Explanation of Ms. Woodworth

She was something akin to a vampire, formerly human but through a ritual permanently altered. It was an interestingly complex ritual.

By varying different ingredients and phases of the moon you could control what emotion or energy source you used to feed your immortality. Others of her kind who had made the pact chose war, and panic, greed, envy, Easy enough to start and near constant in the modern age.

Lillian was a special kind of witch though. She had chosen embarrassment as a motivator for personal reasons too long to get into but also a very specific limiter, by applying a filter to the form of energy she was attuned to she greatly increased its potency.

When it came to harvesting energy... Her target had to be willing. She had the power to override the conscious mind a great deal. But the subconscious she was no match for.

She had been very selective at first, only choosing whores and harlots, dancing girls. Over 400 years as pure as her intentions were she had experimented with the limits on unwilling targets. Her powers were extremely diminished She found any energy released by such just felt wrong and had no effect on her aging. While it would fuel her sprite it just felt dark.

However an unintended quirk of her powers was that the deeper repressed the tendencies of an individual the more pure the energy and thus precise she could be in crafting it into the subtleties of her work.

The modern age had been wonderful for the witch, an amazing number of young women had a desire to be famous on the internet and seen as sexually attractive. Once those vin diagrams overlapped juuuuust enough for a repressed desire to form such as with young Alex here...Lillian had never been so spoiled, or 18 tear old rebellious girls. She always wrote off any bad karma from pushing this line by blessing her victims with good luck for years after she had harvested from them. And most ended up self actualized better people faster than they would have been if not for her help... it was just a bit of a rough ride.

And who could blame her if she happened to enjoy pulling the strings.What, She was supposed to be bored for eternity?