#Allegra Kent

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Allegra Kent in Balancine’s production of The Seven Deadly Sins

Gordon Parks, “The Master of Ballet,“ Life, Dec 22, 1958

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The First Lincoln Center Nutcracker

The Waltz of the Snowflakes. Photo: Andrea Mohin for the NY Times

On December 11, 1964, the New York City Ballet danced the first Nutcracker in its new home at Lincoln Center.

A 2015 article by Laura Jacobs in Vanity Fair gave a lengthy account of that first performance. Here are some excerpts:

“I recall sitting in the chair right before the curtain going up,” says Jean-Pierre Frohlich, who 50 years ago danced the role of bratty little boy Fritz in that afternoon's performance. "It's strange to explain, but in the overture you're between the angel curtain and the scrim, and for some reason that angel drop was moving forward, moving forward, moving forward—because of all the air. There's a lot of air in that theater."

Shaun O'Brien as Drosselmeyer, Judith Fugate as Clara (as she was then called), and Jean-Pierre Frolich as the Nutcracker Prince. Photo: Martha Swope via NYPL

“It was very exciting,” says Gloria Govrin, who that day unveiled a sinuous new version of the Arabian Coffee dance in Act Two. A "mini-Salome," Balanchine called it. Previously the piece had been for a man with a hookah and four little-girl parrots. But Balanchine decided, "We're going to wake up the fathers," and so for glamorous Govrin, all five foot ten of her, he fashioned a seductive solo of Georgian Orientalism. "I remember the reception of doing it," says Govrin, "because nobody knew there was going to be a change. It got a huge ovation, several bows. In the middle of Nutcracker it's kind of unusual to have one or two more bows."

Allegra Kent, who was just returning from the birth of her second child when she danced the Sugarplum Fairy, recalls, "It was thrilling! Bigger stage, farther to run, farther to jump, more expansive, more magic, more exultation in your blood."

“I remember [Balanchine] rehearsing the Waltz of the Flowers,” says Frohlich, “and just telling them to ‘move big, you’re young, move ... ’"

The Waltz of the Flowers, led by Tiler Peck. Photo: Andrea Mohin for the NY Times

Down in the orchestra pit, the timpanist Arnold Goldberg was positioned, as always, to see Balanchine in his usual place, downstage right. What Goldberg hasn't forgotten in five decades of State Theater Nutcrackers is the first time the Christmas tree—this one bigger, better, and more beautiful than before—began its inexorable growth upward. It wasn't the 4:45 performance but the dress rehearsal, and Goldberg was watching not the tree but Balanchine. "He's standing with his hands in his jeans pockets, looking around," says Goldberg. "And it came up. He was breathless. It was priceless, the joy of watching Mr. B.'s face . . . I mean, he'd dreamt about it. He had the stage built so that the tree could be one piece. That tree meant everything to The Nutcracker."

The Nutcracker Prince (Leighton Ho) battles the Mouse King (Justin Peck) in front of the tree. Photo: Andrea Mohin for the NY Times

“He used to love to rehearse the mice,” says Govrin. “There were always his pet pieces in a ballet, parts he was constantly either tinkering with or just in there doing it with people.” Also, says Barbara Horgan, “the dancers were holding back because they felt silly doing little mice steps.”

“What I heard him say a number of times,” says [Patricia] Wilde, “aside from his own recollections of being a child in The Nutcracker and how much he loved it, he was thinking of it as a gift to American children. A lovely Christmas experience.”

“What makes his Nutcracker so fantastic for children,” says Robert Weiss, “is it’s about them.”

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Allegra Kent and Edward Villella in Jeux, 1966 ph. Martha Swope

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Bugaku

[katatty]

Allegra Gorey is one of the newest recruits to the laboratory, and comes home with Kent, who’s full of career advice. He just got promoted to Top Secret Researcher, so I’m sure he knows his stuff!

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All three of the household members here work during similar hours. Jane woke up early to do some stargazing before work.

