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Denahi Spirit // 20 // Fifth Year // Horned Serpent // Pureblood

Philosophy of Magic

FC: Michael Hudson 

Denahi was four years old when his parents were killed by hunters and three when he was dragged into the world of glamour that was pureblood high society. He wasn’t really old enough to grasp everything that was happening but he knew that the decisions their parents had made, including getting married in the first place, were anything but selfish. Having Sitka around made the grieving process easier and he never really went without love. Despite all this, he grew to almost despise no-majs and certainly hate hunters. There was so much wrong with their world and he failed to see why any wizard or witch should want any part of it.  

As he grew he was given the totem of wisdom, a decision that confused him but he half heartedly embraced. He enjoyed his time at Ilvermorny for a few years until the summer before his younger brother Kenai was to go off for his first year at Ilvermorny. After his brother’s Totem ceremony, the young wizard went after the bear who’d ruined their fishing. The older two brothers went after him, desperate to keep him safe but in the process, Sitka lost his life, the most important support Denahi had was gone. In one fell swoop, he had to grow up.

Denahi tried very hard not to be mad at his younger brother but he couldn’t quite manage it. He loved Kenai, he really did but he was only human. Denahi was hurt, lost and alone while at the same time, having to be none of those things for a younger brother who didn’t seem to fully grasp the gravity of his actions. He didn’t want to blame Kenai for what happened but he did. He couldn’t help it. He wanted nothing to do with the pureblood world of magic but without their parents or older brother he needs to find a way to secure a future. The only problem is that he hates pretty much all the purebloods he meets, can he learn to grin and bear it for a brother he is growing to despise or will he give up?

Positive Traits:

Smart, Resourceful, Wise

Negative Traits:

Sarcastic, Bitter, Narrow-Minded

Connections:

Alexa Martinez // 18 // 6th Year // Horned Serpent  // Half Blood

Alchemical Chemistry Specialization  

FC: Ana De Armas    

Alexa, or Honey Lemon as she is known by friends, is a bundle of energy and joy. She is frequently at the centre of big events, taking pictures and posting them to social media. She has a passion for fashion and hard work but she oddly enough never draws attention to herself for it or at least, she doesn’t mean to. Honey grew up in a family where she was taught that you worked hard and celebrated everyone’s accomplishments, not just your own. In many ways, the field she is most interested in is an uphill climb, being both female interested in a highly scientific field of magic and proving the necessity of such magic in a very anti-nomaj society but she believes very earnestly that if she thinks positive she can achieve her goals.

Honey used to be pretty self conscious about her height, well, she still is but she’s gotten a lot better about it. She’s very tall and loves wearing heels, making her usually around six foot two inches. Usually she intimidates people but sometimes, she inspires jealousy. Ever since she first arrived at Ilvermorny when she was thirteen, she’s been bullied, occasionally she’d be tripped in the hall and sometimes her things would end up in a school fountain but nothing that was life ruining by her reckoning. Lately though, as her work’s been progressing, it’s gotten worse. Fewer and fewer people bother talking to her. She’s been isolated and lonely and been the victim of attempted memory wiping, the worst though, was when an unknown witch or wizard used the imperious curse on her. The event had been traumatizing but she’s been determined not to let it show. Part of her wants to figure out who’s been doing this but more than anything she doesn’t want to be distracted from the work she’s sacrificed so much to do.

Positive Traits:

Kind, Generous, Hardworking

Negative Traits:

Saccharine, Push-Over, Avoidant  

Hiro Hamada // 17 // 5th Year // Horned Serpent  // Half Blood

Undecided

FC:Fukushi Sota

Hiro was born in San Francisco to a witch and a no-maj, straddling the line between magic and the non magical worlds, loving and respecting both equally and having very little regard for the rules of each. His parents died when he was very young and he was essentially raised by his witch aunt Cass and big brother Tadashi. He was a difficult child because not only did he feel incredibly lonely and frustrated, he was very smart, too smart for his own good. He got in a lot of trouble, magic bot fighting. He was mostly home schooled, not wanting to go to Tadashi’s nerd school Ilvermorny but he was convinced to go when Tadashi tricked him into checking it out.

Before he enrolled, he was also convinced to use his big brain for something legal and productive so he submitted an invention to the magi-tech and alchemy conference in Boston. He created a ground breaking nano-bot technology but there was a fire and he lost not only his tech but his brother who’d gone back into the blaze to try and help someone still inside the building. There was no body to bury but his brother was gone. He ended up going to Ilvermorny anyway, despite himself, perhaps trying to be closer to his brother. Little does he know that his tech has fallen into the hands of witch hunters and being used to kill his kind. Will he uncover the truth of what happened the night of the fire and will he be able to stop his invention being used for evil or will he let the weight of what happened crush him?

