Vivian

**Vivian** (ヴィヴィアン *Vivian*) is a character introduced in the *Wandering Witch* series.

## Appearance

Vivian has green hair, described as being the color of new leaves. She wears a white overcoat, a white dress, shirt, a black skirt, and has black high-heels.

## Personality

Vivian is brilliant and can be outwardly kind, and is highly charismatic, winning loyalty and admiration among many of the students and being considered the prime candidate for the university's next headmaster. This hides a woman who is haunted by her past and extremely driven to erase discrimination against non-mages by giving them the ability to use magic as well; from Ariadne's perspective, she wants to drive non-mages to extinction.

This is driven by her experience with her best friend from university, Elizabeth, who didn't get hired because she wasn't a mage. Vivian thus came to believe that lack of magic was the prime driver of inequality in Latorita, and that if everyone had magic, none would be unhappy. As Elaina notes, the fact that Vivian chose Sara as her research assistant showed the extent to which she was imprisoned by her past, given Sara's close resemblance to her old friend.

After giving up on her ambition to bring magic to non-mages, Elaina notes that she has mellowed out considerably.

## Plot

### Past Events

Vivian was a mage student at Latorita State University and was extremely gifted, taking classes meant for eighteen-year old when she was only fourteen. In those classes, she became best friends with Elizabeth, a non-mage student with grades to rival her own. The two both aspired to become professors at the university, and after taking the exam, only Vivian received a job offer, as she was a mage and Elizabeth was not.

This experience was formative in Vivian's life, as she was convinced that discrimination against non-mages had robbed her best friend of realizing her dream. She and Elizabeth fell out of touch after their studies concluded, and Vivian dedicated herself to finding a way to allow non-mages to use magic as well, so that Elizabeth's story would never be repeated.

### Story Events

#### Volume 6

By the time Vivian is 31, she is developing a potion that would allow non-mages to use magic. She recruits Sara, a non-mage student, causing the girl to run away from home and dedicate herself to aiding Vivian. As the potions that Vivian is developing often involve toxic ingredients, the two become very clandestine about their after-school activities.

This continues for about a month until Elaina and Ariadne—actually a de-aged Elizabeth—start getting into contact with Sara and attending Vivian's classes. Vivian quickly develops an interest in these two interlopers as well, and shows them her research. Vivian opens up to Elaina about her past and thus her motivations for this research. However, on Elaina and Ariadne's fifth day of class, Ariadne drinks a test potion meant for Sara, collapsing. After this, Vivian checks the student roster, discovering that Elaina and Ariadne are not students. She thus summons them to her lecture hall the next day and confronts them with Sara's aid.

After a brief duel, she and Sara are defeated by Elaina and Ariadne. After Vivian expounds on her motives one last time, Ariadne reveals herself to have been Elizabeth and Sara's mother all along. Elizabeth tells Vivian that she has been living a happy life as a baker and a married woman after moving on from Latorita State, and Vivian realizes the error of her ways and ceases her research.

On what is to be Elaina's last day in the Commonwealth of Latorita, she, Sara and Vivian are sharing a table at Elizabeth's bakery and enjoying the food.

#### Volume 7

Several days later, a golem suddenly appears in Latorita, and a student from the future explains the situation to Vivian. Vivian rallies the mages of the university to help draw the golem to the outskirts of the city, where Elaina destroys it with a massive icicle.

## Abilities

* **Wind Magic**: Vivian is particularly proficient in wind magic and teaches courses on it at Latorita State University. Elaina describes her wind magic blasts as having enough power to crush someone flat.