Apprentice of Zatanna Zatara

Name: Josephine Blake

Nickname: Her nickname and the name she goes by most often is Jo. She prefers it above her given name and is annoyed when people call her by her given name.

Codename: Charm

Age: 14

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Pansexual

Nationality: American

Species: Homo Magi

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Mentor: Zatanna Zatara is her beloved mentor. Unfortunately she was never able to meet the famed Giovanni Zatara before his untimely death.

Family: Richard Blake (father, unknown) and Helen Blake (mother, unknown)

Significant Other: None as of now

Crush: Currently doesn't have one, but she is know to crush on people on and off

Personality: Jo is best described as positively weird. She's a spunky young teen with an immense amount of confidence. She knows who she is and isn't afraid to be herself. She's known to speak out, interrupt and ignore anyone with out a care. She has no sense of social "rank". She treats everyone as her equal wether that be Superman or a homeless insane man. She doesn't care who you are, she'll treat you with the same respect as everyone else. Jo is also a very quirky person who say whatever comes to her mind. He has no filter and no regret. She doesn't keep secrets and is one of the most honest people around. She also has no regard for anyone's feelings. If she thinks you look ugly she will tell you without an ounce of remorse. The girl is also known to say things she's not supposed to and is terrible at keeping secrets. She can't be trusted with anything because she blurt it out almost as soon as she hears it. She almost seems fearless with her amount of confidence but she is far from it. She's actually not that good at facing her own fears and has been labeled a coward because of it. Aside from her fears she a caring person. Once she becomes attached to someone she's not likely to give up on them.

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Favorite Color: Burgundy

Powers: Skilled and powerful user of magic, she usually casts spells by speaking verbal commands backwards. She has proven capable on many occasions of casting spells by speaking normally, and, in rarer occasions, the ability to use magic for simple tasks without speaking.

Abilities: Magic is obviously her most prominent ability. But aside from her powers being used as weapons she posses the ability to see and communicate with the dead. This is highly unusual and rare for a homo magi. Most of her kind must use "tool" such as ouji boards to communicate with the dead, but she does not necessarily need those things to reach into the beyond.

Weapons: If anything her mouth is her weapon. She doesn't typically carry anything else with her aside from a pocket knife for emergencies which she always wears.

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Weakness: Overuse of her powers can deplete them to the point that further use strains her physical well-being which could lead to her fainting or causing physical damage to herself depending on the spell. Her reliance on her voice is also a weakness. If her mouth or voice it damaged or taken away she is rendered powerless.

Backstory: Jo never knew her parents. They aren't dead, because well then she would've seen them. Or at least that's her hope. Though for whatever reason they didn't want her or they couldn't keep her. She never knew which. She was left on the streets with nothing but a blanket and cardboard box barely days after her birth. She was immediately thrown into the system having no where else to go. She was in foster care all her life, as much of it as she can remember anyway. According to the records she was only days old when she ended up in the system. But her records are missing a lot of her information. She didn't even have a birth certificate in her records. To say the least there are a lot of unknowns in her life. For her early years it wasn't that bad. After all who wants to be mean to a baby? But she was weird from the get go. She always seemed to be talking to herself, little did anyone know that she was communing with the dead. It wasn't until she started telling people she could talk to the dead that things got bad. People were freaked out by her and her hauntingly correct testimonies of who she met and how they died. She was labeled a problem child and was passed around quite a bit. She sometimes landed in abusive homes. That's what led her to run away, she was tired of being persecuted for who she was. So from then on out she lived more happily in the streets than she ever did in a foster home. She committed some petty theft but only when necessary. She also picked up on street magic, which was what made her realize her powers. The tricks were too easy for her and even in some cases got out of hand. Her powers were out of control and every so often would cause a scene. Word of a witch girl got around pretty fast and Jo was on the run again. Luckily Zatanna Zatara recognized one of her own and went to look for Jo after seeing one of the incidents in the news. Jo was thirteen when Zatanna took her under her wing. Zatanna taught Jo all about magic, even started teaching her spells and incantations. Soon enough the Next Gen Justice League Program was instilled and Zatanna encouraged Jo to join. Jo wasn't completely sold on the idea, but it was a home and food, a stable place to live. So Jo joined up with confidence and enthusiasm.

Extra: Jo loves her world of magic, and embraces it fully. She finally feels like she can be herself. So she is an embodiment of that culture. It weirds a lot of people out, not that she cares. She can often be found practicing new spells, not just for the battle field but also day to day life like cooking spells. She has countless spell books and such that she holds to dearly.

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P.S.
Never knowing her parents Jo is left with a lot of questions. Did they ever love her? Are they alive somewhere? Are they avoiding her in the after life if they are dead? Why doesn't she remember them? Are they like her? Where did she get her powers? Overall this is where most of her insecurities come from. Deep down these questions haunt her at night.

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