Chelsea Downs

> *"Without you... this family would have fell apart. You have always put your sisters first... even if it meant that you had to make scarifies. Your an amazing daughter... the best that a mother could ask for. You have made me so proud... and know that you have made your sisters proud..."* - Cassidy to Chelsea.
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**Chelsea Nicole Downs** is the oldest daughter of Cassidy Downs and Robert Williams. She is the older sister of Carleigh and Carmen Downs and older maternal half-sister of Chloe Tucker. Chelsea married her Guardian, Louis, and they have three children, Christopher, Courtney, and Cassie Downs.

Together with her sisters, Chelsea forms The Destined Ones, a sisterhood of four of the most powerful witches to walk on the earth. Chelsea is considered to be strongest and most powerful of the four sisters. Her powers work through mind and movement: moving things with her mind, moving things that are out of her sight, moving liquids through teleportation, projecting herself through astral form, creating forceful waves, propelling herself into the air, and redirecting the magic of others. Beside this, Chelsea possesses the basic powers of a witch: the ability to cast spells, brew potions, and scrying for lost objects or people. She can also access The Power of Four, the collective power of the Destined Ones.

Chelsea works as a bestselling author, after previously working journalist at The New York Times.

## History

### Early Life

> *"I was never worried about you as a child... you show me ever since you could talk, that you would take life head on."* - Cassidy to Chelsea.
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Chelsea was born on August 19, 1995 to Chamberlain Witch, Cassidy Downs and mortal, Robert Williams. Chelsea was born with the power of Telekinesis, which allowed her to move things with her mind. As a young child, Chelsea showed great control over her power and often used it to play with her dolls.

On December 28, 1998, Chelsea welcomed her younger sister, Carleigh Downs, simply known as CJ, into the world. Chelsea and CJ's relationship grew very close, with the two spending most of their time together. According to Robert, CJ would follow Chelsea around, throughout the day. Despite their close nature, the two would still have little fights over toys and using their magic.

In early 2000, Chelsea and CJ were visited by a demon named, Zarkin. Cassidy told Chelsea and CJ to never talk to stranger, so Chelsea tried to get her mother. Zarkin tried to stop her, but Chelsea used her power to push him down the stairs. She grabbed CJ and ran to Cassidy. Cassidy got Chelsea and CJ to the attic, where she tried to find a spell to vanquish Zarkin. When Zarkin reached the attic, Cassidy tired to vanquish him but he deflected her powers. Zarkin told Cassidy that she would birth another child and that he wanted all of their powers so they couldn't fulfill their destiny. Cassidy eventually was able to cast a spell on Zarkin, cursing him into a locket where he would be trapped for eternity.

Later in 2000, on November 16, Chelsea and CJ welcomed their little sister, Carmen Downs. After their encounter with Zarkin, Cassidy and her mother, Caroline Downs, realized that for the safety of Chelsea and her sisters, that they should bound their powers. Cassidy bound Chelsea, CJ, and Carmen's powers and erased their memories of them ever being witches and having magic.

Sometime in 2002, Chelsea's parents split up and her father, Robert, left his family behind. Four years later, on September 19, 2008, Cassidy encounter the demon, Orpheus, who undid all of Cassidy's spells that she had cast, freeing Zarkin from the locket. After Zarkin returned, he battled Cassidy. Cassidy fought him off but was severely wounded. Caroline was able to recast the spell in her dying breathe, locking Zarkin back in the locket. Soon after, Chelsea returned home from school to find her mother dead in the family attic. Chelsea watched as her mother's corpse was taken away. This forced Chelsea to sacrifice her adolescent years to be there for her younger sisters, which caused her to bottle up her emotions.

After her mother's death, her father returned to be there for his daughters. Chelsea and Robert's relationship was affected by him leaving the first time, but she was happy that he returned. However, Robert and Caroline continued to argue about how to raise the girls, which led to Robert leaving his daughters again. Caroline and Chelsea's grandfather, Henry Downs, were left to raise Chelsea and her sisters and Chelsea resented her father for leaving again, but hide her emotions so she could be strong for her sisters.

With Chelsea's responsible nature, she was able to help look after CJ and Carmen alongside her grandparents. Unfortunately, almost a year after her mother death, her grandfather, Henry, was murdered, leaving Chelsea and Caroline to look after CJ and Carmen. While her sisters appreciated Chelsea's being there for them, Carmen admitted that sometimes she wished Chelsea could've been her older sister instead of her "second mother".

As Chelsea and her sister aged, handling her mother and grandfather's passing and her father's abandonment became easier to Chelsea. She was able to oppress her feelings and threw herself into her academics. In high school, Chelsea was a model student and head of her class. Chelsea began to apply to colleges and planned to leave after she graduated to follow her dream of becoming a writer. Caroline did not want Chelsea to leave, knowing that her and her sister had to be together to fulfill their destiny as the Destined Ones. After realizing that the girls weren't ready to receive their powers and become the Destined Ones, Caroline decided that it might be best to let the Chelsea and her sisters live their young adult lives the way the hoped. Caroline believed that they would be safer that way and it would spare them from meeting the same fate as most of the witches in their family, an early death.

After deciding that Chelsea and her sisters were better off as mortals until they matured and found who they were, Caroline allowed the girls to follow their separate paths. Chelsea was accepted into college and began getting ready to leave home. As Chelsea prepared to leave for college, she decided that she wanted her and her sisters to go to dinner together, so they could spend so together as sisters before she left. Despite wanting a moment with her sisters, Chelsea still invited her grandmother. Caroline declined the offer and told her that she should just spend time with her sisters. On the night of dinner when Chelsea and her sister's returned home, they found Caroline murdered.

## Meeting Chloe and Becoming the Destined Ones

> *"Witches aren't real Carmen... those were probably just stories... you know grandma is in... was into those kind of things."* - Chelsea to her younger sister, Carmen.
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