The kitten has to go without attention for most of the day, but he got his affection filled by everyone bringing work friends home. Including Martin bringing Kent home. And then ACR pulled shenanigans with them that I did not catch on screenshots because I was busy directing Allegra to cook a meal, which is so sad.

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new york city ballet dancers allegra kent + edward villella in george balanchine's 'bugaku,' 1963 in ballerina: fashion's modern muse - patricia mears (2019)

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Meet the Competing Voice Actors!

After the preliminaries and days of deliberating, here are you VOICE ACTORS COMPETING! One will take home the spot of Tumblr's Favorite Voice Actor!

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Megumi Ogata

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EG Daily

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Ballerina Allegra Kent – Navy blue wool pullover cut like a t-shirt by Geist & Geist. $12. Glamour July 1959.

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Episode 551 - Jerome Charyn

"The word is far more real than the world": Jerome Charyn rejoins the show to celebrate his new novel, RAVAGE & SON (Bellevue Literary Press), a fantastic noir about the Lower East Side in 1913. We talk about his love for the LES and the Bintel Briefs in The Forward, why he wanted to write a Jewish Jekyll & Hyde story, and how adopting a cat changed the course of this amazing novel. We also get into life on the page, the music of the sentence, and the self-revelation of writing, why so many of his characters attend Harvard, the holiness of books and why he reads so little of others' books nowadays, treating writing as an apprenticeship rather than a career, and how he got overwhelmed for a year after writing in Abe Lincoln's voice. Plus we discuss his reverence of Joyce Carol Oates and Cormac McCarthy (and ambivalence toward Henry James, who makes an appearance in Ravage & Son), the reason so many of his characters attend Harvard, the sense of being transported by the ballet performances of Allegra Kent, how it felt to write a character who's in love with destruction, why gender fluidity is essential to human nature, and the one advantage to living long enough: understanding that nothing remains and everything disappears. Follow Jerome on Twitter, and listen to our 2019, 2021, and 2022 conversations • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal and via our Substack

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Original Characters

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Edith Kent (sister of Clark Kent) face cam Heather Rattray

JaKari Kent (brother of Clark Kent) face cam Laird Macintosh

Lara Kent ( daughter of Clark Kent ) face cam Amanda Fein

Lulu Kent ( daughter of Clark Kent ) face cam Caitlin Fein

Gaia white ( Meta-human with nature powers ) face cam Georgie Henley

Uranus white (Meta-human with nature powers ) face cam Freddie Highmore

Yara smith ( mutant avenger ) face cam Bridgit Mendler

Amity Jones ( young S.H.I.E.L.D. agent ) face cam Drew Barrymore

Lilly Cullen (adoptive daughter of Alice and jasper ) (twilight) face cam Becky Rosso

Violet Smith (profiler) (criminal minds) face cam Haley Lu Richardson

Sammy Brown ( agent) (ncis) face cam Julia Butters

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Jordan Kent (Superboy)

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Chloe Sullivan-Queen (Watchtower)

Ryan James

Jonathan Sullivan-Queen (Speedy)

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Alex Danvers (Director Danvers)

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Second Chances: Flash

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by Lauriverfanboy1

Part three of new version of Second Chances. My name is Barry Allen and I am the fastest man alive. After helping to reboot the universe, I found myself waking in a new world back at the beginning of my journey with a chance to keep history from repeating itself. Both new and old threats are coming to my city and I'm the only one fast enough to stop them. I am the Flash.

Words: 1895, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of Second Chances

Fandoms: The Flash (TV 2014)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F, F/M

Characters: Barry Allen, Iris West, Mar Novu | The Monitor, Joe West, Cecile Horton, Henry Allen, Tina McGee, Cisco Ramon, Caitlin Snow, Allegra Garcia, Team Flash (The Flash TV 2014), Eobard Thawne, Hartley Rathaway, Oliver Queen, Laurel Lance, Chester P. Runk, OC - Character, Amunet Black, Matthew Norvock, Clifford DeVoe, Marlize DeVoe, John Diggle, Rene Ramirez, Zoe Ramirez, Clark Kent, The Speed Force (The Flash), Esperanza Garcia, Gorilla Grodd, Alexa Rivera, Bashir Malik, Deon Owens, Meena Dhawan, Patty Spivot, David Singh, Kara Danvers, Alex Danvers, James Jesse, Mark Mardon, Ronnie Raymond, Wally West, Sara Lance, Ray Palmer

