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Character Name: "Zed" (born Mary Martin)
Series: Constantine (TV series)
Timeline: After 1.13, Waiting for the Man
Canon Resource Link: Zed herself and a brief summary of the short episode list!
Character History: Even before Zed meets John Constantine, she is tied to his life. She is compelled by her visions to draw him over and over, until he eventually bumps into her in a town where he's investigating the deaths of some miners. She recognizes him, steals his wallet, and stalks him to his hotel room. She believes that their fates are entwined, and tells him about the dreams and visions that she has. Constantine does not believe him until she reaches out to touch him and channels all of his pain and regret through herself. John escapes, and later shows up on her couch (because that will totally make them even for her stalking him) to warn her about the dangers of joining him on his adventures. She isn't swayed, and states that she wants to help him assist him in saving people. It becomes obvious after they solve the mystery with the miners that her intentions are not completely pure - she presses Constantine to know more about her powers, but he falls asleep before she can tell him anything.

Zed continues to follow John along on his adventures, assisting him as he finds out more about what is called "The Rising Darkness" by John's angel friend and would-be guardian. She meets people from John's past - most importantly, Gary Lester, and through these encounters, learns more about her powers. She touches Gary's arm and finds out about his addiction issues, feeling them for herself. She finds out that John is generally quite ruthless and despite that, she believes he has a good intentions. However, she does not want to share anything with him about her past. She remains evasive when he asks about her past.

As they continue their travels, Zed runs into a detective named Jim Corrigan, a 'normal' man who is sceptical of her powers until she is able to detail a vision she had about him as a child. They become close in a short period of time, and they share romantic feelings for each other - but again, Zed does not want to get close to him. She leaves with John once their case is finished, and tries not to think of him again. As her powers develop, Zed continues to question where they come from: as she sees Constantine battle good and evil, she wonders where her powers fall.

When her travels with John run them into a faith healer who was given a feather by a fallen angel in order to create miracles, Zed's interests with her powers pique. She is entranced by the fallen angel (whose guise was that she had not fallen, but was trapped) and wants to question the girl, but also to make sure that she is not alone. She finds out that John has his own personal angel, Manny, and is endlessly curious about him. Once they find out the angel is fallen, John enlists the help of Manny (who uses Zed's body to kill the fallen angel). Zed 'wakes' to find herself holding the heart of the fallen angel, which John believes triggers her to begin drawing images of allegedly extinct creatures called invuche.

In actuality, Zed may have drawn the invuche as a vision of the future - when John visits Mexico to assist one of John's old flames, Anne Marie, with someone who's abducting babies, he is attacked by an invuche. Before the invuche attack, John finds out that the source of the Rising Darkness is La Brujería, an ancient evil society. John is left to die after being shot by Anne in order for her to be able to escape with an infant, and invites a demon into himself to avoid death. Zed, having stayed behind, attends her drawing classes as usual and eventually runs into the nude model who had previously asked her to dinner.

They go out for dinner, and Zed inadvertently bumps into him - she finds out that he is working to capture her for her father and his cult, and she lures him back to the Mill House where she lives with Constantine with the intent to interrogate him. Unfortunately for Zed, more agents of her father's show up and she is tranquillized and captured. She is able to escape her captors after she wakes from a vision involving Anne Marie, overpowering the man who'd been driving the van she was being held inside. She finds Constantine's best friend, Chaz, and they attend Mexico to find John. They eventually find John and together with Anne Marie, exorcise the demon from him - Zed is the one who encourages Anne Marie to rely on her faith and conviction in order to make the exorcism successful.

Some time later, Zed assists John with a favor to Chaz - his daughter has fallen into a coma because a mage named Faust has stolen her soul. Zed sits with Chaz's ex-wife and his daughter, and at his ex-wife's behest, attempts to speak to her soul. She is successful, but manages to overwhelm herself into blacking out and becoming hospitalized.

The series continues with its hospital theme and Zed and Constantine find themselves in the ER looking for an antediluvian crystal. After contact with someone infected by the crystal, Zed has a seizure. The ER professionals diagnose her with a brain tumor, and she is stricken with concern: are her powers only a result of the tumor, found in an area of the brain known to cause hallucinatory visions? While she struggles with this, Constantine grows increasingly frustrated with his guardian angel's lack of action with regard to the Rising Darkness and traps the angel in a mortal body. In this mortal body, he begins to experience more human emotions, and eventually goes to visit Zed in her hospital room. She speaks to him about her concerns about her powers being evil, and he reassures her that they come from the right place. Zed decides not to have the brain tumour removed even though it's potentially fatal at any time, stating that Constantine taught her the price of power was often pain.

