Willow

Willow Xena Hale-Gerard was born on September 11, 1989 as the biological daughter of Athena Carter and an unnamed vampire father. After her mother died in a car crash and her father was killed by James, Willow was adopted by Alice Cullen and Jasper Hale. Due to complications in the womb, Willow was left blinded though she did have the supernatural power of telepathy, including mind compulsion and a mental shield. She is the adoptive paternal granddaughter of Carlisle and Esme Cullen and the adoptive paternal niece of Bella Swan, Edward Cullen, Rosalie Hale, and Emmett Cullen.
As she grew at a human pace, her adoptive family found it increasingly difficult to help her. Willow struggled with her disability and enhanced senses as a child till the Cullen's were sought out by Elijah Mikaelson. Elijah took Mikaela to New York where he trained her to become a warrior, using her disability as an advantage instead. He also taught her how to use her mental shield and compulsion properly and without hurting any one. Eventually she was returned to Alice and Jasper when they came for her after being forced to leave Forks due to an incident with Bella Swan. Willow continued to speak with Elijah, calling him once a month.
The small family returned to Forks after Alice helps Bella save Edwards life. She is then introduced to Bella when her and Edward return. Willow is forced by Jasper and Alice to stay with Elijah in the Cullen Home when the newborn army comes and also stays with him when the Volturi arrive since they are set out on trying to get her to join.
After graduating from Forks High School, Willow moved to New Orleans so she can attend Tulane University for law. While there she became friends Thierry Vanchure, who introduces her to Marcel Gerard, a Vampire, and they quickly begin dating. After graduating with a Masters degree in Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Law Enforcement at age 22, Willow married Marcel before getting a job at the local law firm where she became friends with Natasha Adams.
==Biography==
===Early Life===
====Trained by Elijah====
As Mikaela grew she begins to notice that while she is unable to see, her other senses have found was to make up for this, painting a close image in her mind. She keeps the skills secret from the rest of her family when she discovers her power to keep her father from reading certain parts of her mind. When she began to suffer from painful headaches, Eliza was visited by an old blind man named Stick. Stick knew about Eliza's enhanced senses and how they makes him suffer, so he took her outside for ice cream. While they sat together, Stick asked Eliza what she could understand about nearby people just from listening to them. Stick promised to train Eliza to control and master her "gift." He set a bar for her to reach and if she managed to achieve his expectations she would gain the title Stone and a place beside him when the war came.
Stick began a harsh training regime with Eliza, often pushing an emotional response from her to teach her to control her anger. Over the next few year, around two, Eliza became a powerful fighter with almost complete control of her blindness. During one of their training sessions, Eliza got into an argument with Stick about her love for her family and he eventually left, telling her he could no longer train someone so weak. When Stick left, Eliza returned to her normal home life and would not see him again for many years.
====Training with Jasper====
Eliza grew antsy to continue fighting and when she was 14 years old she brought Jasper out into the spot where he once trained their family against Victoria. She told him the full truth and gained his permission to hide this part of his mind from her father. Though her was weary at first, Jasper began training her in many forms of combat, not seeing her blindness as a disability anymore but perhaps an advantage.
For her fifteenth birthday, Jasper secretly got her a pair of Vibranium Billy Clubs to use in replace of the wood ones she received from Stick. He told her he knew despite what anyone would say Eliza would always be one to protect the supernatural and he wanted his gift to help her. Eliza would charish this gift for ever and continue to use them her entire life.
When Eliza became jealous of her sister and fathers piano skills, Jasper began teaching her to the best of his ability.
====Training with Alice====
In order to grow her skills, Eliza managed to convince Alice to train her in Ballet and Gymnastics from a young age. Eventually the pair would dance together to the sound of Edward playing piano.
====Education====
Eliza always showed a thirst for knowledge and was taught by Carlisle and Edward as well as attending Forks High School. Carlisle tested her IQ and received results of 150, which is at the genius level. Between how quickly she can learn new skills and her craving for knowledge, Eliza possessed a dearth of knowledge on a wide range of topics including mathematics, chemistry, physics, medicine, psychology, history, mythology, and foreign languages.
