving the four successors of the Covenant, locally referred to as THE SONS OF IPSWICH because of their family heritage. And yeah all four are guys. Statistical improbability, yes. Does the story care? HELL NAW.
Enter Sarah Wenham, aka Sexy Lamp. She's fresh from Boston which the narrative NEVER TAKES INTO ACCOUNT AGAIN to attend Spenser Academy on scholarship. After conveniently falling in with the Sons of Ipswich via her roommate Kate, she decides lead Son is hot and agrees to run errands with him rather than going to see a movie with Kate because that's a great first date amiright. Also, Chase Collins, another transfer student, is there. I bet you can't guess what his not-dead family background might be. Anyway he goes with Kate to the movie. It's a Brad Pitt movie. That part is important (to Chase).
Errand the first involves a drive out to a shack in the middle of nowhere to deliver some medications to, presumably, a crazy old caretaker who lives there and fires a literal warning shot when he realizes Son is not alone. Hawt. Sarah is understandably weirded out by this but what's she going to do, hike back to town? So she sits in the car being freaked out until Son comes back and is like "yo lets go to the bar where all the teenagers who can't drink hang out."
So they do that, not much relevant to Sexy Lamp happens, except that she dances up on Son like a White Girl Hurricane to steal his attention back after he's all "brb bros before hoes." At the end of the night he drops her off and they have one awkward kiss and she goes to bed and dreams of HORRIBLE SPIDERS SWARMING EVERYWHERE.
Fast-forward a little, past the viewers receiving UNEXPECTED AND REVELATORY NEWS that Chase killed a nameless kid (literally referred to in dialogue as "the dead kid") during the party that opened the movie and has presumably been sending the dead kid's ghost/shade/darkling/whatever to fuck with the other witch-boys. Sarah's all RESEARCHING IT UP, finding out about spiders and their connection to the old Salem witch trials oooOOoooOOoOo spooky.
Sarah goes back to her dorm after dinner with Son and the most awkward noisy makeout session ever to discover ROOMMATE KATE HAS BEEN HOSPITALIZED! Why? Because she was bitten by a zillion spiders. Blah blah meanwhile the Sons of Ipswich discover the FURTHER UNEXPECTED AND REVELATORY NEWS that Chase is in fact the successor of the presumed dead fifth family. What did I tell you? That shit never sticks. In the middle of their "well shit, that's unexpected" discussion Sarah calls Son and Son makes the mistake of spilling the beans about Kate, who is dating Son 2. Son 2 storms off and gets HIMSELF hospitalized by Chase, destroyer of vehicles.
Then Chase goes to Sarah's dorm room wearing a Son suit (all magically disguised) and pretends to be even more moody and unable to enunciate than the real one, and Sarah is like this seems legit OH SHIT I'VE BEEN MAGICKED INTO CURSED SLEEP. Real Son tries to help and gets ultimatum'd and Chase is all gentlemanly and lets Sarah wake up and even fixes the mirror he broke before he leaves, what a good guy.
Sarah has had it up to here with these motherfucking witches in this motherfucking town, aight, so she tells Son that she wants to know the truth about what's going on and that she knows there's magic involved. Son is like "okay I'm gonna show you something and then I will REVEAL ALL." And he takes her back to that shack and introduces her to his moldy dad who's like forty but looks about ten billion years old.
SURPRISE, USING MAGIC SUCKS AWAY YOUR LIFE FORCE! I mean it was a surprise to Sarah but literally no one else because we'd been told that like, immediately. Magic manifests in the male line at age 13 and their Power "matures~" at 18 when they Ascend and after that if they use magic they get addicted and shrivel up like grapes. You can, however, will your power away to someone else! If you don't mind dying and shit. And that's what Chase wants Son to do - will his power to Chase, die and shit.
Sarah is like WHAT THAT FUCKIN' SUCKS? And Son is like Yeah I guess and then is like Yo let's get you ready for that dance I mentioned a while ago because sending you out into the open with the two least experienced witches as your body guards COULD NOT POSSIBLY GO WRONG.
