Payton Silverstone

Payton Silverstone is one of the main characters in Touch of Magic. She a twiceblessed with of the Silverstone Bloodline and the Greene Bloodline as is her younger sister Claire. She is an SJBS-Alumni, and later becomes a journalist after being exposed to the false reporting on the death of her parents. Being raised in Divitia following the family tragedy, she is taught responsibility and leadership qualities. Upon returning to Waterfall Creek in her early teens, she is described as a great student and befriends the humans easily while keeping her secret.
Despite originally having no trust towards The Dawsons she eventually sees them as allies and later fights alongside them against The Travellers, showing her ability to forgive and re-evaluate her judgement. She has a strong moral compass, and she values family, however her history with her father's abusive tendencies make her reluctant to accept Liam Miller as her paternal brother. Her loyalty to the magical community is the reason she intiially doesn't allow her feelings for Jason Dawson to develop, scarred by her ex-boyfriend Pierre Dumoulin who betrayed her trust by cheating on her. Jason and Payton eventually get their happy ending as Jason joins her in Portland where she pursues her journalism studies. 
After graduating college, she moves back into her childhood home The Silverstone House and gets a job at The Creek Daily. She becomes a mentor to Phoebe Curtis, a young with with high potential. Payton welcomes her new role as a mother of Alena Dawson, despite being an orphan herself. After having to end the lives of two close friends to protect her daughter, Payton vows to put her family first and promises to fight anyone who tries to put a stop to their happiness. She choses to celebrate love by marrying Jason Dawson and supporting him in his dangerous new role as the co-leader of The Millers 2.0.
Payton balances her family's involvement in vampire politics with loyalty to the magical community, and maintains strong friendships with her childhood friend Sebastien Ambroise and trusted friend Meredith Winchell. After learning to try to see the good in people, she eventually forgives her older brother and supports him in his single parenthood.
After giving birth to a son, Andrew Dawson and another daughter, Amore Dawson, Payton also helps raise Liam's daughter Sophia over the summers and she maintains a friendly relationship with Jason's daughter Ava Carrington.
Payton is queen of Divitia from the age of 18 until she passes it down to her daughter, Amore Dawson. She is queen of Slivatica from the age of 20 until she becomes Regent Queen for Sophia until her 18th birthday, who she then passes the throne to. She is a member of the The Greene Family with contacts to her cousins in New Orleans, as well as The Silverstone Family which she feels closest connected to. By marriage she is part of The Carrington Famiily, and indirectly involved in The Dawsons and The Millers 2.0.
==Life==
===Early life===
Payton was born in the marriage of her mother Lillian and her father Christopher. The marriage and it's resulting offspring, while controversial at first were later embraced by the magical community. Payton's birth was celebrated widely across the magical community as the beginning of a new generation of witches and wizards.
The beacon of hope and unity in which Payton was born however soon changed when her father became an alcoholic. During this time he was frequently careless in looking after Payton when Lillian was at work. The marriage suffered, and Christopher blamed his wife and child for taking away his chance at a normal life. Out of anger he once threw a bottle of alcohol at her. (see more : Christopher and Payton).
When she was two, Payton's little sister Claire was born. Claire was favored by Christopher because he felt he had a fresh start with his youngest daughter. As a result Payton developed a close bond with her mother, who started teaching her magic from a young age. Payton has fond memories of her mom, especially her laugh and her perfume. One of Lillian's main objectives was to create a good connection with other royals, which is why she took Payton to France shortly after her third birthday, where Payton met Sebastien Ambroise. (see more: Lillian and Payton)
When Payton was four, her parents died in an attack by The Valkyries and The Millers. Her sister's protective shield made sure she and Claire survived. Afterwards Payton was taken to the hospital where she saw the doctors try to revive her mom, with no success. To this day Payton still hates hospitals because of the things she saw that night, as it is one of her earliest vivid memories. 
Payton was placed under the formal guardianship of her paternal aunt, but relocated to the magical dimension to ensure the safety of her and her sister after the attack. She was raised in the magical dimesion as princess Payton for most of her childhood years, with a regent council awaiting her 18th birthday. On visits to the human world, Lucy would always bring them to the portal in Slivatica, which connected to New Orleans in the real world. Payton spent many human summers in Nevada, where her paternal grandparents lived. She attended the funeral of her paternal grandmother and her grandfather who died two years apart when Payton was a pre-teen.
When she was 13, she became a freshman at Sint-Joseph's Boarding School and she returned to reside in the human world full-time, as a dorming student. Living and returning to Waterfall Creek brought back speculation and gossip from the human community, but Payton and Claire were able to put this aside and integrate into the community fully. At school her original roommate was Katie Sampter. The following year Katie transfered to a single room and when Claire became a freshman Lucy arranged for the sisters to be roommates. While attending SJBS she meets most of her close friends, including Mike Creeton and Mila Romano in their first year together, as well as her boyfriend Pierre Dumoulin. 
