Observant, analytical, albeit lacking in reflection. The pearl diver’s thirst for life is endless. She is a hunter of understanding. She wishes to collect the important pieces, find a place for them in the map of her mind. One relies on such tools as an outsider— a guide to glory in a foreign land. Although her goals extend far beyond her reach, the pearl diver is not excessive in pride. She is not intelligent. She does not consider herself as such. The girl is merely a map-follower. A farse, if you will. She spends too much time thinking to be anything. How can one be genuine if they are forever conscious of what they are? The temptation for strategy, for reinvention is too great. Beauty in talent and beauty in virtue both lay in the eye of the beholder. To be both everything and nothing requires perfection. Hence, the hunter becomes the treasure for which she searches. --
those creatures of your woken mind
don’t fear them or their hunger
forgive the sea, follow the tide
with the monsters on your shoulder
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full name: maelys jasmine delarosa (鈴木舞莉) gender: cis female pronouns: she/her age: eleven birthday: 11/02/2013 birthplace: clifford, england nationality: british-japanese ethnicity japanese-filipina species: human witch talent: n/a school year: first year house: slytherin wand: 31,0 cm willow wood & thunderbird tail feather patronus: tbd
oh hunter, if you didn't want the beautiful so badly
perhaps you would have found it in your spirit singing softly
Maelys stands taller than average for an eleven-year-old at four feet and ten inches. The Japanese-Filipina witch is long-limbed in the clumsy, not-yet-in-control-of-her-body way typical of many her age. Her hair is similarly long, falling in shiny, dark waves that touch her lower back. She refuses to cut it aside from the sporadic trim (for hair health reasons, so she can continue to not cut it in the future.) Maelys’ hair is usually kept away from her face either half-up or in a ribbon-tied ponytail, baby hairs framing her diamond-shaped face. She has naturally tanned skin with a glowy, smooth effect, interrupted by the sporadic plight of acne. Her rounded features create an innocent, wide-eyed look. Many would guess the girl’s age to be younger than her years, much to her frustration. She often uses makeup to counteract her baby face.
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Reducio
A childhood full of waiting around for her dreams has left Maelys with a boundless desire to experience everything, all at once. Mae is easily impressed, a sweet exterior of a girl. Then again, innocent she is not.
Maelys is sharper than she appears. You wouldn't be able to tell from the surface but this quick-witted witch's internal world is fast-paced, colorful, and full of imagination. This isn’t to say that she lacks focus. No. It’s a fast-firing, tunnel vision nightmare— very good for solving problems and very bad for her tendency to overthink.
Emotions come as storms in Maelys-land. Her high points are ecstatic and her low points are anxiety-driven spirals. In simple terms: she likes to think about what others are thinking about. It’s a form of empathy. She's compassionate, yes, but she cares a lot about pleasing others to a fault. Her character will shift in congruence with how she believes others wish her to be.
As for herself? Maelys wishes to be seen as an amalgamation of both virtue and talent. Undeniable. Her ambitions and day-to-day goals all lead back to this core, unquantifiable “greatness” she desires to achieve. It’s a quixotic task— no matter how much she improves, Mae’s standards for herself will always be higher. Her ambition precedes her.
Between her goals and her thoughts, the young Slytherin keeps herself quite busy. Mae is a hard worker and quite tenacious towards her goals... until she is convinced otherwise. Maelys is highly influenced, and therefore, influenceable by those around her. There are few things a mutually beneficial argument paired with sparked curiosity couldn’t get her to do.
Maelys is an introvert with extroverted tendencies. She’s talkative once she knows someone but quiet until comfortable. How she is changes greatly depending on who she’s around.
With her age, it's very clear that Maelys lacks self-awareness, something that is to be expected given her young age. She is still figuring out who she is and what she likes without the influence of others.
- shy, anxious, dramatic, overemotional, judgemental, black and white thinker, non-confrontational, gossipy, lacking self-awareness, competitive
Reducio
The Delarosa family’s entrance into Japan occurred somewhere during the early 20th century. Opportunities for muggle, Filipino immigrants were limited in Japan. Bituin and Alon Delarosa moved to Osaka along with their twin daughters: Althea and Angela.