Carlisle did his best to teach the young blind girl anything he could on medicine, including a few first aid trick and suturing. Meanwhile Esme began to teach her Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. Eliza quickly excelled at the tasks given to her and began to learn as much as she could about the supernatural and the other species of Werewolves and Vampires out their. She became close with the Black pack, even becoming trusted to attend the council meetings and learn about the tribes tradition and history. At school, Eliza was top of her class and gained enough credits to start college as a sophomore. Her whole life she held a love for mysteries which was fulled by her Grandfather, Charlies workplace. In the end, she decided to attend college as a major in Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Law Enforcement.
====College Time====
While walking in Port Angeles, Eliza was pulled into an alleyway by Stick. She attacked, pinning him against the one wall while asking why he was there. Stick told her of a fellow blind trany named Matt Murdock that he wanted her to look after while he couldn't. She ended up agreeing for the time being and applied to Columbia University. When she got in, Eliza decided to attend while her family stayed in Forks, as she wanted time on her own. As a going away present, Renesmee used her powers to show Eliza her family and old home for the first time, envoicing tears from all parties. This was the only time this took place as it cause both girls sever exhaustion and gave Eliza a splitting headache.
====Meeting the Hale's====
Mikaela became a regular at a local bar, despite Mikaela's high tolerance to alcohol, where she eventually met Derek and Laura Hale. Derek and Eliza sat off to the side and talked as they watched Laura engage in a game of Pool with Rebekah Mikaelson, a close friend to Mikaela though she didn't know she was technically her aunt. During their conversation, Mikaela expressed how grateful she was for Derek talking to her and treating her like a normal person despite her disabilities. Derek told her he knew she was more than her blindness and all he saw was a girl stuck with her extremely drunk friends. At some point in their conversation, Derek let it slip that he was unable to get drunk to which Mikaela told him that she could though it was extremely hard. She deduced that he was a werewolf and impressed that she was able to deduce all of this, Derek asked her on a date to which she said yes.
After dating for a few week, Mikaela and Derek broke into Garcia's gym where Elijah ones trained her. Mikaela complained that they would likely get arrested and she would have to pay for the damages, much to Derek's' amusement as he promised to pay the fines. As Derek began asking questions about her past, Mikaela explained, without going into to much detail, her early childhood and troubles as the human one in a coven of Vampires. Mikaela ended up telling him about her mother's death during her birth, though she pushed off any sympathy he tried to give her.
As Mikaela continued talk to him, Derek jokingly fought her to figure out that Mikaela was not exactly blind. Mikaela admitted that her blindness was a little more complicated than it first seemed. They had first a small fight, in which they proved themselves equally matched. As the fight continued the sexual tension between them grew until they could not help themselves and pulled off each other's clothes and made passionate love in the ring.
====Marrying Derek====
Shortly after graduating from Columbia, Derek and Mikaela married in Vermont before honeymooning in Canada. She ended up fully taking his last name and moved into an apartment with him in the Village. A year later, when Mikaela was 23, she learned that she may never be able to conceive a child which she later deduced was due to her harritige. Mikaela and Derek have little time to grieve when Laura went missing, causing the couple to move to Beacon Hills, where Mikaela was able to land a job at Beacon County Sheriff's Station.
==Powers and Abilities==
===Powers===
*Enhanced Senses: Despite being blind from birth, Willow’s remaining four senses are enhanced to a superhuman level, resulting in them becoming radar-like. She claims to constantly feel numerous things, including balance, direction, minuscule changes in air density, vibrations, and blankets of temperature variations, that are usually imperceptible to human beings. That, combined with her acute hearing and olfactory senses, allows Willow to evaluate her surroundings in what she describes as an "Impressionistic painting" of the world around her, which, according to her is completely black like a starless night sky. Her superhumanly enhanced senses grant her tremendous awareness of her surroundings on a wide range, thus makes her extremely alert to danger. Willow's senses, however, can be extremely overloaded at high vibrational levels which cause her extreme discomfort and disorientation.