Relationships: Barry Allen/Iris West, Cecile Horton/Joe West, Cisco Ramon/Patty Spivot, Caitlin Snow/Meena Dhawan, Allegra Garcia/Chester P. Runk, Henry Allen/Tina McGee, Barry Allen & Cisco Ramon & Caitlin Snow, Barry Allen & Iris West, Barry Allen & Cisco Ramon, Barry Allen & Caitlin Snow, Barry Allen & Joe West, Barry Allen & Oliver Queen, Barry Allen & Eobard Thawne | Harrison Wells, Iris West & Joe West

Additional Tags: Henry Allen is Jay Garrick, Lesbian Caitlin Snow, Iris West has magic

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Allegra Kent Rehearsing La Sonnambula

Allegra Kent rehearsing Unity Phelan in La Sonnambula. Photo: Amir Hamja for The New York Times

Happily for all of us, Jonathan Stafford and Wendy Whelan are bringing back dancers who worked with Balanchine to coach today's company members. This article about Allegra Kent, the original NYCB Sleepwalker in La Sonnambula, coaching Unity Phelan in the role, is from today's New York Times.

Allegra Kent Conjures ‘Messages From the Air, the Atmosphere’

The iridescent Balanchine ballerina returns to New York City Ballet this season to coach for “La Sonnambula.” What does she want? Mystery.

By Gia Kourlas Oct. 3, 2023

It was the first ballet that made sense to her. There was mystery, passion, pain. The music, by Vittorio Rieti, after themes from Bellini operas, swept her into another world.

“I was 11,” said Allegra Kent. “My heart was broken.”

Kent, the former New York City Ballet principal, was just a child when she attended a performance by Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in Los Angeles. The final work on the program was “Night Shadow,” George Balanchine’s 1946 ballet, later called “La Sonnambula.”

Kent had no idea who Balanchine was. But just four years later, she would join New York City Ballet, the company he had formed with Lincoln Kirstein. And not long after that, in 1960, Balanchine revived the ballet, casting Kent as its mysterious Sleepwalker.

Allegra Kent working with Phelan as the Sleepwalker and Taylor Stanley as the Poet. Photo: Amir Hamja for The New York Times

This season, as part of the company’s 75th anniversary, Kent, 86, was brought in as a guest coach for “La Sonnambula,” which returns Wednesday for four performances, and for “The Unanswered Question,” the gripping second movement of “Ivesiana.”

Kent wasn’t with the company from its 1948 start, but she was still a part of its early days and one of Balanchine’s most important muses.

She joined City Ballet at 15, just a year after she arrived in New York from California to study at the company-affiliated School of American Ballet. Balanchine gave her a scholarship, and soon after, she began attending performances.

“The first ballet I saw on the first program was 'Serenade,'” she said, referring to the Balanchine masterpiece in an interview at her Manhattan apartment. “I can’t remember the other ballets because it was like, 'Serenade'—the whole world is open.”

Eventually La Sonnambula, with its magic and tragedy, came her way. In this haunting ballet, the Poet hero romances a woman, the Coquette, before discovering a Sleepwalker at a masked ball. Holding a candle, the Sleepwalker skims across the stage in close-knit bourrée steps on pointe wearing a flowing dress. Its diaphanous sleeves, like wings, catch the air as they stream behind her.

The Coquette’s jealousy leads the Baron, the host of the ball, to stab the Poet; the Sleepwalker, devastated, carries him away. With the right dancers, the ballet is gut-wrenching, but it takes imagination born from almost psychic sensations. The heroine may be walking in her sleep, but “she’s not expressionless,” Kent said. “You can’t come in like a zombie.”

