Center AngelFyre Afton McCubbin | 6th Year | Seer | Broom Racer | Writer /center

S t a t s

Stamina: 10 || Evasion: 16 || Strength: 2
Wisdom: 12 || Arcane Power: 6 || Accuracy: 12

Baseline Stats for 5th Year Seer = 50 in total; AF’s should = 58

(+3) from Dueling wins: 1 | 2 | 3
(+5) from Broom Racing wins: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

A b i l i t i e s

Year 1 – Seer 1 (Intuition) || Year 2 – Fearless || Year 3 – Seer 2 (Prophecy)
Year 4 – Binding Mark || Year 5 – Seer 3 (Indiscriminate Knowledge)

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Year 1 – SEER 1 (Prophecy)
EFFECTS: Seer 1 (10% auto-dodge chance and 10% auto-hit chance)

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When the Hogwarts professor showed up at AngelFyre’s door with the letter on the occasion of her 11th birthday, she could say in all honesty that as a Muggle, she knew nothing of magic. Literally nothing, except what she had read in Muggle literature or seen in Muggle cinema, and those both offer poor comparisons to the real thing. It would be fair to say that based on the reactions of her family to the news of her acceptance to Hogwarts, they were as unaware of magic in their lives as she was. So many students here grew up with magic in some fashion and they take for granted that magic is part of who they are. AngelFyre has felt, justifiably so, behind the curve in simply fitting in here, let alone understanding much of what is spoken of or goes on around these hallowed halls. There is still not a day that goes by in which she does not question whether this is just a vivid dream she has fashioned and one from which she will soon awaken, back home in her own room.

Because of these feelings and her newfound magical abilities, she and her family have wanted to know who they are, really are, and where her magic comes from. To that end, her mother and maternal grandmother have been doing a full court genealogical press on their family tree. They wanted to know if there were other instances of magic in their background, and they appear to have found some answers.

On her father’s side, it has been discovered that in 1658, John Iain McCubbin, along with his wife, Maeve Lyall McCubbin, emigrated from Scotland to the shores of the colonies in the new world, later to become the United States. They eventually made their home in Salem, Massachusetts sometime around 1673. It appears that for many years, they lived without incident, raising a family of two daughters and one son on their meager homestead.

A year or so before the Salem Witch Trials raged through the population in 1692, the McCubbins had packed up all of their belongings and had already started over again in Maryland. This timing is important because journal entries made by Maeve have been found in a family history museum in Australia. In the 2-3 years leading up to the witch hunts, there were passages in which she recounted conversations with her husband. She often implored him to have them sell what they could and move on as she had been “struck with visions” of friends and neighbors, accused of practicing witchcraft, hanged or drowned for their sins of witchcraft. Maeve’s visions had been taken seriously in her family for years, and noted by her neighbors, as they often had been able to avoid starvation on their cabbage farm as she would often “forecast” a plague or early frost while her neighbors were not so fortunate.

On her maternal side, going back six generations, her great(x4)grandmother, Essie Wilhelms Godshall (née Gantry), had some minor notoriety as a healer in and around the breadbasket area of the Midwest. She married Crawford Ingram Godshall, an infamous, but affable, gambler she met on a river boat trip on the Mississippi river. Crawford was lucky... very lucky. He was often accused of cheating, but no one could ever catch him doing so. Many times he escaped what would surely have been certain death at the hands of infuriated fellow gamblers, but he always managed to just dodge or duck flying bullets and knives. AngelFyre’s Grandma Ruth Godshall has recognized what she thought was just a decorative item but which she now believes to be an actual magical wand that belonged to Crawford Ingram Godshall. It has been passed down through the years to the men of the family. She has it now because it belonged to her husband, Ezra Simpson Godshall.

What has not yet been revealed in the genealogical study is why the magic on both sides was quieted or disappeared. Maybe there will be answers to that and maybe there will not be, but it seems clear that the magic has reappeared with AngelFyre. Things that no one in the family thought much of prior to AngelFyre’s 11th birthday have now taken on a new color. Her ability to “see” is infrequent and subtle. As a young child, her mother recounts seeing AngelFyre walking by their barn with her best friend Ainsley. Ainsley was walking closest to the barn, and for no rhyme or reason, AngelFyre took her best friend’s arm and casually directed her to AngelFyre’s other side, while continuing to walk. Just a few seconds later, their horse, Goliath, kicked out that portion of the barn where Ainsley would have been standing and likely would have been severely injured. When asked about it, AngelFyre just shrugged her shoulders and said she “Did not want Ainsley to get hurt,” but could not elaborate further on how she knew Ainsley would have been hurt but for her moving her out of the way.