Payton's aunt Lucy visited the town for one out of three manditory parent-teacher meetings, and would drop flowers on her brother's grave but she would not talk to Payton or her sister about the death of their parents. Since their aunt never further interacted with them much because she lived all the way in Texas, Payton drew familiarity from her human friends. She also found a kindred spirit by being pen-pals with Sebastien Ambroise who she had first met a decade prior in France, who she exchanged magical discoveries with.
Payton became a part of the school newspaper mid-way through her sophomore year, in an attempt to make new friends. Entruiged by journalism after seeing the mob of reporters outside her childhood home after the attack, Payton has always been passionated about telling the true story as much as possible. She often finds herself at a moral conflict in this regard, because she has to hide a huge part of her own identity from the human world. Therefore she has always aspired to be a witch first and a journalist second, as to not compromise herself and her identity.
===Season One===
===Season Two===
===Season Three===
===Season Four===
===Season Five===
===Season Six===
===Season Seven===
==Personality==
Payton took the responsibility on her and grew up very fast , because she had to take care of her sister. She has developed a great skill in leadership. Her powers make her very understanding and she is a listening ear to all her friends. She is also a hard worker , because she had to prove herself at a young age.
==Appearance==
Payton is a very beautiful, attractive young woman with a long squared face, light olive complexion, brown eyes and brown hair, variating from dark to light. Her hair is usually shoulder lenght, occasionally shorter or longer. Her eyes are not green like most of her paternal ancestors.
She prefers wearing her hair half up or fully up in a ponytail. She usually wears make up, not a lot but not a little either. She jokes it's her way of looking flawless like others in her family such as Alyson and Elisabeth.
Her style can be described as casual, but with a classy touch. She has a thing for pastel colours, and loose fitted items. She also buys dresses, but those somehow make it into Claire's closet as she said herself. She has a style that mixes work and party for when she is at the club.
To see Payton's outfits throughout the season, see Payton Silverstone/Appearance
==Magic==
Payton is a twiceblessed royal, which makes her unique even within the royals. Her bloodlines are the Silverstone Bloodline and the Greene Bloodline which grant her several special powers on top of the elemental powers she has.
Payton has basic powers like all witches:
*Geokinesis: Like all witches Payton can manipulate elements derived from the earth in a basic form.
**Advances Agrokinesis: As a witch from the Greene Bloodline Claire has a stronger connection to fauna and flora.
*Portaling: Payton can, like all other royals, use a portal to transfer to another dimension. Being born in the Silverstone House, she has a close connection to the portal in the attic and can sense it from a distance.
*Advanced spellcasting: Her expertise is within spells of the Silverstone bloodline, but she has knowledge of Greene spells too. Payton has created three spells herself, most noticably the one she used to help her vampire family members deal with sunlight, and a protection spell for her unborn child while she didn't have her powers. 
As a twiceblessed witch, her magic manifested in some specific special powers that she was born with.
*Telekinesis (enherited): She can move objects with her mind, without touching them. She can also do this to humans to a certain extent. She enherited this power from her mother's side of the family
*Advanced Photokinesis: Payton can control light, both natural and synthetic. She can brighten rooms that do not have a source of light.
*Empathy: Payton can sense feelings of people around her. She usually knows when someone is hiding someone or lying as well, so the power goes beyond just emotions. She has conditioned herself into blocking out Claire, and later on she does the same with Jason. She later channels part of her power into rings for Seth and Alyssa. She is the first empath to be born with the power.
*Healing : Payton has the power to heal. She theoretically can also heal people without a hartbeat and bring them back, but that would stop her own heart because the amount of power it takes from her. She can not heal herself, and because of this Payton is often extra protected during battles. 
==Education and Career==
Payton lived in Divitia from the age of 4 until 15. After that she goes back to Waterfall Creek to live in the SJBS dorms with her sister Claire. Payton was one year older than the other kids in her class because she hadn't attended classic elementary or middle school. 
Payton was a Senior in the 2008-2009 school year. She took
Payton got a fully funded offer from university to study Journalism, on an unknown sponsors money, which turned out to be Pierre Ambroise. She finishes her degree in the summer of 2013, during which time she lived in Portland.
Right after graduating, Payton and Jason move back to Waterfall Creek, where she had been given an offer to work for The Creek Daily. Payton takes the job, and works there starting the summer of 2013. 
