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Jocie was born to purebloods Octavia and Demetrius Belldown, more commonly known as the Bells.

She’s the middle child of 5, the order being:

- Grace: 24

- William: 19

- Jocie: 16

- Bertha: 11

- Warren: 7

Her family didn’t engage much with pureblood politics, and was largely ignored as a result. The Bell family primarily kept to themselves, as they sought to build their own legacy outside of their pureblood status. Their own relatives largely disregarded them. It wasn’t much of a surprise when the pureblood Belldown family name was lost to time.

Growing up, she was known as the wild child of her family. She could usually be found romping around outside, or exploring areas she shouldn’t be.

She would always bring a notebook with her to write down everything she learned. She also brought a large bag to carry interesting things that she found.

She was very close with her cousin, Garreth Weasley, growing up, and often went on these adventures with him. The two often got into mischief together, and acted more like twins than cousins.

She was also very close with her aunt Matilda Weasley, who was more of a mother figure to her than her own mom.

Whenever she wasn’t doing this, you could likely find her nose-deep in a book. She loved learning anything and everything she could, and would attempt to put what she learned into practice. Her family got called in for a violation of the Underage Restriction of Magic rule a few times because she kept stealing her older siblings’ wands to practice.

More than anything, she longed to learn how to fly. Several times, she ‘borrowed’ her older sister’s broom to practice flying. Her brother, William, who also used to do this, would give her secret flying lessons.

She is also a huge fan of the Holyhead Harpies, which she’s longed to join ever since she was a child.

Her parents fought fairly often, and only did so more and more as the years passed. She’d grown up in this environment with her siblings her whole life, and learned to suppress her own feelings to comfort her younger sister and brother after her older siblings left (which was fairly early). This suppression of negative emotions carried on to the present.

She has a strained relationship with her mother, who was very strict and emotionally distant. Jocie carries a bit of resentment toward her mother for this; but at the same time, desperately wanted to please her and earn her approval. This began her frequent pattern of people-pleasing.

On the other hand, she was closer to her father, who taught her how to make candy; a skill his own father, a successful candy maker, had taught him.

Both of her parents, for whatever reason, were far stricter with her than her other siblings. Though she never determined the exact reason why, she always assumed it was because she was so much more bold and rebellious than her siblings were.

At first, she tried to remedy this by acting how she supposed they wanted her too. When this didn’t work, she turned to rebelliousness in her frustration.

As she always had to stick to a certain act at home (she and her siblings were still pureblood children with certain expectations placed upon them), she took school as an opportunity to act out.

This didn’t please either of her parents, distancing them more and more. By the time she was a teenager, she had a fairly strained relationship with both of them. When she started attending Hogwarts, she gradually began to fall out of contact with them.

A similar thing happened with her older siblings, who were moving on with their lives. She mostly spoke with her younger siblings whenever she came home, though even their relationship was made somewhat awkward due to her tense relations with their parents.

As far as friends went, she actually made them surprisingly easily despite her rather intense personality. Her loyalty, warmth, and boundless energy attracted her peers and gave her the companionship she’d always lacked at home.

Despite this, it still never felt enough for her. She longed for something more. Even despite her amiable relationship with her father in childhood, she’d always been deprived of a certain parental closeness. She tried to fill this hole by entering into relationships as a teenager.

She entered into many, and all very quickly. She found dating and flings to be very a very fun and enjoyable pastime, and began doing it regularly as one of her frequent hobbies.

However, there was still that hole in her heart longing for deeper connection beyond the physical relations she engaged in. For the longest time, she ignored this by spending all her time in relationship after relationship.

Then she met Ominis. And her heart told her he was the One True Love she’d been searching for her whole life. The one who could ‘fix her’. ‘Heal her’. ‘Complete her’.

(Which obviously isn’t something anyone else can do, but that was her mindset at the time)