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Piper Webber is an OC from modern upstate New York. She's a ragwitch, meaning she's a witch that performs magic through sewing, weaving, embroidery, and other fiber arts.

To the naked eye, she looks like a normal thirty-year-old woman with an eye patch and arthritis in her right arm and hand. Under the eye patch, she has a blotchy birthmark surrounding her eye, and her iris is cloudy blue. To someone who can see through magic, her right upper body is almost entirely made of wood, plants, and fungus, with half of her head made of carefully arranged stones. Her right arm is made of tree branches, vines, and leaves. A pipe reed has replaced her throat pipe, and her right eye socket is made of a single stone with a natural hole in the middle with an iris flower making her eyeball.

Personality: Piper is grumpy as hell. She's an introverted woman who has lost a lot and is treated as a crazy person by the people in her town and her remaining family. She's prone to holding grudges and can be bluntly honest to the point of unkindness. This makes her rough around the edges, even unpleasant at times.

That said, this also makes her fiercely loyal to those that she cares about and who treat her well. When she cares enough to pay attention, she's thoughtful and attentive. She is independent, never complaining about problems she doesn't try to fix, and has a very strong sense of right and wrong. Her honesty and independence makes her unafraid to speak her mind, and she is protective of people who are weak or vulnerable.

History: There's a mystery surrounding Piper and her twin sister's, Hazel, birth. Their mother was a teenager, and one day she disappeared into the woods. Her family suspected she was pregnant and ran away, but a few months later, she came back home with a newborn pair of twins. She claimed that the father was a faerie in the woods, but her daughter Piper was the only one who believed her. Their mother never married, and while the girls were still too young to remember, she moved them to a little house at the outskirts of the town away from their family, right against the woods where their 'father' supposedly lived.

When Piper and Hazel were very small children, Piper was bullied by a classmate picking on her appearance. In her attempt to help her sister, Hazel hit the classmate on the head with a rock, seriously injuring her and knocking her out. The classmate went to the hospital in a coma, and later died.

Hazel was inconsolable, and Piper ran into the woods where their mother disappeared to find their faerie father. She was convinced that their father could fix everything, but while Piper was in the woods, she was injured. She claims her father found and attacked her, but she was found with a concussion, having tripped fallen on a sharp rock in such a way that she blinded herself in her right eye.

Hazel and Piper both blamed themselves for the dead classmate and Piper's subsequent injury. They grew apart as they grew up, with Hazel throwing herself into work to distract from her guilt and Piper becoming closer to their mother, who taught her rag witchcraft in secret. Life became impossible for Hazel, as their small rural town blamed her for the death, and she went to college.

While Hazel was gone, their mother was diagnosed with cancer. Her medical bills ate up most of Piper's minimal college fund, and Hazel's decision to go to medical school ate up the rest of that fund. Despite their mother's desire to see Hazel get her medical degree, Piper resented Hazel's absence, and she dedicated herself to caring for their mother as she got sicker and sicker. Hazel met a woman named Susan and fell in love, marrying soon before their mother died.

Piper and Hazel spoke to each other in person the last time at the funeral. Hazel was unable to spend much time in the town and looked down on Piper's magic as con artistry, and Piper resented Hazel too much to try patching the relationship. Piper lives in their old house with a mutt as her only company, and she runs a store of magic and spell commissions to keep afloat.

Some in the town swear by Piper's magic quietly to each other. Some swear by her curses even more quietly. Most think she's crazy. Those groups occasionally overlap.

Magic: Half of Piper's body was constructed with a combination of magic and plants, so her skull is hard and her right arm is very durable, though it's stiff and aches sometimes. Her right eye is mostly blind, but since it is constructed using a faerie stone, it can see through illusions and magic when her intact eye can't. She can see things that are magic or magically cloaked clearly with her blind eye, but it can only see light and shadowy shapes otherwise.

Her rag witchcraft depends on creating spells and enchantments from scratch by working them into cloth. Spells can take a while to prepare, but they are powerful and last long. A range of her spells include: exorcising ghosts by catching the edges of their presence in yarn she spins in their presence, then knitting the yarn into a pattern that catches them inside and burying the knit far away; cursing a man who had abused many women by taking the tears of the women, soaking them into the thread that would line the gloves that Piper gave to the man; and protecting newborn children from illness and harm by weaving safety charms into baby blankets and giving them to the mothers for free.