This is an iNPC. My main account is Maisie Gemmell.



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Name of PC: Maisie Gemmell
Name of iNPC:. Akerrah Koné
School of iNPC: Beauxbatons
Year: 1st
Sport: Quidditch (Seeker)
Link to PC Encyclopedia: Masie
Link to iNPC Encyclopedia: Akerrah
Half-breed: No, but a Seer.
Are you a part-goblin, parselmouth or werewolf? No
Wandmaker: No
Patronus: N/A
Nationality: Ivorian
Residence: Paris, France


History/Background Story:

There was a deep magic in the Koné family, but it had been lost for many, many years—centuries in fact. It was an ancient magic associated with the peoples of the Ivory Coast. And it was raw and untamed.

But over time as the family and the country fell to the muggle tastes of colonization, this magic was lost as the French muggle way of life became the way of survival.

And so it was until the new millennium, when a girl was born in Paris to immigrants from the Ivory Coast would reawaken this deep magic. At first she seemed so very ordinary: average height and composure for a child. And there was no way to tell what magic lurked under her skin or why it would flower here after all this time—that was a question not even she knew the answer to as she would step into the resonant halls of Beauxbatons Academy of Magic.

Akerrah Koné was raised in the 19th arrondissement of Paris by her parents, Fanta (née Yoboue) and Souleymane. A family of immigrants, they did not have much money. Her father worked at a local coffee shop during the day and drove a taxi at night while her mother taught French to other immigrant children. Now that she’s moved so far across the world, she had very little contact with her extended family—a hole in heart she’s never quite been able to fill.

Akerrah’s first instance of magic occurred around the age when she entered muggle primary school or école primaire (about age 6) and was bullied for the color of her skin. As a child, she may only have registered this as general cruelty rather than through the nuance lens of race, but it sparked an involuntary emotional reaction all the same as she sent a pencil flying, lifting off into the air on its own, at the student who’d made the offending comment.

Since then, Akerrah has struggled as she’s grown to balance both her identities as an African woman as well as a French woman. The addition of a surprise acceptance from Beauxbatons has only added to her questions about her identify. Now, she has to figure out how magic fits in to all of that.

Akerrah has dark cocoa colored skin, warm brown eyes, and shoulder-length raven black hair. She is known for being cautious and intuitive, but kind. There is a timidness and vulnerability in her as she is still trying to figure out who she is. She hopes that Beauxbatons will not only help her to understand how magic works, but perhaps also a better understanding of herself and her history.

First instance of Magic:

Akerrah’s first instance of magic occurred around the age when she entered muggle primary school or école primaire (about age 6) and was bullied for the color of her skin. As a child, she may only have registered this as general cruelty rather than through the nuance lens of race, but it sparked an involuntary emotional reaction all the same as she sent a pencil flying, lifting off into the air on its own, at the student who’d made the offending comment. (This is copied from above.)