Joanna Reed

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” ― William Shakespeare Joanna Patience Reed is the daughter of fourth cousins Jeremiah and Josephine Reed, and is the younger twin sister of Jianni.

From her relationship with Lycan Ivan Ježek, she is the mother to three daughters named Jocelyn, Jianna, and Julianna. She died giving birth to her youngest daughter.

Early Life
Joanna was born on June 11, 1965 in Jeanne's Island, Feilan, Nova Scotia between fourth cousins Josephine Reed and Jeremiah Reed, as they are both the 5x-great-granchildren of Joan Reed.

She is the younger twin sister to Jianni whom she had a close and inseparable relationship throughout childhood and adulthood. This is shown in how she named her second daughter after her brother and asked him to be her godfather.

Tattoos

 * On her upper right arm she had the head of medusa.
 * Joanna had a snake wrapping around her left wrist.
 * On the right side of her neck she had an scorpion.

Powers
Joanna in her life was a "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.
 * Telekinesis - The ability to move, shape, connect, rearrange, disfigure and alter the properties and materials of objects, the environment and individuals with one's mind. She was very powerful in this ability which she passed on to her daughters especially Jianna who often uses Telekinesis.

Etymology

 * Joanna is a English and Polish form of Latin Iohanna, which was derived from Greek Ἰωάννα (Ioanna), the feminine form of Ioannes, which was derived from Greek Ἰωάννα (Ioanna), itself derived from the Hebrew name יוֹחָנָן (Yochanan) meaning "Yahweh is gracious", from the roots יוֹ (yo)referring to the Hebrew God and חָנַן (chanan) meaning "to be gracious".
 * Patience is from the English word patience, ultimately from Latin patientia, a derivative of pati "to suffer". This was one of the virtue names coined by the Puritans in the 17th century.
 * Reed is a variant of Read which means "red" from Middle English read, probably denoting a person with red hair or complexion.

Trivia

 * She is of Irish, West Indies, South Asian and Eastern African descent.
 * Joanna was accepted into UC Berkeley but left after losing her mother she transferred to Université Sainte-Anne at both colleges she majored in History.
 * She spoke fluent French.