Played by Robin Strasser, 2001 to 2002.
Scene-stealer. Soap Opera Digest Award winner.
Currently: Tabitha's living room.
| Known as | Hecuba |
| Nature | Witch. Ancient. Imprisoned by Tabitha. Now free. |
| Played by | Robin Strasser, 2001 to 2002 |
| Imprisoned by | Tabitha Lenox (cave, duration unknown) |
| Current location | Tabitha Lenox's residence. Martimmies in hand. |
Supernatural · Ancient Witch · Former Cave Resident
Hecuba
A 300-year-old witch who was imprisoned in a cave by Tabitha Lenox and has just been freed by Kay Bennett, who sold her soul in the process. She is currently drinking Martimmies at Tabitha's house. The Gazette considers this an unstable arrangement.
Active · Lenox ResidencePresent Situation
Hecuba is, at press time, no longer blue. She was choked by Miguel Lopez-Fitzgerald for approximately 2.5 episodes after he travelled through her magic bowl to reach her. She turned blue. She escaped via a magic book. Timmy's princess, per sources, intervened. She has also engaged in a fist fight with an angel outside the Bennett house this week, which this paper considers a significant escalation of her profile.
She is still at the Lenox residence. The Martimmies continue. Her allegiance remains, as this paper has consistently noted, unclear.
Background
Hecuba is a witch of approximately the same vintage as Tabitha Lenox, and their history runs deep in the way that centuries-old rivalries tend to. Tabitha imprisoned her in a cave. The cave was discovered by Kay Bennett and Miguel Lopez-Fitzgerald during a spelunking expedition that was ostensibly about something else. Kay took a diamond from the cave without knowing it was the instrument of Hecuba's imprisonment. The curse broke. Hecuba was freed.
Her first act upon freedom was to pursue the destruction of Charity Standish, which put her in alignment with the Dark Forces' standing mandate and with Kay Bennett's personal agenda. She is, in that sense, a natural collaborator for the current crisis. Whether she intends to remain a collaborator or to pursue her own objectives is the question the Gazette is monitoring.
Kay's Soul
Kay Bennett sold her soul to Hecuba in exchange for Hecuba's help destroying Charity and securing Miguel. The Gazette notes that this is a contractual arrangement that has historically not worked out well for the party selling. Hecuba now holds Kay's soul as collateral, which gives her considerable leverage over Kay's future decisions.
The terms of this arrangement are not fully public. The Gazette is aware that Hecuba used Kay's soul as a tool rather than a payment: she needed Kay compliant and her leverage over Kay's soul served that purpose. What Hecuba does with Kay's soul going forward is this paper's primary Hecuba-related concern.
The Tabitha Question
Hecuba and Tabitha Lenox have a history that predates Harmony. They were rivals in the Middle Ages, by Tabitha's account, before Tabitha imprisoned her. Their current domestic arrangement, in which Hecuba is drinking Martimmies in Tabitha's living room, is therefore a situation the Gazette is watching with considerable attention.
Tabitha's tolerance of this arrangement likely reflects one of two things: genuine collegiality between ancient practitioners of dark magic who have moved past their old grievance, or a tactical decision to keep Hecuba close where she can be monitored. The Gazette has not yet determined which. Both are plausible. Tabitha is not the sort of person who explains herself to this paper.
Ambitions
During her free period before this week's containment, Hecuba made clear that her ambitions extended beyond helping Kay with the Charity situation. She summoned ravens that attacked the Bennett household. Blood dripped from the walls. She was, by all available evidence, working toward something larger than a favour for a teenager.
The Gazette notes that Hecuba had her own designs on becoming Harmony's dominant dark force, which would place her in direct competition with Tabitha. Whether this ambition survives the current Martimmy-drinking phase of their arrangement is something this paper intends to find out.