Jill Presto

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

### Jill Presto: 1987 - 2005

Jill was born in Pittsburgh, the same day that the intrinsic bombs shook the world. She was the youngest of three children born to her mother. As a child, Jill experienced cryptic dreams and saw things that others could not. This was likely a result of her ominous birthdate.

As a means of escaping the bullying she received as the "weird girl" in school, Jill got into drama and the performing arts. This coping mechanism gave Jill the opportunity to sing, dance, act, and perform sleight of hand to entertain others. After graduation, Jill convinced her parents to finance a trip to Europe where she hoped to break through as a cabaret singer.

### Jill Presto: 2005 - 2010

Reality was a cruel mistress. The only job Jill could find was at a low quality bar working as an overqualified assistant to a second-rate magician. Work was hard to come by as the world was less interested in stage magic with actual minor wizards coming out of the woodwork to work as entertainers. Though Jill had begun to tap into her own magical potential to capitalize on this trend, the process was slow as she had no mentor. Still, Jill's stunted progress was miles ahead of her completely ungifted employer.

### Jill Presto: 2010 - 2011

While in Hamburg, Jill and her employer stopped by a black market magic shop. The pair realized they needed to breathe new life into the act or risk being unable to find further employment. Searching the sorcerous goods, Jill's boss came upon what was said to be a powerful deck of tarot cards while perusing a magic shop. The shop owner tried to dissuade the magician from the purchase, but when the shopkeeper turned to help other customers, the magician stole the deck of cards.

Later, when Jill saw her employer playing with the cards, she realized what he had done. The two began to argue. When Jill grabbed the deck, intending to return them to the shop, the cards possessed Jill, revealing that they contained the souls of an ancient demon long trapped in the cards. The intrinsic cataclysm of had compromised their containment.

Flooded by power that she could not properly contain and compelled to do evil by the demonic souls of the deck, Jill immediately killed her employer. The shock of that act made Jill more easily controlled by the demons which would lead her outside and compel her to begin to walk. There would be others to meet their demise at Jill's hand including an entire street gang that had set upon her as she walked in the middle of the night, multiple police officers, and several innocent persons that had the misfortune to question Jill's presence, behavior, or condition of the possessed woman on an unrelentingly determined path.

Eventually, the demonic cards led Jill to a doorway with admittance to the Oblivion Bar and invoked the magic to open the door. It was then clear that cards had been drawn to the presence of the bar's owner, Lucifer Morningstar — the one responsible for their original imprisonment. Compelled to do so by the cards, Jill sat at the bar and waited for the Devil to finish playing his set. When he retired to elsewhere, Jill followed him and confronted the Devil.

In the course of the ensuing fight, Lucifer realized what possessed Jill and tried to take the cards to return the infernal entities to their prison. However, Lucifer's plan failed as the cards' original enchantment could no longer contain that level of power and the demonic souls escaped once again and destroyed the cards in the process, making Jill their permanent host. Needing to buy himself some time, Lucifer helped Jill find the power within herself to break the demon's hold on her.

With little time for formalities, Lucifer bluntly told Jill she had two options. The first option was Lucifer could smite the demon but such would likely kill Jill in the process due to the demon's amplified power. The second option available to Jill in that moment was to engage in a ritual with Lucifer which would allow his power to enter into Jill, bind the demon, and contain it inside Jill's womb. When the ritual was completed, the demon's souls would combine with the magic and create a child — erasing the existing demonic identity in the process.

Faced with those choices, Jill disrobed and partook in the ritual. In order to keep her under watch during her infernal pregnancy, Lucifer gave Jill a job at the Oblivion Bar and assigned some of his hired supernatural muscle to keep an eye on her when off-the-clock. At first, Jill was waiting tables and showing patrons to their tables, but after her employer discovered her stagecraft, she began to work as an entertainer where it became apparent that her pregnancy had enabled her to discover much more potent sorcery than she ever imagined. In a bar filled with supernatural creatures and spellcasters of every sort, Jill was able to put together a show of wonders that endeared her to many patrons.

By the time Jill had given birth to her beautiful baby daughter Noema, she had made a new family with the Oblivion Bar staff and had fallen in love with Bergelmir, the jötunn assigned by the Devil to protect Jill. Though Jill had originally planned to find a loving couple to raise her daughter, but with Bergelmir wanting to share a life with her, the plan was changed with Jill and her frost giant lover deciding to raise the demonic child together.

### Jill Presto: 2011 - Present

Jill remains working at the Oblivion Bar. Though her magical power was not what it was during her pregnancy, she retained the knowledge and skill at sorcery that she has gleaned on her own during her pregnancy, shaping her into a formidable wizard of considerable power — even if her focus was on entertainment rather than anything more pragmatic. She and Bergelmir have remained in a solid relationship with Jill having given birth to Bergelmir's son Eikon.

### Supplemental Report

* (*Submitted by Four-Eyes*) More than once, people having heard some details concerning the circumstances of Noema's conception have presumed that Noema is Lucifer's daughter. Both Jill and Lucifer will be quick to correct that speculation. While Noema was created through an intimate ritual that involved sexual intercourse, the magic of that ritual reshaped the demon possessing Jill and it is that reshaped demon which impregnated Jill. In a sense, that demon is the father of Noema while *also* being Noema herself. Though, Lucifer does have a certain fondness for Noema, particularly as she gets older, and seems rather invested in her well-being.

## Threat Assessment

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 2 — Basic / Typical
* **Occult:** 6 — World-Class / Superb
* **Weaponry:** 2 — Basic / Typical
* **Expertise:** 2 — Basic / Typical
* **Range:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Strategy:** 2 — Basic / Typical
	+ **TOTAL:** 48
	+ **RANKING:** Low Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* Alex Fitzgerald is her pupil and magician's assistant.

### Notes

* Jill Presto is a character from *Lucifer* Volume 1 series.
* Jill's family has nods to other characters from various media:
	+ Nils Peterson, Glyn Peterson, and Henry James are characters from Vertigo's *Exterminators* series.
	+ Karen Peterson was the next door neighbor of Green Lantern Hal Jordan in the Pre-Crisis continuity.
* In the comics she changed Mazikeen's face. In Earth-27 it was done by Lucifer.

## Links and References

* Appearances of Jill Presto

1. ↑ NFX: Jill Presto
2. ↑ NFX: Boris and Alex