Willa Gray

June 1, 2010
"It’s been a year but I think…maybe….I got away. I’m in a new place, in London. The city is so big, but I’m used to it. The nice thing is that it’s easy to get lost in, easy to become a new person. That’s what I’ve been doing. Being a witch in the muggle world helps, to be honest. It’s amazing what doors you can open with a well placed spell. I’m only doing a little bit. Once I get setup, I intend to pocket my wand and live as a muggle for as long as I can. The safest way to hide is to not draw attention to yourself, after all."

Willa
In many ways Willa wasn’t born until 2010, when she fled her old home and came to England. There she remade herself and became Willa Gray, taking the name of a recently deceased muggle who was from England but had been working abroad in Australia. As Willa had no family to miss her, she made it her own. The late Willa had been a school teacher and, it was a post that the new one took up. At first a rocky venture, she learned quickly and took some “refresher” courses to get accustomed to teaching in England. Her accent was erased and except for some fading when she’s too tired or otherwise not 100%, she sounds like any other English born citizen.

While she’s a witch, it is something she uses very rarely so to not draw attention to herself. For the most part Willa is able to comfortably live without using magic, though she does occasionally cheat. She’s happy to teach primary school and often discreetly covers up magical incidences that happen as a result of young, untrained muggleborn witches and wizards. In early 2016 she was offered a job at a small school in Spinner’s End, a nice, quiet, unremarkable town. She happily took it and bought a house there.

Pre-2010
Before 2010 Willa didn’t exist, at least not fully. She spent a year running from Russia and her life there. Before becoming Willa she had many aliases, changing them like clothes as she worked cash jobs to get to a new place. But, for most of her life she’s been Nyura Ivanoff and one of seven members of Project X. When she was 20 she began planning to escape the program, sensing that what freedom she did have was coming to an end.

In 2009 she did manage to escape and traveled by car, sometimes by foot, through Russia towards Europe. She learned English and mimicked English accents that she heard until she could blend in with tourists traveling that were from England. Once in England she took the identity of a recently deceased muggle named Willa Gray and has been living, more or less, as a muggle since.

Play by: Francesca Chillemi