Aponi

**Aponi,** also known as **The Witch,** is the deuteragonist of the 2017 webseries *Stoneheart*. During the late 1600s, she was a practicing witch known for being a protector of women. While her fate was never explicitly stated, it's implied that Aponi was burned at the stake during the witch trials.

Aponi's spirit was somehow transferred into a stone statue, where it would remain until it was awoken centuries later. Aponi would then attach herself to Rebecca Baker, a teenage girl who was abused by her father, and convince the girl to kill her father. Aponi would then use Rebecca's body to enact her form of vengeance on men who harmed women, until Rebecca refused to use her power. Enraged, Aponi killed Rebecca and transferred ownership of her power to a girl named Jessica.

She is portrayed by Stephanie Edmonds.

## Physical Appearance

Aponi appears as a pale human woman with large black hair, and four horns, two on the sides of both the top and bottom, with the bottom curved outwards resembling the triple moon symbol. Her eyes are pale with a hint of blue, and her hands are black and dirty.

She wears a brown, sleeveless gown with lots of robes, and yellow jewels or bells. It resembles more of a gown, as it reaches down to her feet. It remains unknown what her past self looked like before being killed.

## Characteristics

Aponi's defining characteristic is her intense devotion to and protectiveness of women. She is quick to action (and anger) when her host or other women are threatened, and reacts violently when she sees a woman she believes is oppressed or in danger. She possesses a strong hatred towards men, to the point where she would threaten and even attempt to kill a teenage boy despite him not posing a threat to her.

Despite this, Aponi seems willing to occasionally offer her help to men if she sees they are being oppressed by their fellow men.

## Background

Aponi lived during the late 1600s. In life, she was a practicing witch and was known for being a protector of women. While her fate is never explicitly stated, it is heavily implied that she was executed during a witch trial and was burned at the stake, as seen in the Crypt Tome in "Divine Creatures". Some time prior to the series, a man named Darius partnered with Ms. Lexington to find suitable hosts for Aponi.

## Stoneheart (2017-2018)

### Season 1

*Note: These events are presented in confirmed chronological order.*

#### Witch Trial Protector

While Aponi does not appear physically in the series premiere, her spirit is inhabiting the statue. After Inessa cuts herself on the statue and her blood drips on it, Aponi's spirit reawakens and comes to her aid by bludgeoning her manager to death.

#### Requiem

Some time between "Witch Trial Protector" and "Requiem", Inessa buried Aponi's statue in the woods. Aponi, angered that Inessa was not receptive to her power, killed her. Aponi's spirit is later reawakened when Ms. Lexington brings Rebecca Baker, a teenage girl who is being abused by her father, to the statue and has her wake her up. Aponi's spirit bonds to Rebecca, and when Rebecca is accosted by an overzealous member of a church group, Aponi springs into action and attacks him.

#### A Dark Past

With Aponi's help, Rebecca lured her father into an abandoned building while he was on patrol. As she did, Erik was shown a flashback by Aponi of himself beating a younger Rebecca with a belt. Erik turned around to find Rebecca standing behind him, with his abused daughter telling him that no matter how heroic he made himself appear in public, she would always know what he really was. When Erik attempted to get Rebecca to leave with him, Rebecca proclaimed that she wasn't afraid of him anymore before running into the next room. As Erik came into the room and found a pentagram-like star drawn on the floor in blood, he looked up to see Rebecca and Aponi standing before him, with the former revealing how much she hated Erik for his cruelty towards her. After Aponi broke Erik's fingers to disarm him, Rebecca attacked and killed her father by ripping his throat open, grinning at the sight afterwards.

### Season 2

#### Witch's Rage

Aponi's power soon began to have a negative effect on her new host. One day, while Rebecca is walking home from school, she helps a bullied boy named Adam. Aponi takes over Rebecca for a brief moment and orders Adam to tell her the names of his bullies, before sending Rebecca off to find them. Knowing Aponi wanted her to kill them, Rebecca tried to dissuade her by telling her they were just kids, only for her pleas to fall on deaf ears. Aponi then took over Rebecca's body and killed one of the jocks by breaking his neck, with the jocks seeing Rebecca walking away after finding their friend's body.

#### Daughter's Rehabilitation

After hearing Honey, a member of Rebecca's therapy group talk about her abusive stepfather, Aponi makes Rebecca go over to Honey's house to investigate. After Honey left to make her stepfather dinner, Rebecca heard Aponi's voice tell her to help Honey. Aponi then possessed Rebecca and appeared in Honey's house, having Honey's stepfather see a worm-infested bowl of food in front of him. As he prepared to slap Honey, the possessed Rebecca stepped in, grabbing the man's arm and brutally killing him by tearing into his chest. Afterwards, Honey looked out the window and saw Rebecca standing outside, with Aponi briefly shifting back into her witch form before walking away.