The Seer’s ability is a tricky one to pinpoint because so many people have gut feelings or intuition about things. One thing AngelFyre has long been aware of is how she does seem to have a strong sense sometimes about little things like what material will be on a quiz or exam, or knowing when someone will knock on their door when they are not expecting anyone, or even gathering candles for unexpected power outages. These things do not happen often, and it never would have occurred to her that it comes from a place of magic, but it now seems likely to her that it does.

A Seer is completely human, so there is nothing to change right now as a first year in terms of AngelFyre’s physical appearance. The only physical manifestations that a Seer undergoes is that the eyes will cloud over, completely white, when visions occur, rendering the Seer temporarily immobile. This may begin some time around her third year at Hogwarts. Also, a Seer’s hair pre-maturely turns gray or white, usually in later teenage years. Because she is still so young, AngelFyre’s hair has not yet started to turn white or gray. That will likely begin to manifest in her 6th or 7th year.

Year 2 – FEARLESS
EFFECTS: Fearless -- Dhampir's Aura, the ability Terrible Presence, a Lycanothrope's Intimidation OR certain charms, potions and jinxes that would normally cause a fear effect do not work on you as you are immune to them.

In Dueling
• In a duel with a Year 3+ Dhampir (with activated aura), or a player with Terrible Presence, a Fearless player won't suffer from their debuffs (10% auto-fail, 10% auto-miss, +1 Critical Failure range, –10% spell damage).

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AngelFyre, if asked, would be hard-pressed to tell anyone what scared her because she just did not scare easily. Like anyone with a heart and the capacity to love, what most scared her was not fear for her own physical safety, but rather, fear of the loss of loved ones, whether that be her boyfriend, family, friends, or her animal pals. Raised in a muggle home that appreciated muggle horror movies, she surprised her parents at a very young age when they caught her up long past her bedtime watching ‘The Creature from the Black Lagoon’ alone, in the dark, and laughing. The idea that such silly things as monsters existing amused her 6 year old self. As she grew older and the scales began to fall from her eyes, she could look at the world and find that, indeed, monsters did exist; they just looked a lot more like her than Frankenstein’s monster or the Mummy.

Well, that was what she believed anyway, at least until she found her way to Hogwarts. Even still, she found that the half breeds who roamed these hallowed halls alongside her were not something to automatically run from, screaming like a whipped puppy and hiding and trembling in some dark corner, hoping to not be discovered. Was she glad to know they existed? Yes. Information is always power. Better to know than walk amongst them and be completely unprepared on the off chance… the very off chance… that something bad might happen. But truth be told, most of the nastiness and vile behaviors she witnessed this past year came from the human race, provoking the others, whether that be physically or in written articles to rile up a student population quite needlessly.

Part of being fearless had less to do with bravery, so to speak, and much more to do with preparedness and confidence in herself and in the guardrails that were naturally imposed on society in any number of ways to minimize the idea of risk. Everything was all a numbers game, figured out in some actuarial table somewhere by some bean counter. Was there risk in everything? Of course! One could conceivably drown drinking a glass of pumpkin juice, but that did not mean she would allow herself to be afraid to drink it. AngelFyre was not at all interested in the ‘What If” game. Everyday was filled with risk, but one had to turn over a certain amount of faith in other people to do their jobs, and to do them competently, to keep her, as well as themselves, safe. Because it was a numbers game, the odds generally heavily favored her. She can, and will choose to sky dive when she turns 16 because, while the jump might be intimidating and just a little nerve racking at first, it will also be a huge thrill. At heart, AngelFyre is an adventurer. It seems unlikely that one could be both and adventurer and scared of one’s own shadow. She has never been scared of shadows.