Delarosa Grill was founded by Bituin and Alon in 1946 at the start of the Japanese economic boom. The restaurant served mainly Filipino cuisine which satisfied an otherwise-empty market in Kyoto at the time. The restaurant continued in their ownership for nearly a decade (until 1954) before Alon, unfortunately, passed away, taking his expertise with him. Althea and Angela were 26 at that point and had been working in Delarosa Grill since its founding. However, they could not replicate the success the restaurant had under their parents' ownership. Delarosa Grill nearly closed several times but stayed open by a hanging thread.
In 1958, Althea’s marriage estranged her from her sister and the restaurant. Her husband of choice was a rich businessman from the Sentou family line. She moved to Tokyo and was not heard from again, causing further negative impacts on the restaurant.
Angela was married the year after Althea left to the new head chef of Delarosa Grill. They had three sons, Juan (b. 1960), Cesar (b. 1965), and Gabriel (b. 1967), all of whom grew up well with regular muggle abilities. All three of the kids were obedient in certain respects: they did well in school, did not cause trouble, and went on to help out with the family business. Yet, at the same time, none of them truly benefited Delarosa Grill more than the average employee.
Kyle, the fourth son of Angela, was different from the rest. He was born 10 years after Gabriel in the year 1977 and, when he was 5 years old, he had a rather explosive tantrum— literally. With each toddler shout, another flame latched onto the Delarosa residence, engulfing it slowly until the outburst died down. This was the first of several unfortunate incidents where. Without wishing or intending for anything to happen, the youngest child’s uncontrolled emotions elicited problematicly tangible reactions from the environment around him. He was the problem child of the lot, as his mother would call him. It was a wonder he was even related to his brothers. Understanding his magical talents came near his 7th birthday. Soon enough, the storm petrels took him to Makhoutokoro for the first time.
Kyle Delarosa neither excelled nor floundered in his studies. His robes remained a consistent shade of rosy pink throughout the years with little fluctuation. The prejudices against both muggle-borns, as he was considered, and non-Japanese people held him back in a socially intense environment. It did not help that he wasn’t an outspoken kid. He was often left eating lunch in the corner alone, isolated from his wealthier, more well-adapted peers.
Because of this, Kyle was more than eager to leave school after the obligatory years were over. He did not believe himself to be capable of excelling in any of the further education paths offered by Makhoutokoro. His 5th year had been a case of near failure on many of his exams. This surely proved that he was incapable of studying more.
The young wizard resigned himself to working in the restaurant with his brothers despite his lack of satisfaction. Despite his magical abilities, he had failed to bring change to the family. They were not as poor as they had been upon arrival in the country but still uncomfortably near the poverty line. Delarosa Grill was in operation but much of its renown had faded over the years. He was worthless unless he took action.
Kyle came to a realization through this. Unlike blood status or ethnicity, financial status was changeable. He, as the only non-retired magic user in the family, was capable of it. It was in the year 2000 that Kyle first began his research on producing viable scam products. His line of home potions was crafted in the back of Delarosa Grill's storage room. There were several variants although they were all variants of the same malpractice scam: a potion said to cure a given ailment that, instead, worsens the condition. Then, the buyer was encouraged to buy more of the offending product as their problem has not yet been solved.
Surprisingly or not, the scheme worked. He became rich and it was by these illicit means that he and his wife, Yuna, a muggle, were able to move around from country to country without limitations. That way, it was less likely that any of the various ministries would catch on to his illegal use of magic.
Unfortunately for criminals, the Ministry of Magic's technologies on magic tracking are quite advanced. Kyle was eventually apprehended hastily by the Ministry of Magic on the morning of February 9th, 2017 at his penthouse in Clifford where he was living with his wife and 4-year-old daughter full-time. The downside of having committed fraud in so many different countries was that it increased his Azkaban sentence by tenfold, ending in 14 years of jail time total.
With her husband absent and nearly of the family assets repossessed, Yuna was without many options. Returning to Japan was out of the question given the shame that her husband’s criminal record would bring. Clifford was rather challenging for a single mother who worked as a hairdresser and did not yet speak fluent English.
Unlike Kyle, Yuna's family was originally Japanese. Her parents resided in an apartment complex in the city of Nagoya with room enough to house both herself and her daughter comfortably.
