Naomi Wood

> I promise not to bite.
>
> - Naomi Wood

Naomi Wood is a former police officer and in Book 4, the mayor of Ipswich. She befriends Bailey Ward in Book 1 and eventually assists her in investigating Lydia Summers's disappearance. Her father, Norman Wood, was the mayor of Ipswich.

She is a potential love interest for Bailey.

## Background

Naomi has lived with her father in Ipswich her entire life. Her father divorced from Naomi's mother after the investigation of the Ipswich Tourism Fund, approximately 8 years prior. Naomi had a close relationship with her father, who was supportive of her coming out and protected her from being bullied, unlike her mother.

Naomi began dating his father's intern, Sophia, after Naomi stole his money and confessed to in order to prevent him from punishing Sophia. They dated for several months before separating.

## Story

### Book 1

Bailey's classmate, Dylan Blake, calls the police on the pretense of investigating Lydia Summers's disappearance to sabotage Pendle Hill Academy by revealing magic to a nonwitch. Naomi arrives at the campus where she meets Bailey and Dylan, and is intercepted by Professor Wilson before she discovers magic. The player will have the option to flirt with Naomi before she leaves.

Naomi meets Bailey again at Mocha Mike's diner and offers to help her enter the wi-fi password. She is called away by a diner patron, who reports that they saw Bailey and her friend Rosie Perez vandalizing the town statue earlier. Bailey accompanies her to the Ipswich Witch Museum to gather evidence from the surveillance cameras. Naomi confirms that Bailey and Rosie were not involved, and apologizes to them for the accusations.

Later when Bailey is at the harbor speaking with Tommy and Salty Mac, Naomi tells her that a witness saw Lydia jumping into the harbor. After investigating the harbor and the town statue, Naomi discreetly helps Bailey by directing her Betsy Sage at the Ipswich Witch Museum, who was the anonymous witness that saw Lydia. Betsy complains to Naomi that after her father made budget cuts for the museum they have been struggling, but helps them retrieve surveillance photos of Rosie arguing with Lydia the day before she disappeared. Naomi takes her to the diner after and comforts Bailey about her relationship with Rosie. Later while investigating the History of Witches, Bailey asks Naomi for help searching the town hall's archives on old records of the witch hunt era. Naomi returns with the papers, helping Bailey discover records of a "fox man" similar to the one seen with Lydia before. Naomi also tells Bailey the story of Raven's Perch told by her grandmother, that several witches still resented nonwitches after the witch hunt and transformed them into a giant boulder there.

### Book 2

After Bailey recovers Lydia from the Dark Hunt, she begins investigating Dr. Franz Lemke, a doctor at Clear View who allegedly provided Lydia with therapy. She asks Naomi to access his file in town hall for her, and Naomi informs Bailey that Lemke's wife had died from carbon monoxide poisoning five years prior and never remarried. Alarmed, Bailey tells Naomi that there was someone posing as Lemke's wife at his residence. Naomi volunteers to go with Bailey to conduct a wellness check at Lemke's place to search his apartment. They find Lydia inside the apartment, who claims that the lock was already broken when she arrived. Though suspicious of Lydia, Naomi allows them to return back to Pendle Hill.

Naomi's colleague, Officer Chip Taylor, arrests Bailey for first-degree murder of Franz Lemke and arson. Naomi assists Bailey by criticizing Chip's abuse of power and mishandling her arrest, which eventually leads to Bailey being released from her charges.

At the Ipswich cemetery, Naomi pulls Bailey aside and demands to know why she was in the crypt before angrily dismissing her at her secrecy. Later, Naomi approaches Bailey in Town Square and cryptically asks Bailey to accompany. She drives them to the police station where Bailey's keys that she dropped in the cemetery and gives Bailey a polygraph test. Naomi is upset with Bailey's persistent furtiveness after covering for her multiple times. Eventually, Naomi stumbles upon a Faraway Ritual at Pendle Hill, and Bailey explains that magic and witches are real. As a nonwitch, this revelation results in Naomi becoming a target of the Coven's astral crows to have her memory removed, and Bailey quickly moves Naomi to Moon Park where the cloaking statue will shield her from the crows. Though Naomi initially resists, she follows Bailey to safety. In exchange for allowing Naomi to stay at the park with Sally Swan, Bailey agrees to keep secret about her daughter Mari Swan's crimes to allow her to have a craft funeral. Naomi quickly bonds with Sally, who is now eager to keep her company, but Naomi is still upset that she cannot speak to her family.

