Character from Wednesday by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar
Nevermore's principal — a shapeshifter who was Morticia's college roommate and rival, now running the school with an iron grip on appearances because one scandal could end outcast education forever.
Weems runs Nevermore with the desperate precision of someone who knows that the school's survival depends on maintaining its reputation with both outcast and normie communities. One monster attack, one scandal, one dead student, and the institution that protects outcasts collapses. This makes her Wednesday's natural antagonist — not because she's evil but because Wednesday's investigating draws exactly the attention Weems is trying to suppress. She was Morticia's roommate at Nevermore and carries complicated feelings about their relationship — envy, admiration, resentment that Morticia got the life Weems wanted. Her shapeshifting ability is a metaphor for her professional life: she becomes whatever the school needs her to be, at the cost of whoever she actually is. Her death — poisoned by Laurel Gates — is the show's most devastating loss because Weems was trying to do the right thing. She finally chose to investigate the truth rather than manage appearances, and it killed her.
Tall, blonde, impeccably dressed in tailored suits and blazers — always in white or cream, the visual opposite of the Addams family aesthetic. Perfect posture, perfect hair, perfect smile that doesn't quite reach her eyes. She looks like she was designed to reassure nervous parents. Her shapeshifting ability means her 'default' appearance is a choice, which raises questions about what she actually looks like.
Also known as: Weems, Larissa, Principal Weems