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Willow Danielle Rosenberg is the only child of Sheila and Ira Rosenberg. She is a shy, naïve loner with a light, risqué sense of humor. A member of the Math, Science and Computer clubs, she is the person to go to for tutoring help. She is ridiculed by her more popular classmates, including cheerleaders Cordelia Chase and Harmony Kendall. A hacker, she is one of two students at Sunnydale High to be selected to be wooed by an unnamed, but very prestigious software company, and is chosen to teach computer science after Jenny Calendar is murdered. She has a hopeless crush on her childhood friend Xander Harris, who ignores her to pursue his equally hopeless crush on Buffy Summers and later, a relationship with Cordelia Chase.

Willow soon becomes Buffy's best friend. When they discover Calendar's secret project, Willow tells Buffy that she has gone through her former favorite teacher's belongings, and dabbled in magic. After performing the Ritual of Restoration, she continues to learn magic even though she does not learn of her success in restoring Angel's soul until "Faith, Hope & Trick". She develops a romantic relationship with Daniel 'Oz' Osborne, a guitarist in the local band Dingoes Ate My Baby. She also meets her demonic alter ego, when her vampire Doppelgänger counterpart arrives from an alternate timeline.

At UC Sunnydale, Willow and Buffy move across town to Room 214 in Stevenson Hall. After Oz's dramatic departure, Willow joins the campus Wicca group, a disappointing experience but for the presence of Tara Maclay. After discovering each other's magic, they become friends and later lovers.

Willow's magical skills first peak when she leads Tara, Xander and Anya in raising Buffy from the dead. Afterwards, she becomes addicted to using magic. Her disregard for the consequences of her actions eventually drives Tara away and Buffy's sister Dawn to the hospital. With Tara's departure, Willow is forced to face her problem and stops using magic. When Tara is murdered by Warren Mears, however, a grief-stricken Willow unleashes the dark energies once more, and her vengeance reaches a climax when Willow uses magic to skin Mears alive. Willow absorbs volumes of magic as she pursues the other members of the Trio, Mears' accomplices, turning against her friends in the process. Her attempt to trigger the apocalypse is ended by Xander who refuses to leave her out of love, regardless of what she has done or is doing. This eventually causes Willow to break down over the horrible things she has done (partially because she has absorbed power from Giles that put her back in touch with her true emotions and feelings) and start to come to terms with Tara's death.

Willow retreats to England with Buffy's Watcher Rupert Giles, but is forced to deal with her magical nature and her place in the universe. She goes to Los Angeles to restore Angel's soul. She returns to Sunnydale with Faith, a reformed Slayer. Willow slowly regains control of her powers and enters a new relationship with potential Slayer Kennedy. Willow is able to use her powers to change the rules for the Slayer line.

Buffy: "In every generation, one slayer is born... because a bunch of men who died thousands of years ago made up that rule. They were powerful men. This woman (points to Willow) is more powerful than all of them combined. So I say we change the rule. I say my power... should be our power."


Powers and abilities

In Season One Willow's major "powers" were her intelligence and computer skills, as well as marked snarkiness. She aids Giles as he researches information to aid Buffy in overcoming various challenges. She also aids in the preparation of magical materials, making her first potion to detect a witch, but did not seriously begin practicing magic until the death of Jenny Calendar, one of her teachers. She was asked to take over teaching the computer class because of her high intelligence and came upon a spell to curse a vampire with a soul.

Willow's first major spell involved re-cursing Angel with a soul. She learns to levitate a pencil early and her powers continue to develop until she is casting powerful spells independently and with the help of Tara Maclay. She surpasses Tara, a more experienced witch, in skill and being able to draw enough power to fend off a god, Glory. Willow demonstrates the ability to bring Buffy back to life-again, leaving her drained. Her friend Amy introduces her to a warlock, Rack, who gives her the ability to go longer and do more spells, which leads Willow further down the path to the dark side of magic, and eventually, after Tara dies, magic consumes her and she nearly destroys the world. It is at this time that Anya assumes Willow is now the most powerful Wicca in the Western Hemisphere. In her "Dark Willow" persona, she is capable of imbuing herself with super strength rivaling Buffy's, flying, absorbing life from others, unleashing powerful energy blasts and exerting a high level of telepathic mind control. Her willingness to use magics greatly diminished after this event. She spends time at a coven in England with Giles where she develops a better understanding of magic, balance, etc. At this point she is so powerful her very feelings and thoughts can affect the world. Willow is largely prevented from accessing more than slight magic by The First, who attempts to corrupt her at each spell. She also comments that she now absorbs power from the things around her, one time unwillingly draining some of Kennedy's life force. Willow casts a spell that imbues all potential slayers on Earth with Slayer powers, turning Willow's eyes and hair white for a brief moment during the spell.



Willow bio taken from Wikipedia

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[Disclaimer: I am not Willow Rosenberg, she belongs to the brilliant mind of Joss Whedon. I'm also not the woman in the icons, that would be Alyson Hannigan and she definitely doesn't belong to me. This journal is for entertainment purposes only. It is part of the Mists of Avalon RPG.]