Physical Description: Irina takes after her grandmother with her white blond hair and blue eyes. She can be typically found wearing athletic маглы clothing if she is not in the Koldovstoretz uniform. If her hair is not in a ponytail for practice then it can be found down with slight curls in it.

Mental Description: Irina was the type of person you would see at every social event or gathering. She is what you would call a popular person, almost everyone she interacted with became an acquaintance of hers. She is bubbly, outgoing, and kind but has a bit of an issue with trust. Ever since her childhood she found it hard to tell others secrets about herself and her family. Due to this she loves to let others talk about themselves and will always be a great listener. She has a very competitive nature though and will get semi-aggressive if someone stands between her and victory. She always looks out for her friends and makes sure that they are okay. If Irina gets very angry then she can become quite rude and sassy. When things go wrong for Irina, revenge tends to be a common theme. She wants people to accept their actions and pay for them respectively.

Biography: Born to Onisim and Zoya Afanasyeva at the start of February 2007 was a girl they named Irina. They wanted to name her that because she was their new found мир or peace and that was what the name Irina meant. Her middle name followed the Russian tradition of being a patronymic, it was her fathers name, Onisim, with the female suffix -ovna. Both Onisim and Zoya were maglys or маглы and knew of the folklore stories but didn’t believe that it could be real.

At the start of her life, Irina and her parents were very happy, everything was going great and they even adopted a young boy who was 2 years older then Irina. Due to growing up in a Russian household, she learned Russian as her first language. Her mom already knew English and believed that it was a very important language to learn so she taught them it as well. The Afanasyevas were quite content with their life until magic started emerging in Irina. One day all of a sudden she got angry at her brother and somehow burned his homework that he was working on. Neither of her parents believed her brother when he said that she had set in flames.

Her parents had forgot about the incident but other weird things started to happen revolving around Irina. Her dad had started to believe that she was something of the folklore and wanted to abandon her but Zoya wouldn’t let that happen. Soon Irina, 6 at the time, had an accident with her blooming magic involving her dad and it winded up causing a lot of family problems. Her brother had already disliked her since the homework incident but now her dad was pushed over the edge. Both of them winded up leaving together and stopped communicating with Zoya and Irina.

Irina wasn’t sure what had happened at first but soon came to understand it. Her mom stayed with her through the tough times and always told her “Что бы ни говорили другие, не бойтесь быть самим собой”(No matter what anyone else says, don’t be afraid to be your unique self). Irina’s magic had subsided a bit and she starting going to маглы school. At the start she was scared for someone to find out but with her mom’s help she found a way to suppress her magic and be herself at school.

She loved going to school and really enjoyed making friends but never told anyone about her magic. It was a bit of a struggle at her house since her mom now had to support Irina alone but they made it work and still had a good time together. Irina had made a really close best friend over a few years and decided to to tell her one day about the odd stuff that happened to her. She had expected the friend to still want to be friends with her but she stopped communicating with Irina completely. This was the incident that gave her major trust issues. Just to safe in case her old friend told anyone, Irina and Zoya moved a few towns over.

They thought that this would be a new opportunity and Zoya continued to tell Irina the same phrase, “ Что бы ни говорили другие, не бойтесь быть самим собой”(No matter what anyone else says, don’t be afraid to be your unique self). Irina magic continued to grow though and they started to get worried that the secret would get out soon. Surprisingly someone in the new town figured out about her magic and was a magical person themselves. They told Irina and Zoya about the great opportunity Koldovstoretz was. It took a bit to convince Irina to leave her mom but Zoya convinced her that it was going to help her a lot and that she needed to go.

With help from the magical person, Irina went to the school at the age of 9 and really enjoyed that everyone was like her. She went to follow her mom’s advice to be herself and found it much easier in this new school.

First Instance of Magic: Included in the background