Elliot Everest is a white person with they/them pronouns. They are biologically male, but at age eleven they are slowly starting to figure out their gender identity (eventually, they'll realize they are genderfluid.) They have recently started experimenting with their haircut: slightly longer black hair is their current favourite. They have a tendency to brush their hair and then deliberately mess it up again, resulting in what they think is a fashionably messy hairstyle.
They have their mother's warm and very dark brown eyes.

Elliot has been mildly bullied during elementary school and because of that, they have given up completely on trying to fit in. They don't believe they can anymore. They got this idea because they were a pureblood wix going to a muggle school during the time their magic made its first appearances. Even though they're now going to Hogwarts, the idea has settled in and will probably stay there. This does help them to get the confidence to experiment with their gender expression, so they'll most likely alter their appearance a lot during their time at Hogwarts.
A second result of the bullying is that they are very sarcastic and they will not allow anyone to insult them/walk over them/ignore them. Their comebacks are always present and always hit or miss.

Elliot's parents are both pureblood wizards. Their father, William Everest, met their mother, Linda van Doorn while doing business in Amsterdam. The Everests are well-respected among the wizard community, due to Elliot's grandfather, who was an activist for muggles' and squibs' rights. The Van Doorns are a rich Dutch pureblood family. After Linda moved to Scotland, they got married and had three kids: Robert, Lincoln, and Elliot. Robert is 8 years older and Lincoln is 6 years older than Elliot.
When the family moved to Stirling, Elliot was 7 and their brothers had already gone to Hogwarts. They went to a new muggle elementary school (their mother insisted they'd go to one to learn about muggles), and was not welcomed into their new class. They made one muggle friend, Liz, short of Elizabeth, by standing up for her against a bully in their first week at school. From that point on they were the unpopular kids together.

The first time Elliot accidentally used magic was when they found out they were moving. Their parents announced it at dinner and they got angry because they would have to leave their friends behind. When their father shouted at them for shouting at their mother all of their glasses broke.