She was not, and is not, a reckless girl, usually. Everyone has their stupid moments. She was no exception. She knew risk was something to deal with and manage. And that was the crux of how she approached the idea of fear in everything she did. She simply tried to prepare herself to the best of her ability as her first line of defense. AngelFyre wants to experience life; not sit back and simply read about it or watch others living it. She wants to suck the marrow out of every moment allotted to her in the blink of an eye that she will reside on terra firma. That means getting out and meeting the world head on, come what may. In the past when the world bit back upon such head on meetings, it was wisely chalked up to a lesson learned, and one hopefully not to be repeated. In the future it will be much the same. She has seen no reason to change her way of thinking or feeling about it now.

Fear?

She will continue to meet it head on and likely come out on the other side breathing, and most probably even laughing.

Year 3 – SEER 2 (Prophecy)
EFFECTS: Prophecy -- In moderated situations, the moderator has a 50% chance of offering you some tidbit of information or some sort of vision that is semi-relevant to the situation. It might be very important or it could be something very useless (think That's So Raven). Can only use this skill once per thread.


Year 4 – BINDING MARK
EFFECTS: Binding Mark -- They can communicate telepathically with those who are branded. (This can be blocked as an Occlumens. An Occlumens can choose to not hear the communication.)

- Those branded will know the location of the wizard that branded them at all times. (This can be blocked as an Occlumens. An Occlumens can elect to have their location not detected and they would know when someone has attempted to locate them.)

- The wizard that branded their followers with this mark will always know where their followers are at a given time. (This can be blocked as an Occlumens. An Occlumens can elect to have their location not detected and they would know when someone has attempted to locate them.)

- Those branded will not know the location of the others that were branded but can recognize the brand on others if they see it as the brand is unique. This is achieved because they know what the image looks like and they can communicate with and have been in communication with the others that are marked. While a metamorphmagi can make a passable image of the mark if they are aware of the mark, the mark would not be functional.)

Binding Marks cannot be given by any form of NPC.

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The “gift” of being a Seer had more than its fair share of challenges. The primary challenge that AngelFyre faced with it was her frustration over the inability to turn it on or off when she, or someone she loved, could most benefit by knowing some details about future events. She would never think to use it for anything so trite and self-serving as finding out what the questions would be on exams, or what the numbers might be in the next billion dollar Lotto, but she did find that the things that she foresaw were often of a trivial nature.

Just a few weeks earlier, she had a vision of herself standing in front of a mirror in the Prefects’ Bathroom, squeezing a bead of toothpaste onto her toothbrush. All of a sudden the tube suffered some sort of rupture, and gobs of toothpaste burst forth from its side and all over her hand. A few weeks later, that very thing actually happened. She laughed as her hand, no matter how often she washed it, had a refreshingly minty scent for most of the morning. Still, there had not been enough details in the vision to help her avoid it. She was in the Prefects’ bathroom. Check. She was in her standard, school robe (which covered up her street clothes). Check. She was wearing her hair down, as she did 90% of the time. Check. The hard fact of the matter was that sometimes she could know something, but still be in the dark about it. That trivial little incident was just such a moment.

Somewhere towards the middle of the second term of her third year, AngelFyre had come to fully accept that she was a Seer. There had been small hints and flashes of it throughout her life, but it was not until she had taken her Divination class that what she was finally solidified itself within her psyche. She and Simon had both suspected as much in her first year, had gotten some circumstantial confirmation of it in her second year, and then there was just no denying it in the third year. The comfort she took in it was twofold: she knew now why she had the flashes and visions she did (it once crossed her mind to worry that maybe she had a brain tumor!), and it gave some credence to her first real visions as a Seer. In those she had foreseen danger to Simon coming at him from his vampiric “father”, Adrian Hawthorne. Those visions had hung over her like a dark cloud since knowing Simon and loving him, and there was no denying that supporting him in his pursuit to know more about his father brought about great strain and worry for her.

