Will Vandom

Wilh​elmina "Will" Vandom (voiced by Kelly Stables) Leader of W.I.T.C.H. and the keeper of the Heart of Kandrakar. Also known as Will Vandom, she moves to Heatherfield after leaving her hometown of Fallen Hills. Her powers include bringing electrical appliances to life, granting them distinct personalities and the ability to speak. Talking with and understanding animals is also one of her capabilities. In issue 80 [emotions] Will's half-brother [William] was born. Later on, William found that he's magical like Will either.

Personality
Will is tomboyishly beautiful, but is also sensitive towards other people's feelings. She is a whiz at science and adores swimming, especially when Guardianship and school are stressing her out. Will also mentioned once that she likes to ride her bike. She loves animals in general, but she is especially crazy about frogs and tries to collect anything and everything frog related except for the actual amphibian itself. She also comes up with extremely good ideas in the face of danger, as shown when she allows Cedric to capture her and her friends to bring them to Taranee, and when she tricks Cedric into wearing the temporarily cursed Crown of Light to defeat him. According to Matt Olsen's grandfather, she seems like a smart girl. She is also allergic to nettles.

In general, she is a fiesty girl who can get annoyed quickly, especially when somebody is teasing her because of Matt. Despite her short - temper, she is actually very calm, especially in an unexpected event. She would fullfill her role as leader of the guardians and remind everybody not to overreact, even though she might panic a little bit herself.

As a regular girl, she is good-looking, but is plagued by insecurity because she doesn't feel pretty enough. She can hide her secrecy about being a guardian well, in fact she acts quite the opposite.When transformed, she looks more like she'd like to look as an ordinary girl.

Animated Series
Likewise, before she was made a Guardian, Will was a normal girl with divorced parents who lived in Fadden Hills with her mother. Unlike in the comic, however, her mother's job moved them to Heatherfield. Her birthday in the animated series is somewhere in the fall. Little else is known about Will's life before W.I.T.C.H. She became friends with Irma, Taranee, Cornelia and Hay Lin when Hay Lin asked Will to come over for tea. After Will was kidnapped and her new friends rescued her, she realized that they were her real friends and that they wouldn't let her down.

Powers and Abilities
Will is the keeper of the talisman known as the Heart of Kandrakar and she possesses the power of Quintessence, or Absolute Energy (known as Chi in China and Japan). She is the strongest out of the five Guardians and one of the most powerful characters in the series.

Animated series
In season one, Will is shown not having any power other than flight, opening portals, and the ability to unite and transform herself and her fellow Guardians. It is unknown as to why she has no elemental ability, although it can be debated that she either had not known that she had any power (note that Yan Lin had not specified that Will had the power of Quintessence or Energy: "One of the five binds the others, and with the Heart of Kandrakar, unites them, summoning and magnifying their powers".), or her power are not fully developed. How ever, she can improvise by summoning flashes of pink light from the Heart of Kandrakar, as shown in the episodes "Divide and Conquer" and "The Battle of Meridian Plains."

In season two, Will is granted the power of Quintessence. Quintessence manifests itself in whitish blue lightning, which she can use to animate inanimate objects, fire offensive lightning bolts and produce a full body pulse, shockwave or discharge of electrical power and energy. In addition, her powers grant her the ability to talk to electrical appliances.

It also possible for Will to literally become one with her elemental ability (also becoming one with the nymph Xin Jing, the original possessor of Quintessence), becoming a whitish blue lightning-like being of pure electrical energy, greatly increasing and strengthening all of her powers and abilities to their absolute zenith. However this is risky and dangerous as it costs Will her humanity (both her human form, heritage and memory) which she managed to literally find with Matt's help. This occurred for the first time in the season two finale "Z is for Zenith" as a last resort when the Guardians found no other way to defeat the enhanced Lord Cedric.

As the Keeper of the Heart of Kandrakar (also spelled Candracar), the physical embodiment of Kandrakar, a.k.a. the Heart of Infinity's power, Will has the power to channel the magic of the Aurameres into the Heart and therefore enter the Guardians greatly strengthening and amplifying all of their powers and abilities and transforming them into their Guardian form with colorful blue-and-pink costumes, different hairstyles, and pixie-like wings which they can all use to fly. Will can use the power of the Heart to close and,as the series progresses, open project in the Veil, release a blinding pink light from the Heart, project a force field of pink energy, create numerous fake copies that would disappear in a flash of light, reveal the true form of another, locate other Guardians using their Aurameres and show images of places and people. The Heart of Kandrakar, has a telempathic connection with Will able to instinctively respond and act on its own will when the Guardians are in danger and can absorb, activate, and merge with other magical items. When the Veil was taken down, Will soon learned how to open folds in space and time to traverse different dimensions. Unlike the comics Will does not keep the heart within her but in her backpack or, around her neck.

