A Main Character

Penelope Howitt is Samael Château's Assistant. She is an avatar of the Web who applied for the job as a way to manipulate events as they became important.

Tropes

 * Abusive Parents: Her parents were part of a cult that worshipped the Web, and ignored her so hard she started to fade out of reality. She got her revenge though
 * Agent Mulder: Despite her intelligence, she seems to believe rather wholeheartedly in actual magic.
 * Animal Motifs: Spiders. Fairly typical for Web avatars, but her name means Weaver, she shares a last name with Mary Howitt, who wrote The Spider and the Fly, and her birthday is the 8th of August
 * Arachnid Appearance and Attire: She wears tights with spider web patterns, and often has actual spiders moving under her clothes or in her hair
 * Bitch in Sheeps Clothing: She comes across as a kind, well meaning secretary, but is in fact a manipulative, scheming monster with no respect for other peoples lives.
 * Black Magic: She thinks so at least. She refers to her Avatar Powers as spells and magic quite often
 * The Chessmaster: In both senses. She is a master manipulator of events, and is also a grandmaster level chess player.
 * Clasp Your Hands if You deceive: She has a habit of steepling her fingers, and seems to do it as a tick when she lies, which is often.
 * Cult Defector: Not only defected from her parents Web coven/cult, but also killed every member of it in the process.
 * Dark is Evil: She dresses in a gothic style, which is a contrast to her usual gentle persona, but makes more sense once she drops that facade.
 * Faux Affably Evil: Comes across as a genuinely caring and kind person, even keeping this facade up while doing less than nice things, but drops it, along with her English accent, when she goes full villain
 * Four Eyes, Zero Soul: She wears tinted glasses to help her see
 * Lean and Mean: She is very thin, though she wears draping clothes to hide this somewhat.
 * Manipulative Bastard: This is her whole thing.
 * Massive Numbered Siblings: She is both the 13th child, and the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter
 * Older Than They Look: She is short and thin, and dresses quite oddly, giving her the impression of a teenage girl instead of a 25 year old woman, something she uses to her advantage as much as possible
 * Pest Controller: She has her familiars, a series of spiders that she uses to spy on the other Institute workers.
 * People Puppets: This was how she got revenge on her parents
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning: Although her eyes are more pink than red, it's still probably best to take warning
 * Spiders Are Scary: She often sends spiders to chase and frighten her coworkers, as well as spy on them.
 * Token Evil Teammate: Despite her villainous intention and actions, she is often found helping people around the Institute, or just hanging out with them
 * White Hair, Black Heart: She is albino, and also very cruel
 * Would Hurt A Child: Her siblings ages are never mentioned, but as there were 12 of them, its easy to assume they weren't all adults.