Ada Crawford

Author's Note: Text penned by Lyssa with minor adjustments made by Belladonna.

> ***"I was born to become a High Priestess, and my sister stole it from me. Now it's my turn to take action. I'll gain what is mine by right."***
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**Ada Crawford** is the first-born daughter of the retired High Priestess Eglantine Crawford. The woman was meant to become the next in line for the position of the Coven Leader, before her younger sister, Danielle, was born. Ever since then, Ada has harbored anger at Dani and her descendants, conveying her attitude to her only daughter, Sibyla.

## Ada's Story

Ada Crawford was born on November 2nd, 1958, as the first daughter of Eglantine André, an extremely powerful natural witch, and her husband, Jahan Crawford.

From her earliest childhood, Ada was meant to become the Coven Leader one day, so she was taught the things the Leader must know. The girl always positioned herself as the dominant figure among her peers. Despite a very young age, Ada was a fairly selective person. She preferred to stay away from half-bloods, despite the fact that she was one of them herself, and only true elite surrounded her.

However, Ada's plans of becoming the High Priestess were destroyed in 1962, when her younger sister, Danielle, was born, just five months after their father's death. Eglantine, seeing the darkness that rose in the heart of her eldest daughter, placed great hopes on her youngest kid, which obviously affected the relationship between the sisters. Ada always tried to prove that she's better than her younger sister in everything, while Danielle didn't even want to confront the older girl. She never claimed to be a leader, having no interest in this. Moreover, according to the Coven's rules, the oldest child tend to become the High Priestess, so their destiny would seem to be predetermined from the very beginning.

However, Ada didn't share her positive attitude. Seeing everything going downhill, she decided to take real action at the age of 23. She seduced Josué Soyer, a powerful witch and a representative of another magical coven, who was expelled from the witch community for using magic for dark purposes. Soon enough, to her great triumph, Ada found out that she was pregnant with his child. The young woman was sure that if she had an heir (both parents of which showed great magical potential), she would have a greater influence on the Coven - or, at least, the High Council.

She gave birth to Sibyla Adelise on February 23, 1981, without notifying the kid's father of this event. Ada was sure that *now* she'd have a better chance of becoming the Coven Leader. However, the Council constantly postponed the election of a new Leader, until Danielle gave birth to her firstborn, a girl who was named Anastasia, as well on March 1983. Ada was furious. She had no doubts that it was one of her mother's tricks. Eglantine always wanted her younger daughter to become the High Priestess, and everyone was very well aware of this. However, the woman decided to show that she's a more worthy candidate for the role of the Leader, and therefore Sibyla's and Anastasia's training began.

The lull lasted sixteen years. Ada tolerated everything - the presence of Dani and her children, the witches' slanting looks and the clear preference that their mother gave to her granddaughters from her youngest child. But one day the woman realized she couldn't stand it anymore. Sibyla was caught using dark magic while she was getting rid of one of the Coven members, and the girl was expelled from the magical community, just like her father years ago. Ada couldn't believe that Josué's genes had taken over her daughter, but she immediately tried to calm down and come up with a new plan. She made sure that 14-year-old Anastasia refused to become the new Leader, so all the hopes fell on Rachelle, Danielle's youngest kid. The girl was only seven then, so she couldn't really make such serious decisions. There was nothing left to do but wait. Again.

The following years passed very slowly. Rachelle grew up, but nothing made her refuse the opportunity to become the next Coven Leader, which undoubtedly was the result of Eglantine's work. However, everything turned upside down when, in 2022, Rachelle suddenly withdrew her candidacy, having left for America. Ada hardly began to celebrate her triumph (after all, from now on she was the only heiress and her mother couldn't do anything about it), when she faced a terrifying fact: Anastasia returned home, a year after the departure of her younger sister, bringing her daughter along. Marianne also inherited the Crawfords' magical powers, so she automatically became the next in line to become the Coven Leader.

Even that didn't make Ada give up on reaching his goal, and her efforts were rewarded in 2037 when Marianne refused to become the next High Priestess, having fled with her boyfriend to America. Eglantine began looking for her youngest granddaughter, Rachelle, because now it was dependent on her whether Ada would become the next Coven Leader or not. Rachelle had no children at the moment, but, according to the Council, she already had two magical heiresses. It wasn't very hard for Rachelle to realize that her heiresses were Claire and Cordelia Jinks, her half-brother's daughters. Ada was the second person to know about this, so she went to the USA, following her niece to get rid of the latest obstacles on her way to the leadership.

TBC…

## Physical Appearance

Like most of her relatives, Ada has piercing blue eyes and brown hair that she inherited from her father. She also has a small birthmark on the upper part of her neck which presents the letter "H", meaning that she is a heiress and a possible High Priestess.

## Skills & Powers

As a witch, she has the ability to brew and concoct magical potions and cast simple spells. However, as the heiress of one of the oldest and strongest genera, she is able to cast complex spells and even return someone to life or create a new life.

Her personal power is to spin the thread of life allotted to each person and dictate their destinies, which makes her not only a witch, but a Moirai. However, it hardly bothers her since she despises all human beings.

## Personality & Habits

She is a manipulator by nature and won't give up anything that she defined as her own. For the sake of achieving her goal, Ada is even ready to get rid of her family and friends or to pretend that she doesn't have any, as it happened with her daughter.

## Relationships

### Eglantine Crawford (nee André, mother) and Jahan Crawford (father, deceased)

Ada never had a good relationship with her parents, since her father was an ordinary human, and her mother definitely preferred her younger daughter to the eldest. Therefore, Ada has always tried to spend as little time with them as possible.

### Danielle Crawford (younger sister, deceased)

Secretly, Ada always envied her younger sister. Danielle got all the love and attention of their mother, and the entire Coven believed Dani was next in line to become the Coven Leader. Not surprisingly, there has always been a race between the sisters for leadership in the role of a candidate, although Danielle never really tried to outdo her sister in anything.

### Josué Soyer (short-term lover)

Ada and Josué knew each other for a couple of hours, not more, but it was enough for Miss Crawford to get pregnant with the daughter of the magical community's enemy Number One. Ada never really regretted her decision, because she believed Josué had potential and grandiose powers, which the Coven simply couldn't see.

### Sibyla Crawford (daughter)

All her life, Ada treated Sibyla as a means to achieve her goal. Therefore, when the Coven denied her and Danielle became the next Leader, she did her best to put her daughter on this post, because she could easily manage the girl. However, when Sibyla was expelled from the magical community, just like her father 17 years before her, Ada pretended she never had a daughter at all.

### Anastasia Crawford and Rachelle Jinks (nieces)

Ada's relationship to her nieces was a lot like the one she had to their mother. Ada always considered them as regular rivals and nothing else. Therefore, when Anastasia refused to become a Leader, and Rachel began to search intensively for her heir, Ada did her best to get ahead of her and get rid of new competitors.