The two rarely argued, about anything, but the topic of daddy Hawthorne was the one, glaring exception. Realizing that his need to know his father was not entirely unreasonable, AngelFyre had had to learn to live with the fear and uncertainty of the situation, and was left with no choice but to trust Simon when he told her he would be more on guard around his father, knowing what he now knew about him precisely because of her visions. Small comfort, that, but she would take everything she could get. Part of that “everything she could get” was made harder on her by the fact that, like Hogwarts, Simon was always in a communications desert when at Hawthorne Manor, technologically speaking. It was weak, but the uneasy peace treaty she had brokered between her fear and her trust in him to be on guard had been enough to keep her sane during his more frequently radio silent and extended visits with his father and his father’s coven.

Until.

Until the winter break incident shattered her peace treaty in no time flat.

A shot had been fired over the bow, and that was bad. Very bad. Worse was not knowing where it had come from or what had actually happened to Simon since he could not remember himself. He had been calendared to spend the two weeks with his father, but that was cut short and he was ultimately admitted to St. Mungos. All it took was one message from his Aunt Maggie in the wee hours of New Year’s Day, and AngelFyre and her folks were off to London. Simon was ultimately fine, of course, suffering only a couple of broken ribs, but when he awoke shortly after her arrival, her fear dwarfed her senses. He shared he had no memory of what had actually happened to him, insofar as the cause of his injury, and he had hidden from his father how badly he was hurt. He had simply requested that his father accompany him back home to London and to Aunt Maggie. Adrian obliged and then left almost immediately upon delivering his son back back to his Aunt, after which, Simon asked his aunt to get him to St. Mungos.

Simon had determined quite some time ago that his father was not to learn that his son was of magic, and there was good precedent for keeping that a secret; primarily, AngelFyre’s visions. This incident only proved that no matter how careful he might be, things could go awry, and that was just unacceptable. So in order to feel less powerless in the situation, AngelFyre did what she always did when it came to her fellow… she got to work.

Their inability to communicate in a timely fashion was the main obstacle here, from her point of view, so hours and hours were spent in the Library poring over every tome and scroll she could lay hands on concerning magic communication. Of all the things magic could do, surely there had to be something more efficient than owls to communicate with one another. Owls were okay, but slower than she would like in this modern day and age, especially in an emergency.

It took next to no time to land on the subject of Legilimency, but after devoting probably too much time to learning about it, AngelFyre determined it would not really meet the requirements for communicating with Simon she was looking for while he was away from her. More than that though, it seemed too much like a violation of his privacy. Simon would have little to no say over her whims to actually traipse through his layered thoughts, unless he decided to become an Occlumens. Fascinating as it all was, it only took her down a rabbit hole that was simply not a helpful solution to her dilemma.

Other research she saw in passing mentioned Witches Marks, sometimes called Devil’s marks, but nothing much was found regarding them other than they were often used as excuses for identifying a person as a witch during the mid 17th century in Europe and the Americas. A witch’s mark did not seem proof of any significant value to her problem until she discovered over spring break, quite by accident, that one of Simon’s Scottish ancestors was an infamous “Witch Pricker”. In a little museum in Kirkintilloch, Scotland, they both learned that a witch’s mark was believed to identify someone as a witch as the mark gave no sensation of pain when pricked. Because it was such a macabre, fascinating part of her boyfriend’s history, AngelFyre redirected a little more of her attention to learning about “marks” in general when she needed a break from her studies or from her obsession to find an answer to their ‘failure to communicate’ problem.

It was during one of those “breaks” that she came upon her answer near the beginning of her fourth year... the Binding Mark. This particular mark would allow immediate, two-way communication between her and Simon, and best of all, it would be telepathic communication. His father would never know about it at all. The bonus she had not even been looking for, but would get with it anyway, was that it allowed the both of them to track each other. Neither of them would ever again be in the dark as to exactly where the other one was, and that was just miraculous to AngelFyre.

She tackled the rigors of learning the magic for creating the mark with her normal badger ferocity and then some. Every spare second, outside of class and Prefect duties, was spent on reciting it and nailing down the intricate wand movements. In addition to perfecting the magic itself, there were other considerations as to what the mark itself would look like, where it should be showcased on his body, and what their activation word should be. It had the possibility for being a highly intrusive bit of magic, but more than that, it would irrevocably bind them together for the whole of their lives, or at least until one of them was no longer living.

