what up y’all!!! my name is em, which definitely stands for emergency macaroni, and this here’s faline/lina which prob doesn’t stand for … idk, it’s a lotta letters for this early in the morning & as busy of a weekend as i’m having. there’s some little ditties about her under the cut, and some more info on her bio tab. lina’s wanted connections are mostly completed, so if you’d like to plot off that tab or not, either send!! me a mssg or like!! this here and i’ll come to you ✌
FALINE SANTIAGO is a 35 YEAR OLD NO-MAJ BORN wizard born on FEBRUARY 3RD 1983. The DEMISEXUAL CISFEMALE attended ARTEMISIA SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY. Their wand is approximately 10 3⁄4 INCHES, is made out of SYCAMORE, and has a SNALLYGASTER HEARTSTRING at its core. They use BOTH hands to cast spells. They are currently employed as an OFFICIANT OF MAGICAL SECRETS ( CHAMBER OF EXISTENCE ). Thoughts on No-majs: PROTECTIVE OF AND TERRIFIED FOR HER FRIENDS AND FAMILY. HER PARENTS LEFT FOR MEXICO SHORTLY BEFORE THE VOTE TO HELP TAKE CARE OF HER ABUELA, AND THE UNCERTAINTY OVER WHETHER THEY CAN RETURN TO THE COUNTRY AND STILL BE TOGETHER IS KILLING THEM.
'hey can a wix be a science nerd’ you bet your ass they can
ohhh - kay, so! lina’s no-maj born to sebastian quintana (mexican descent) & ana santiago (puerto rican descent), born in seattle, washington and raised all over, following her mom as an army brat. she has one brother (who i still need to send in a wanted connection for y i k e s - it’s a busy weekend what cannae i say) and is taking care of the family cat, gizmo, who is a piece of shit & faline does not in fact get along with all that well
her dad was a professor of biology at one of washington’s universities, & lina followed in his footsteps of being Very Scientifically Minded, which mixed oddly with, y’know. the eventual discovery that she (and her brother) are not no-majs despite coming from them. lina headed back to the northwest to attend artemisia school of witchcraft & wizardry bc she liked how their program seemed to marry science with magic so she could get the ~ the best of both worlds ~ . she did best in charms and potions & worst in transfiguration and care of magical creatures, and after graduation she was going to go the no-maj university route through a doctorate like her dad..... except she got scouted halfway through her master’s for mcusa, so she wound up leaving washington to go work for them instead in new york
she works on the 13th floor in the department of conundrums, chamber of existence as an officiant of magical secrets, and has a different elaborate lie for what she does up there each time someone asks. they’re really obviously fake & ridiculous, but she’s trying to keep the secret-keeping and her natural goofy extroversion in good mixture. she’s been there for 11 years.
just a tiny chatty hyperfixative workaholic goof - she loves her some people, but she’ll get wrapped up in her work and forget to, y’know, come down and actually talk to them. so she can be a little awkward bc she’s trying to rush past the barriers for a real good conversation since she keeps forgetting to come down and build the foundations before
umm ummmm okay relevant plot things: so shortly before rappaport’s was passed, her parents left for mexico to go help take care of her dad’s mom. now that it has passed, they’re stranded there until they all can figure out what the best solution is - lina’s hoping that the mexican magical government will help protect them from any american obliviators to buy them some time. until then they’re debating whether her parents will live out of the country until the law is abolished, or whether to go with lina’s plan-in-progress - working on how to smuggle her parents back into the states without being caught and somehow hide them from mcusa and its obliviators
.......... okay that ended on a downer what else. um. o yea, lina also likes to do experiments on her own time outside of the purview of her job, so she’s looking for an auror/field operative/whatever who’d like to test her not-gadgets-but-like-definitely-wizard-gadgets. let her be the q to your bond she is but a tiny science witch nerd
