Charmcaster

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Charmcaster
General Information
Species	Human
Home World	Earth
Status	Imprisoned
Affiliations	Michael Morningstar (formerly) Forever Knight (formerly)
Occupations	Apprentice Mage and Sorceress Student
Aliases	Charmcaster
Powers and Abilities
Abilities	Magic (formerly) Teleportation (formerly) Flight (formerly)
Equipment	Spellbook (formerly) Magical Rune (formerly)
Relationships
Relatives	Unnamed father Hex (uncle)
Details
Voice Actor	Tara Strong
First Appearance	Bright Lights, Black Hearts
Gallery

“	We're sick of your attitude, Charmcaster. People aren't your playthings. You of all people should know how that feels.	”
– Gwen reprimanding Charmcaster.

Heather, better known as Charmcaster, is Gwen Tennyson's first archenemy and a young apprentice mage. She first appeared in The Charm Offensive.

Appearance

As Heather, she was fair skinned and had have brown, shoulder-length firm hair. She wore circular-framed glasses, a silver necklace, a brown trench coat, a brown satchel, a dark blue dress, white socks, and brown shoes.

Now, as Charmcaster her skin is much paler and hairline is scraggily chalk white combed over her left eye, with a black spiked headband. She wears a black choker around her neck, her bag is now white, still wears the necklace, a black top with a purple coat over it, a magenta skirt, grey leggings, and black boots.

Heather

Charmcaster wearing a party hat

Personality

According to herself, she used to be very shy, nerdy and awkward, but when gaining her magic abilities from a spellbook that changed her appearance and personality by becoming more confident and assertive.

However, her self-esteem issues still exist deep down, which allowed Michael Morningstar to be able to take advantage of her, contrasting to Gwen Tennyson who was able to resist him and when rescuing her from his abuse, Charmcaster is both grateful and furious, as she felt still weak and Gwen stronger than her. She then declares herself Gwen's enemy, who, if they meet again, will fight her and prove that she is the stronger one.

She hates being reminded of the "weak girl" she was, as seen later when furiously flying after Kevin calls her a weird nerd. Kevin's insult strikes a nerve because that's what she feels like she used to be, and the way she's most afraid of being perceived by other people now that she's reinvented herself as "Charmcaster".

As Gwen reminds her so much of her past self, she naturally cannot stand her and will cause trouble even when having not initially planned on doing so just to hurt her, she also deals with being hurt by using it as an excuse to hurt others. The abuse from Morningstar that internalized has caused her to develop more of his personality traits, projecting her own pain and insecurities onto others as a defense mechanism. and was shown when she tells Kevin to "stop resisting her" much like Morningstar did to Gwen, and yells at him to "stop whining and give her his power", a line from Morningstar that Charmcaster was once on the receiving end of.

During this event, she and Kevin also appear to develop a mild rivalry over who the better, meaner enemy of the Tennyson cousins is, although after a while they start displaying a begrudging respect for each other and a willingness to work together. While vindictive toward both Gwen and Ben, Charmcaster initially held some moral standards and didn't seem to desire to cause collateral damage toward people uninvolved with their feud, as shown when she went out of her way to inform Ben to not use his Stinkfly goop against fire or else it would blow up a building with many innocent people in it.

However, the angrier she became toward Gwen, she eventually discarded these standards and was willing to harm innocents if it would draw her out of hiding. Which made also her sadistic when trying to kill Gwen with a magic drill after seeing that she has her own powers, all while smiling gleefully. She also appears to have some affinity for the Forever Knight, hoping to please him in her efforts to bring his plan to fruition and deriding Kevin as unworthy of being his right-hand helper.

History

Background

Charmcaster used to be a regular teenage girl named Heather, who was a huge fan of Michael Morningstar. One day, she found a spellbook that awoke the magical potential within her and changed her appearance.

Ben 10

Charmcaster made an off-screen appearance at the end of Bright Lights, Black Hearts, where she began sharing her energy with Michael to give him back his strength and agreed to help him take down the Tennysons as his girlfriend.

Charmcaster was formally introduced in The Charm Offensive. While Ben Tennyson and Gwen Tennyson were at Biggie Box, she summonded an ice cream monster that caused mayhem in the store. Ben transformed into Heatblast to fight the monster, while she was telling Gwen her backstory. During the battle, Michael constantly treating her abusively, vacillating between showing her affection in order to keep her under his control to angrily shouting at her and physically taking energy from her without her consent.

