Wynonna Vanissen

**Wynonna Vanissen**, more commonly known throughout the series as **Grandmother**, is the grandmother of Aster Vanissen. Unlike most of the members of her family, Grandmother is both a witch and a shifter and was supportive of Aster wishing to learn witchery.

## Appearance

Grandmother has grey hair with white streaks on them which is also seen tied up in a bun. She has a scar on her cheek and has a peg leg.

In her youth, her hair appeared to be black which was tied up in a ponytail.

## Personality

Grandmother is very wise and understanding as shown when she caught Aster trying to pronounce a spell and corrected him. Rather than caution him to stop, she simply tells him to be careful.

## Story

### Before *The Witch Boy*

When Grandmother and her twin brother, Makasi, were younger, she was training in witchery while Makasi learned to be a shifter. However, Makasi showed that his talents lied more in witchery than in shapeshifting. But due to him being a boy, he was forbidden from learning witchery. When he asked his sister for help, Wynonna still refused. This forced Makasi to use witchery to make himself shapeshift, but since witchery was not meant to do that, it corrupted his magic and turned him into a monster. Wynonna sadly turned on him. She has regretted it ever since.

### *The Witch Boy*

Grandmother is first seen going to a chicken coop to collect eggs. Later, she catches Aster secretly practicing witchery only to pronounce a spell wrong, she corrected him. Rather than tell Aster to stop practicing witchery, she instead warns him to be careful. Later, after Sedge, Tupelo, and Aquila disappeared, Grandmother warns them to be careful. After Sedge was found, Vervain and Samuel asked what they needed to do to help their son. Grandmother said that he needed time, healing magic, and their love. Near the end after Makasi was stopped, Grandmother calmed her daughter, Holly, down and revealed the true reason Makasi turned into a monster which lead her to reveal that aside from being a witch, Grandmother is also a shifter. She then tells Holly that Aster is a witch and to not do to him the same thing that happened to her brother.

### *The Hidden Witch*

After Aster started learning witchery, he had some problems keeping up with his cousins. Fortunately, Juniper asked Grandmother to help him. She agreed to do so on the condition that Aster help her with curing Makasi of his corrupted magic. At first, Aster refused out of fear, but after his friend, Charlie, was attacked by a Fetch, he asked for Grandmother's help and she gave it. This encouraged Aster to change his mind and help Makasi. When the time came to help Makasi, Grandmother link his mind with Aster's. This drew the corrupted magic out of Makasi. They continued this for a while. Later, after Makasi gave his life to help Ariel, Grandmother gave a eulogy at his funeral and grew a tree on his grave. She then agrees to personally train Aster and Ariel in witchery.

## Relationships

### Aster Vanissen

Aster is one of Wynonna's grandsons. Unlike most of the other adults in the family, Grandmother never warned her grandson against practicing witchery. After Makasi was captured, she explained that Makasi became corrupted because he used witchery to shapeshift and not because he was male. In *The Hidden Witch*, she agreed to teach Aster personally to fill in the gaps he had in his knowledge of witchcraft.

### Makasi Vanissen

Makasi is Wynonna's twin brother. After Makasi discovered his talents in witchery, yet the adults refused teach him how to use it, he turned to Wynonna for help. But like the others, she refused. When Makasi used witchery to shapeshift, but was turned into a monster, she came to regret not helping him. Many years later, Makasi was captured by Aster. To make amends for what she did, Grandmother decided to heal her brother of his corrupted magic. At his funeral, Wynonna grew a tree on his grave in remembrance to him.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Witchery:** Wynonna is a witch. She can use magic to do many things. Including the following:
	+ **Agrokinesis:** Wynonna casted a spell that grew a tree on a grave.
	+ **Mind Link:** Grandmother can use magic to link the minds of others, as shown when she linked Aster's and Makasi's minds.
	+ **Pyrokinesis:** Grandmother can make a magical fire that she used to light a candle to help heal Makasi.

* **Shapeshifting:** Aside from being a witch, Wynonna is also a shifter who can take on an animal appearance and gain their traits and abilities.
	+ **Unknown animal form:** It is unknown what animal Wynonna can change into. The closest we could see was that her animal form had claws or talons.

## Trivia

* It is possible that the scar on Grandmother's face and her missing leg were because she was attacked by Makasi.
* It is also possible that Grandmother is either divorced or widowed as her husband is not seen or mentioned in the series.
* Wynonna is one of the few members of her family who is not named after a plant, flower, or herb.
	+ Her name means "first born daughter". This could mean that she is the older twin while Makasi is the younger twin.