Demitria Lovelace ✧ First Year ✧ Slytherin

✧ I am a forest, and a night of dark trees, but he who is not afraid of my darkness will find banks full of roses under my cypresses ✧

Demetria Lovelace is an elegant beauty whose features are soft and even, undeniably pretty, yet rarely open. Her expressions are carefully metered, revealing only what she choses. She has deep brown eyes flecked with gold that hide many secrets and carry a quiet intensity that hints at sharper thoughts and dark emotions beneath. Her build is petite and slender yet quite refined. Though she smiles and curtsies daintily like a princess, there is a subtle dark to her, suggesting ambition and willpower that should never be underestimated.

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✧✧ Slytherin Princess

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...Pureblood ~ 12 Years Old ✧

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Personality wise, Demi is quite complex. Exceedingly curious and driven by a need to understand the world and people around her, she's always thinking. She appears composed and self-assured, but her confidence is carefully built and she hides behind a defensive wall of coldness, superiority, and entitlement as a way to protect herself. She's never really had great emotional connections and was raised to believe she must be exceptional, so any failure whatsoever is a tragedy and humiliation. She's quite self-critical and masks behind icyness. Beneath her pride, however, is a girl capable of much love and loyalty. She is very empathetic to those who earn her trust and good at reading others as she spends so much time observing people. Becoming close with people frightens her because of how keenly she feels emotions. She struggles with vulnerability and dislikes being seen as weak, however once her walls have been taken down she will love with such intensity and commitment that it holds great power. A the end of the day, Demi has a very deep need to prove that her worth is not conditional and that people can love who she truly is.

coded by Draven Mirador

✧ B A C K S T O R Y ✧

Reducio

The Lovelaces are built on power and connections. They have risen greatly in prominence in England's pureblood society as of late due to political moves, careful alliances, and long-standing traditions. To the outside eye, the Lovelace name is a splendid one. They look polished, put together, perfect. On the inside, they are anything but. Demitria's father, Beau Lovelace, is a man deeply concerned with reputation and power. He believes love can always be used against you and that such weaknesses should be avoided if at all possible. A tall, handsome man, he married Adelina Rosewood when both were quite young, but seventeen. The alliance was made between the families as a way to ensure a pure and wealthy bloodline since Adelina also came from a prestigious wizarding family. She was once known for her ambition and brilliance, but however gave much of herself up when she wed Beau. Their marriage is not entirely loveless, but it is decently close and quite strained at times. It is still together almost solely because of obligations and appearances. From a young age, Demitria realised that love and affection were conditional and were often a performance for others, not genuine. They rarely saw each other, and when they did, it was coldness. From the moment she was born, Demitria was seen as an investment of sorts by her father and an ideal for lost potential by her mother. As an only child, she is the sole direct heiress of the Lovelace fortune, lands, and title, and her father made sure she never forgot it. She was quite lonely, and grew used to solitude. Her parents insisted on private tutelage, wanting to give her a proper education and teach her pureblood ideals and not wishing her to be influenced by anything else. When it was discovered that she, too, had magic, she became more pampered and given less correction. She had learned that power gave freedom, and she embraced this way of thinking wholeheartedly. Her relationship with her parents is, in a word, distant. She is rather afraid of her father, and always feels the crushing weight of her mother's resentment. Demitria fears being trapped the same way Adelina was, and this fuels her to be determined to seize control over her own life. Dimitria grew up quite priviliged and was indulged and spoiled from the very first. However, she was neglected emotionally, which led to her feeling broken and isolated. Her pride and selfishness comes from a childhood where she was rarely denied small pleasure but where her feelings were not really acknowledged. She yearns to earn her parents' affection, fulfill her goals of greatness, and prove she is more than just her family's name. For now, the only way she knows how to do that is by playing the part. She is the perfect pureblood daughter: smart, refined, elegant, composed, obedient. However beneath the mask is a growing resentmant and restlessness. She longs for more, yet doesn't know what. When she recieves her letter to Hogwarts, she is excited and apprehensive for this new chance to be free, be challenged, and perhaps define herself as more than a pretty face and the Lovelace name.

Reducio

Demitria's first instance of magic happened rather late, when she was around six years old. She became fed up with her tutor one day while he was badgering her to learn terms, and in a fit of anger and annoyance caused his chair to fly back and tip over, knocking him onto the ground and leaving both Demi and her tutor momentarily astonished. Instead of being punished as she feared, it became a day of celebration for her and her parents as it was confirmed that she had magic within.