#### The Twins

When Rebecca is confronted by the friends of the jock she killed, Aponi possesses her and helps her kill her assailants, shoving her staff through the leader's mouth. Rebecca is then approached by Abigail and Jessica Stapleton, who are impressed with Aponi's power.

#### Delusion and Deception

Rebecca was later confronted by the twins in her trailer when they came to reveal that Aponi had been talking to them, after Rebecca tearfully pleaded for the witch to leave her alone. As Abigail began attacking Rebecca under the belief that Aponi would appear, the witch did so and used visions of Abigail's parents to scare her and Jessica away.

#### Game Over

Aponi begins pressing Rebecca to help another member of her therapy group, a young man named Troy. After learning that Adam, whom they had helped prior, had been putting up insulting fliers about Troy, Aponi goes to Adam's house and kills him by shoving a dagger through his head.

#### Transference

Rebecca was captured and tied up by the twins as they prepared to summon Aponi and claim Rebecca's powers for themselves, revealing that Darius and Ms. Lexington worked for Aponi to bring her people to possess with her powers. After Aponi appeared, Troy entered and tried to defend Rebecca, with Aponi moving to kill him despite Rebecca's pleas to spare him. Rebecca, now seeing that her protector was really a sadistic killer, demanded that Aponi leave Troy alone, while proclaiming she never needed her demented protection. It was then that an enraged Aponi berated Rebecca for being like the other women she appeared to before killing Rebecca by breaking her neck.

## Sunny Family Cult (2017-2018)

### Season 3

#### Divine Creatures

Aponi appears as a silhouette in Taylor's dream along with multiple other monsters and is featured in two pages of the Crypt Tome, in which she is seen being burned alive.

## Crypt Monster Universe

### *Fight Night, Part 1* (2019)

Some time between the events of the Stoneheart finale and the Fight Night special, Aponi was captured by Micah's forces. A picture of her can be seen on Micah's billboard.

## Mayhem, Murder and Monsters (2018)

While she does not make any physical appearances, Aponi's handiwork is featured for a three-episode arc in the miniseries *Mayhem, Murder and Monsters* as a way to promote the second season of Stoneheart. In the miniseries, Aponi lended her power to sixteen year-old Kiara Carpenter of Nassau County, Long Island.

### "BONES BROKEN" ft. Cam Johnson

On June 29th, 2017, Kiara Carpenter used Aponi's power to kill Chris "Bones" White, a local marijuana dealer who had been selling to her friend's brother. Aponi attacked Chris when he was walking through an alleyway, breaking his bones until he became "a human pretzel". The attack was witnessed by Jared Woods, a friend of Chris, and was partially filmed by him.

### "VLOGGER DROWNED" ft. Cam Johnson

On July 27th 2017, Kiara Carpenter used Aponi's power again to kill sixteen year-old Mackenzie Robinson, a local social media influencer who bullied her best friend Erin Saunders. Aponi drowned Mackenzie in her bathroom sink, twisting her neck 180 degrees with blood pouring out of her mouth and eyes.

### "HELICOPTER PARENT CHOPPED" ft. Cam Johnson

On September 29th, 2017, Kiara Carpenter used Aponi's power for the last time when she kills her mother, forty-seven year-old Stacy. Her mother pushed her weight loss to the extreme, going so far as to ground her if she passed her daily calorie limits. Stacy was found inside an elevator with her arms and legs ripped from her body. Kiara apparently objected to Aponi killing her mother, to which the witch killed her in retribution, ripping her heart out and leaving her body in town.

## Crypt Extended Universe

### Stoneheart: Delilah's Revenge

In 2015, members of an organized crime syndicate began frequenting the narrator's bar, forcing him to give them a ten-percent cut of his monthly proceeds in exchange for their "protection". The narrator's wife, Delilah, confronted them after growing sick of their antics, and was badly beaten by the group. Delilah ended up having to go to the hospital, and as consolation, the thugs only took eight percent of the narrator's income. One night after the attack, Aponi appeared as the gang members were at the bar, saying that she was "Delilah's revenge". She then slaughtered all five of the gang members in front of the narrator. After her work was complete, she offered the narrator her hand and helped him up,.

### Stoneheart: Cemetery

Aponi's statue comes to the defense of the narrator, who is being attacked by a trio of thugs known only as The Three. The girl lures The Three into a cemetery and they attempt to sexually assault her, only for Aponi's statue to come out and kill two of The Three. The girl then summons Mira to kill the last of The Three, the women take a moment to bask in their victory.