Maelys grew up with little to no contact to the magical world. She was aware of it, yes, but only in the form of practical "fairytales." It was her best effort to raise a magical child as a muggle. Maelys’s grandparents did not know anything aside from their muggle realities so Yuna was left with the responsibility of preparing Mae for Hogwarts. She told stories from the remnants of what Kyle had informed her of regarding wizard life. It was not much to work with, covering only the information that did not breach the Statute of Secrecy. However, in a world that demonized Kyle Delarosa, it was important to Yuna for Maelys to love and appreciate him as much as she did.
Maelys was a well-rounded student throughout her time at Nagoya International School. The young witch managed to integrate with her classmates despite her relative introversion. It helped that Mae was a polite, amicable girl. She brought snacks for her friends and offered to help when others were struggling in class. Maelys did her best to fit in although she was never popular. She was more of the class president type, with a good academic and behavioral record. (Mae was class president. Several times, actually, as her teacher and classmates trusted her. )
That was not enough for Maelys. She was the type of kid with an insatiable curiosity, hell-bent on winning and pleasing others yet surprisingly hard to please. She worked hard as a "muggle," studying and making friends as if this was her permanent reality, but every night she dreamed of magic and fairytales. 11th birthday… Maelys knew that much. Her father had told her mother when he left, who, consequently, informed her of the date on which she would be contacted by a Hogwarts staff member, or so she hoped. The pair moved back to Cardiff the summer before Mae's 11th birthday as they were instructed. Given her father’s record, there was always the possibility it was a lie. She could only wait to find out.
Maelys was approximately 3 and a half and, by her definition, that made her a big kid. She sat with her legs sprawled out on the cool marble of their Cardiff residence's kitchen. Her mother and father were conversing quietly in the living room, leaving the young girl very much unsupervised. She pulled herself to a stand using a drawer handle.
Mae had been walking independently for a long time at this point so she stepped forward confidently. What was in the drawers? The young witch was tall for her age but could not yet see at counter-height. She knew her mother was keeping a cake on that shelf. Her hands were just a few inches short of reaching it.
The idea clicked into her brain quickly, gaze resting on the drawer handles. Ever so carefully, Maelys put her right foot onto the lowest one. Then her left. Suddenly, Mae was just a grab away from reaching the chocolate cake. Her foot slipped, twisting under her weight. She should have fallen directly to the floor, making a large, incriminating bang as she fell. That did not happen. Maelys' limbs seemed to figure themselves out as she landed gently on her feet with no more than a small bump. Maybe she shouldn't climb any more counters...
but hunter, you were human, don't forget it and go safely
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mbti: infj enneagram: 6w7 deadly sin: gluttony heavenly virtue: kindness polyjuice: rich plum color with a teal glow, tastes like unsweetened chocolate amortentia: sour cherries & chamomile thestrals: not (yet) erised: we'll see
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2025 :
september 1st, 2025 — the sorting ceremony • maelys has her first encounter with the sorting hat... she nearly trips in line from surprise.
• passes the waiting time making speculations about the different houses
• the sorting ceremony is a surprisingly prying process but the hat is (mostly) a friend. she would talk to it again.
• mae is confused but generally pleased to be a slytherin. unanswered questions: why does the headmaster wear armor? how did the sorting hat get like that?
♪‧₊˚ spells learned:
oculus reparo — repairs glasses
mucus ad nauseum — inflicts a strong cold and an extremely runny nose
verdimillious — produces a stream of green sparks
vermillious — produces a stream of red sparks; emergency signal
flipendo — throws objects and people backwards
smokescreen spell — creates a defensive cloud of smoke to obscure self
knife to paper airplane — as the name suggests
conmutocus — matchbox to needle transformation
flintifors — transforms target into a matchbox
reparifarge — untransfigures objects
condimentum — sauce-making spell
choclea bibe — snail to teapot transformation
quarzicum — glass to sand transformation
tunc sibilus — whistle to watch transformation
aberto — opening charm
lacarnum inflamari — clothing ignation spell
extinguo — extinguishing charm
nix facitur — creates snowflakes
jaculor — shoots small explosions from wand
anathema daphnis — transforms target into a rooted plant at the limbs
pluvia velo — umbrella spell
♪‧₊˚ potions learned: forgetfulness potion, herbicide potion, cure for boils, antidote to common poisons, antidote to uncommon poisons, pompion potion
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