When Gwen proved that Michael was only using Charmcaster and did not actually care about her at all, an enraged Charmcaster trapped him in her spell book. She then told Gwen and Ben that she would leave them alone for now out of gratitude for their help. But because she now knows she does not need anyone, if they cross paths again she will fight and defeat Gwen in order to prove that she is the stronger girl between the two of them.

In Charm School's Out, Charmcaster switches forms with Gwen and disguises as her. While Ben was fighting "Charmcaster", "Gwen" goes with Grandpa Max and attempts to make a spell that will give her Gwen's life for good. However, Max interrupts this plan by getting her to try to fix the Rustbucket's radio, which she fails miserably at, disillusioning her with having Gwen's life. When Gwen turns back to normal, Charmcaster then escapes with the Forever Knight and accepts his offer to join his cause.

In Which Watch, Charmcaster takes control of Kevin in order to destroy Ben and the space camp that Gwen loves so much, but is defeated when Humungousaur uses Monster Kevin's fire breath to damage her spellbook.

In What Rhymes with Omnitrix?, Charmcaster finds a new magic rune in her bag that was gifted to her by her uncle. Although she initially was not intending on causing any trouble that day, she ends up combining the rune with Kevin's notebook (filled with many poems containing his true feelings and thoughts) to wreak havoc on everyone upon spotting Gwen. The result being that she is able to cast powerful spells depending on what exactly she states. When Humungousaur and Quad Smack team up to attack her, she cast a spell on the two of them that makes them mistake each other for herself, making them attack each other instead.

Later, Charmcaster puts a spell on Gwen which prevents her from talking (and thus also preventing her from telling her plan to Ben and Kevin), but is unsuccessful in doing anything more to her when Gwen manages to escape and hide from her. After another failed attempt by Shock Rock and Dark Matter to defeat her, she is finally defeated upon Kevin convincing her to read his newest poem, one which inadvertently makes herself momentarily mute, cancelling out all of her spells. However, shortly afterwards she manages to escape when her newfound powers create a portal for her.

In Roundabout: Part 1, Charmcaster is part of the Forever Knight's team. She works hard to bring the Forever Knight's goal to fruition, hoping to please him and be deemed his right-hand assistant. In the end, he chooses Ben to accompany him through the time portal, leaving Charmcaster and the rest of the Knight's followers to deal with Gwen, Max, and Phil.

In Roundabout: Part 2, Charmcaster and Kevin team up to battle Gwen, and is shocked and furious when she sees that Gwen now has powers that can match up to her own. When Thornblade refuses to kill Gwen, she attempts to do it herself when Thornblade destroys her rune and ties her up with vines. Thornblade covers up his crush on Gwen by saying that if anyone ever kills her, it will be him. Later, Charmcaster is shown being taken into custody by the Tennysons, alongside Billy Billions.

Powers and Abilities

• Magic
• Levitation/Paper Platforms
• Appearance Alteration
• Vortex Creation
• Telekinesis
• Mind Control
• Drill Creation
• Magic Shield
• Magic Projectiles
• Light Generation
• Bubble Entrapment
• Portal Creation
• Book Entrapment

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Charmcaster possessed an old spellbook, which she bought at some point after Hex's first defeat. She used the book to cast her spells such as summoning an ice cream monster, teleportation, and flight by merely writing in it. She used the book until it was destroyed by Monster Kevin's fire breath.

After the book was destroyed, Charmcaster began using a magical rune given to her by her uncle, but it was later destroyed by Kevin as Thornblade.

Weaknesses

Charmcaster's low self-esteem and can be taken advantage of by people who play to her emotions. She professed that she felt the transformation she'd undergone thanks to the spellbook changed her from her old "weak" self, but her compliance under Michael despite his abuse toward her showed that such weaknesses still remain within her, much to her chagrin.

Charmcaster is extremely jealous of people she perceives to have it better than her, particularly Gwen because she has both a stronger constitution against Morningstar and a family who loves her. Much of this jealousy factors into her distaste for her former self, since Gwen reminds her of how she used to be.

Charmcaster has no experience fixing a radio.

Relationships

Family

Hex

They never had an on-screen interaction, but as implied in What Rhymes with Omnitrix?, their relationship is very distant one. Charmcaster considers Hex to be overdramatic.