(It goes wrong.)
Fast-forward to Chase and Son's FINAL SHOWDOWN while Sarah just chills out floating and unconscious in the background. They're like VWOOM. And FSHOOM. And it looks ridiculous as fuuuuuuck. But then Son's dad does that whole willing of power shit because even broke clocks can be not shitty parents twice a year or something. And lo he's all juiced up and throws Chase into a fireball thing. And Sarah wakes up! And is like what the F just happened. And then Son is like I dunno sweetcheeks lemme casually fix this broken car windshield after going on and on about the addictive properties of magic. And Sarah is like well that's sorta freaky and uncomfortable--
THE END. No literally that's where it ends.
THE MOVIE'S WIKIPAGE for clarification as necessary
● abilities: It’s implied by the movie (or by its plot holes) that she has psychic abilities and a certain level of clairvoyance. She sensed when magic was being worked around her and she dreamed of HORRIFYING SPIDER INFESTATION shortly before her roommate went to the hospital after being bitten by hundreds of spiders. Post-movie, she’s embraced the idea of having abilities of her own and has been studying and practicing, enough to read auras, have more consistent prophetic dreams, and to have successfully astrally projected. Once. Given that this is conjecture on my part and headcanon re: post-movie activities, I’m happy to nerf or disregard.
● strengths:
Intuitive: She takes nothing for granted, and trusts her instincts. In most things (though perhaps not people things), they're pretty good. She's always had a strong level of intuition and supplements it with an addiction to learning whatever she can about topics that interest her and the situations she finds herself in. Where some people would try to dismiss the strangeness going on around them, she saw teenage boys using magic and pursued a line of thinking that said "Well, maybe there's magic in the world." She's open to impossible possibilities, provided they can be proved in some way.
Driven: She's intensely driven and very quiet about that drive. When she decided she wanted to go to Harvard, she worked until she got a scholarship to a prep school that funnels students into Harvard. WHen she decided she liked a boy on campus, she insinuated herself into his life by volunteering to keep him company while he ran errands. When she sets her eyes on a goal, she knows that going straight at it isn't necessarily the best way to get it, or the most efficient. She uses her energy and her skills more carefully. She's comfortable playing a long game, and in some ways views life as a chess match to be won with as few casualties as possible.
Empathetic: She tends to make and keep friends very easily. She also cares deeply about the wellbeing of those around her, even if her relationship with them is brief or shallow. She’ll go out of her way for others, sometimes to her detriment. She has very little temper. Even when she's angry, it passes quickly. She's more interested in trying to reason out other peoples' choices and trying to understand why they would act a certain way. The energy of anger gets redirected to investigation.
● weaknesses:
Too Trusting (no seriously this is a legit weakness): She tends to see the best in others even when it’s not there, excusing or forgiving bad behavior and justifying away repetitive mistakes and misdeeds. She's not naive - she's too smart to be truly naive - but she's the sort who believes at bottom that, given the option, people will choose to do the right thing, even if they’ve shown that they won’t.
Counterintuitively, Not Trusting Enough: She doesn’t tend to rely on people, and places a premium on independence over emotional attachment. We never see her get in touch with her parents. She doesn't voice her worries about the weirdness happening around her, just privately researches witchcraft on her own. She's willing to accept help if it's offered, but she doesn't reach out, and if she feels crowded by kindness she may withdraw.
Easy to Read: She can’t keep her emotions to herself. If she’s upset, she cries. If she’s mad, it shows. Regularly throughout the movie she makes declarative statements about her feelings because the writers have never spoken to an actual human girl in their entire lives. She wears her heart on her sleeve and isn't apologetic about it, but that emotional openness makes her state of mind easy to read and potentially easy to manipulate.
● job skills (optional): She's very organized and studious?? But she's a teenager with few marketable skills beyond a willingness to learn and endless curiosity.
● housing (optional): Communal housing with castmates (Caleb Danvers and Chase "Car Killer" Collins)
● network username: latent
● network sample: TDM Thread
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