Mona Mayfair is a character in The Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos, Blackwood Farm and Blood Canticle. She is the fourteenth witch of the Mayfair clan and also the Designee of the Mayfair Legacy.
Description[]
She is described as very beautiful, with flowing red hair, green eyes and fair skin. She had a sixth finger when she was born but it was removed. A sixth finger is considered a mark of a witch. Like Rowan, she has specifically double the number of chromosomes (92).
Personality[]
Mona Mayfair is extremely confident about her own intelligence and strong willed. She is particularly interested in computers, hoping to use them to figure out her family tree and at one point suggesting she create a vampire website. Mona is frequently put into positions that put her desire to be seen as an intelligent and full fledged adult in juxtaposition with her real age and experiences.
Mona is a powerful witch, and may be more powerful than her cousin Rowan. From the age of twelve her stated goal is to sleep with as many of her male relatives as possible, a mission at which she is disturbingly successful. After giving birth to her Taltos daughter, she is overwhelmed by the burden of being the designee of the Mayfair legacy, and struggles to come to terms with her likely death at a young age. She has an obsession with the Shakespearean character, Ophelia.
Biography[]
Mona was the product of careful inbreeding schemed by Uncle Julien, the only male "witch" of the Mayfair clan. Mona was born in 1977. She was born to 13 year old, Alicia and Patrick Mayfair, who are both alcoholics. Her mother dies after being raped by Lasher when she is thirteen, and she is put under the guardianship of her cousin Rowan Mayfair and her husband, who Mona has at that point slept with, Michael Curry. Mona discovers she has been impregnated by Michael and gives birth to a Taltos named Morrigan. Morrigan disappears with a male Taltos, and Mona discovers that she has become extremely fertile, but also extremely likely to miscarry. The toll of this on her health leads to terminal illness, for which Rowan treats her at Mayfair Medical.
At Mayfair Medical's restaurant when she is fifteen, she meets Quinn Blackwood, falls in love with him quickly, and attempts to make a plan to run away with him, which falls apart when Rowan informs Quinn of the extent of Mona's illness. Quinn leaves on a trip to Europe that goes on for several years, and the two communicate through email. When Quinn returns, he does not have a chance to see her before he becomes a vampire. She flees from Mayfair Medical to meet him at Blackwood Farm to die surrounded by flowers when she fears her illness has become too advanced and that Rowan may use her telekinetic powers to put her out of her misery before she can see Quinn again. On Quinn's behalf after hearing his story, Lestat transforms Mona into a vampire.
In Blood Canticle, Lestat attempts to do right by Mona by instructing her as his fledgling, but the two butt heads constantly. Mona is enthusiastic to live her adult life to the fullest, having died at the age of twenty after a prolonged illness, and feels as though Lestat is attempting to infantilize her. She specifically calls out Lestat's inability to talk to women who aren't his mother without treating them like dolls, something Lestat is insulted by. She also comes into conflict with Rowan when they meet again, accusing Rowan of failing to try hard enough to locate Morrigan and the Taltos. With the assistance of Lestat and Maharet, Mona finds Morrigan on the island where the Taltos tried to build their civilization, but she has been captured by drug dealers and improperly cryogenically preserved as a bargaining chip for her Taltos children, and cannot be revived. Maharet brings Mona and her lover Quinn to her remote compound to educate them as vampires properly, while Lestat remains in Louisiana.
Mona is speculated to have died in the second "great burning" done at the behest of Amel during Prince Lestat.