**Enhanced Hearing: Willow's hearing is sharper than a bat's and is extremely acute, she can clearly hear conversations, heartbeats and even breaths from several meters. Hearing the changes in people's heartbeats allows her to predict how they feel and what actions they'll take, such as attack or run. She also is able to memorize patterns of sounds to use them to track people later. When forced to improvise, Willow was able to effectively keep track movements by listening to breaths and the sound of weapons cutting through the air. Willow's hearing also makes her an adept thief, as she is able to skillfully bypass a combination safe. Willow is also able to detect 25 individual heartbeats of various henchmen throughout builds.
***Echolocation: Willow possesses an exceptionally advanced form of human echolocation. She is able to detect objects in her environment by sensing echoes from those objects, by actively creating and listening for sounds - for example tapping her cane, stomping of her enemies' feet, raindrops, ticking from a watch, tumbling of a safe's locks, rattling chains or even a person's heartbeat. She can interpret the sound waves reflected by nearby objects, accurately identifying their location and size.
***Lie Detection: Willow's hearing is so acute, that she can tell whether people are lying or not, based on the rate of their heartbeats.
**Enhanced Smell: Willow’s incredible olfactory senses which are even sharper than a dog allows her to detect the scent of stale cigarettes and cheap cologne three floors above her and through several walls. When she was a child, her sense was already so acute, she could smell that an old man sitting at a bench across from him had cancer. By smelling an old cigarette, Willow could tell that whoever smoked it previously had rotten teeth.
**Enhanced Taste: Willow was able to tell that someone had ripped open some of the stitches on their back, due to tasting copper in the air from the blood of the open wound. Willow can pick out every individual ingredient of the ice cream she eats, including that the milk used came from three different dairy farms, and that the man who served her used a certain type of soil in his garden.
**Enhanced Touch: Willow can feel the presence of those around her through vibrations, air currents, and body temperatures. She can dodge attacks and projectiles by feeling them cut through the air, creating ripples of currents only detectable by her. She locates enemies through walls and from different floors by feeling the vibrations they make from moving, such as their footsteps. While in exile and temporarily powerless, Willow was soon able to feel the vibrations from the subway lines running deep under the church. She used these vibrations to track and scan her environment, and to regain some of her strength and balance.
***Thermoreception: Willow can sense changes in heat in the environment. She could even feel the heat generated from the blood spilling from a gunshot wound; to one-half of a degree, she was able to distinguish the difference in temperature.
***Electroreception: Willow is able to detect electric fields, similar to a shark. She was able to find a hidden room by feeling an electrical current coming from behind the wall. She could hear the electricity buzzing inside the wall and felt a stop in the current where the mechanism for unlocking the secret room was.
**Enhanced Balance: Willow's sense of balance is superhuman, giving her excellent equilibrium, coordination, dexterity, and agility, resulting in high levels of acrobatic and gymnastic ability.
***Enhanced Agility: Thanks to her senses, Willow’s agility is greater than even the finest athletes. She can traverse the city with speed and grace, by flipping, jumping, and swinging. She can dodge bullet fire, even at near point blank range, and can completely outmaneuver most enemies. She was also able to traverse down a multilevel parking garage in mere seconds, by jumping and flipping between the floors.
**Enhanced Reflexes: Willow's reflexes are enhanced to superhuman level. Even before her training with Elijah, she could effortlessly catch keys thrown to her while hearing the sound they made. She can instinctively react to oncoming blows nearly effortlessly with the use of her other senses, such as avoiding attacks with a sharp weapon at close quarters by hearing the noise of its approach, and even dodging bullets fired at close range. Because her reflexes are enhanced by her hyperawareness, Willow is capable of reacting to objects being thrown in her direction with lightning-fast reaction time.
*Enhanced Strength: As a part Vampire, Willow possesses enhanced strength which allows her to perform incredible physical feats. Though she isn't as strong as most Vampire's, she is able to compete with them and use her skills in things like martial arts to make up for it.
