Physical Description:

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Born in October 16th, 2013, Mikaela Hendricks Rietveld (Mika, for friends) is a 4'8 girl with wide brown eyes and brown hair, heritage from her mother.

Mental Description:

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She is not social, at all. She's curious, and reads a lot, from small books to history novels that she can memorize in less than a day. A prodigy, without a doubt.

But if you put her in the middle of a crowded room, she'll panic, and freak out until she finds a safe corner for her, where she can be alone and calm down.

She doesn't talk a lot, though. That little detail has made that everyone else thinks of her as a weird person, sometimes even rude. But she isn't. She's just not comfortable enough to speak yet.

She's very stubborn. Once she proposes something, she does it no matter what. That's something that made her get into some troubles when she was a kid, but nothing she couldn't handle.

Biography:

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Daughter of Mariah Rietveld (a muggle-born witch) and John Hendricks (a muggle), Mika's early years were filled with... The most muggle-like life that her mom could provide her.

Her mom, being a muggle-born, wasn't sure if Mika would inheritage the magic, so she decided to keep the wizarding world away from her and give her a normal life.

Her dad, however, knew about the magic. Her mom told him when they got married. He'd be ready if anything happened to the kid.

Mika grew up changing schools. She never stayed too long in a school before she got transfered to another school. It was kind of weird, she never understood why her parents were so worried about it.

They said that she was weird, and that she 'didn't fit in the model of our education'.

Mikaela was a prodigy child. She learned how to read and write long before the other kids. By the age of three, she was already reading literature essays for college students.

Anyone would think that, being a prodigy, Mikaela was loved by everyone at her school. She wasn't.

The thing with prodigy kids is that, when they enter the school system... teachers can't handle them. They either talk too much, or not enough. They're either too much, or not enough.

So, when she got into her first school and showed that her mind was different that other kids', well...

None of the teachers or directives could ever meet her needs. She isolated herself, the classes and lessons being sometimes too boring for her, or the teachers being too condescendent with her. However, anyone who ever knew her in the school aspect would agree that little Miss Hendricks was a headache for everyone.

That, and her little... verbal difficulty. Or, well said, non-verbal situation. When she was a kid, she wasn't able to make up a word without stuttering, and it was only until she turned seven that she could bring up a whole sentence without any stutter.

One school, two schools... by the third, the directives already had references from her. No teacher could ever find a way to communicate with her, no principal could ever find a way to mix her with her mates. She was just... there.

When she was eight, she showed her first glimpse of magic. Since then, her mother showed her the wizarding world, proud that her little girl would go to the same wizarding school as her.

Mariah Rietveld had a curious soul. As the proud Hufflepuff she once was, she developed som kind of obsession with plants. All kind. Muggle, magical... She wasn't exactly a herbologyst, she was more of a journalist. She'd get a small job, in cafeterias or as a waitress in restaurants, and save enough money to make a small trip to find some new kind of plant.

John knew it. Mika knew it. Everyone who ever knew Mariah knew that her soul wasn't made to be stuck in just one place.

So, when she was writing her herbal, she noticed there were plenty of Magical Plants missing in her journal.

So she saved enough money to go for them. She managed to get Mandrakes, Alihotsy and some others. Still, the only one missing was, ironically, one of the most basic plants she knew: Aconitum.

And she knew that the only place she could get some of it in a good state was its hometown: Greece.

So she traveled there. And followed its track until she found out that some of it was growing in a forest, not so far away from where she was staying. The bad thing was that this same forst had a bad reputation of being... abandoned. Haunted, some may say. But she was no coward.

So she went. And, that day, she had just found some to finally end up with her herbal when she fell, dead.

The last thing she saw was two wide, yellow eyes staring directly at her.

Her body was found by a ranger of the zone, that same night.

All Mika remembers after her mother went to that trip was that, after a few days, some man arrived and talked to her dad while she was upstairs, reading another book.

An hour later, her dad locked himself in his room and came out until the next morning. That's when he finally had the courage to talk to her daughter and tell her that her mother had died from a heart attack.

At least, that's what the Muggle doctors said when the body arrived. So young, so full of life, but... that's just how the human body works, right?

John always tried to be as supportive as possible with his daughter. After all, it was all he had left from his wife.

He tries to understand her world. How she sees things. And when she smiles, he still swears he can see a glimpse of his wife's eyes.

First Instance of Magic:

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When she was eight, once, during one of her classes in her already fifth school, the principal walked into the classroom and asked the teacher to take Mika out for a few minutes.

Mika was aware that this was definitely a bad sign. The last time a principal asked to talk to her in private, her parents were there. And, the next day, she'd be transfered again.

Her breath paused for a second, and her world seemed to stop. And then, when she reacted, a book was flying straight into the principal's head.

In front of all her classmates.

And, until today, she still swears she never touched that book.

Since then, her parents gave up with her and decided to homeschool her. Besides, her mother started talking her about the magic. About Hogwarts. And about how proud she was that her little girl would go at the same school as her.

A school she wouldn't be an outcast at anymore. A place she'd fit in.

OOC Section:

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Age: 17
Pronouns: She/her
Timezone: UTC-5
Reply time: 1 day - 1 week (Maybe more, it depends)
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3. THG thread
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