### Book 3

Preoccupied with her mother's murder, Bailey receives an urgent letter from Naomi to call her back and recalls that Sally would only allow Naomi stay a few days at Moon Park. Her concerns wanes when she calls Naomi to hear they are getting along and are going to begin an embroidery project together. Later, Bailey stops by the fairground to see Naomi, who refuses to continue living at the park and to allow the crows to wipe her memory. Bailey asks for one more day to find a solution, which Naomi angrily agrees to. With Naomi's unexplained disappearance, Mayor Wood orders a formal investigation of Pendle Hill Academy. Eventually, Naomi appears at Pendle Hill and tells Bailey to let the crows erase her memories, as she would prefer to sacrifice the moments they shared together than live in secrecy. Determined to protect Naomi, Bailey risks herself by casting the Spirit of Love's sigil on Lydia's bracelet and gives it to Naomi, which confuses the approaching astral crows just as Mayor Wood arrives with the police. Now protected from the Coven's crows, Naomi comforts her father and tells him to call off any charges just as Bailey collapses from having her magicka drained by the Spirit of Love.

In Chapter 11, Bailey and Naomi visit Mari Swan's grave with Sally. Naomi tells Bailey that she is unsettled about her lying about magic, and has been thinking about removing Lydia's bracelet to still have her memory wiped. Bailey decides her to show Naomi Fallow's Tree Academy, her earlier reason for entering the crypt, and shows Naomi the beauty of magic by causing the ritual tree to bloom. Naomi agrees to wear the bracelet for now, and Bailey says that there will be less secrets between them for now.

In Chapter 17, Naomi and Chip are at the homicide crime scene of Vittorio Diolo when Bailey appears. Upset that Bailey has appeared at another crime scene without explanation, Naomi tells Bailey to go with Chip to the police station. Later at the station, Naomi is fining Greg Gilmore, Bailey's classmate, for setting off fireworks (intended to be a diversion for Bailey). Bailey arrives to ask Naomi about Janis's mother, Grace Sullivan, who has an unusually high number of tickets and was rumored to have had an affair with Mayor Wood. Naomi denies Bailey's assumptions and demands to know who killed Vittorio while criticizing her for always prioritizing her community at Pendle Hill.

While Janis and Bailey track Grace to the Cat Scratch Casino where she is arrested by Chip Taylor. Instead of driving to the police station, they follow Chip and Grace to the Black Cedar gas station where Naomi waits. Cuffing Grace to the radiator, Naomi demands for her to stop blackmailing her father and leaves her to find Chip, who was distracted by Bailey. After Bailey finds evidence that Naomi's father may have killed Vittorio, she breaks into his office and safe to find the antique pistol used to kill him. She turns to find Naomi watching her, who claims Vittorio was hired by Grace to kill her father and that he acted in self-defense, which was why she helped him conceal the crime scene. Naomi refuses to believe that her father hired contract killers to assassinate Grace and Bailey's mother, Amelia Ward. They fight over the mayor's antique pistol and accidentally set off the trigger, destroying a photo frame. Naomi realizes her father's wrongdoings, and tells Bailey to leave.

On Christmas, Naomi deals with Vivian Summers, who insists on seeing her father before the assembly. She also apologizes to Bailey for their earlier fight as she is afraid for her father and morally conflicted. Naomi tells Bailey that she was a good parent, unlike her mother, who supported her when she came out and supported her while she was being bullied at school. Bailey insists to Naomi that her father must call off the contract kill on Grace and Amelia and to accept responsibility for the hit-and-run with Janis. Naomi runs off, and while backstage Bailey confronts Mayor Wood when Naomi demands for him to tell her the truth. Her father admits that he crashed into the Sullivan's car and stole from the Ipswich Tourism Fund to pay Grace in addition to hiring contract killers. After Naomi storms off, Grace surprises them with a gun to shoot Wood. Bailey chases the mayor into the street, where he is killed and hit by Janis. Before dying, he asks Bailey to tell Naomi that he loves her.

