Name: Cherry Markham Nicknames: Cher-Bear Age: 16 Gender: Female Nationality: American Species: Witch Circle: None

Family: Parents: Cedar & Laurel; Older sister: Mimosa; Younger sister: Holly; Position in School: Junior Type of Student: Regular Residence: Waldgrave Hall Roommate: Hitomi Otsuka Soulmate: Killian Black

With a heart shaped face, innocent blue eyes and a dark red hair color, Cherry isn't the prettiest of girls, but she has her own charm. Her nose is rounded and a little big on her face, and her cheeks always have a natural blush to them. When she blushes her entire face turns red, her ears being the most red. Her hair is styled in a layered style, often parted to the side and always straightened. Her hair is naturally wavy but she believes that the 'straight' style is in, so she wears it that way. Her body is slim and petite, in reality she only stands at barely over five feet and she looks almost breakable at times. She's always wearing the latest of fashions, whether they suit her or not, just so she can keep up.

Cherry is the prime example of a girl too desperate to be popular. She would do pretty much anything to be in the good graces of those deemed 'popular' by the general public. She does their homework, runs their errands, she'll cook for them, do their laundry, even do spells that could get her into deep trouble because they asked her to. She's a sweet girl really, she just tries too hard, and usually ends up just making an idiot of herself. She'll mimic what the popular kids say, follow their trends, and even style her hair in a similar way. She'll laugh at their jokes when they aren't funny, she'll make any popular kid feel even cooler. Because she honestly thinks they are the best people on earth. A lot of people pity her because she's so blinded by her need to be popular, and she does have a few friends who aren't really part of the 'in' crowd, though when then popular kids come around, she's up and gone. They hope one day she'll see the light. Cherry tends to snort when she laughs too much.

She's incredibly smart when it comes to book studies or even learning and crafting spells. Her greatest strength lies with jewelry, she often makes little charms and things that can have some very potent effects. Her social skills aren't the best so she makes up for them with her ability to soak in information. Her grades would be even better if she wasn't doing the homework for lots for other kids. She's fairly athletic as well and works hard to stay in shape, sometimes completely obsessive about it to a fault. She's advanced with her abilities as a witch and if the adults knew what she was capable of, they might actually consider her a prodigy in their race.

Cherry is pretty pathetic when it comes down to it. She's a pretty enough girl with a lot of brains when it comes to school subjects, but she's socially retarded. She tries entirely too hard to fit in that she's more a joke. Of course she isn't aware of this. She gets easily persuaded into doing things, if you're popular she'd kill a puppy if you asked her to. If it meant she'd get some sort of social rank. Most people find her pitiful, some feel bad for her, others say whatever happens to her is her own fault. She's incredibly lonely and thinks that becoming popular is the answer to everything, and because of this, she's held back from what she has the potential to become.

To Cherry, her life is painfully ordinary. Her parents were poor witches who's family name was stained during The Burning Times as being traitors. Since then they've sort of been blacklisted but somehow found a haven in Winthrop. Despite this, they have no real fortune and Cherry is considered lucky she can attend to the school with names like Harman and Redfern. Ever since she was a kid she just wanted to fit in, and she never really did. She was like a square block trying to put itself in a circle shaped hole. Her attempts to become popular have become legendary and now she's just sort of a wannabe who the populars tolerate because she's more like a personal slave. She doesn't seem to notice, and if she does, she doesn't care.

Cherry developed a hard falling crush on Killian Black after he kindly carried her to the nurse's office after passing out due to blood loss (no thanks to Calum). But Cherry's submissive nature and need to fit in prevented her from taking action, and she suffered while he temporarily had a fling with Iris Harman. She secret coveted him, but it was having Trinity Redfern indulge her secret relationship with Ashlee Walker that Cherry's life took a sudden change. She was popular.

However with Cherry's popularity she acted a little meaner and ditched her bumbling friend Hitomi's study session in favor of something else. This led to disaster and among the chaos, Cherry discovered the Killian was her soulmate. He still left her short of breath and close to passing out, fragile to his shapeshifter strength, but the two are attempting to work around that.