Inaya Devi (OC)

borrowing some of twilight lore and therefore that's her main verse but can obviously be adapted to others, borrowing some themes from a former oc

Trigger warnings: abuse/torture at the hands of her family (technically her mother only tried to kill her once but it counts) 

"If Angela turns out to be a witch, she could join the party too!" - a bio that can work for most fandoms that allow the existence of vampires and werewolves/shapeshifters

Turns out that yes, witches exist too. In this case, witches can generally use only some basic elemental magic, but their fire can be enough to burn a vampire, and earth and wind and water can be summoned for protection if nearby (a branch isn't going to go up a skyscraper to shield her). This character is, however, written with more peaceful threads in mind. 

Their powers are activated when vampires come to live in their proximity, and the witches who awaken must leave their families to join the main coven and be trained. Inaya's mother never believed in such tales, until a vampire clan decides to stop nearby.
Inaya, at age 12, after an accidental showcase of magic in front of her father who was about to be vampire food, has to leave with her mother. She doesn't know how horrified her father is, yet. 

She joins the coven, and from there on it's a clichè: trained to be an enemy of all other mystical forces and distrust all, she falls in love a few years later with a vampire named Vincent. The coven comes to kill him and to punish her for the betrayal, her mother included.  
Vincent betrays Inaya, trying to bite her just as his clan shows up as backup, starting a battle they had clearly planned. Inaya kills her beloved, but her coven, once done with the vampires, attacks her. They return her already mangled body to her father, who takes her captive and tortures her so he can 'cleanse her soul from evil'.
She's locked in a cell in a basement, and loses track of time there, but finds refuge in meditation, something she was taught by the coven to control and possibly grow her powers.
This, until she finally feels ready to attack.
Her father and his helpers burn. Some of the other witches do as well, when they try to stop her and find out that her hatred has fueled her magic more than any emotion for faceless monsters can. Her mother rightfully hides. 
When Inaya eventually collapses miles away, it's a kind vampire who helps her, finding her a safe place where she can recover. 

And so, she realizes that anyone can be a monster or a savior, doesn't matter what they are. Even if most are likely to be her enemy.
She spends decades traveling, not aging anymore nor losing her powers because her nomadic life keeps taking her to places where mystical creatures live; she acts as judge, jury and executioner whenever she meets someone that she thinks is deserving of fire, no matter what they are.
She's not mentally maturing like she should (she's certainly not a wise elderly woman) because her experiences are extremely limited and she spends a lot of her time hiding in her mind, meditating so she won't lose her powers. You need to live to learn. She merely exists.

Theoretically, she is an enemy of both vampires and werewolves, but an abusive human husband/wife has far more to fear from her than any vegetarian vampire ever would. 

-she doesn't smell like a human. She may be mistaken for a vampire due to her looks, elegance, cold skin and concealed heartbeat. She'll be offended, though. She may be mistaken for a werewolf too, by vampires who know better than to think she's one of them but can tell she's more than a regular human (at least until it's clear she doesn't smell like that either). She'll be offended by that too.
-when she stopped aging depends on what works best for us, if she'll get to age again depends on whether she can go somewhere with no mystical creatures so she can grow old on purpose or if she can meditate her way back into it.
-naturally, to be able to be a 'born enemy' of all other mystical creatures, she has their speed and, partially, their physical resistance (I say partially because her powers can come into play to shield her, so she wasn't naturally gifted with an equally strong body)
-fire is her weapon of choice, but she mostly enjoys helping flowers and trees blossom into their best selves.
-fond of animals, curious about anything unusual, bitter, not the one you want to encourage you to follow your love-dreams.

more twilight specific:
-she could end up somewhere near the Cullens because she can't help but be curious (if there is a Carlisle that wants to be the good samaritan who gave her painkillers and helped her not to die, go for it) or, amusingly, it could be Bella who attracts danger like a magnet and makes her step in when a threat is near her. You tell me what you give me permission to do and I will let it happen. I'm trying to decide if she can run interference with some vampire's powers, but I'd prefer if you decided that for your own.
-the one exception to this 'you let me know' rule is that I'll default to Alice not being able to see her unless I'm asked otherwise. If Bella is with her she won't disappear like when she's around wolves, but everything will be confusing because Inaya is just not there.
-same type of connection with Jake's wolves: Cullens or Bella attracting her there, and her studying a group who has similar duties to hers but is technically also supposed to be eliminated (she'd find them fascinating)
-the Volturi are smart enough not to start a war against the witches, who in turn are not leaving their territory and mind their business.


-open to aus where she's also turned into a vampire by her beau, open to imprinting situations, or botched imprinting, open to ships, open to friendship, open to her re-discovering that not all families are that ready to torture the one who does something wrong 

Added: September 23rd 2025