### Fight Night: Brute VS Colossus

Aponi makes a cameo with the other monsters that have been captured by the narrator. After Micah takes control of the shock collars, she attacks and rips apart the narrator.

## Powers and Abilities

### Skillset

* **Superhuman Strength**
* **Staff Proficiency**

### Unique Abilities

* **Magic:** As a witch, Aponi has extensive knowledge of magic and used that knowledge to her advantage. After she was found out as a witch and burned at the stake, she used her magic to transfer her spirit into other humans.
	+ **Possession:** Aponi is able to possess the bodies of human women and turn their strength into her own.

### Weaknesses

* **Incorporeal Form:** As a spirit, Aponi lacks a physical body. In order to kill others, she needs to attach herself to a human and possess them.

### Equipment

* **Wooden Staff:** Aponi sometimes possesses a wooden spear-like staff.

## Victims

### List of Victims

#### Crypt Monster Universe

 **Abigail Stapleton** | Killed by Aponi's power for attacking her twin, Jessica.

#### Crypt Extended Universe

 **Kiara Carpenter** | Killed by Aponi after she rejected her power.

## Sightings

### Crypt Extended Universe

 Fight Night: Brute VS Colossus | Cameo appearance

## Trivia

* "Aponi" is a name of Native American origin meaning "butterfly".
* Aponi is one of the Divine Creatures of Darkness -- five ancient demons that are linked to one another as part of an ominous prophecy.
* Aponi is one of the few monsters in the Crypt Monster Universe that is able to speak.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Sunny Family Cult,* Season 3, Episode 3, "Divine Creatures". Younes, Gabriel (writer) & William Ross, John (director) (September 18th, 2018)
2. ↑ *Stoneheart,* Season 1, Episode 1, "Witch Trial Protector". Haughey, Alex (director) (August 17th, 2017)
3. ↑ *Stoneheart,* Season 1, Episode 3, "Requiem". Steven, Aaron (writer) & Babaev, Alexander (director) (February 15th, 2018)
4. ↑ *Stoneheart,* Season 1, Episode 2, "A Dark Past". Steven, Aaron (writer) & Babaev, Alexander (director) (February 8th, 2018)
5. ↑ *Stoneheart,* Season 2, Episode 1, "Witch's Rage". Steven, Aaron (writer) & Babaev, Alexander (director) (July 13th, 2018)
6. ↑ *Stoneheart,* Season 2, Episode 2, "Daughter's Rehabilitation". Steven, Aaron (writer) & Babaev, Alexander (director) (July 20th, 2018)
7. ↑ *Stoneheart,* Season 2, Episode 3, "The Twins". Steven, Aaron (writer) & Babaev, Alexander (director) (July 27th, 2018)
8. ↑ *Stoneheart,* Season 2, Episode 4, "Delusion and Deception". Steven, Aaron (writer) & Babaev, Alexander (director) (August 3rd, 2018)
9. ↑ *Stoneheart,* Season 2, Episode 5, "Game Over". Steven, Aaron (writer) & Babaev, Alexander (director) (August 10th, 2018)
10. ↑ *Stoneheart,* Season 2, Episode 6, "Transference". Steven, Aaron (writer) & Babaev, Alexander (director) (August 17th, 2018)
11. ↑ *Fight Night, Part 1: Monster Brawl* (dir. Alex Grybauskas; May 24th, 2019)
12. ↑ *Mayhem, Murder and Monsters*, Episode 1, "BONES BROKEN ft. Cam Johnson". Bonney, Mary (producer) (May 7th, 2018)
13. ↑ *Mayhem, Murder and Monsters*, Episode 2, "VLOGGER DROWNED ft. Cam Johnson". Bonney, Mary (producer) (May 17th, 2018)
14. ↑ *Mayhem, Murder and Monsters*, Episode 3, "HELICOPTER PARENT CHOPPED ft. Cam Johnson". Bonney, Mary (producer) (May 31st, 2018)
15. ↑ *Stoneheart: Delilah's Revenge.* Vena Cava, Vincent (writer) & Shih, Kevin (developer) (March 18th, 2019)
16. ↑ *Stoneheart: Cemetery.* Najam, Omar (writer) & Shih, Kevin (developer) (March 25th, 2019)
17. ↑ *Fight Night: Brute VS Colossus.* Israel Lubliner, Elan (writer) & Shih, Kevin (developer) (August 22nd, 2019)
18. ↑ http://native-languages.blogspot.com/2013/10/aponi.html