Will has displayed the power of superhuman strength and toughness on several scales, able to use a tree like a baseball bat, catch a falling catapult like it was a football, and has a sensitivity to magic and supernatural writing and phenomena. She has empathic abilities with animals as they seem to reflect her mood and has an natural affinity for tele-transportation, being the first to wield this universal Guardian ability. She is even strong enough to break through steel or rock with but a single punch and is semi-invulnerable. She took down several of Takeda's robots on her own in a matter of seconds.

The following is a list of Will's powers, abilities, and other talents she posseses:


 * Wield Absolute Energy (With the Heart)

Will's powers as her status as a Guardian and Leader:
 * Various psychokinetic abilities
 * Project a force-field of pink energy
 * Fire destructive blasts of pink energy from her hands
 * Release a blinding pink light from the Heart
 * Produce a full body pulse, shockwave, or discharge of electrical power and energy.
 * Infuse her limbs with energy to strengthen her physical attacks
 * Channel the magic of the Aurameres into the Heart and enter the Guardians
 * Create and shoot whitish blue lightning bolts (Quintessence)
 * Bring electrical appliances and inanimate objects to life through the vocal summoning of Quintessence, which can also be seen as Telekinesis, considering she can move objects with her mind through Quintessence.
 * Summon lightning storms
 * Open and close portals in the Veil
 * Track down the other Guardians via the Aurameres
 * Superhuman strength
 * Create Astral Drops
 * Patch into radio signals
 * Reveal the true form of another
 * Create multiple powerless copies of the Heart itself
 * Warp reality and bring her fantasies to life
 * Superhuman speed
 * Superhuman stamina
 * Easily destroy sturdy surfaces such as metal, stone, etc. with a single punch or kick
 * Control technology of any kind
 * Fly at the speed of light
 * An innate, sixth-sense for battle/combat
 * Superhuman agility
 * Emit powerful sound waves
 * Animal control/communication
 * Self-sustenance
 * Phasing through solid objects
 * Telepathy
 * Electrokinesis: the ability to manipulate, control, and create electrical energy. This power allows the owner to control all forms of electrical power, be it static electricity, thunder and lightning, magnetic force, or electrical pressure.
 * Electrokinetic Energy Blasts: the ability to conjure concentrated bolts of lightning into a straightforward attack, such as beams, rays, bursts, or blasts of lightning.
 * Electrokinetic Shields and Barriers: the ability to use electrical energy to act as a defense mechanism, such as a shield, force field, or a standard wall of energy.
 * Animation and Reanimation: the ability to imbue life into both living and non-living organisms.
 * Electric Mimicry: the ability to become one with electrical energy; in other words, to become a being made purely out of electricity.
 * Shoot lightning bolts from her eyes and hair
 * Physically capture lightning bolts and use them as weapons
 * Resurrection (via Quintessence)
 * Force of Life (via Quintessence)
 * Unite the Guardians with the command "Guardians Unite!"
 * Flight
 * Glamouring
 * Teleportation
 * Open folds in time and space
 * Close portals in the veil
 * Ability to change the girls and herself back in to human form with the command "Change Back!"

Differences in the Comic book and the TV series
In the animated series Will became fast friends with the other girls of the W.I.T.C.H. team, and she is also very strong minded and relaxed. In the Comic books however she is very insecure, only becoming quick friends with Taranee at first. While she is also brave like in the TV series she sometimes feels that she is a "failure". Will is very sensitive and becomes easily hurt. Will is also very insecure about her friendship with the other girls (this could be because of her history with her former friends who backstabbed her and talked about her behind her back) she often feels guilty of letting them down. It was also shown by a "fake future dream" that Will's biggest fear is being dumped by Matt and her friends ignoring her. This was not the real future, but a fake one made by Phobos to break Will mentally, however he fails as Will has shown not to give up, and was very relieved when the Oracle told her it was a nightmare made by Phobos.

Trivia

 * When in zenith power level Will bears the least resemblance to her normal human form of all the guardians.
 * Her favorite colour is Fuschia.
 * Her favorite subjects in school are Biology and Chemistry.
 * She is in the same class as Cornelia.
 * Her hobbies are collecting frog-like items and swimming in the school team.
 * She likes good swimming practices, a Cobalt Blue concert, and a romantic night with Matt.
 * She hates quizzes, fighting with her mom, and being clumsy.
 * She absolutely hates when things don't go as planned.
 * Her favorite music is Cobalt Blue.
 * Wilhelmina is a name originating from the German language and meaning "protector".
 * Her birthday is January 19th, 1991