In the pas de deux, the Sleepwalker glides past the Poet, who ducks underneath her candle; he waves his hand in front of her face to see if she is awake; he falls to the floor in her path, but she steps over his outstretched body, unruffled, and continues on her way. There should be daring, too: on tour in Moscow, Balanchine demonstrated one of the Sleepwalker’s crossings on a stage that Kent said was like a football field.

“She’s not expressionless,” Kent said of the Sleepwalker. “You can’t come in like a zombie.” Photo: Amir Hamja for The New York Times

“He took the candle and ran on the diagonal,” she said. “In those days, they had footlights. He stepped over the footlight and stopped. I thought, Oh, my God, he’s going to die” — plunging off the stage. “But he didn’t die. He stepped back and gave the candle to me.”

He was showing her, in essence, how the Sleepwalker possesses a layer of extrasensory perception; that what can’t be seen can be felt, and that even in a sudden stop — as he did himself on that stage — there should be no physical reverberation.

“Balanchine loved danger,” Kent said. “In the step in ‘The Unanswered Question’ when she slowly goes back” — the ballerina, again in white and held aloft, falls into the arms of four men obscured by darkness — “the audience is terrified for a moment. So this is the genius of Balanchine. Ah! She’s going to run off the stage! She’s going to fall over backward! Is anyone going to catch her?”

The original Sleepwalker — and the one Kent first saw all those many years ago — was the great ballerina Alexandra Danilova. Kent herself was briefly coached by Danilova not in the studio, but in a chance meeting, waiting for the 104 bus on Broadway. “She stood up and started demonstrating at the bus stop,” Kent said. “Gosh, what a moment.”

This is a ‘Sleeping Beauty’ in the Balanchine style,” Kent said. “The kiss does not wake her up.” Photo: Amir Hamja for The New York Times

Rehearsing at City Ballet’s studios with Unity Phelan and Taylor Stanley, who will perform the Sleepwalker and the Poet in one cast, Kent was intensely ethereal, acutely focused, with fingers full of life. She said, “You’re getting messages from the air, the atmosphere.”

Kent turned to the mirror to study their reflection as if it were a painting. With her elbows raised, her fingertips curving toward her chest, she worked on details — as many as she could. She was trying, it seemed, to penetrate below the surface of the skin, to draw raw emotion into the movement. Details are important to Kent, as they were to Balanchine. He would come backstage and say, “‘Oh, your crown is half an inch too far back,’” she said. “‘Bring it forward.’ I mean, it’s not even the hair, it’s just the crown. Details.”

Kent stood in front of Phelan, who held the candle with a curved arm as the other extended to the side. Kent rested her elegant fingers on Phelan’s shoulders — just a whisper of pressure — and stared at their reflection in the mirror. “Don’t look up,” she said, releasing her hands.

“You are sleepwalking, but you’re aware,” Kent said. “You’re in another realm but there’s something going on within you. A great tragedy that is not explained.”

Phelan, who danced the Sleepwalker in a previous season, is approaching the role differently now. Her Sleepwalker moved too forward from the chest, but with Kent’s help, she is working on relaxing, softening. “You can still be active, but if it gets all tense then it looks like you’re putting on a show instead of it coming from a genuine place,” Phelan said later. “If I’m just being myself and actively doing something, I’m not sensing everything in my body. So that’s what I’m trying to bring it back to.”

When she first danced the Sleepwalker, Phelan wanted to prove that she could be ghostly, waiflike, light. “What I’ve discovered from Allegra is that I may have been going too far with that,” she said. “You let yourself be involved emotionally. I think I was trying to stay so disassociated.”

“You are sleepwalking, but you’re aware,” Kent said. “You’re in another realm but there’s something going on within you. A great tragedy that is not explained.” Photo: Amir Hamja for The New York Times

When the Sleepwalker comes onstage, she’s not just taking brisk walks on pointe. She’s searching. “We don’t know what it is — if it’s a child, if it’s a love,” Kent said. “But it’s a huge thing missing. It’s a huge urgency. But beyond that, there’s so much mystery. There is a huge lack in her life.”

