Zoe Walters is a recurring character from season 3 of the Prime Video original series Just Add Magic, and the main protagonist of its limited spin-off series Just Add Magic: Mystery City.
She's the daughter of Erin Chua and the late Ian Maddox (a time-traveling protector from the Victorian Era), who constantly moved around due to her mother's job, which involved opening several successful stores. At a certain point, they'd settle down in Saffron Falls for one of their stops where Zoe went to Rockbury Middle School with Kelly and Darbie. Several weeks later, Zoe and her mother moved to Bay City as her mother was getting remarried, and was going to work for the head office of Bay City. Zoe would also become one the new protectors -- alongside her new stepbrother Leo Sellitti, and their downstairs neighbor, Ish Gupta -- immediately after Kelly, Hannah and Darbie's era ended.
She was portrayed by Jolie Hoang-Rappaport.
Her Good Ranking[]
What Makes Her Close to Being Pure Good?[]
- When the cookbook mysteriously appears in one of her moving boxes, she mails the book back to Kelly, thinking she (Zoe) had accidently taken Kelly's property, and sends her a note apologizing for doing so.
- When her mother's concerned about her upcoming wedding, Zoe assures her that she looked great, and that she was simply nervous.
- After Kelly, Hannah and Darbie find Zoe and explain that she was one of the new protectors for the cookbook, Zoe understandably doesn't believe them at first, but when the book repeatably opens itself to a "Make It Hot Dogs" recipe, she decides to cook the recipe so that the weather would warm up, and her mother's wedding wouldn't be postponed. However, she didn't count on the magic recipe also causing people's emotions to heat up
- After Zoe's recipe indirectly causes a blackout and leads to her mother cancelling her wedding, she immediately looks for the recipe's riddle, then searches for the another recipe to reverse her spell.
- She finds the "Gazpa-Chill Soup" recipe, and gets Leo and Ish to help her cook it, in order to reverse the effects of her previous spell (Make It Hot Dogs), save her mother's wedding, and get everyone in town to stop fighting and being so hostile. (having their emotions "heated up")
- After finding out her late father was a protector and was hiding a blueprint with notes, she wanted to learn what the notes were for and finish his work by finding what he was looking for.
- She and Ish would learn about how Ian Maddox was a protector from 1875 and used to be friends with his partners Clint and Folsom Wesson, before the latter two got greedy and created a Sour'Au starter, which made them wealthy but also caused a gold mine to collapse and numerous deaths. And when they're informed that Ian hid the starter in the future for later protectors (like them) to destroy before the Wessons find it, and set up a complex scavenger hunt to find three coins in order to access it, the two of them agree to track down the coins and the starter and protect the town.
- After losing her stepfather's camera -- as part of the downside for a spell she and her partners created -- she takes full responsibility for what happened, and understands how important the camera was to him, and how he didn't want to be too harsh as to make Zoe dislike him, and even apologizes for losing the camera. All this, in spite of the lost camera technically not even being her fault. She doesn't even try to create an excuse or justification for it.
- While under a spell that gives her enhanced hearing, she overhears a student running in the hall, and pulls a girl out of the way before the other student hits or bumps into her.
- After learning that her late father used to have a close friend named Mitch Shipman, she'd use a spell to appear as an adult so she could set up an arrangement with Mitch, and learn some information about her father and Mitch. Though Zoe does learn that her father fabricated his entire past, and even his name.
- After she and her partners finally manage to reach Unity Station, and get ahold of the Sour'Au starter, they planned on destroying the starter by magically super heating it, so it couldn't be used for additional harm. The attempt backfires, but it was still worth a shot.
- While looking back in 1875 to see her father's (Ian Maddox) attempts at destroying the starter, she learned that Ian Maddox magically traveling to the future and staying there for too long had made him sick (which eventually led to his death), and upon learning he had willingly stayed in the future to be with Erin and to raise Zoe, she cries over learning this, but was glad to know that her father loved her that much.
- After Pierce and Cody Hamilton attract some gold with the Sourd'Au recipe and accidently endanger Bay City by causing the power to go out, electronics to stop working, and buildings to collapse (due to gold being common in wires, pipes, microchips and even electronics and buildings), both her protector trio and the previous trio would cook multiple spells to teleport into houses and buildings, freeze time to take back the starter, and telepathically move metal to fix damage caused by the starter, allowing Zoe, Ish and Leo to teleport their neighbors and the restaurant customers out of the buildings and subways to safety while time's frozen.
- She was willing to go back to 1875 and convince Ian Maddox (aka her father James Walters) to not travel to the future to prevent anyone else from using the Sourd'Au starter for nefarious purposes, despite knowing full well that Ian would never met her mother, and thus Zoe would never be born and cease to exist in the process. Granted, Ish and Leo stopped Zoe before the latter could go through with it, but still, props for being willing to do so at all. Nobody else ever made or attempted to make a sacrifice that big before. Even Kelly, Hannah and Darbie can't claim they ever did or attempted to do this.
- After regaining the Sourd'Au starter, both her trio and the previous trio decided to repurpose it so that instead of stealing riches, it shared riches: in this case, it would share magic.
What Prevents Her From Being Pure Good?[]
- She has several jerkish moments throughout the series, most of which involve her partners Ish and Leo. She also has moments of being very cynical, anti-social and very impatient. A few examples are:
- Constantly looking down on Leo and his obsession over superheroes and comics (which he insists on being called " graphic novels")
- When the trio decides to start a food fund to earn money to buy for the magic recipes, she harshly shoots down Leo's idea to sell his graphic novel to a publisher, claiming that "nobody is buying a comic written by a kid."
- She repeatedly insisted the importance of the mystery involving her late father's plan and finding the Sour'Au starter, even if it means dismissing what others think.
- She refuses to let Ish post the blueprint to her channel for her followers to identify, insisting it needs to stay a secret.
- While in the library searching for the book her dad hid, she gets into an argument with Ish, which leads to them getting thrown out of the reference section. When this happens, she blames Ish for it.
- After learning that Cody and Lexi Hamilton were descendants of the Wesson family, she instantly assumes they were evil, and that they were onto her and her friends. She even tries to get Ish to break off her friendship with Lexi.
- After Lexi starts to get a change of heart and feels her father's obsession is going too far to the point where she gives the protectors their coin, Zoe's still was not completely convinced Lexi was on their side, though she was still willing to listen to Lexi's warning about her father's intentions.
- Then later, when Zoe realizes all of her coins went missing, she realizes Lexi had taken them, and immediately loses faith in her.
- While tutoring a boy on math for a test, he gets frustrated over the boy not understanding the material, to the point where he walks out on her.
- She hypocritically gets upset at Leo for cooking a magic recipe without her and Ish, even though she was planning on cooking a magic recipe without him. Ish even calls her out on this.
- After finding and cooking "Early Memory Mashed Bananas", she and Ish eventually get tired and unapologetically leave Leo to clean everything up.
- Constantly looking down on Leo and his obsession over superheroes and comics (which he insists on being called " graphic novels")
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