*Mental Shield: Willow processes a raw supernatural force-field that blocks any and all kinds of psychic powers that act on invading the mind. Since she is mostly human, she considers this power a "glitch" in her head. Her shield seems to be based on her "private mind," a place where no one can harm her. It also made her very desirable to Aro, who likes to collect vampires with special abilities for the Volturi guard. It is known to be unbreakable to psychic powers. Eventually Willow was able to fit others under her shield, sometimes by accident (with Elijah) and sometimes on purpose (with Jasper and Marcel). Elijah was able to teach her how to shield herself from Alice's powers, since she saw it as an invasion on her mind's privacy in making decisions.
*Accelerated Healing: Since she is part Vampire, Willow possesses the ability to heal from injuries faster than most. This ability also extends to her immune system, granting her almost immunity to all human diseases and conditions, as well as making it harder for her to become drunk on alcohol or high on drugs as a result of her body healing her damaged cells too quickly. On the other hand, Willow's enhanced senses make it so if she does get sick or hungover it is excruciatingly painful since all of her senses are turned from 15 to 150.
===Abilities===
*Master Martial Artist: Willow is an extremely skilled and formidable hand-to-hand combatant and martial artist. Despite being blind, Willow was rigorously trained in martial arts by Elijah at a young age, and excelled in it, she later continued to train himself with the help of Jasper Hale. Willow eventually used her skills to fight crime and help out the Supernatural, and with several years of combat experience, making her one of the most powerful and best fighters on the planet. Willow's fighting style incorporates boxing, Sambo, Hapkido, Krav Maga, Wing Chun, Taekwondo, Muay Thai, Taijutsu, Fencing, and Kali. She combines an acrobatic style of fighting with a more direct and hands-on. She takes practical approaches to her fights and is able to quickly use her surroundings to her advantage and use random items as improvised weaponry. By the time she met Elijah again, Willow rivaled her former mentor in skill, managing to keep up with him in an intense one-on-one duel and ultimately overpowering him, earning Elijah's and even Niklaus’s praise. Willow often used her enhanced senses to her advantage in combat, seen when she knocked out the lights while fighting, putting her enemies at a disadvantage during the fight due to their decreased visibility whereas Willow was not. Even though Willow usually choose to use non-lethal weapons, she is skilled at using a sword in combat.
*Staff Mastery: Thanks to her early training with Elijah, Willow is extremely skilled at using staves and similar melee weapons in combat. The billy club that she uses maximize this skill by being able to easily change between different combinations of weapons, such as two batons or nunchaku.
*Master Marksman: Because of her enhanced senses, Willow is an extremely skilled marksman, with an increased awareness of where objects are, allowing her exceptional marksmanship with both firearms and throwing projectile weaponry with extreme accuracy. She was able to quickly knock guns out of the Hunter's grasp with a hurled Billy club. Also, she was able to drop a fire extinguisher on someones head several floors down, timing it perfectly and knowing when they would be off the stairs and directly below it.
*Master Acrobat: Willow's years of training and experience have made him an extremely skilled acrobat, gymnast, and aerialist. She could already do several agile flips as a child. She is highly skilled with parkour and free-running and able to quickly move over rooftops and climb buildings, managing to keep up with a car this way. Even when handcuffed, Willow performed an agile backflip, bringing her hands back in front of her torso. She also utilized her agility to successfully gain the upper hand against Elijah and Jasper, despite their strength difference. She could even able to use her supreme agility to dodge bullets even at close range.
*Master Spy: Willow is extremely skilled in moving quietly and staying hidden. Her agility helps her become hard to find as she clings on to wall corners to stay hidden and hides atop of things and strikes when necessary.
*Gifted Intellect: Willow is a very accomplished and smart possessing an extremely high level of intelligence, which allowed him to earn a masters degree in Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Law Enforcement from Tuntale University and be considered as one of the best lawyers. Having been raised in the supernatural world her entire life, Willow has an enormous amount of knowledge regarding supernatural species and mythological creatures. She was able to identify a Wendigo with ease among other supernatural creatures. She is especially versed in Werewolf and Vampire culture and abilities.