After a year and several months Payton has to quit her job due to her pregnancy. Afterwards, she focusses on raising her daughter but she is also known to help out at Decade for a while throughout the remainder of 2015. She becomes co-owner when she gets married to Jason in August 2015.
Around the beginnng of 2016 Payton start making plans to create her own publishing company with adjecent coffeebar/bookstore, in a joint-venture with Elizabeth. 
==Residences==
Payton was born in The Silverstone House like most witches in The Silverstone Family. She lived there first the first 4 years of her life, until her parents got killed. She then got taken to Divitia where she was raised by her caretakers and thought everything about magic. Being the rightful heir to the throne, Payton had spacious living quarters along with her sister. When she was old enough, Lucy Greene insisted she moved back to the human dimension, as not to lose touch to the human world.
Payton and her sister got assigned a dorm at SJBS. Payton lived there until she was 19, which is when she decided to move to Portland to go to college.
She finished a 4-year journalism degree in Portland, originally living in the college dorms. She later frequently visited Jason's condo in Portland, and also spent a lot of time at the Portland Lofts. After finishing her degree Payton decided to move back to Waterfall Creek, living in her parents' house. There she lives and raises her children throughout her marriage with Jason.
==Relationships==
===Romances===
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|-| Payton & Pierre =
Payton and Pierre datedfor most of her junior year, after Pierre started attending the boarding school as a foreign exchange student. They grew towards each other because Payton had been taught French from 
a young age, which happened to be Pierre's native language. They broke up when he told Payton he cheated on her. Pierre left to go back to France, and they have no more contact. Eventually they cleared up the misunderstanding when Pierre reveals himself to be a wizard. Ever since they get along fine, and they are friends with. They are both magical royalty which creates a special connection between them. (see more : Payton and Pierre)
|-| Payton & Sebastien =
Payton and Sebastien are both magical royalty and this is the base of their friendship. They met as kids and they've been in touch ever since. When the Silverstones held a gathering to re-introduce the Silverstone House, Bash attended and he proposed to Payton for them to get married. Payton declined, but they stayed friends. (see more : Payton and Sebastien)
|-| Payton & Jason =
Payton and Jason are lovers, soulmates, husband and wife and best friends. They have a very close relationship despite the fact that they didn't have the best start. They fell in love eventually and have been through a lot, but ultimatly their love persevered. (see more : Jason and Payton)
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===Family===
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|-| Payton & Claire =
Payton and Claire are sisters, best friends, roommates and twiceblessed witches. They know everything about one another and they have a bond that is unseen by most people. (see more : Claire and Payton)
|-| Payton & Liam =
Payton and Liam are paternal half-siblings. Even though they had a rough start Payton learned to accept him and have him in her life, untill he made a big mistake by kidnapping her best friend. They did not speak for several years, untill he turns up unannounced stating he is a human now. After that, Payton is able to fogive him for what he did when certain things are revealed, and she is supportive of him when he becomes a dad unexpectedly. (see more : Liam and Payton)
|-| Payton & Christopher =
(see more : Christopher and Payton)
|-| Payton & Lillian =
(see more : Lillian and Payton)
|-| Payton & Lucy =
TBA
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|-| Payton & Alena =
Payton and Alena have a very close connection. Alena looks a lot like her mother in the way that she has a big sense of responsibility. Payton has always taught Alena to be herself and never let anyone tell her she isn't good enough.
When Alena was conceived and Payton realised she was pregnant it was a never before seen occasion. Right from that moment, Payton loved her daughter more than she had every loved anyone. She was very eager to find a good name, and she decided on Alena as a suggestion by Jason. Payton added the names Lillian and Lauren in honor of the two important people in Payton's life. As a newborn Payton states Alena was the most perfect baby. When Alena was a toddler, Payton started to recognize a lot of herself in Alena's little personality. But she also recognized a pattern. This brought a fear to Payton that she'd follow the same fate as her mother and leave behind two small children. Payton feared this again when Alena and her younger brother got kidnapped by May. Ultimatly Alena and AJ were brought to safety, and shortly after that Alena was happy to finally meet her little sister. Payton recalls how Alena wanted a girl but AJ fought her on that stating it would be a boy. Alena was ultimatly right, and Payton was delighted to see her care for her little sister.
Payton and Jason tried to give Alena the most normal childhood they could. When the question came which school she'd attend, they enrolled her in SJBS as a regular student. There, Alena attended with her cousins untill she was 18. 
|-| Payton & AJ =
Payton and AJ are very close, despite the fact that AJ is more of a daddy's boy. AJ takes his parents into account whenever he makes decisions, and he has great respect for them and how they raised him. AJ stated he hopes his own wife is as great to their children as Payton was to him.
|-| Payton & Amore =
Payton and Amore share a special connection and they are particulary close. Even before she was born, Payton knew Amore was safe. After that, Amore kept surprising Payton with what she could do and how she thrived and succeeded in everything she put her mind to. Amore resembles her mother in her creative expression for music, and in her natural talent for magic and spells.
