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Character name: Willow Danielle Rosenberg
Genre (TV/books/etc): TV series
Fandom: Buffy: the Vampire Slayer

Canon point: Very beginning of Season 6, episode 2: Bargaining, Part 2, where Xander tells Willow the spell didn't work and Willow realizes Buffy is gone for good.

Programmed Possession: The Sunnydale High School library sans Hellmouth. This is where Giles kept all of his books on demonology and mystical elements. Because the shelves house books on demons and other monsters or magic, she tends to like it, and they can use it as their meeting place and hangout point. The library represents a kind of home away from home feeling for Willow, and has a feeling of security and power. When in danger or in doubt, go to the library.

Abilities/Weaknesses:
Physically, she's not very strong. She can fight a little for a normal human, but she's not good at it and was never trained. Plus she has a habit of wigging out about things, so that doesn't help. However, her loyalty and willingness to help more than makes up for that. She's a very skilled and powerful witch (Wicca variety), meaning her mental capabilities are very high. She was even working on creating a new spell, one to make a ball of sunlight whenever Buffy needed one. Instant vamp-dusting. Willow has the mental and emotional discipline to apply herself whenever she needs to, preferring to help out when she can. Mentally, she's also pretty brilliant, able to hack high-security computers, with genius-level intellect, and always keeps up with her schoolwork. She's loyal and caring, too. Despite all that, she's still very willing and has grown more capable of doing whatever she needs to to make things happen. Like levitating a pencil to use as a stake to stab a vampire that was about to suck her blood. She's good like that. Magically, she's capable of Telepathy, telekinesis (moving things with her mind), and a lot of other really powerful witchcraft.

However, her emotional issues with things, attachments, and her tendencies to ramble and get scared about things can come to haunt her sometimes, like her fear of losing control of her magic. She has a habit of being too hard on herself and that can get her down sometimes, especially when she rambles about it and feels guilty. However, when this happens or a discussion or situation hits something she feels strongly about - like Faith in Season 3 - she's been known to lose control of her magic, such as sending a pencil into a tree during said discussion of Faith in Season 3. She was also a bit freaked when she got the first hints that she might be a lesbian. Change was bad. So was first worrying about magic. But she became a witch to help Buffy. And she dealt with everything else later. As needed. Her loyalty could also be used against her, as she's willing to help any of her friends no matter what and when someone hurts her or betrays her, it hits deep, like when she found Oz had slept with a female werewolf her freshman year of college and then left. She wants to be loved and so she took his departure very, very hard, having held onto the hope that he would one day return. Her thirst for knowledge could be considered a weakness, as her inability to control her magic and that thirst leads her in later seasons to become "Dark Willow," a more sinister version of herself bent on obtaining more power. Also, if she tries to cast a spell that's too high in power for her, she tends to end up with headaches, nosebleeds, or worse. See 5-14, Crush, after she cast a Teleportation spell on a goddess in the previous episode. And she has a deep-seated fear of frogs.