Character Sketch - Jayne (Wittergate Witch)

(For those of you who already know, I am working on a book geared toward youth called the Wittergate Witch. This is something I wrote today to develop one of the characters for that book.)

Character Sketch - Jayne

Jayne is tall and thin, with knobby knees, and is as plain as her name, although she doesn’t know it. She has fine hair the color of tree bark that falls to her shoulders, straight and wimpy. Her top row of teeth is even and white, but hidden beneath her bottom lip is a crooked fence that only appears when she thinks no one is looking, which is rarely because she always thinks people are looking at her. There is nothing unusual about the sound of her voice, but her tone can bite like a rabid dog and most of the time her words are just as poisonous.

Sometimes, when she talks to boys, she’ll touch one of their arms slightly above the elbow, laugh a feline laugh, and bat her short eyelashes like she is waving away a small spec of dust caught in her eye. This makes them think she is pretty and charming, but she isn’t. They can’t see her for what she really is, which is a witch.

Not the pointy hat and wart on the end of her nose witch, but nevertheless just as evil, just as dangerous. Unfortunately, the only people in the whole town of Wittergate that recognizes her for what she really is are her classmates, Max and Olive. Max, who knows through and through that Jayne can cast spells and brew potions, although he’s never seen it, and Olive, who suspects that something is “off” and slightly catastrophic about Jayne, but tries to see the best in her anyway.