Kylie Owens

**Kylie Owens** is the youngest daughter of Sally Owens, niece of Gillian Owens, and a major character in Practical Magic. She is portrayed by Evan Rachael Wood in the film adaptation of the same name.

## Appearance

At the age of thirteen, Kylie was six feet tall, slim and fair-skinned with gray-green eyes. On the day of her birthday, her aunt Gillian took her to cut her hair short and dye it blonde. Later it grew out with her brown roots showing until the dye blended in and left her hair a honey color. Like her great-grandfather Vincent, she looks almost exactly like their ancestor Maria Owens, to the point of being identical twins.

## Personality

While Antonia has their aunt's boldness, Kylie inherited their mother Sally's sensitivity, having often cried as a baby and child. However, after spending time with Gillian, she decides to become more independent. She can also be stubborn once her mind is made up, much like the rest of her family.

## Biography

### Practical Magic

Kylie was born in 2019, residing in the Owens house for the first year of her life with her parents, sister, and great-great aunts. Unlike Antonia, she was a sweet baby. Often people would coo at her in her stroller, no mosquito dared to bite her, and the aunts' cats never tried to scratch her.

After her father was hit and killed by a drunk driver, her mother Sally fell into a self-isolating depression. Kylie and Antonia were then taken care of by the aunts for a year, allowing them to connect with their witch heritage. After a group of boys were bullying Antonia, Sally was motivated to raise her daughters away from the town the Owens women lived in.

Sally moved the girls out of the Owens house to live somewhere in New York. The girls eventually adapted to their new lives, though they did not get along as Antonia often bullied Kylie into tears. However, they grew closer every summer when they visited Aunt Jet and Aunt Franny back in Massachusetts.

The only friend Kylie had was a boy named Gideon, who everyone disliked and stayed away from. The two would play together often, and Gideon was the only person who made Kylie laugh.

Weeks before her thirteenth birthday, her aunt Gillian appeared one night with the body of her boyfriend Jimmy in her car. Kylie did not know about Jimmy or her mother and aunt burying him in the garden. Kylie and Gillian grew close, with Kylie seeing her as another mother figure who understood her and someone to look up to. The morning of her thirteenth birthday, Gillian gave her a silver bracelet with a turquoise stone attached, which Kylie loved, much to Sally's anger.

The two's bond became stronger when Gillian offered to make her more noticeable, cutting and dying her hair like her's. The two showed off Kylie's new look to the unexpecting Sally, Antonia, and Gideon, who were all shocked and not happy with the transformation. Gideon voiced his displeasure with her new look, saying she didn't look like herself anymore, to which Kylie shouted at him and he left. Sally openly blamed Gillian for trying to ruin Kylie so she could be more like Gillian, and took her daughters out. Kylie and Sally got into an argument, with Kylie refusing to dye it back to brown, and Sally storming into the house. After her mother leaves, she starts to take in the nature around her, and notices the angry apparition of Jimmy nearby.

Not long after, Kylie begins to notice that she can see colors of emotion coming off of people, especially the dark purple of the lilacs around the house and Jimmy haunting the house. She points his ghost out to Sally and Gillian, which scares the two sisters.

Gillian eventually becomes involved with the high school Biology teacher, Ben Fryes, and starts spending a large amount of time with him to the point of attracting jealousy and longing from the townspeople. Sensing their feelings, as well as feeling abandoned by Gillian, cause Kylie to act out by pulling pranks on Gillian that she doesn't notice until Kylie gives up on being angry at her aunt.

Kylie starts to miss Gideon, and decides to make a cake for him. But on the way there, two men from a nearby tavern chase her through a field, intending to rape her. She barely makes it back to the Turnpike as the men back off. She heads for the ice cream parlor where Antonia works, who sees the distress her sister is in and comforts her. Antonia has her boyfriend Scott drive them back home, where they spend the night cleaning up the blood and chocolate off of Kylie and being there for each other. Since then, the sisters became closer than ever, much to Sally and Gillian’s confusion.

## Powers and abilities

* **Spell-casting:** the act of changing or controlling events or people through the use of magical means.
* **Aura perception:** Kylie is able to see the auras of other living beings, such as humans and the lilacs that grew out of Jimmy's body and surrounding their house.
* **Empathy sensory**: can sense the emotions of others around her.

## Trivia

* Kylie's eyes are gray-green, not the light gray of the Owens women.