*Master Interrogator: Willow is well adept in interrogation methods, being able to extract information from criminals with ease.
*Expert Tactician: Willow is a great strategist and a skilled leader. She has demonstrated charisma and leadership skills.
*Expert Thief: Willow has shown impressive thievery skills in stealing items without getting caught or giving notice.
*Physician: As Willow grew up she picked up on many skills from Carlisle Cullen.
*Musician: To some extent in her youth, Willow learned to play the piano with her enhanced sense of touch to guide her through.
*Meditation: After years of training in martial arts, Willow was an expert at meditation of extreme levels that allowed her to hone her enhanced senses to function at their peak, and accelerate the healing process of her body with the help of her vampire blood.
*Multilingualism: Willow is fluent in her native English, as well as Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian, having studied the Spanish in college and learned most of the others through her Coven. As a blind person, she learned to read Braille. She learned some French when studying supernatural events.
==Equipment==
===Suits===
*Vigilante Suit: Willow wore a black short sleeve turtleneck and leggings with black combat boots. Eventually she stole a lightweight bullet proof vest to keep her safe. She also wore a dark blue bandana over her eyes and kept the vibranium billy clubs given to her by Jasper Hale in a holder on her right thigh. Willow also kept a pair of kunai knives in a thigh holster on each leg. She tied a blue bandana around each wrist for protection and wore black leather gloves
*Masked Women: When Willow first began working with Elektra and Stick to take down the Hand she bought a black suit to wear. The suit was a long sleeve black turtleneck with black cargo pants. She was givena a black mask by Murdock to wear over her head, eyes, and nose, leaving only her mouth uncovered. This suit also had padding which she wore underneath the suit so that the beatings would not hurt as much, but they did not stop her from being seriously injured. She wore black gloves and continued to use the blue bandana's from before
*Stone Suit: Eliza was originally shown the suit by Stick when she was young and teased with the title of Stone. Eventually, he would give her the suit to take down the Hank. Eliza was able to keep the suit and continued to use it. This suit is highly durable, allowing her to be nearly unfazed by an opponent's attacks and recover more quickly from being hit. She also wore a black mask over his head, eyes, and nose, leaving only her mouth uncovered and a hood to keep her identity secret.
===Weapons===
*Wooden Sticks: At a young age, Eliza was trained to be an expert stick fighter by Stick, but she stopped using the weapons after Stick left, preferring to fight unarmed.
*Vibranium Billy Clubs:
*Kunai Knives:
*Glock 26:
*Katana:
==Facilities==
*Cullen House:
*Bella and Edward's Cottage:
*Wall of the Chaste:
*Forks High School:
*Columbia University:
*Fogwell's Gym:
*Hale House:
*Hale Loft:
*Matt Murdock's Apartment:
==Relationships==
===Family===
*Renée Dwyer née Higginbotham - Maternal Grandmother
*Charlie Swan - Maternal Grandfather
*Carlisle Cullen - Paternal Adoptive Grandfather
*Esme Anne Platt-Evenson-Cullen - Paternal Adoptive Grandmother
*Talia Hale † - Mother-In Law
*Edward Anthony Masen-Cullen - Father
**Emmett Dale McCarty - Paternal Adoptive Uncle
**Rosalie Lillian Hale - Paternal Adoptive Aunt
**Jasper Whitlock - Paternal Adoptive Uncle
**Mary Alice Brandon - Paternal Adoptive Aunt
*Isabella Marie Swan-Cullen - Mother
*Renesmee Carlie "Nessie" Cullen - Sister
*Derek Hale - Husband
**Laura Hale † - Sister-in-Law
**Cora Hale - Sister-in-Law
**Peter Hale - Uncle-in-Law
**Malia Tate - Cousin-in-Law
*Unborn Child
===Allies===
*Scott McCall
===Enemies===
*Kate Argent
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