Physical Description:
Elawyn is a bit of a scrawny child. Her long, dark hair is always just a little bit messy. The clothing she bought was one size too large, so they're a bit loose on her. She's fine with it, saying she'll grow into it. Aside from being short, there isn't much that would make her stand out from others.


Mental Description:
Elawyn is the type to pursue adventure. She never means to break any rules or put herself into danger, but her sense of curiosity constantly pushes her into those situations. She especially loves animals and magical creatures, and will not hesitate to approach those that most would find scary. If a friend were with her to dissuade her, she'd likely relent for their sake, but there's plenty chance that she'd go back again on her own.

Even at hope, Elawyn can find plenty of adventure within a good book as well. In a way, they are part of what motivate her to get into as much trouble as she does. She also enjoys the arts and crafting, and it can be a good way to keep her from actually getting into trouble. She always keeps her big drawing book on hand to draw anything new or unusual that she comes across.

Despite that, she does take her classes seriously and has a strong desire to learn, if at least for her own motivations. Elawyn's major interests in topics related to care of magical beasts and transfiguration.

Among things she likes
- Dragons. If there is anyone to talk about dragons with, it is her. If she knows it, she will talk for hours about it. If she doesn't, she will dig relentlessly for knowledge.
- Magical creatures
- Venturing into wilds
- Arts, creative or performing
- Lots of colours
- Action filled literature

Things she doesn't like
- Having to stay in one place for long periods of time
- Mean spirited individuals
- Anything that may imply a creature has been hurt in some way
[She never liked seeing her mother using parts of creatures in potions]

Things and topics that give Elawyn fear or discomfort
- The undead. It will take her a while to get used to ghosts in Hogwarts
- Dark wizardry
- Bees and other stinging insects. They're among the few creatures she'd actually go out of her way to avoid.
- Anything with tentacles. This is the other of the things. Unlike with stinging insects, if she was able to have friendly interactions with a creature with tentecles long enough, she could probably get past the unease, at least for that individual creature.

Biography:
Elawyn had family from both Wales and Scotland. She was and still is currently an only child. While she primarily lived in Wales, she would often visit her extended family in Scotland as well. She'd also seen a lot of England in between, so she was quite used to moving about often. After her first instance of magic at seven years, they remained home at most times to avoid any accidents in front of muggles.
Her home life was fine with parents that didn't often quarrel. Her father was a herbologist with a small greenhouse of his own while her mother specialized in potions. She was kept away from the more dangerous articles and wasn't allowed in unless supervised, but there were times she had snuck in to the greenhouse out of curiosity.
During one of her trips to Scotland, she'd learned that her older cousin was an animagus, and she desperately wanted to become one as well. Because of this, she'd snuck mandrake leaves from the greenhouse. She'd tried three times to keep the leaf in her mouth. The first two times, she'd almost swallowed it and accidentally spit it out. The third time, she was caught by her parents and unfortunately for her, hadn't gotten a chance to try since.

First Instance of Magic:
Elawyn was spending time with her parents picnicking in a flowery field near their home eating fruit sandwiches when a bee landed on her leg. With an unfortunate fear of bees, the moment Elawyn saw it, she got scared and screamed. At the same time, a gust of wind pushed outward in all directions from where she was, completely overturning their picnic setup.

After the initial shock of ruined picnic, her parents were absolutely elated that her magic was showing itself. Elawyn was too distracted by the scare of a bee to realize right away what had happened. She was very happy to know when she did that her magic had appeared and had since been very impatient about starting to learn to use it.