Deirdre Morenos

> “Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.”
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**Deirdre Gabrielle Morenos** is the only daughter and child of Jessica Morenos and an unknown man, and the niece of Thomasina and Isabella.

She is the mother of twins Aelita and Artanis and Althea through her affair with Nikolai Belyakov.

## Appearance

Her true face held similarities to each of her daughters, her skin was shiny and mixer of three colors purple, green, and blue with both spots of white and black. She also has sharp teeth, pointed ears, and thinning bone white hair. Like other Magi's Deirdre has a birthmark of a M underneath her tongue.

### Tattoos

* On her left-hand Deirdre has *Аэлита* and on her right-hand Deirdre has *Артанис* which are both her eldest daughters' names in Russian.
* On her right ribcage Deirdre has "When love with unconfined wings hovers within my gates, and my divine Althea brings to whisper at the grates; when I lie tangled in her hair and fettered to her eye, the birds that wanton in the air know no such liberty." This is the first paragraph of the poem To Althea, from Prison by Richard Lovelace.

## Abilities and Skills

* **Witch Physiology** - Deirdre was a very powerful and gifted witch and considered the "*Greatest Witch*" of her generation. Deirdre was gifted in spell casting, potion making (which she was known for) and for speechless magic being able to silently cast spells via simple eye movements.
	+ **Spell Casting** - Deirdre was highly proficient in spell casting, her personal favorite's where enchantments and hexes. In her first year, she animated "a well card to sing shrilly when opened" and animate teapots to make "[them] sing" to entertain the twins as toddlers.
	+ **Potion Making** - According to (\*&\*), Deirdre was an excellent portioner who impressed him. She had an "instinctual understanding" of the subject.
	+ **Cartomancy** - Deirdre was also talented in divination and she especially like cartomancy in which Deirdre uses a deck of tarot cards to gain insight into the past, current and possible future situations of the subject.
	+ **Water Manipulation** - Deirdre's personal ability was to manipulate and shape water, Deirdre can also change one state into another such as sucking the water out of air, and solidifying water into ice. She was even capable of causing rain to fall down.
		- **Healing Water** - Deirdre's innate aptitude toward water manipulation abilities made her a rare case to naturally have access to the incredible ability to heal by manipulating the mana paths in a person's body, including herself.
	+ **Mediumship** - Deirdre could see, communicate and interact with spirts and the unseen by non-magical individuals even if they have possessed inanimate objects or people. They are able to repel and run spirits away from an area, compel to employ an armada of ghosts, and may even view a visual conception of a spirit world in a trance if desired.
* **Familiar Contract** - Deirdre had a familiar named Morrigan that mothered Fergus who would become the familiar of her daughter Leta.
* **Creativity** - Deirdre was a very creative and artistic witch. She invented a lion-shaped hat that, with a tap of a wand, made a realistic roar, and she made a flapping owl hat of the same kind for her twins and later a fox for Althea. Also, whenever she could Deirdre would paint a mural for her daughters in their room in the house, they were living in.

### Possessions

* **Merula** - Deirdre's wand was named Merula which was made up of yew wood and the core being the horn of a Horned Serpent, it was made by Isabella as a gift. Deirdre's daughter Althea inherited this wand as her own.
* **Charm bracelet** - A gift from Nikolai is a golden chain with details of leaves, rabbits, a hummingbird, a bee, flowers, a mushroom, and a pinecone. On each of the leaves there is a little ajoite stones in the center. Her daughter Althea would inherit this after her death.
* **Locket** - Deirdre inherited this locket from her mother after Jessica's death with a bumblebee made up of hematite and gold in a white gold case and chain. Her daughter Artanis inherited this after her death.
* **Beetle Ring** - Deirdre made a ring for herself while attending academy, which is based on a scarab beetle made up of morganite and onyx. Her daughter Aelita inherited this after her death.

## Etymology

* Deirdre is from the Old Irish name *Derdriu*, meaning unknown, possibly derived from *der* meaning "daughter". This was the name of a tragic character in Irish legend who died of a broken heart after Conchobar, the king of Ulster, forced her to be his bride and killed her lover Naoise.
* Gabrielle is a feminine variant of Gabriel is from the Hebrew name *גַבְרִיאֵל (Gavri'el)* meaning "God is my strong man", derived from *גֶּבֶר (gever)* meaning "strong man, hero" and *אֵל ('el)* meaning "God". Gabriel is an archangel in Hebrew tradition, often appearing as a messenger of God. In the Old Testament he is sent to interpret the visions of the prophet Daniel, while in the New Testament he serves as the announcer of the births of John to Zechariah and Jesus to Mary. According to Islamic tradition he was the angel who dictated the Quran to Muhammad.
* Morenos is a variant of Moreno which is from a nickname meaning "dark" in Spanish and Portuguese.

## Trivia

* Deirdre is associated with the Ten of Spades.
* Deirdre is of Spanish, Portuguese, Iberian Jewish and Romani descent.
* She taught her daughters sign language.
* Her favorite meal was a bowl of cioppino and a slice of sweet potato pie.
* Deirdre lost her right lower leg due to her plane being shot down and suffered due to fourth degree burns.
	+ She suffered from second-second degree burns.
* Deirdre was a bibliophile.