AngelFyre knew she was sure of their longevity as a couple, but she had the benefit of having “seen” as much for herself. Simon would only have her word for such, and he may be a little less anxious to give anyone… even her… the ability to insert their voice in his head whenever they chose to do so for the next month let alone the next 70 years or more. She recognized it would be a huge leap of faith on his part to accept her mark, so the more she understood about the Binding Mark itself, and the better prepared she was to answer his questions, the more likely he was to go along with it. And she needed him to go along with it. (Word Count: 1,609/400)

Year 5 – SEER 3 (Indiscriminate Knowledge)
EFFECTS: Spells cast by Seers cannot critically fail and their spells
have a +1 chance of critically succeeding.

You just know better than to cast a spell that is about to backfire. You might almost cast something and then think twice about it and choose a different spell (this is for flavor, this does not mean you tell us two spells and get to choose the effect of the better one). You may never know it but you just saved yourself a backfire.

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1st year

- Dancing-Feet Spell --*-- Tarantallegra --*-- Charms 1
- Mending Charm --*-- Reparo --*-- Charms 1
- Levitation Charm --*-- Wingardium Leviosa --*-- Charms 2
- Wand-Lighting Charm --*-- Lumos --*-- Charms 3
- Wand-Extinguishing Charm --*-- Nox --*-- Charms 3
- Locking Charm --*-- Colloportus --*-- Charms 4
- Unlocking Charm --*-- Alohomora --*-- Charms 4
- Umbrella Spell --*-- Pluvia Velo --*--Charms 5
- Green Sparks Charm --*-- Verdimillious --*-- DADA 1
- Red Sparks Charm --*-- Periculum --*-- DADA 1
- Curse of the Bogies --*-- Mucus ad Nauseam --*-- DADA 2
- Knockback Jinx --*-- Flipendo --*-- DADA 3
- Smokescreen Spell --*-- Fumos --*-- DADA 4
- Knife to Paper Airplane --*-- Cultrofors --*-- DADA 5
- Fire-Making Spell --*-- Incendio --*-- Herbology 2
- Extinguishing Charm --*-- Extinguo --*-- Herbology 3
- Clothing-Ignition Spell --*-- Lacarnum Inflamari --*-- Herbology 4
- Tickling Hex --*-- Titillando --*-- Herbology 5
- Whistle to Watch --*--Tunc Sibilus --*--Transfig 1
- Snail to Teapot --*--Choclea Bibe --*--Transfig 2
- Glass to Sand --*-- Quarzicum --*--Transfig 2
- Sauce-Making Spell --*--Condimentum --*--Transfig 3
- Matchbox Transformation Spell --*--Flintifors --*--Transfig 4
- Matchstick to Needle ---*---Conmutocus ---*---Transfig 4
- Untransfiguration--*--Reparifarge --*--Transfig 5
- Eyeglass Repair Charm --*-- Oculus Reparo --*-- HoM 1
- Sneezing Hex---*---Steleus ---*---HoM 2
- -Bubble-Producing Charm--*-- Bullarum Immortalem --*-- HoM 3
- Cleaning Charm --*-- Scourgify--*--HoM 3
Passage Opening Charm --*-- Dissendium --*-- HoM 4
Mice to Snuffboxes --*-- Muspyxis--*-- HoM 5
- Opening Charm --*-- Aberto --*-- Astron 1
- Take Root --*-- Anathema Daphnis--*-- Astron 2
- Shooting Spell --*-- Jaculor --*-- Astron 3
- Snowflake-Creating Spell --*-- Nix Facitur - Astron 4
- Bewitched Snowballs --*-- Nive Percutio - Astron 5
- Four-Point Spell --*-- Point Me --*-- Flying 3


