Inaya Devi (OC)

borrowing some of twilight lore but can obviously be adapted to other fandoms - also borrowing some themes from a former oc

DISCLAIMER: I'm pretty ignorant about Meyer as a person, but while I'll do my due research, given time, I don't think what I'll learn will be relevant to this character seeing as I'm just stealing some tropes and possibly letting Inaya interact with characters from her books. I will cherry-pick things, moving past whatever I find distasteful. 

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 for those who accept the existence of vampires and werewolves/shapeshifters (adaptations to other fandoms are below)

When it comes to her coven, witches can generally use only some basic elemental magic, but their fire can be enough to burn a vampire into dust, while earth, wind and water can be summoned for protection if nearby. She doesn't really count as a human anymore, her body simply changed too much.
To be able to be a 'born enemy' of other mystical creatures, she has their speed (otherwise good luck hitting them with fire), extra good hearing/sight and, partially, their physical resistance (her powers are supposed to shield her, so she's not gifted with an equally strong body). You can also decide if your muse is a lil dazzled by her or won't react to her wiles the way human NPCs would. This was where the twilight lore came into play, because not all fandoms give vampires extra speed or other peculiarities like that, but if your fandom has different vampires/werewolves etc we can just assume that there are different types of them, and her powers will stay the same, because they are needed for her kind of vamps.

The witches' powers are activated when vampires come to live in their proximity, and the witches who awaken must join the main coven (ratio to win is around 5 witches per vampire). Inaya's mother never believed in such tales... until a vampire clan decided to stop nearby.
So Inaya, at age 14, after an accidental showcase of magic in front of her horrified father who was about to be vampire food, has to leave with her mother. 

They join the coven, and from there on it's a clichè: trained to be an enemy of all other mystical forces, she falls in love a few years later with a vampire named Vincent. The coven finds out and hunts them down, her mother included. Vincent tries to bite her by force, she kills him, and his clan and her coven fight; the coven wins and attacks Inaya as well, then returns her mangled body to her father, who is ready to torture her as a way to cleanse her soul of evil. She's locked in a cell in his basement, and loses track of time there, but finds refuge in meditation.
This, until she finally feels ready to attack.
Her father and his helpers burn. Witches who try to stop her find out that her hatred has fueled her magic more than any emotion for faceless monsters can, to the point that she wouldn't need other 4 witches to take one vampire. Her mother 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 nor losing her powers (she'd have to go live in a safe space for good for that to happen); 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 a wise centenarian because her experiences are extremely limited and she spends a lot of her time hiding in her mind, meditating to keep her powers growing. You need to live to learn, but she merely exists.

facts:
-she doesn't smell like a human, trying to catch her scent is like trying to breathe in a meadow or other natural spaces. She may be mistaken for a vampire due to her looks, elegance, cold skin and concealed heartbeat. It may offend her.
-how old she was when she stopped aging depends on what works best for us.
-fire is her weapon of choice (she could burn a vampire to the bone given enough time/if they are unprepared; two vampires may be a problem, though I'm assuming they'd be cautious, because nobody wants to get their skin melted), but she 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. Bit of an ice-queen initially, but it really depends on who's in front of her.
-she'll take payment for any help she's asked, even just symbolic.
-kinda disillusioned with romance and whimsical things, she probably works best (in a funny way, I mean) with characters she can be deadpan with, such as very happy ones, or very dreamy, romantic, careless, because with a colder one she'd just agree a lot. She'll CRITICIZE everybody who is being unreasonable in her eyes (Twilight-version: 'edward, stop deciding things on bella's behalf' 'bella, make better decisions' 'the one man who has my respect is charlie')

more twilight-specific:

• she could look for the Cullens because curious (if there is a Carlisle rper who wants him 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 Inaya step in when a threat is near her. You tell me what you give me permission to do when it comes to involving your characters in her story or using their powers 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 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 visible. 

• 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 the enemy (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 there all along, open to imprinting situations or botched imprinting (as in bound to be around each other and loyal, not forced to be in love), 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. 

Adaptations to other fandoms:

x-mcu/dc: once witches were made canon, there is nothing that needs to be changed because there may as well be vampires. But, if you'd rather keep it closer to canon, vampires are just another type of aliens. Same bio.
fallout: vampires are actually canon in fallout 4, so to make her 'witchcraft' more fallout-y I'd say these women are the result of genetic experiments from Vault-Tec, meant to create super humans who can eliminate everything unnatural, such as, you know, anyone who is an enemy and can't be easily shot down. So she's more of a mutant than a witch. She has the same bio but with those little changes and the fact that it's anti-Vault Tec mutants in general she was trained to eliminate with her fire, and it was still a mutant who saved her. Powers stay the same except she can't control other natural elements, it's just the fire thing.
the last of us and the walking dead: much like in some Fallout vaults, immigrant women and their children were experimented on, to see if they could become impervious to infection or be able to fight the Infected better, and this resulted in the equivalent of my 'witches'. Obviously she doesn't fall in love with a zombie/infected, but she does fall for a human raider who was trying to steal their resources. She's older than in her "canon" main verse when this happens, and she can age. I'd like to keep some of her "powers" here as a result of the experiments: cold skin that is extra hard to pierce, overdeveloped hearing and sight, enticing looks, and only if you are open to magic her fire manipulation. If not, she's just very, very strong due to said experiments. I default to no magic and just her being mutated by the experiments. Everything else goes the same as her regular bio.
bg3/dragon age: can keep the same bio, she's from a far away continent and her traveling brings her to your heroes and villains. She will join the group because it benefits her, and begrudgingly get involved in their personal lives. Her personal quest may be to help her kill her mother or help her let go of that wish for vengeance.
Lord of the Rings universe: she comes from beyond the sea, and all races are in equal danger around her, if the individuals behave in ways that she won't approve of. More than human, in this case instead of vampires it was a corrupted sort of elves that don't exist in the middle earth who activated her powers, she'll call them the dark elves. The rest of her bio can stay the same. 
She's open to historical ones like Bridgerton if you want to add this supernatural elements. Same to basically all of my fandoms. 

Added: September 23rd 2025