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The First Wand

At age eleven, a then female presenting Artem was dragging all the way to France for school shopping, primarily because Alanna wanted her half-Veela daughter to have a wand as exotic as she was. She also insisted on a Veela hair core, despite the fact that none of the wands really spoke to Artem. The child kept gravitating toward the simpler wands, but Alanna spoke over the wandmaker they were working with to get exactly what she thought Artem needed. The wand they walked out with was a firm 8 inch African Blackwood wand with a Veela hair core. Everything from the wood to the core radiated a stubborn and finnicky personality that Artem never clicked with. Even the ornate design of the wand was hard to hold. They did terribly their first year at Hogwarts, and in hindsight, Artem blamed their wand.

Artem can’t even pretend they snapped the wand accidentally because they looked their mother in the eye and broke it in half. She was understandably pissed, and Artem suffered the consequences of it all summer. Once they had a new wand, though, Artem couldn’t help feeling it was worth it.

The Second Wand

Artem’s father took them to Ollivander’s at the end of the summer because they couldn’t well be sent back to school without a wand. He had a much more hands off approach, but Artem also suspected that Ollivander wouldn’t have let himself be bullied as much as the French maker had. He helped Artem select a wand that in some ways was similar to the last. It was on the shorter side and unyielding, but instead of the finnicky stubbornness of the other, this one felt like an ally Artem could trust from the moment it was placed in their right hand. It was 9 1/4 inches of fir wood with a dragon heartstring core. It was simple but sturdy, and that’s what Artem needed.

☼ How does your character usually dress in daily life?

A funky athletic lesbian, okay? Artem doesn’t necessarily dress like he spends every day in the gym, which is probably good because he doesn’t have that kind of time unfortunately. He does still go on a regular basis, so it should be a surprise to find him dressed that way. He has worked hard to expand his wardrobe to be a little classier, a little more professional of sorts. That mostly just means adding some button-ups and a few better jackets.

♔ What (if any) jewelry does your character usually wear?

Artem isn’t really an accessories person. He occasionally throws on a necklace or a hat and sometimes remembers a watch, but that’s about it.

👓 What kind of mobility or assistive devices (if any) does your character use in daily life? (Glasses, canes, hearing aides, wheelchairs, etc.)

XOXO.   does your muse use / like pet names?

Artem is not a huge fan of pet names because many have been used against them in general and in the ring full of condescension. They aren’t against them on principle, but they have to like you to let you get away with using one.

ZZZ.   how many people has your muse slept with?

Sex is a really complicated issue for Artem. They don’t mind letting people close physically in the right circumstances and had plenty of short flings and one night situations during their days involved in the muggle London gay scene. That said, Artem has a lot of discomfort about their body when it comes to other people. They don’t want their chest touched and need a partner they trust to allow anything below the waist. During their more dysphoric moments, even a pair of hands on their hips have been too much. 

Since they were 19, Artem has been taking monthly doses of the Cypiotepoh Potion, a testosterone enhancement potion originally created to help Russian Quidditch players bulk up and have the muscle mass for the intense full-tree games they play. Since then, the formula has been adapted for a variety of needs. One of its more common uses is as an alternative to the Attisgalli Corrective Draught (x). Unlike the draught, Cypiotepoh’s effects will not create as much physical change. 

Alexi has had a cat since he was thirty years old and he never goes more than a month without them. He adopted the first one after he learned the transfiguration spell, because he’s never liked or trusted people but leaving the shop unattended has always bothered him. Something about naming them after the Catholic saints didn’t sit well with him when he knew they’d spend most of their time in a black magic shop, so he went with the other religious influence of his life and named most of them for the Greek gods.

He has no control over what they look like in their human forms, but he would (and has) said that they all still look like a cat.

☯: Do they believe in karma?

They don’t believe in it in a true spiritual sense, but they do think the universe has a certain level of give and take to it. Doing kind things and being positive makes positive things more likely to happen while negativity and spiteful behavior will absolutely catch up. 

❥ :Opinion on love from the first sight

By batting their eyes and tilting their head just right, Artem could have half the room declaring love in an instant. Kind of kills the mood of believing in genuine emotion based on a first encounter.

✟ : Religious beliefs

The Goonies - Bling, bling, ladies! Does your muse wear earrings, necklaces, bracelets, rings, etc.?