Florence Diamond

*The Dancing Witch*

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Some witches are all-powerful. Others just scratch at their power potential at all. Florence only has two tricks up her sleeve, but both she has perfected, made it a natural talent, almost: the magic of dancing and copying animal traits. People know her more for the first part, though she does often use the latter in her performances.

## Personality

Florence is rather hedonistic and dominated by short-term goals. When there is a way to get pleasure without or at least just little pain, or even get pleasure while gaining the means for more, she favors this path. She rather avoids conflict if possible, and if it is unavoidable, she tries to conclude it in the least painful way possible.

## SKILLS

Florence has always been a natural when it came to physical exercise and gymnastics. Tapping into her magic to boost it is usually just icing on top.

Florence has started dancing professionally in a gentlemen's club only about two years ago to earn her living, but she was a natural with it. Notably, she is not at Expert level where more trained, classical forms of dancing are concerned, but she still has a general talent for dance and could do very well in such dancing if properly trained.

To spice up her performances, Florence has learned a couple of stage magic tricks. Most of them fall under the sleight of hand category and are on the simple side for seasoned stage magicians and none contains real magic.

## POWERS

It's easy for Florence to understand mammals of any kind, and answering them isn't that hard for her either.

Florence channels her magic spark not in a conventional way, such as by spells and runes, but instead channels it straight through her body, calling forth abilities and traits of animals. While she might call upon the strength of a bull, the claws of a bear, the swimming speed of a dolphin or the sense of smell of a wolf, she can only call upon the traits of one animal at a time, and they come with the physical traits needed to use them without transforming her fully into an animal.

## ADVANTAGES

Working in the Coleman's Gentlemen Club at night is rather lucrative for Florence. While she knows that she might not do this forever, it earns her a pretty penny while having fun. It pays well enough to have a nice flat and a lot of shinies that others need to put hard work in for.

## WEAKNESSES

Borrowing the powers of animals leaves their mark on Florence, at least while they are called upon. Besides the physical mark, they also come with instincts befitting the animal channeled.

Having learned all she knows about magic by herself, she barely tapped into what she can do with the talent she knows about. As she has not yet delved into the supernatural world, she has no idea what is out there... or in fact that it is out there.
Florence was born and raised by her single mom in New York City. While her mother, Clarice, was caring and tried to educate her as best she could, her health was frail. So, as a teen she had to learn how to deal with her innate magic herself. She left high school at age 17 with the full diploma after just about three years, taking the fast route on some classes. Finally free to try to find a future she might want to pursue, her mother died half a year later, just weeks before Florence's 18th birthday. With little money on hand, she looked for venues to try to earn her living in a short time. Some month later, she started to dance in a run down bar in Harlem. But it paid well enough and was somewhat fun. As she started to spice her dancing by using her innate magic, she became a curiosity "magical" dance act under the stage name "Ruby." Mixing a little slight of hand with real magic, she managed to work her way up the club ladder for about two years. However, winters in New York are cold, apartments super pricey and people working on the dim lit side of nightlife are rather abrasive. Seeking for greener pastures, she set on to San Francisco, packing her things into a couple of boxes and booking one way with the spare savings of the last year in her pockets.

Logs featuring Florence Diamond:

* 2019.01.19 - The Siege of Rowanwood: 3
* 2019.01.18 - Waking Up at Rowanwood: Rey, Corey, Piper, Tachi, Florence, and Ryan
* 2019.01.20 - Battle Aftermath 2: Dinner, talks and magic
* 2019.01.22 - The Council of the Vale
* 2019.02.03 - It May Be the Apocalypse, but Armageddon Is Canceled
* 2019.02.03 - Library Lunch
* 2019.02.27 - Going Home Pt.1