Name of PC: Scout Fu-Hai
Name of iNPC: Zyair Ona'je
School of iNPC: Uagadou
Year: 2

Physical Description: The most notable feature about Zyair is that he's tall- abnormally so. While most boys his age are anywhere from 4'10 to 5'2, Zyair stands at 5'4. While that isn't that tall for an adult, it is for a twelve year old! Most people tend to comment about his height, and they fail to see his soft smile and dimples, an overall very sweet face.
Zyair's skin is fairly dark, he spends a lot of time outside after all. Unlike most of his friends, though, he takes great pride in making sure his skin is clear and his skin isn't ever ashy. His clothes are always ironed and he tries not to ruin his shirts when he's outside. This transpires over to the way Zyair keeps his hair, keeping it in a high fade most of the time. He likes to think it makes him look like a respectable young man.

Mental Description: To describe Zyair's personality in one word, it would be that he is calm. Rarely does he ever show any facial expression besides relaxed pleasantry, and he never raises his voice unless absolutely necessary. He's thoughtful and very insightful, able to read expressions and make accurate educated guesses with ease.
Due to this insightfulness, Zyair often finds himself curating every persona he shows to others- it's easier to not freak people out when you pretend you know less than you actually do. It's also easier to not freak someone out when you conveniently don't mention that you remember a fact about someone that they definitely don't remember telling you.

Biography: Born in the Côte d'Ivoire, or the Ivory Coast, Zyair lives in the city of Abidjan with his mother and three sisters. Zyair is the middle child in his family, born on the 11th of November, 2011. Though his eldest sister- a previous Uagadou student, now turned Ministry worker in London- is almost double his age, at 24. His other two sisters are twins, and are the babies of the family. Though they're both only four, they seem to get into more trouble than Zyair ever did growing up!

Zyair's father passed away when he was only a baby, which pains him a bit. His mother would tell him stories of the wonderful things that his dad did, how he was an Auror that spent his time catching evil wizards and witches, and how he did it all to keep Zyair and his family safe. Being an Auror can come at a great cost, and for Zyair's father, it was his life. The details are hazy (that, and he was still young when his mother decided he was old enough to know the truth), his father and a comrade were coming close to a dark wizard, the killing curse was fired, and that was that. Though his mother is transparent about what happened, Zyair tries to tune out all conversation regarding his dad.

Zyair comes from a family of wizards and witches, both his mother and older sister went to Uagadou, but his father attended a different magic school in Africa, though Zyair didn't know the name. If he was being honest, he was pretty thrilled to go to a magic school. Uagadou sounded so fun and his mother had talked it up- it was a very exciting day when Zyair had woken up from his dream with his token in hand.

Zyair had, for most of his life, lived in the muggle part of Abidjan. His father liked it there more, said he had muggle friends close by- and it was close to the magical part, too. He knew his mother wanted to live with other wizards and witches instead, but he also knew that his mother wouldn't deny his father of his wants, even in death.

So, color him surprised when he comes back from his trip in London in the summer of 2024, and his mother informs him that they've moved. When they walk back from where he had flood into Abidjan from, she tells him all about 'the little apartment over by another magical family'. Three bedrooms and one bathroom, it's a little smaller than the one they've lived in Zyair's whole life, but that doesn't really matter since 'he's not going to be there all the time anymore'. Really it's not the size of the apartment that shocks him, it's where it is. With other wizards, where the friend of his cousin lives who can cast spells and goes to Uagadou the same way Zyair does.

His mother only tells him that it's 'unfair' that Chichi and Mariam have to grow up surrounded by muggles, and that it was unfair that him and Eba had to do the same. 'It's ok if it's not what Papa wants, he'll be happy nonetheless.' He kind of hates it when she talks about his dad like he's still there, but he sighs and says 'sounds good'.

It wasn't like he had to get rid of all his friends, anyway. Even if he didn't live in the neighborhood, he still could set up days to go out and play kickball or ride bikes. It surprises him, how he had become friends with so many people from different backgrounds. He considered himself a 'friendly loner', but that couldn't have been further from the truth. He was more like a 'friendly popular student'.

His 'collection' of muggle friends wouldn't end when they moved. It'd start off simple, one of his magic friends had a cousin or something that were muggle- half-bloods with muggle-born parents or something like that. So him and his friend would go visit that cousin for a play-date, and well that cousin obviously had five or six muggle friends over- and then before Zyair knew it, he had some muggle friends mixed in with the magic friends he had. He liked it, if he were being honest. The mix between magic and non-magic was a thick and bolded line, which he thoroughly enjoyed crossing over. Knowing all about muggle literature was his favorite thing.

First Instance of Magic: Zyair's first instance of magic happened at home, a few days after his fifth birthday. He had been playing with the cute toys his sister had gotten him, when he became overwhelmed with the urge to sneeze. As soon as he did, the stuffed dog he was holding turned into a bunch of bubbles- scaring Zyair senseless in the process.