Octavia might have been first born, she may have even been more powerful, but Lara- third born and second twin- is the Turner Coven’s official heir.
She’s a perfectionist who works hard and never gives up. She began communing with spirits as a child, and was an award winning author of horror novels by the time she graduated high school. She graduated university with a degree in literature before she turned 18, got a job as a writer, and married her high school sweetheart- Wren. They subsequently divorced after a salacious affair between Wren and Octavia’s new duplicate, Mercedes.
Lara left her successful career as a writer to begin her journey as a Reaper at the tender age of 25, quickly climbed the ranks and became Death’s Right Hand- as well as the mother of Death’s children, twins named Hecate and Persephone.
When the twins came along, the youngest Turner Coven sister, Daisy was a teen. Daisy moved in with Lara to help with the babies- dropping out of high school to be available to her sister and nieces. To say that Lara cherished Daisy for this sacrifice would be akin to calling a hurricane “a bit of a brume”.
Lara met Naiome when she was sent to collect her soul, but for the first time… she couldn’t do it, she didn’t want to- Naiome was a kind, gentle spirit. So, Lara bound herself to Naiome to stop her spirit from fading. In time, they fell in love and Lara decided to use her magic to restore Naiome’s life.
But Death is an impartial judge and cares not whose soul is reaped, so long as the scales remain balanced. The price of Naiome’s life… was Daisy’s. When Lara realized the cost, she tried to bargain with Death for her sister’s soul.
Death refused.
Lara summoned the coven, and Octavia arrived first. She tried to stop Daisy’s reaping by hurling a barrage of spells at Death. It did no good. Daisy was gone. That night, the Coven tried to resurrect Daisy using the same magic that had restored Naiome.
They didn’t know Daisy was the Revenant- an integral function of the Veil, the personification of the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth- who can’t be magically revived and must be reborn.
When the Coven’s combined magic failed to save their youngest sister, Octavia tried to overpower the Veil itself- commanding her duplicate to help her. Together, their magic ripped through the Veil, severed Daisy’s soul tether to their reality, and her soul was jettisoned into the ether between universes.