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Character
Name: Willow Danielle Rosenberg
Fandom: Buffy: the Vampire Slayer
Gender: female
Age: 21ish
Time Period: Season 6, end of Episode 15, As You Were.
Wing Color: bright yellow, the same color as Xander's crayon that she broke in kindergarten
History: And I just realized that that's what I want to do. Fight evil, help people. I mean, I think it's worth doing. And I don't think you do it because you have to. It's a good fight, Buffy, and I want in."
Personality: Willow is smart and very good with technology. She loves research and is especially good at figuring out technological things. She's been known to hack government computer systems in order to get information she needs for Buffy and she's good enough to not get caught at it. She can also program and re-program very advanced robots to act and think exactly like someone else. Read: Buffybot at the beginning of Season 6. If the cast needs someone to look something up and do a bit of research, they go to Willow. She always had a thirst for knowledge, especially regarding school - and she'll definitely be joining the book worm club.
She starts off as a very quiet, invisible kind of girl. Everyone picks on her and she assumes that Buffy will do the same, but it turns out Buffy wants help with homework and so the two become friends. Their friendship is only strengthened when Willow learns that Buffy is the Slayer, and she shows resourcefulness and loyalty time and again after this. She's willing to go to many lengths to protect and help Buffy, even going as far as to learn witchcraft in order to re-ensoul the vampire Angelus. Willow shows persistence as she keeps trying the spell to give Angelus his soul back through a curse, even though she was in the hospital at the time and had just woken up from a coma. She knows what she has to do and will do it, even if it's hard on her or scary. She's even been known to exploit her own fear of frogs in order to draw attention to herself so Buffy could escape.
After having been spotted making out with Xander (they were sure they weren't making it out of Spike's prison alive), Willow goes to great lengths to make Oz see that she really wants to just be with him. Her lifelong crush on Xander is over and she discovers what's really right: being okay with Oz. She still feels the guilt of what she's done, but the relief that Oz is willing to give her another shot outweighs any of that. A second example of this same thing is when Oz comes back in Season 4. At the time, Willow is with Tara and she chooses Tara over Oz, going as far as to make it up to Tara for hurting her in relation to the confusion over Oz. Once she realizes what's right and wrong, and knows how it affects the people she cares about, Willow is more than willing to do what's right, no matter the cost, especially to her own ego and dignity.
As far as social skills go, Willow has absolutely no brain-to-mouth filter. She will say what's on her mind when it flits through her head - though she's not as bad as Anya, she does have tact - and this has often gotten her into trouble, especially as she has a habit of thinking out loud and verbally walking herself through what a filter ought to do for her before she speaks. She starts with the original thought, a not-very-comforting one usually, and will walk through related ideas until she comes to the conclusion that "that's not very comforting, is it?" And then she'll fall silent. She also tends to stutter a little when she gets really nervous. It's not too noticeable, but it does exist. Willow also has a sense of humor. Usually, it's not an intentional one, as her best cracks happen when she's not trying to be funny, but completely serious. However, she can be funny when she wants to be, particularly when Buffy adds in a pun or wise crack. And when she gets annoyed with someone, she has a tendency to make fun of them in dry and often venomous sarcasm to varying degrees depending on how annoyed she is.
She also has a habit of being too hard on herself. When she feels she's taken a misstep somewhere, she will usually try to backtrack and verbally beat herself up in order to make the other person feel better. Years of being put down by Cordelia's gang, you know. But when it really comes down to it, Willow is loyal to her friends and she would do anything for them, keep their secrets, protect them, anything. And she will say what she knows is right when she knows the time has come to be perfectly honest. Willow doesn't lie well at all, nor is she good at covering things up (she tends to get stammery and rambly when it happens), but when she has to, she will try and when she puts her heart into something, she can make it happen. And when the going gets really tough, she can take control of a situation, like at the end of Season 5, when Buffy went catatonic and Willow had to step in as the "leader."