TBC
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===Friends===
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|-| Payton & Mike =
Payton and Mike are best friends and have been so since childhood. TBC (see more : Mike and Payton)
|-| Payton & Mila =
Payton and Mila are very close friends and former classmates at SJBS. They met as children and have been close ever since, despite the fact that they lived in different continent for a long time. (see more: Mila and Payton
|-| Payton & Alyssa =
Payton and Alyssa are close friends and they have been so since Payton moved to Portland. Alyssa was originally very intimidating to her, ut when Alyssa had her back after Payton broke up with Jason, she proved to be a good friend. They bonded in Portland, and they occasionally still go working out together. Alyssa is the godmother of Payton's oldest daughter, Alena. TBC (see more:Alyssa and Payton)
|-| Payton & Justin =
Payton and Justin are friends and have been since childhood. Justin is Claire's best friend but he and Payton also know eachother very well because they often went on day trips together along with Justin's family. TBC
|-| Payton & Phoebe =
Payton considers Phoebe as one of her closest friends, and she refuses to see her as a student of hers. Phoebe has stated she enjoyed learning from Payton, and besides learning magic they've also spend numerous afternoons just chatting and gossiping. (see more : Payton and Phoebe)
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|-| Payton & James =
|-| Payton & Elisabeth =
|-| Payton & Alyson =
|-| Payton & Dylan =
|-| Payton & Lauren =
|-| Payton & Nate =
|-| Payton & Ruby =
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==Media==
*Stronger : 
*Cry (glee version) : 
*The only exception :
*Thinking of you :
==Trivia==
*Payton's full legal name is Payton Paige Silverstone-Greene. Her middle name is revealed during Jason's wedding vows, after previously only been known by Claire, Mike and Jason. In high school she didn't use her father's last name socially because she didn't want the last name of someone who didn't love her, despite school records still listing it. Payton originally keeps her maiden name when she marries Jason but during her second pregnancy she decides she wants to share the same last name as her kids. Jason eventually suggests giving their kids both family names to represent their strength, and Payton agrees with this.  This makes Payton's full name Payton Paige Silverstone-Dawson at the end of Season Seven.
*Payton speaks several foreign languages including French and Latin.
*Payton was proposed to two times for the purpose of a magical alliance, but she rejected both times. Jason is the third person to propose to her, and she accepts his proposal.
*Payton learned to play the piano from her mother as a young child and has taught herself from there on.
*Payton has owned/co-owned three cars so far. The lastest beind a Acura MDX
*She is potentially the most powerful character in Touch of Magic, both magically and politically.
**She is the first of her species, and her experience makes her more powerful than her sister Claire (by a small margin) and her niece, Sophia.
**She is a twiceblessed witch, combining the second and third strongest bloodlines and giving her very unique abilities such as Telekinesis.
**She is married into The Millers 2.0 and is allies with another big vampire group. 
**She is well-connected and respected as a royal, as shown in her contact with Sebastien Ambroise and Hainasoni Bloodline's youngest generation.
*She owned a cat named Salem when she lived in Portland. However she had to return it back to Mike because she was in no state to take care of it. Salem returned when Dianna died, and Payton agreed to take care of her again in Season Six.
*She, along with her sister Claire, have experienced the most death in their close environment. She once stated to Liam she has witnessed more funerals then she had birthdays.
**Her maternal grand-parents died in a plane crash, triggering Payton's fear of flying.
**She lost both her parents at the age of 4
**She blamed herself for not knowing Lincoln was a vampire spy, and the death of Perry that it resulted in. She also blamed herself for not being able to protect her high-school friend Katie, who dissappeared and was presumed dead.
**Her paternal aunt has died and she had to identify the body
**Jodie and Keith Saphire, who partially raised her and her sister, have died.
**She has suffered from the death of Mike's mother, Dianna, who was a mother figure to her
**She blames herself for the innocent people (like Nora Rhodes that died by killing May. The Anconi confronted her on this kill, referring to it as the biggest genocide in the magical world.
**She blames herself for Chloë's death because she insisted Chloë left when the magical world was inbalanced, leaving her unprotected to an attack.
*Payton owns shares in 2 businesses
**Decade (25% shares)
**Pressed On (50% shares)
*Payton has several huge fears, caused by prior trauma's:
**Fear of lightning & storms, from the night her parents got killed
**Fear of flying, from the plane crash that killed her maternal grandparents.
**Fear of hospitals/medical situations
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