Positive Traits:

Intelligent, Street Smart, Caring

Negative Traits:

Moody, Withdrawn, Arrogant

Connections:

Mateo De Alva // 17 // 5th year // Horned Serpent // Pureblood

Undecided

FC: Blake Michael 

The De Alva family were the advisors to the royal family of Avalor before Shariki invaded and stripped the family of their title. She forbade them from performing Magic out of fear that their loyalty would cause an uprising among the people of Avalor. Mateo spent years studying magic unable to actually do any of it until his parents decided it would be in his best interest to send him far away to practice magic. The young wizard excelled at Ilvermorny even with his unconventional wand, that had a drum instead of a point at the end.

The Avalorian was among some of the students who helped free the princess from the amulet. He was a bit skeptical since he was told that the royal family was destroyed long before he was born. Mateo knows his family's ties to the royal family and he thinks Elena is great. But does he want to get involved with take Shariki down? He just wants to decide upon his specialization and practice magic. What will Mateo do?

Positive Traits:

Smart, Humble, Kind

Negative Traits:

Overly Cautious, Oblivious, Self Deprecating 

Connections:

Drake Facilier // 16 // 4th Year // Horned Serpent

Undecided

FC: Jaden Smith

Drake Facilier has a chip the size of Arkansas on his shoulder. His mother comes from a prestigious pureblood family from the French Quarter in Louisiana. However, his father is a no-maj. He was a broke street musician with nothing but talent and a handsome face. Drake’s mother threw away her inheritance and married the handsome man. What is money and stability when you had love?

It didn't take long for Drake’s father to walk out on the family life. He had his art to think about and being a father got in the way of that. Drake’s mother and he were left to fend for themselves because his maternal magical relatives wanted nothing to do with a blood traitor like his mother or a filthy mixed blood child like Drake.

As Drake’s magic developed, he started hustling no-maj tourists. He performed tea leaf and tarot card readings. He put on a good show and he was bringing in the big bucks. It all stopped once his mother enrolled him at Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It was hard for her to have her main source of income go away but it was for his benefit.

At school, he was just like everyone else. His magic was no longer mysterious or fantastical. That was when he started to dabble in the dark arts. At first it was small things. Then he made some questionable friends who introduced him to the true dark arts. He became intoxicated and seduced by them. Is it too late for the young wizard to change his ways? Does he even care? Only time will tell.

Positive Traits:

Smart, Ambitious, Resourceful

Negative Traits:

Greedy, Reckless, Power Hungry 

Connections:

Jafar Vizier  // 21 // 9th year // Horned Serpent  // Pureblood

Business and charms specialization

FC: Shazad Latif

Jafar grew up with a very uncomplicated outlook on life. For generations his family worked for the Sultans and so when he grew up he would as well and that whatever immoral things he would have to do, it was fine, after all it wasn’t anything personal it was just business. He always secretly hoped that one day he might marry into the Sultans themselves, he was devoted and loyal to them and he thought that the loyalty of his family should be rewarded. It became abundantly clear as Jasmine grew up that this wasn’t going to happen and it left him bitter. Marriage for people like them wasn’t about love, it was a contract. Love didn’t really exist anyway so there was no point in being hung up over it.  

He’s highly interested in taking over the Sultan business and is starting to not really care what ends he has to go to to get it. He’s considered murdering the Sultan Patriarch and slipping Jasmine a love potion but the method he feels most satisfying would be to buy the company out and bring Jasmine’s father to his knees. He’s heard of a magical item hidden out in the Nevada dessert in some cave that is worth a lot of money but he knows he can’t get it alone. He isn’t powerful enough at magic and he isn’t skilled enough at theft. There is a person who is stealing money from the casino and Jafar wants to hunt them down and have them do it. Little does he know that the thief is a lot closer to him at Ilvermorny that he thought…

Positive Traits:

Ambitious, Shrewd, Intelligent

Negative Traits:

Conniving, Treacherous, Cold

Connections:

Hans Westergard  // 21  // 9th year // Horned Serpent  // Pureblood

Magical Politics Specialization

FC: Joseph Morgan

Hans is the youngest of twelve brothers and grew up in a stately home in South Carolina. His mother was a strong woman with a cold look in her eye and his father was almost always off on business. Neither of his parents had much time for him, spending all their time on his older, more accomplished siblings. He tried to glean even a morsel of interest, as hard as he could but he was largely ignored. His oldest brothers even pretended he didn’t exist for an entire year. He almost thought that he didn’t exist.

