Lauren Struker

**Lauren Strucker** was a witch who was resurrected by Céleste Dubois (who was possessing Serena Laurent's body) using the magical power from the latest Harvest ritual. Along with Céleste, Sevine, and Selena, she was a major antagonist of the second season of *The Inner Circle*.

Lauren was born just a few weeks after the incident of the Tréme Coven as well as the latest Harvest ritual, and when she was born she was seen as the new hope of the future for the Tréme Coven seeing as her family was involved with it being alongside them so she had a lot of pressure on her. But surprisingly enough, Lauren was crazy gifted a witch which even lead her to be of a few witches to be thought about becoming the new regent and that was the fact which led to her death.

Being in the Strucker Family, a witch family known for their craftsmanship of dark objects during the more darker ages has created a knife which would be passed down through their family and it was called the "*Wen Tunde Dagger*" it had special powers if ever penetrated through the heart. Knowing this, she had inherited it and was set off with the regent's trials but little did she know that another which would set her off her demise.

A witch of the name, Bastianna Natale was quite the powerful witch so much that she was one of 4 witches chosen to be apart of regent trial but Bastianna knew she couldn't claim the title if Lauren was present as being her prime Lauren was indefinite to win so to not get any sort of blood her hands, Bastianna hexed her younger brother, Andy, to kill her and then himself to finish the deed. Lauren had soon figured it out when she touched Andy a few hours prior to her death but when figuring this out she went straight to Bastianna to settle things which ended up with a heavy clash which also caused Lauren to use her family's knife against Bstianna which was successful as it slowly seeped inside of Bastianna and when she finally thought it was over Andy had appeared causing a pain infliction and then throwing her into the wall of Bastianna's room. There, he grabbed the bone knife as it hadn't completely seeped into Bastianna's heart yet and stabbed his sister repeatedly.

When Lauren had been resurrected along with the Selena, Sevine, and Celeste the number one thing she had wanted to do is kill Bastianna who she had learned was still alive after she became regent giving her more than enough power to preserve her own body and extending her life force.

In *Dance Back from the Grave*, Tunde begins his renewed campaign of witch supremacy by killing a couple of daywalkers. Leaving a sacrificial ritual mark where Thierry could find it, Tunde then waited for him to summon Rebekah. Attacking them both, Tunde revealed his magical power by desiccating Rebekah with a mere touch. As Thierry ran off, Tunde performed his ritual, drawing all of Rebekah's power into him, and leaving her trapped in a desiccated state. He then attacked Marcel at Rousseau's. After a short fight, he desiccated Marcel and prepared to drain, and kill him, when Klaus showed up. However, with the strength of Rebekah, and all of the day and nightwalkers he killed, Tunde proved to be more powerful than Klaus, and had the upper hand in the fight, until Elijah and Hayley freed Rebekah, severing his link to her power. Tunde then ran while Klaus saw to Marcel, and went to the Garden to kill every single occupant. Finally, channeling all of the power he acquired into his bone blade, Tunde, for the glory of the French Quarter Coven, allowed Céleste to kill him, to increase the power further.  Marcel revealed in a conversation with Camille that Tunde slaughtered many werewolves and witches including the Guerrera werewolves during his first visit to New Orleans.

## Personality

Lauren unlike the others seems more self righteous in every way compared to Selena, Sevine, and Celeste but living as an ancestral spirit built up her anger and resentment against most witch-kind who craved for more power making her seem hot-headed, reckless, and insane. It also made her more dark as one says which made her do the most sinister things alongside Sevine and Selena.

## Physical Appearance

Lauren is a teenage girl of average height, with light fair skin, brown eyes, a well endowed figure, and long blonde hair. She also has casual teen "stylish" attire.

## Powers and Abilities

Lauren was fairly skilled any many forms of witchcraft such as Ancestral Magic, Connective Magic as it was shown when she did a forced spell with Davina Claire, and Elemental Magic as it was shown she was quite skilled in being able to balance all four elements.

Lauren was one of four witches alongside Bastianna Natale, and two other unnamed witches and being the youngest one as well as the one in their main prime was considered a major threat to even Bastianna a great and powerful witch which was said by the elders that she was a one in a million. Being the witch she was after being resurrected, she saw the witches as a evil people, and strongly believed that those were with the coven deserved pain as long as they continued to be power hungry but still respected and belived in the Ancestors.

## Weaknesses

Lauren had all the typical weaknesses of a witch.