the rest of the group being: hazel (aforementioned ex demon, gruff but gentle butch lesbian, 6'7), jessie (the actual business owner of the whole deal, femme trans lesbian with the personality of sugar and arsenic, extremely nearsighted), maria (cooler than you goth egirl, has about 25 knives on her person at any given moment, 4'8), and ethan (backstory deemed too tragic for me to actually write about)
anyway they ran off at age like 15 and got basically adopted by an ex-demon and her wife, who run a supernatural friendly bed and breakfast/coffeeshop/bookstore to fund their proper demonslaying side job, which aspen promptly jumped in on, because their other main magic use is healing and boy is that vital in that line of work
aspen (they/them) has a measure of raw magic in them that seemingly came out of nowhere when it's usually an inherited bloodline trait. it kind of fucked up their family- their dad was convinced their mom was cheating, there were massive fights that ultimately ended in a divorce, their sister put the blame on them because she was 11 and didn't have anywhere else to put it. their magic primarily manifests as true empathy, which. just made the whole thing super rough on them.
"this is not only due to your bad posts" they say, pelting me with small rocks, "there are many reasons for this"