As he got older he buried his feelings deep, deep down knowing that if he let himself feel anything, it would only weaken him. He became a wolf in sheep’s clothing, acting as consequential as they made him out to be but accomplishing a lot more that way. By the time he was Twelve he already knew every useful secret of his town’s mayor’s office, each of which his mother found useful and so she told him the family’s greatest secret…that they were once kings. Centuries ago in Europe they were the royal family of a small European nation on an island off the coast of France but they were overthrown by the powerful witches of the corona bloodline. The Westergards were disgraced and the Corona’s rose to power and ever since, the family has sworn revenge by destroying their bloodline once and for all. An agent of theirs had even gone so far as to kidnap the heir of the family to condition her to be loyal to their side and there was one more branch of the family to ruin.

Deep down the story scared him, he wasn’t sure he bought into the idea of murdering people, let alone people his age but this was what he thought he wanted. He wanted recognition and to be included. He told himself it was fine, that if he was included, if they confirmed his existence he would play along. When he was accepted into Ilvermorny, he thought he would be somewhat removed from his family’s secret crusade but everything changed when he saw Elsa Arendelle. He had been told the name and he knew who she was and being the dutiful son he was, he told his mother immediately.

Years later, when he was eighteen, his older brothers orchestrated the plane crash that killed Elsa’s parents. He told himself that he didn’t feel guilty, it was all for the greater good, his greater good. His mother wants him to take advantage of his position at school and either kill Elsa or use the imperious curse to control her and use her as a tool for their side. It sounds to him like his mother wants more than just revenge, that she wants world domination and at this point, after all he’s done, he isn’t sure he’s too opposed to the idea. He’s already gone pretty dark already, why not go all the way?

Positive Traits:

Cunning, Charismatic, Confident  

Negative Traits:

Manipulative, Cruel, Dishonest  

Connections:

Aurora Briar Rose  // 18  // 6th year // Horned Serpent  // Pureblood

Divination specialization

Britt Robertson 

Once upon a time, there lived a young girl named Aurora Briar Rose. Her father liked to call her A.B., her mother liked to call her Rora, and she loved the sound of either name. She grew up in a very nice home, in a very nice neighbourhood in Idaho. She was an only child, and yet she was remarkably unspoiled. For the first ten years of her life, things were perfect and happy until very suddenly, they weren’t.

Rora began to fall asleep at random, often causing herself injuries in the process. Her parents thought is was narcolepsy and took her in for tests with the local magic folk hospital. The healers believed it was narcolepsy as well, at least they did at first. Then, Aurora would tell them about the dreams she had. They were vague at first, but very quickly, they became very, very lifelike. They were dreams of things that hadn’t happened yet. Some of the dreams were very clear, and some of them were more symbolic, but all were true. She was a gifted dreamer, someone who could tell the future through their dreams.

The gift she had felt far more like a curse. Besides the injuries she might attain, the dreams were often terrifying and traumatizing. With no one to protect her inside the dream, she found it very difficult to cope, and it began to eat away at her mind. To make matters worse, she fell asleep more and more frequently. Not knowing what to do, and unable to help their daughter, they sent her to live with some specialized healers in the forest, hoping she may overcome her condition, if only a little.

When she was thirteen she was accepted to Ilvermorny and she immediately became enthralled with divination classes. For the first time she felt a step closer to having some kind of control over her curse. She even began taking classes with the headmaster, professor Cato Pillar. Initially, things seemed to be going very well but it wasn’t long before her gift took over.  Over the years, she’s been falling asleep more and more and for longer. The dream is almost always the same or some variation of it. She sees the castle being covered in thorns, and she sees herself being covered in them. She’s worried that she’s seeing her death, and she’s worried that the next time she falls asleep, she just won’t wake up. She wants to reach out to someone, anyone for help, but her classmates are afraid of her, afraid they’re going to be around when she breaks.

Positive Traits:

Eloquent, Graceful, Gentle

Negative Traits:

Dreamy, Defeatist, Weak-willed  

Connections:

Flora Benevolia: The eldest of the Benevolia sisters, adopted daughters of Rora’s chief healer in the woods in Idaho. She’s very fond of her. 

Fauna Benevolia: The second eldest of the Benevolia sisters, adopted daughters of Rora’s chief healer in the woods in Idaho. She’s very fond of her.