Zatanna Zatara (Earth-2)

## Zatanna Zatara

"*You don't get it, John. I'm not doing this for some... penance or whatever you think I'm doing. I'm doing this to get my dad back from Hell. I'm not going to let my dad rot in that place because of a mistake I made.*"
— Zatanna to John
**Zatanna Zatara** is a stage magician, a member of the Zatara Family, and a powerful Homo Magi. She used to be the girlfriend of John Constantine.

## Biography

When Zatanna was a child, she could do things that other kids couldn't do. One day when she was twelve, she attended school and saw a boy getting bullied on the playground. She set fire to the bully's shoes by saying fire backwards and had a panic attack. Her father, Giovanni, picked her up and took her home. Once they were inside, he talked to her about what she really was: A Homo Magi, a person who is bestowed with magic powers. Over the net few years, he would train her in the art of magic and spellcasting. On her eighteenth birthday, Zatanna accidentally summoned a demon that dragged her father to Hell. Zatanna was torn apart by this and was forced to live on her own.

At one point, she began dating the legendary sorcerer John Constantine. However the relationship was far from perfect and the two would break up after only five months of being together. This didn't stop Zatanna however as she kept learning and perfecting her craft.

## Personality

Zatanna is headstrong, courageous, and according to John "a bit stupid at times." She's fiercely protective of her friends and remaining family as she doesn't want to lose them like how she lost her father. She wants to make up for her mistake.

## Appearance

Zatanna has long dark brown hair and dark brown eyes. She has an athletic but curvy body type. She likes to wear things like coats and sweaters when she travels. John sometimes teases her about how she used to wear fishnet stockings while on stage.

## Powers and abilities

* **Magic:** As a magician and a member of the Homo Magi race, Zatanna is proficient in spellcasting and Magic. She can cast various powerful spells, all with different outcomes, and uses backwards words as spells.
* **Pyrokinesis**: Zatanna can summon and manipulate fire with her spells. She first showed this ability when she was twelve years old.
* **Cryokinesis**: Zatanna can summon and manipulate ice with her spells.
* **Electrokinesis**: Zatanna can summon and manipulate electricity with her spells. She can shoot bolts of lightning from her finger tips.
* **Hydrokinesis**: Zatanna can summon and manipulate water with her spells.
* **Telepathy**: Zatanna can access a person's mind and read their thoughts and memories. She can also alter them to her will, forcing her subject to do or think whatever she wants.
* **Telekinesis**: Zatanna can move and manipulate objects with her spells.
* **Teleportation**: Zatanna can teleport herself and other people to any location she pleases.
* **Eldritch blast**: Zatanna can blast her enemies back with a powerful gust of magical energy.
* **Energy construct creation**: Zatanna can focus her magical energy and create energy constructs from pure magic. These constructs can act as traps for enemies and shields to defend against oncoming attacks.
* **Healing**: Zatanna can heal wounds with a magic spell.
* **Flight**: Zatanna can make herself fly as well as others.

### Abilities

* **Hypnosis**: Zatanna is a skilled hypnotist. Using a combination of eye contact, a soothing voice and hypnotic speech patterns, she can reprogram one's mind to see, feel, or think whatever she suggests them to. She has used this technique a number of times on the stage, making people fall asleep or believe they are animals. She has also used this skill to reprogram Constantine's mind during their relationship.
* **Multilingualism**: Zatanna is well versed in other languages. She can also fluently speak backwards.
* **Card tricks**: Zatanna can perform card tricks. This is something she learned from her time as a stage magician.
* **Coin tricks**: Zatanna can perform coin tricks.
* **Occultism**: Zatanna, as a studier of magic, has also studied occultism.

## Weaknesses

* **Pupaphobia**: Zatanna has a crippling fear of puppets due to an undisclosed moment from her childhood.
* **Vulnerability to magic**: Magic from other beings, like gods, can effect and hurt Zatanna.

## Trivia

* She doesn't know much about her mother.
* She likes nachos and cherry kool aid.
* Her favorite movie is *The Dark Crystal.*