Justine Reed

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” ― Leo Tolstoy Justine Antigone Reed is the daughter of Jacqueline Reed and her life partner Susanna Matthews and is the younger twin sister to Jane. She was best friends with her cousin Jecoliah.

Justine never was interested in marriage or children, but happily took care of her nieces and nephews this is shown in how she raised her great-grandnieces Jocelyn and Jianna.

Personality
Justine in life was described as sagacious and witty, but with a hidden kind and gentle heart. Despite having no interest in being married or having children herself, she was a kind and loving aunt and later surrogate mother to her great nieces Jocelyn and Jianna. Judith described Justine as "a battle-axe, tough and interfering women who'm you never wanted to be on the bad side of".

She deeply love Jocelyn and Jianna and considered them her own children and considered them the loves of her life. When she was diagnosed with early on stage dementia when they were just young children it caused her a great amount of pain to leave them in the hands of others (specifically with there biological mother).

When her disease became more and more pronounced she was increasingly more forgetful, and began calling the family members she still have by others names such as calling Jianna by her sister's name, Jocelyn by her mother's name, and Julianna by her best friend's name.

Powers
Joanna in her life was a very powerful "natural witch", meaning her powers "come from within".
 * Magic - The ability to connect with the mystical forces of nature and bend the universe to her liking whether it be the laws of reality, manipulation of luck, probability and science, jinxing people and making incidents and occurrences fall into place. This can be used with concentration of the mind, meditation, conjuring and invoking spirits and supernatural energies and using occult and spiritual tools and resources including rituals and chants for numerous affects.
 * Necromancy: The power to control, manipulate, and resurrect the dead.
 * Containment: The power to contain a being in a given area.
 * Warding: The power to place protection spells and wards on places and people, shielding them from harm.
 * Pain Infliction - This is the ability to inflict great pain onto a person by causing their blood vessels to burst and thus giving them multiple aneurysms.

Etymology

 * Justine is one of the feminine forms of Justin which is from the Latin name Iustinus, which was derived from Justus. It is a Latin name meaning "just". This name was borne by at least eight saints. This is the name of the heroine in the novel Justine (1791) by the Marquis de Sade.
 * Antigone is derived from Greek ἀντί (anti) meaning "against, compared to, like" and γονή (gone) meaning "birth, offspring". In Greek legend Antigone was the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta. King Creon of Thebes declared that her slain brother Polynices was to remain unburied, a great dishonour. She disobeyed and gave him a proper burial, and for this she was sealed alive in a cave.
 * Reed is a variant of Read which means "red" from Middle English read, probably denoting a person with red hair or complexion.

Trivia

 * Justine is of Irish and Eastern African descent.
 * She was asexual and aromantic.
 * Her death was due to her long term battle with demetia which evolved into Frontotemporal lobar degeneration, which caused her to loss custody of Jocelyn and Jianna.