The Forest Witch
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The Forest Witch is most easily recognized not by her appearance but by her laughter. She has a high, wild cackle that bubbles maniacally from her throat. She is the witch of the forest, a spellcaster who specializes in curses. What is a curse, you ask? It is a spell that turns you into a form of her choosing, or turns your mask, antlers, or pelt into one she finds “ugly.” If it doesn’t work the first time, instead giving an ordinary spell, she’ll usually be upset, but keep trying until she gets it right. She also brews potions, but those are mostly of her private stock of magic – In private, she is much more capable than she seems. She loves causing trouble – in fact, nothing makes her happier than to shock and alarm a deer with her casting, to disrupt the ordinary life of deer with her beautiful magic and the strange worlds it opens up. If their feelings get hurt, she doesn’t care; it’s all fun and games.
…Her magic and the forest’s have a lot in common, actually. That may be why she’s here.
There’s one flaw in her plan to transform everyone into toads or other small vermin (correction, there are several flaws, but only one she’s noticed): the Twin Gods have a magic of their own on every deer of the forest, allowing them to remove her beautiful spells at will. She is sure that is just there to maintain their false happiness and precious “order.” She’s working on a way to defeat them once and for all!
When she’s in the mood to cast a non-animal curse, she’ll keep casting until she gets one of the “curse” spells listed below.

Vital Statistics
Name: Unknown
Picto: X
Nicknames: Witchy
Gender: Female
Age: Unknown
Species: Forest Deer – if that is her true nature or not is unknown

Personality
The Forest Witch is very haughty, believing that she is better than these other deer, more enlightened and pretty and smart, and, because she is a witch, just better all-around. She is not, though, an antisocial deer. She pretends she is by making up excuses about why she would allow deer to keep in her company. She largely sees deer she enjoys as servants or pets, but still responds to company or interest in her magic with childlike delight and laughter when she lets he guard down. She is not very good at maintaining her emotional defenses.
She’s very energetic and fervent about her goals. While her age is unknown, she acts very childishly, moving from one extreme of emotion to the next. She seems to have no emotional restraint. She’ll try to hide it when she’s crying, but her tears are loud blubbering. When she’s upset, she throws tantrums and taunts every deer in range. Then, the next moment, she’s thought of something clever to do and is laughing that wild laugh again. She is easily pleased, but also easily frustrated, and sometimes will lash out at random. Except perhaps for violent magic, she is not capable of true violence, and will usually flee to gather up more spells to cast in defense if threatened -- or rely on someone else to protect her.
She believes most ordinary happiness is just people faking, trying to maintain a peace that’s hollow and therefore meaningless at the cost of their own happiness –the witch is a cynic. She believes that only by creating chaos and escaping routine can magic and happiness can be honest, and is easily bored.

Appearance
In-game, she wears the Fan Mask and the Magpie Antlers and Pelt.
Out-of-game, her coat is mostly black, with the silver-purple effects of the magpie pelt and the white underbelly. She wears a black witch’s hat (with ear-holes cut out) decorated with beads and magpie feathers. Her human face is covered with a black and purple sheer veil, edged in gold, that takes the shape of the Fan Mask. Her face is vibrant. Her eyes are silver-white, rimmed with white lashes.
In both forms, she appears as a slender doe with a human face. Her expressions and movements have a vivacious and childlike energy about them.


Loves and Loathes
+ Magic
+ Chaos
+ The Unusual
+ Destroying “Phoniness”
+ Maniacal Laughter
+ Shiny things
+ Brewing Potions
+ Tea
+ Fun
+ de Drinkplaats
+ Mushroom Circles
+ Casting spells
+ Causing Trouble
+ Herself
+ Her Hat

- Fake Happiness
- Phony People, AKA “Goody-Two-Shoes”
- People ruining her spells
- Order for Order’s sake
- People fighting her
- Not getting what she wants
- People stealing her hat

What a Curse Is
Beluga Mask
Wooden Tribal Mask
Noh Mask
Monarch Butterfly Mask
Secretary Bird Mask
Peacock Mask
No Mask
Venetian Carnival Antler
Kabuki Antlers
Peacock Pelt
All Animal Forms

Her Font Color is #990099

Please note that if her spellspamming and taunting annoys you and you’d like her to stop, please post here, and I’ll stop. You are welcome to respond to her as the pest that she can be – but don’t be surprised if she responds back or acts upset. I’ll do my best to try and figure out what’s RP and what’s an OOC reaction, but you’re going to have to help. It’s all for the sake of amusement.