Love Interests

Michael Morningstar

“	Who, Heather? She's a fangirl, like all the other losers! They all love me. I'm an actor, I can be whatever they need me to be to fulfill their pathetic lives. But she's nothing more than a glorified battery to me!	”
– Michael to Gwen.

Charmcaster standing up to Michael

Originally, Charmcaster went out of her way to please Michael Morningstar, tracking down Gwen without being asked. Being a huge fan of The Un-Alivers and having self-esteem issues, Charmcaster was easily manipulated by Michael. He periodically drained her of her life force, which she saw as him giving her a purpose. Once Gwen was able to expose Michael as someone who didn't care about her, she trapped him inside of her spellbook so they could never be apart.

Enemies

Gwen Tennyson

Charmcaster fighting Gwen

Initially, Charmcaster considered Gwen her archenemy on the basis that she and Ben were attacking Michael Morningstar. To avenge his loss, she hunted down Gwen, whom she takes a dislike to for reminding her of her former "weak" self. Despite Gwen exposing Michael's true nature to Charmcaster, she proclaimed she and Gwen would not be friends, having realized she did not need anyone.

Charmcaster would go on to attack Team Tennyson multiple times, believing someone needed to ruin Gwen's "perfect little world". She also believed that it was Gwen's fault for taking away Michael and her spellbook, further fueling her motivation to attack her.

Neutral

Forever Knight

Charmcaster assisting the Forever Knight

Much like the Forever Knight's other recruits, he intended to use Charmcaster for one specific trait, in her case, her magic capabilities. Once she (along with the other recruits) attacked Ben for being chosen to join the Forever Knight on his mission, he concluded she was petty and unworthy of joining him. Despite this, she still appears to hold him in high regard, as seen when she chastises Kevin for not allowing her to kill Gwen as showing himself as being unworthy of Forever Knight.

Kevin Levin

Charmcaster and Kevin generally do not get along with one another, as their similar personalities cause them to butt heads. They meet when Charmcaster accidentally captures him when trying to capture Ben. She lets him go, but when revealing her true intentions Kevin gets jealous of how she describes Ben and boasts that he's more powerful and would be a better one for her to use. He recognizes his mistake when she immediately takes him up on this, using magic to forcibly control him like a puppet to attack the Tennysons and eventually transform him into a mutated form. Kevin yells at her and calls her a "weirdo nerd", which causes Charmcaster in turn to shout that he's useless without his Antitrix.

While they clash on other occasions, the two of them also show a degree of begrudging respect toward one another, with them both bragging to each other as to how well they're doing in their personal goals even when they're both lying. Upon acquiring a magical rune that boosts her power, Charmcaster makes an offer for Kevin to join her of his own free will, which he even appears open to accepting until she mentions that she wants to destroy Gwen. He also blushes when Charmcaster compliments him on his poetry. The two work together as part of Forever Knight's team, and team up to battle Gwen, with Kevin at one point protecting Charmcaster from an incoming blast. While he ends up turning on her, he does so by having her harmlessly tied up by vines rather than attacking her outright.

Appearances

Ben 10

Season 1

• Bright Lights, Black Hearts (first appearance)

Season 2

• The Charm Offensive

Season 3

• Charm School's Out
• Which Watch
• What Rhymes with Omnitrix?
• Roundabout: Part 1
• Roundabout: Part 2

Video Games

Omnitrix Shadow

Charmcaster is a boss in the game.

Trivia

• Charmcaster's real name, Heather, happens to be one of the names Darkstar mentioned while trying to remember her name in the Ultimate Alien episode Couples Retreat.
• It was never explained whether or not she was following the Forever Knight's orders during Which Watch. However, it is very likely that she was operating under her own agenda at the time, as the Forever Knight only promised to help train her to be a stronger villain and had no use for her otherwise until it was time for his grand plan to be executed.
• Unlike her Classic Continuity counterpart, Charmcaster has never shared the screen with Hex, with her one remark about an interaction they have had suggesting that their relationship is a very distant one.
  • Hex being Charmcaster's uncle and also at least 10,000 years old indicates that either she is an adopted niece or that at least one of her parents or grandparents is also a similar age or that despite being relatives, they are not literally uncle and niece.
• Much like with Kevin, because Gwen is aware that Charmcaster's villainy stems from reacting to past abuse the wrong way, she insists on trying to help her regardless of how difficult Charmcaster makes it for her.
• It has not been determined whether Charmcaster's father uses magic or not.