Regina Owens

Regina Owens is the deceased mother of Sally and Gillian Owens in Practical Magic, and is a minor character in The Rules of Magic.

Appearance
Regina was a beautiful woman with long, black hair and grey eyes the colour of mist. She had a lovely singing voice and was so graceful the birds came to watch when she hung the laundry on the line.

Personality
Regina didn't believe in drudgery or boredom and made sure to live a lot and have fun. She was a painter whose subject matter was trees.

Early Life
Regina was the daughter of April and Vincent Owens, conceived during their shared summer vacation at the Owens house in 1960. Her father wasn't aware that she was his, as her mother kept it a secret, though she did want to tell him and be a family together. Instead, she was born in Boston and financed by her maternal grandparents.

She, April, and April's parents attended Susanna and James' funeral at the family cemetery, where Regina met the Owens siblings. Jet cooed at her while Vincent, not knowing that she was his daughter, shook her tiny hand in greetings. She and her mother return to Boston not long after that.

1961-1966
For the next five years, her grandparents demanded a say in how Regina was raised, against April's wishes. It wasn't until they planned on her growing up at Beacon Hill and attending private school that April decided it was time for the two of them to leave. As it turned out, Regina had a halo around her head, indicating she was to have a short life, and her mother did not want her spend that amount of time under the dictation of her parents. With only a duffel bag and a job offer in Palm Desert, California, Regina and her mother left Boston on a Greyhound, stopping in New York to stay the night at the siblings' house.

While there, Regina colors as April talks to Jet and Franny, confirming Franny's knowledge of the halo. Vincent returns home, and Regina demands that he reads to her her favorite book, Half Magic. They enjoy the reading time together as he talks in funny voices and she laughs at it. Inevitably, Regina and April leave in the morning, resuming their odyssey to California.

1967
Regina relocates with April to Santa Cruz so she can attend school and make friends. At the Summer of Love, the two run into Vincent and his partner William, and April invites them back to her place. Regina introduces William to the plants inside her greenhouse, unaware that April told Vincent the truth about their daughter, and she and William return to them none the wiser.

Adult Life and Death
Mother and daughter spend the rest of their lives in California, where she eventually grows up, meets her husband Daniel, and has two daughters of her own: Sally and Gillian. She occasionally got gifts from Vincent, but was none the wiser of his true identity or location. However, April's death in the late '90s causes Regina to become grief-stricken. Daniel decided to take her on a second honeymoon to cheer her up, but the curse causes their cabin to catch on fire, and the two perish. Sally and Gillian are sent to live with Franny and Jet.

Powers and abilities
Regina could make the broom sweep all by itself when she cleaned the house.

Daniel
Regina had fallen in love with Daniel when they were students at Berkeley. They'd dropped out to live on the land and for the first year they'd lived in a shack, sleeping together in one sleeping-bag, mad for each other.

April Owens
Regina was very close with her mother and had been so sad at her passing that she took to her bed and could sometimes be heard crying while she hung the laundry on the line.

Sally Owens
Regina worried for her eldest daughter who she feared was too cautious, often telling her "don't live a little, live a lot."

Gillian Owens
Regina did not worry for Gillian like she did for Sally, for her youngest daughter was far more carefree.

Vincent Owens
Her father was unaware Regina was his daughter until six years after her birth. Regina was conceived when Vincent was fourteen, and likely assumes that her father drowned before she was born.