Stanley, rehearsing the moment when the Poet waves his hand in front of the Sleepwalker’s face to see if she is awake, was too dynamic. Kent stepped in to demonstrate.“ Just the tiny back and forth over my eyes,” Phelan said, “with her hand being that close to my face, I saw all the energy. She wasn’t shaking. Nothing was happening. But everything was alive in her hand. I was like, that’s what she means.”

There’s nothing casual about “La Sonnambula,” which Kent says is like no other Balanchine ballet. “I used to do this night after night in my living room just to get that despair and the subtleties,” Kent said. “That search. This is a ‘Sleeping Beauty’ in the Balanchine style. The kiss does not wake her up.”

Kent, with her cheerful wit, summed up her own “Sonnambula” experience: “This is what I’d say: Thank you, Balanchine,” she said. “Thank you, Madame Danilova. And I thank the M.T.A., the metropolitan transit authority. The generosity of her and the generosity of the bus being late.”

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Allegra Kent in Scotch Symphony, 1965 ph. Martha Swope

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Daemon Targaryen

Baela Targaryen

Laena Velaryon

Laerissa Velaryon

Alicent Hightower

Alys Rivers

Barba Bolton

Saera Targaryen

Rohanne Webber

𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐠𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬

Isabela of Rivain

Morrigan of the Wilds

𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬

Dara Winchester

Emma Winchester

Meg Masters

Claire Novak

Rowena Macleod

𝐓𝐕𝐃 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬

Rebekah Mikaelson

Hope Mikaelson

Josie Saltzman

Davina Claire

𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬

Rosalie Hale

Esme Cullen

Edythe Masen

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐀𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐲 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬

Rose Hathaway

Sydney Sage

Defne Mazur

𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐃𝐮𝐬𝐤 𝐓𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐃𝐚𝐰𝐧 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬

Kate Fuller

Santanico Pandemonium

𝐅𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐦𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬

Annis Hope

Daci Ambrose

Bella Dawn Franklin

Hana Pierce

Libby Morgenstern

Mona Hayes Jensen

Nari Rhee

Rhea Stellamaris

Stefania Corsetti

Sylva

Xiomara Luna-Corsetti

Vylnessa

𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬

Leia Organa

Nyssa Skywalker

Brielle Fenmar

Syren

Jade Caxis

Carshi Addalan

Rayali Coursti

𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐧𝐞𝐲'𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬

Evie Grimhilde

Maren Hook

Audrey Rose

Allegra Rose

Léonie Legume

Gabrielle de Bourbon

Nafesa al Kubra

Lumi Dwergaz

Calla Stahlbaum

Thea Mousai

𝐃𝐂 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬

Kara Kent

Diana Prince

Harley Quinn

Artemis Crock

M'gann M'orzz

Lena Luthor

Mazikeen

Darmaris Morningstar

𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬

Stella Rogers

Natasha Romanoff

Pepper Potts

Shuri Udaku

Medea Harkness

The God Tempest

Layla El Faouly

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚 𝐀𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐲 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬

Allison Hargreeves

Sloane Hargreeves

Lien Hargreeves

Lila Pitts

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬

Theo Crain

Nell Crain

𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬

Jessica Whitly

Ainsley Whitly

𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐜. 𝐅𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐦(𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬) 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬

Andromache the Scythian

Jennifer Check

Love Quinn

Winnie St. Hollow

Ronnie Teller-Morrow

Odalys Capello

Aston Capello

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Muses

Biblical and Mythical

Asherah 

Michael

Lucifer

Raphael

Haniel

Amitiel

Abaddon

Remiel

Paimon

Phenex

Solas

Gemory

Seire

Vepar

Vínea 

Rosier

Aphrodite

Hebe

Hestia

Persephone

Makaria

Harmonia

Khione

Apollo

Hermes

Arachne

Lupa

Laverna

Finvarra

Clíodhna

Aoibheall

Fantasy

Daenerys Targaryen

Rhaella Targaryen

Cersei Lannister

Genna Lannister

Margaery Tyrell

Arianne Martell

Jeyne Westerling

Melisandre

Elaena Perzonys

Wynafryd Manderly

Dacey Mormont

Darlessa Tully

Lyanna Stark

Gwenys Snow

Ravenna Bolton

Argella Baratheon (Durrandon)