Willow's not known for being the best at knowing emotions, but she can read Buffy like a book (most of the time) and often comments if she thinks something is bothering her friend. She's been Buffy's confidant most of the time. She's also very good at forcing Buffy to take control of things, especially boy issues or Angel issues, and she's not afraid to get outside help or help someone try to get close to or help Buffy if she approves of them, like for Riley in the beginning of Season 4. Willow's getting better about speaking up for herself, but it's taking time. She's also learning to be strong and lie to her enemies, or people she views as standing in her way. It's gotten her out of some tough situations before. She's been known to stand up for herself, including against Buffy when she feels she's being pushed away, like she's done in Season 4, and even though that was fear-demon-induced, it still counts. Being pushed away in general doesn't make her feel very good and even though she will comment on it, tell Buffy in a roundabout way that she's not happy with something, that doesn't help the feeling of being replaced by someone else in Buffy's mind. Trust is a big deal to Willow and when she says she trusts someone, like Tara in Season 4, it means a lot. Likewise, losing people is a big deal to her. When Oz slept with someone else and again when Glory stole Tara's sanity, Willow almost went crazy with rage, resorting to magic to deal with the problems.
By the time Season 5 rolls around, she's become a very powerful witch and she's taken to using magic to cut corners wherever she can. The first notable example of this is in Season 5, episode 4 Out of My Mind. Willow surprises Tara by taking what should have been a spell for a very small firefly-type light and making the magic light up the entirety of the burned up old high school. She was also more confident about her magic and her power to the point of arrogance, stating more than once that her spells will work, no matter who speaks against her or how many times. The problem with this is that in the beginning of Season 6 she quickly became addicted to the power her magic afforded her, which caused Tara to leave her. However, after wrecking a car Willow was magically driving and severely injuring Dawn in the process, Willow realizes her mistake and vows, while sobbing onto Buffy's shoulder, that she'll never use magic again. For a long time, she tries her best to keep that promise. She quits using magic cold turkey. At first, she was still tempted to use magic again, even though Buffy had purged the entire house of anything magical. She stowed away a few small things as a safety net of sorts, just in case something really bad happened and they needed it. They actually did need her supplies at one point to try to break a vengeance demon's curse, but Willow didn't use them. Tara did. And throughout that ordeal, Willow insisted on not using her magic, even when Anya pushed her towards doing it. She was so strong about it that Tara stood up for her, too. So now Willow is working on keeping her addiction at bay so that she will never hurt anyone again and so Tara will one day come back to her. She's still very much in love with Tara.
Strengths:
Physically, she's not very strong. She can fight a little for a normal human, but she's not good at it and was never trained. Plus she has a habit of wigging out about things, so that doesn't help. However, her loyalty and willingness to help more than makes up for that. She's a very skilled and powerful witch (Wicca variety), meaning her mental capabilities are very high. She was even working on creating a new spell, one to make a ball of sunlight whenever Buffy needed one. Instant vamp-dusting. Willow has the mental and emotional discipline to apply herself whenever she needs to, preferring to help out when she can. Mentally, she's also pretty brilliant, able to hack high-security computers, with genius-level intellect, and always keeps up with her schoolwork. She's loyal and caring, too. Despite all that, she's still very willing and has grown more capable of doing whatever she needs to to make things happen. Like levitating a pencil to use as a stake to stab a vampire that was about to suck her blood. She's good like that. Magically, she's capable of Telepathy, telekinesis (moving things with her mind), and a lot of other really powerful witchcraft.
Weaknesses:
However, her emotional issues with things, attachments, and her tendencies to ramble and get scared about things can come to haunt her sometimes. She has a habit of being too hard on herself and that can get her down sometimes, especially when she rambles about it and feels guilty. However, when this happens or a discussion or situation hits something she feels strongly about - like Faith in Season 3 - she's been known to lose control of her magic, such as sending a pencil into a tree during said discussion of Faith in Season 3. She was also a bit freaked when she got the first hints that she might be a lesbian. Change was bad. So was first worrying about magic. But she became a witch to help Buffy. And she dealt with everything else later. As needed. Her loyalty could also be used against her, as she's willing to help any of her friends no matter what and when someone hurts her or betrays her, it hits deep, like when she found Oz had slept with a female werewolf her freshman year of college and then left. She wants to be loved and so she took his departure very, very hard, having held onto the hope that he would one day return. Her thirst for knowledge could be considered a weakness, as her inability to control her magic and that thirst leads her to violate Tara's trust, ultimately causing Tara to leave her. Dawn's accident snaps her out of her power-greed, so now she's back to being afraid of her power. Also, if she tries to cast a spell that's too high in power for her, she tends to end up with headaches, nosebleeds, or worse. See 5:14, Crush, where she ends up with almost constant headaches after she cast a Teleportation spell on a goddess in the previous episode.