Suzanne (Leonard Cohen)

NAME/ORIGIN
Character name	Suzanne
Song/Album	"Suzanne" / Songs of Leonard Cohen
Act	Leonard Cohen
Writer	Leonard Cohen
Release Date	1967 (1966, Judy Collins cover/single)
ABILITIES
Powers	-Ability to halt time, at least at night "You can spend the night forever" -Telepathy, matching your brainwaves to hers "She gets you on her wavelength" "She's touched your perfect body with her mind" (or at least you think so) "Just when you mean to tell her..." (she answers before you speak your question) -Telepathic ventriloquism; you think an object is speaking to your mind "She lets the river answer" -Ability to alter memories "You have no love to give her(?) You've always been her lover" -Ability to grant others telepathy "You've touched her perfect body with your mind"
Skills	Very observant, resourceful "She shows you were to look amid the garbage and the flowers"
Attributes	Seems sort of an ingenue, or Manic Pixie Dreamgirl
Vulnerabilities	Seems very bent on being accepted. Would find it hard to tolerate rejection.
Formidability	Limited. Seems to only affect one person at a time.
Attractiveness	Extremely charismatic: "You know that she's half-crazy/ But that's why you want to be there." "You want to travel with her; you want to travel blind" "You know that you can trust her" (and) "you know that she will trust you." "Suzanne takes your hand and she leads you"
Source	N/A
Goals	Seems to be motivated to help people
POSSESSIONS
Weapons	N/A
Amulets	N/A although her mirror is "the mirror" as if it were unique (magic?) somehow
Objects	"Tea and oranges that come all the way from China" a "mirror"
Clothing	"Rags and feathers"
Vehicles	N/A but "travels" somehow Lives in a harbor by a river, so she may own a boat (speculative)
Dwelling	"Her place," perhaps a house or apartment
Milieu	"near the river/ you can hear the boats go by"  is called "Our Lady of the Harbor."
BIOGRAPHY
Gender	Female
Age	20s (speculative). May be immortal or nearly so, as she can stop time.
Physique	N/A
Ethnicity	N/A
Origin	N/A
Ancestry	N/A
Profession	Seems to be unemployed. Is poor, in any case.
Education	N/A
SES	Low: "She's wearing rags... from (the) Salvation Army"
Relationships	-seems to be intensely involved with one person at a time -"Holds a mirror" to those "children" who are "leaning out for love... forever"; perhaps this implies that she is saying they should look to themselves for love, not to others. -"Heroes in the seaweed"-- perhaps these are the sailors of the "boats" that "go by" on the "river" and dock in the shores of her "harbor"; she may idolize them as "heroes" for their ability and desire to "travel."
Pets	N/A
PERSONALITY
Morality	Good. Seems gentle and good hearted
Intro/extrovert	Extrovert
Intelligence	Above average
Emotions	Seems highly emotional and deeply invested in life
Sanity	"You know that she's half-crazy"
Enemies	N/A
Narrative Function	Catalyst. Seems to want to bring others on her adventures
Other Notes	I can see a story in which someone-- perhaps someone who has given up on life and is just "sitting on the dock of the bay, wasting time"-- is pulled into a relationship with Suzanne, whom he sees scavenging in the garbage by the harbor in rags. He goes to help her, only to realize it is she who can open his mind to the wondrousness of existence and life. And he considers leaving, but it's hard because she's mentally controlling him, but also why? She's very easy to be with, always interesting and interested... and it's not like he was doing anything else anyway. So he stays with her and they travel together and "have adventures," and he realizes that he has no idea if any of it is real or just things she is making him believe. But then he decides he doesn't care, since her reality is nicer and more interesting that his anyway. He even realizes that there may be others in her thrall like him, but that he is being blocked from being aware of them by her telepathy, and again he comes to accept this since he can't really know, or even change it if he did.