Full Name:Stella Grim House:Slytherin Age: 11 Wand: 29,7 cm silver lime wood and phoenix feather School Year: First Year Patronus: Unknown Species: Dhampir Status: Pure Blood History/Background Story:
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Appearance
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Naturally Stella has black slightly wavy hair, that is normally in a half up-half down style held in place with a crescent moon hairpin. She often dyes half of her hair, anywhere from blonde to pink, but sometimes goes all natural. She has red eyes and ghostly pale skin. Outside of her uniform she wears Victorian goth fashion. Her wardrobe consists of many blouses with puffed sleeves and collars. A variety of knee and ankle length dresses, with flared skirts.
Personality
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While friendly, Stella often keeps to herself. She prefers having close connections over a myriad of friends. Being an ambivert, she gets bored a being alone too long, but gets drained easily when surrounded by people. She enjoys learning and reading in her free time, but has a tendency of slacking off or procrastinating, especially when she is given assignments.
Background
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Stella, born on January 3rd of 2013, was the first and likely only child by her father, Atticus, and her mother, Elena. With his affliction, her parents were unsure if they would even be able to have her. Despite her father being a vampire, her family still considers themselves purebloods, as that was her fathers status before he was turned. Because of this Stella still grew up with the normal pure-blood ideologies, even if they weren't the most accurate. Instead of thinking half-bloods and muggle-born were unworthy of magic, she believes the were less fortunate, and often looks down upon them in pity. In her mind, they needed extra help as it was impossible for them to truly excel without it. For her close family, prejudice against half-breeds was nearly non-existent, as long as any human side came from pure-blood families. Her extended family originally looked down upon half-breeds, that was until her father was turned. It took many years before either of her parent's families would accept him, but being the first born and the favorite child before the Turning had its many advantages.
Her father worked at the apothecary his family has owned for generations. Despite inheriting the store, Atticus preferred working in the back as a potioneer, selling his products and taking commissions. Her mother worked with him, growing the herbs that Atticus would use in his potions, and selling any extras. While she was sometimes manning the store, she much preferred to be elbow deep in her garden or staring up at the stars. Stella loved being inside the shop with her mother, often tidying shelves, or (trying to) make a sale. To both her parents and customers chagrin, when -or at least what she thought were- half-bloods or muggle-borns would come into the store she would sometimes offer a discount or try to explain how to use a certain ingredient, even to customers thrice her age.
Despite her genetic aversion to the sun, Stella loved being outdoors. She often wanted to help her mother tend to the garden, but when that became too much for her skin her mother would take her back out once the sun had set. To make herself more comfortable in the daytime, Stella often wore a wide brim sun hat with a mesh veil, or carried around a parasol. These, like many similar items she owned, sprung her love for gothic fashion.
Her family came from a long line of only Ravenclaws and Slytherins, in a similar fashion to gender reveals, her family had bets and celebrations on which of the two houses their children would fall into. That being said, there was a lot of pressure for Stella to fall into line. The day of the Sorting ceremony was excruciatingly nerve-wracking, however her father, a Slytherin, was beyond ecstatic when she wrote home to her parents.
First Instance of Magic
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Stella's first use of accidental magic first occurred at a picnic outing. Many of Stella's extended family were attending this over the top event, ranging from aunts and uncles, cousins both younger and older, as well as family friends and their children. Stella was reluctantly sat at the children's blanket, where many of the other kids were yelling loudly and horsing around. While Stella initially enjoyed seeing all of her friends again, her social battery was quickly draining, and she was steadily getting more overwhelmed. Out of nowhere, the plants around her burst in color, and for a moment there was peace, as this captivated her and the other children. This brief moment quickly ended as her parents became aware of what happened. Immediately she was swooped up by her father. He was overjoyed that she finally showed signs of magic. She was 8 by that time, and he was starting to worry that she wouldn't ever show magic.