Maris Baratheon

Thalassa Blackfyre

Bellegere Otherys

Baela Targaryen

Rhaenyra Targaryen

Daemon Targaryen

Laena Velaryon

Laerissa Velaryon

Alicent Hightower

Alys Rivers

Barba Bolton

Saera Targaryen

Alysanne Targaryen

Rohanne Webber

Isabela of Rivain

Morrigan of the Wilds

Supernatural Genre

Dara Winchester

Emma Winchester

Meg Masters

Claire Novak

Rowena Macleod

Rebekah Mikaelson

Hope Mikaelson

Josie Saltzman

Davina Claire

Rosalie Hale

Esme Cullen

Edythe Masen

Rose Hathaway

Sydney Sage

Defne Mazur

Kate Fuller

Santanico Pandemonium

Winnie St. Hollow

Annis Hope

Daci Ambrose

Bella Dawn Franklin

Hana Pierce

Mona Hayes Jensen

Nari Rhee

Stefania Corsetti

Xiomara Luna-Corsetti

Vylnessa

Libby Morgenstern

Rhea Stellamaris

Sylva

Sci-Fi

Leia Organa

Nyssa Skywalker

Brielle Fenmar

Syren

Jade Caxis

Rayali Coursti

Fairytale-esque

Evie Grimhilde

Maren Hook

Audrey Rose

Allegra Rose

Léonie Legume

Gabrielle de Bourbon

Nafesa al Kubra

Lumi Dwergaz

Calla Stahlbaum

Thea Mousai

Clara Stahlbaum

Comics

Kara Kent

Diana Prince

Harley Quinn

Artemis Crock

M'gann M'orzz

Lena Luthor

Mazikeen

Darmaris Morningstar

Stella Rogers

Natasha Romanoff

Becca Barnes-Romanoff

Pepper Potts

Shuri Udaku

Medea Harkness

The God Tempest

Layla El Faouly

Allison Hargreeves

Sloane Hargreeves

Lien Hargreeves

Lila Pitts

Andromache the Scythian

Horror

Theo Crain | Canon ; Kate Siegel ; 36 in the show, currently 42 ; Lesbian ; Cis Woman, She/Her | Middle sibling in the Crain clan, Theo was always... more sensitive to certain things than her siblings were, and that sensitivity only heightened during their stay at Hill House in the summer of 1992, where she and her four siblings were left traumatized by the sudden death of their mother Olivia. As an adult, Theo obtained her phD with royalties from her brother Steven's books, and now works with children.

Nell Crain | Canon-ish ; Victoria Pedretti ; 32 in the show, currently 38 in aus ; Bisexual ; Cis Woman, She/Her | Youngest of the Crain clan, Nell had been a happy child until that fateful summer of '92, plagued thereafter of dreams of a Bent-Neck Lady, not knowing until it was too late who she was.

Jennifer Check | Canon Divergent ; Shay Mitchell ; 16 in the movie, 31 currently ; Bisexual with a fem lean ; Cis Woman, She/Her | Satanic sacrifice by your favorite boy band is sooo not a good way to die, but luckily Jennifer lied about being a virgin when Nikolai Wolf asked. Not so luckily, the ritual used turns any non virgins sacrificed into demons, feeding off of fear and flesh to maintain their vitality, much like a twisted succubus. After boys began to go missing, Jennifer’s best friend researched what could have happened to her that fateful night, eventually taking action against her. Somehow, Jennifer survived Needy’s attempt, and fled Devil’s Kettle, where she opted to find more… deserving prey.

Love Quinn

Elysia Campos

Crime

Jessica Whitly

Ainsley Whitly

Odalys Capello

Aston Capello

Ronnie Teller-Morrow