Even after Manny's heavenly powers return, Zed continues to be able to see him. She's grateful, and speaks to him for advice. Constantine appears to be jealous of her relationship with Manny, as he seems much more willing to help Zed out. During a case where a human man is kidnapping and reanimating young girls to become his Satanic wives, he possesses a woman Zed is speaking to. It is unclear as to his motivation at this point, other than to have Zed trust him more.

Manny states at the end of the season finale that La Brujería have been working for him; however, it is unclear whether he was lying to the gentleman he was speaking to or not.

Abilities/Special Powers: Zed possesses the ability of clairsentience (an extra-sensory perception that grants her psychic knowledge), clairtangience (wherein she can handle an object and be given psychic information based on touch), precoginition, and retrocognition (linked to the clairtangience). When she is in physical contact with another person, she can also experience their feelings and emotions of their present and past selves. She's spoken to the dead at least once.

Third-Person Sample: The Mill House's bath is archaic as the rest of the house, a claw-footed monstrosity sitting atop a wooden floor that's swollen with the dampness of the room and improper sealing. The porcelain of the tub is bone-white, though, and the water that's inside is steaming hot - it's easy to slide into the water and let out a sigh of relief. Her hair is tied up for now in a messy bun - it's too much of a rat's nest when she lets it get wet - and as she sinks deeper into the scalding water, she closes her eyes.

The thing she really likes about this tub is that when she runs her fingers along the edges of it, the people that she sees are John and Chas. It isn't like running her hands across the brim of a motel room's bath, taking the risk of seeing a sobbing teenager clutching a razor blade or a fistful of pills - it's warmer, more familiar. John might be scrubbing blood off his hands, or Chas might be drinking a long pull of beer, but those are images she can handle.

It's a strange feeling to have family again.

She'd told Jim she'd seen his death, and that was the reason she'd been unable to make eye contact with him. It had been a relief in more than one way, since he'd kissed her after that -- but they'd had to leave, and she didn't have the heart to wake him on her way out of his room. The ride home with John had been ... tense.

He'd had plenty of chances to kiss her, so she tried not to feel too badly about it. She had better things to let her mind wander aimlessly around, after all. As if on queue, the image of the three dead girls in that large, sickly-sweet smelling bed flash through her mind. She grips the edge of the tub and leans over to stare down at the wooden planks, unpleasantly queasy.

She counts the rusty nails. One, two, three...

The nausea doesn't pass, and in a fit she pulls her whole body under the hot water. The shock to her system is a distraction, at least.

The implication of who that man could have been, what he could have done ... it tightens her throat as the water covers her. She emerges from the water gasping for breath, on the verge of a panic. She scrambles up just enough to grab the charcoal and paper that always sits near to her and starts to draw in firm, violent strokes that shed flakes of coal into the bath water. She'll have to tell Constantine what she's seen soon, but for now she's far too absorbed in her work.

By the time she's done, the water's gone ice cold - but at least her fear and her anger has drained away with the heat, for now.
First-Person Sample: [When she clicks on the feed, it's obvious that she's actually used a phone before - unlike a lot of people, it seems. It's not a steady stream, though, since she's walking - the camera bobs slightly while she walks.

Someone's taking a tour of the garden.]

You know, I really thought I was done with being surprised by weird shit. I guess I was wrong.

[She drops down into a sunbeam underneath a tree. It's really quite picturesque, as far as Zed's concerned.]

I have to say, this is a lot more literal sunshine and rainbows than I would've expected. Where's the big bad wolf, I wonder? Lurking in the shadows, waiting to strike? That'd be my bet.

Not that wolves are really that subtle, at least in the fairy tales. At least I won't have any shortages of artistic inspiration.

[She points to the camera.]

That's where you come in, lovely viewers. I'm finding myself with a real shortage of supplies, having come here without really expecting to -- I'm guessing we don't have any sort of art kiosk here. No Marshall's crafts, am I right?

If anyone can point me in the right direction, there's probably a sketch in it for you.