### Book 4

Naomi is devastated by her father's death. Bailey arrives at town hall to search for Viper Capital's excavation records, and finds her in the former mayor's office clearing his things. Naomi laments for her father's crimes and wishes that she hated him instead, and plans to resign from the police force in addition to confessing about her covering up Diolo's murder. However, Bailey convinces Naomi not to turn herself in by helping the community instead of going to prison. Naomi reassures and encourages Bailey to go after Viper Capital.

In the epilogue, Naomi's story will depend on Bailey's choice to live or to die and gift magic to all of human kind. Three years will have passed, and Naomi is now the new mayor of Ipswich. In both routes, Naomi gives a commencement speech at Pendle Hill as the mayor.

### Naomi's Vision Fragments

Bailey's vision of Naomi, **Explosive Tempers**, is unlocked with 9 vision fragments: 5 gold, 3 silver, and 1 bronze.

Bailey's vision of Naomi takes place in Ipswich on Independence Day celebrating with her father. Betsy Sage approaches them to insult Naomi by saying that her patriotic flower arrangement lacks a "woman's touch". Infuriated, her father grabs Betsy which results in Naomi arresting him for assaulting member of the public. She takes him back to the station where Betsy also arrives to apologize to Naomi for her insult and that her feud is with her father. Betsy states that she will not be pressing charges and leaves. Afterwards, Naomi enjoys the fireworks from the police station with her father.

## Relationships

### Bailey Ward

Naomi and Bailey initially have a good friendship that becomes strained due to the latter's secrecy surrounding magic, and eventually Naomi's own secret with helping her father cover up Vittorio Diolo's murder. However, they have patched their relationship and remain good friends in Book 4.

Bailey can also enter a romantic relationship with Naomi.

They first meet in **Book 1**, Chapter 3 after Dylan Blake calls the Ipswich Police Department to investigate Lydia Summers's disappearance, and the player will have the option to flirt with Naomi. In Chapter 8, Bailey spends time with Naomi at the Ipswich Witch Museum for evidence that she and Rosie did not vandalize the town statue, and will have the option to flirt with Naomi to go on a future date. Naomi takes her back to the diner, where she comforts Bailey on her friendship with Rosie. In Chapter 11, Naomi asks Bailey to help her choose a birthday present for her dad, and pick a witch-themed board game at the general store. Naomi returns that evening to the harbor and tells that although her father disliked the game due to the witch-theme, she would love to see Bailey again. They spend time together on the docks until Naomi is called in. In Chapter 16-17, Naomi pulls over Bailey and Janis Sullivan, who was speeding. Afterward taking Janis to the station, Naomi tells Bailey that an anonymous witness saw Lydia jump into the harbor and helps her retrieve surveillance photos of Rosie and Lydia arguing at the Witch Museum. Naomi comforts Bailey about her friendship with Rosie, and hints that she likes Bailey. Bailey has the option to accept or reject her feelings. If she accepts, they share a kiss and walk away from the diner holding hands. In Chapter 18, Naomi will see Bailey at the Town Store with Gilmore, and assume that they are romantically involved as well. In Chapter 19, Naomi sends a letter to Bailey about their date on Saturday at the diner. Professor Shirazi chastises Bailey for being repeatedly seen with Naomi, a police officer, and that the Coven will be suspicious of her spending time with a nonwitch authority. At their date, Naomi asks Bailey if she is seeing other people romantically, as she wants Bailey to be exclusive with her. Naomi will be happy if Bailey confirms they are exclusive, and takes her for a motorcycle ride back to Pendle Hill where they share a kiss.

In **Book 2**, after Bailey is expelled from Pendle Hill, Naomi offers her and her father, Don Ward, a place to stay. However, their relationship becomes increasingly strained over Bailey's secrecy until Naomi accidentally discovers Bailey during a Faraway ritual. To prevent the Coven from wiping her memory, Bailey takes Naomi to Moon Park with Sally Swan. Though their relationship remains fraught from their new secret, Naomi agrees to continue dating Bailey.

