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Character Name: Laura Wilson
Age: 17
Species: Human (nominally)
Canon: The Wicked + The Divine
Canon Point: At the end of Fandemonium just before meeting Ananke
Character Info:
Personality:
“You spend your whole life wishing you were special...”

Laura - like any teenager - wants to be more important and special than she is. Not like any teenager, she lives in a world where Gods are reincarnated every 90 years and are living legends in the music scene because reasons. She is very much a fan girl in every sense of the word; has been to all the concerts she could possibly go to and buys as much merch as she can. Laura’s fascination with the Gods borders on obsession - though it’s interesting to note she’s not just obsessed with one god alone. The whole pantheon fascinates her.

In reality, Laura’s love of the gods is much less innocent than simply being a fan. Laura wants to have what they have; to be a God - to be loved and have power. She wants it more than anything in the world, to the point where she is willingly failing her A levels in college because she wants to believe that there is nothing else for her. Dying in two years is a simple fact of this goal to her, and is even something she looks forward to. “My future is no future.” She says. “My future is this [referring to godhood] or my future is nothing.”

Unfortunately, being a God is not as glamorous as it seems. And this is something Laura only learns after she gets too involved to get out.

And yet, after learning all the horrible truths; that one of them (or more) are killing the others, all about the things that change and things that leave you when you ascend to godhood - she still wants it.

Laura is brave and very passionate about the things she decides to involve herself in.
Since the instant Luci’s innocence was put into question regarding the Judge’s murder - Laura attempts to find out who framed Luci, doesn’t back down from the Gods when faced with all of them at once and accuses the room of having at least one killer in it.

She continues to investigate after Luci’s death and confront Gods; her bravery does not have its basis in the idea that she is young and immortal, like most people would think a teenager’s courage would have. Laura is all too aware that she is mortal and breakable; she is made especially aware of this at the convention when one of Woden’s valkyries attempts to kill him and is slammed against a wall with magical force by Minerva - shattering almost every bone in her body. Proximity to godhood does not make you one, something Laura needed to be reminded of.

Luci has Laura’s loyalty outright from the moment they meet. Its basis is in that Laura is a huge fan of hers and that Luci offers to take her to meet the other Gods (for no apparent reason other than she was the first to wake after falling unconscious at Amaterasu’s concert). When Luci apparently blows the head off a judge, Laura never doubts her innocence - even when other gods tell her it was probably Luci.

When Cassandra brings up the trope of the Devil lying because they’re the Devil, Laura irritably reminds her that people lie too.

Even after Luci’s death, Laura steadfastly defends her and the other Gods as well. She learns that they’re still people, despite their abilities and fame, and that - like all people - they make mistakes and are still in need of a friend. After she finds that she is not the last God in the cycle, Laura decides to devote herself to being that friend that will defend them. For all the Gods. It’s a noble cause, but one that is cut short by Ananke’s hand.

A quick thinker as well, Laura comes up with ideas out of desperation more often than creativity. Her cleverness is often present under duress, as seen in the underground when Baphomet and Badb (one of the versions of the Morrigan) are about to really lay into one another in all their godly powers. She tries to appeal to their love of games and theatricality - as so many of the gods seem to appreciate - and it works!

Laura genuinely cares about Luci and what happens to her by the time her escape from prison rolls around. She pleads with her to stay in prison until she can figure out who framed her and even goes to the Morrigan and endangers her life stepping in front of a subway to get her attention to do so. Unfortunately, Luci still dies.

Seeing the head be blown off of someone you care about would mess anyone up and Laura is easily traumatized by witnessing that first hand. She thinks she might be suffering from depression and displays signs of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after the event. She initiates a physical change to have some kind of control over her life by cutting her hair and shaving the underside of her head, refuses to interact with any friends she might actually have. (Even though earlier in the comic she proposes a question to the reader that if she did have any friends would it even matter in the story? If she does have any, she is ignoring them and has been for a long time.) Laura also reacts with physical sickness when she sees a shirt that reads ‘Lucifer died for our sins’ and has a flashback to Luci’s death shortly afterwards, which prompts her being sick again. She takes up smoking cigarettes after Luci dies as well.

Laura is, without question, a kind person. She feels sympathy for Dionysus - despite still wanting what he has - when he tells her he hasn’t slept in months or been alone with his thoughts in as long of time, and thinks of him as a friend once she finds out that he is a fan himself. Inanna becomes one of her fastest friends in the effort to clear Luci’s name, a part of the fandom before he became a god as well - Inanna takes a quick liking to her and vice versa. The biggest example of her empathy towards others is when Cassandra becomes the last God in the current cycle - something Laura was convinced was hers due to the miracle she performed with the cigarette - she feels happy for Cassandra. When Cassandra asks her “Even about the dying in two years?”, Laura hugs her and tells her “Everything but that.”

After coming to terms with the fact that she isn’t the next god in the cycle (sort of, she keeps trying to replicate the miracle she performed by snapping her fingers to the point of compulsion even after this) Laura decides that she’s going to be the friend the gods need. All of them. It’s ambitious but still a generous plan.

But Laura’s fascination and connection with the gods may not just be of her own making. Ananke explains the pantheon in nebulous terms, and we can never be sure if she’s lying or not, but something does seem to be true in this story: Gods can occur of their own volition, naturally. All Ananke does is give them a push towards completion, but these children were always destined to be these gods. Laura - as it turns out - was destined to be Persephone. Probably.

Laura has always felt something missing in her life and, indeed, shows subtle signs of Persephone before Ananke’s influence in her style and how she interacts with the other gods. From the way she wears her hair, to the connection with the other underworld gods and how she cosplays Amaterasu.

“I won’t give up on any of them. They’re all fucked, all doomed.”

☆INTERSTELLAR

Chosen Powers: N/A
Chosen Equipment:
Jump Boots (15)
Fancy Goggles (15)
Bubble Shield (30)
Relevant Skills: Laura doesn't quite have any. She's a pretty normal teenage girl! Does determination and snoopiness count?
Character Goals: Laura is here to save Luci and any other gods from her world that may have been captured. Saving everyone else will be nice too!

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