In **Book 3**, their relationship is further challenged after Vittorio Diolo is killed and Bailey appears at the scene. She and Bailey continue arguing about their relationship and Naomi's loyalty to her father, who is revealed to have killed Diolo and was assisted by Naomi to conceal the crime.

In **Book 4**, Naomi's actions depending on Bailey's choice to live or die. In both endings, Naomi has become the new mayor of Ipswich.

* If Bailey chooses to live, Naomi gives a commencement speech at Pendle Hill as the new mayor. Afterwards she reminds Bailey that they are having dinner with Don, where Naomi will have a special announcement to make.
* If Bailey chooses to die, Naomi gives a commencement speech thanking Bailey for gifting magic to nonwitches.

### Mayor Wood

Naomi shares a close relationship with her father, Mayor Wood. Throughout her childhood, Wood would comfort and protect Naomi when she was bullied for being queer, unlike her mother. Wood would also insist her teachers protect Naomi until the other students stopped bullying her. Naomi fondly recalls playing a game similar to "I Spy" with her father at town hall when she was younger. Wood is highly protective of his daughter, as he promptly orders official investigation of Pendle Hill when Naomi goes into hiding and when Betsy Sage makes an derogatory comment about Naomi's womanhood. Although Wood was determined to search Pendle Hill after finding his daughter at the Academy, he immediately calls off the investigation when Naomi assures she will tell him what happened.

Naomi is conflicted and devastated by his death, as he was a paternal figure to her despite his crimes. Naomi is influenced enough by this event to quit her career as a police officer, deeming herself unworthy to continue serving after assisting her father in covering up his murder of Vittorio Diolo. In the epilogue, Naomi will follow her father's footsteps by becoming the mayor of Ipswich.

### Sophia

Naomi stole money from her father to see a concert in Boston. He discovers that his money is missing, and accuses Sophia of stealing from him. Before he can fire Sophia, Naomi admits to stealing the money. Afterwards, she begins dating Sophia for several months before breaking up due to a lack of mutual interests.

Sophia still harbors feelings for Naomi, and will be hostile Bailey if they begin dating. Naomi is surprised to learn about Sophia's feelings for her from Bailey.

### Janis

Janis and Naomi have known each other since childhood. In high school, Janis says they once kissed and that she hopes Naomi has "learned to use less tongue".

### Naomi's Grandmother

Naomi was close with her grandmother, who had a kind outlook towards witches. She eventually struggled with Alzheimer's disease.

## Personality

Naomi has a calm and gentle demeanor, and is deeply loyal to her father. Naomi is dedicated to her work as a police officer and takes her duties as mayor seriously. She is also sympathetic to the history and lore of witches in Ipswich, to the extent that Arash Shirazi emphasizes to Bailey to never mention the existence of witches to her despite her empathy. After discovering the existence of magic however, Naomi becomes distraught at Bailey's deception and threatens to expose their secret before gradually accepting this discovery.

## Physical Appearance

Naomi has short, light blonde hair, and blue eyes. She has light-medium skin and freckles. For work, she wears a police uniform comprised of a blue button-down shirt and dark blue trousers. For casual wear, Naomi wears a floral sleeveless blue, v-neck dress with a brown belt, or a black leather jacket over a lavender shirt and dark gray pants with a red heart necklace.

## Appearances

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title=Book 4
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## Quotes

"I don't like secrets, Bailey, but I'll make peace with this one for now."== Quotes ==
"I don't like secrets, Bailey, but I'll make peace with this one for now." - Naomi to Bailey

## Trivia

* Her hobbies are motorbikes and listening to indie music.
* She likes free wifi.
* Her favorite food is Ipswich clam chowder, and she also likes pie.
* Naomi says her soul animal is a dog, as she is "nothing if not loyal".
* She has uterine fibroids.
* Naomi's sun sign is Taurus.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/SwitchcraftOfficial/photos/an-ipswich-thoroughbred-naomi-joined-the-local-police-to-be-a-force-of-good-in-h/1224945287989911/