2nd Year

- General Counter Spell ---*--- Finite Incantatem ---*--- Charms 1
- Freezing Charm ---*--- Immobulus ---*--- Charms 2
- Revealing Charm ---*--- Revelio ---*--- Charms 3
- Illegibility Charm ---*--- Illegibilus ---*--- Charms 3
- Slowing Charm ---*--- Arresto Momentum ---*--- Charms 4
- Engorgement Charm ---*--- Engorgio ---*--- Charms 5
- Shrinking Charm ---*--- Reducio ---*--- Charms 5
- Blindfolding Spell ---*--- Obscuro ---*--- DADA 1
- Tongue-Tying Spell ---*--- Mimblewimble ---*--- DADA 2
- Disarming Charm ---*--- Expelliarmus ---*--- DADA 3
- Bluebell Flames ---*--- Caeruleus Inflamarae ---*--- DADA 4
- Fur Spell ---*--- Furrure Cresco ---*--- DADA 5
- Avifors Spell ---*--- Avifors ---*--- Transfig 1
- Purple Firecrackers-Conjuration Charm ---*--- Violaceous ---*--- Transfig 2
- Color-Changing Charm ---*--- Colorvaria ---*--- Transfig 3
- Clothing Color-Changing Charm ---*--- Multicorfors ---*--- Transfig 3
- Hair Color-Changing Charm ---*--- Crinus Muto ---*--- Transfig 3
- Squiggle Quill Spell ---*--- Vermiculafors ---*--- Transfig 4
- Gluing Spell ---*--- Epoximise ---*--- Transfig 5
- Hardening Charm ---*--- Duro ---*--- Transfig 5
- Fire-Making Spell ---*--- Incendio Duo ---*--- Herbology 1
- Slug-Vomiting Charm ---*--- Slugulus Eructo ---*--- Herbology 1
- Severing Charm--*-- Diffindo--*-- Upon Graduation >>> Herbology 2
- Flower-Conjuring Spell ---*--- Orchideous ---*--- Herbology 3
- Tickling Charm--*-- Rictusempra --*-- Upon Graduation >>> Herbology 5
- Cascading Jinx ---*--- Ingens Explosiones ---*--- Astron 1
- Hot-Air Charm ---*--- Aer Calidus ---*--- Astron 2
- Sun-Light Charm ---*--- Lumos Solem ---*--- Astron 3
- Weather-modifying Charm ---*--- Metelojinx ---*--- Astron 4
- Weather-modifying Countercharm ---*--- Meteolojinx Recanto ---*--- Astron 4
- Weather-modifying Charm Variant ---*--- Meteolojinx ---*--- Astron 5
- Atmospheric Charm ---*--- Caelum Muto ---*--- Astron 5
- Blue Sparks Charm ---*--- Caerulimillious ---*--- Astron 5
- Fiery Script Charm ---*--- Flagrate ---*--- HoM 1
- Softening Charm --*-- Spongify --*--Upon Graduation >>> HoM 2
- Stairs-into-Slide Charm ---*--- Glisseo ---*--- HoM 2
- Paper Mending Charm ---*--- Papyrus Reparo ---*--- HoM 3
- Packing Charm --*-- Pack --*-- Upon Graduation >>> HoM 3
- Reviving Spell ---*--- Rennervate ---*--- HoM 4
- Hive-Conjuring Spell ---*--- Cutem Uro ---*--- HoM 5
- Flask-Conjuration Spell ---*--- Potiri Putine ---*--- HoM 5
- Slippery Jinx ---*--- Lubricus ---*--- Flying 1


3rd Year

- Bandaging Charm ---*--- Ferula ---*--- Charms 1
- Wind Jinx ---*--- Ventus ---*--- Charms 2
- Wand-Lighting Charm Duo ---*--- Lumos Duo ---*--- Charms 3
- Radiant Wand-Lighting Charm ---*--- Lumos Maxima ---*--- Charms 3
- Summoning Charm ---*--- Accio ---*--- Charms 4
- Banishing Charm ---*--- Depulso ---*--- Charms 4
- Singing Jinx ---*--- Cantis ---*--- Charms 5
- Boggart Banishing Spell ---*--- Riddikulus ---*--- DADA 1
- Revulsion Spell ---*--- Relashio ---*--- DADA 2
- Snake Summons Spell ---*--- Serpensortia ---*--- DADA 3
- Snake-Vanishing Spell ---*--- Vipera Evanesca ---*--- DADA 3
- Full Body-Bind Curse ---*--- Petrificus Totalus ---*--- DADA 4
- Teeth Growing Hex ---*--- Densaugeo ---*--- DADA 5
Healing Charm ---*--- Reparifors ---*--- Transfig 1
- Guinea Fowl to Guinea Pig Charm ---*--- Avum Porcus ---*--- Transfig 2
- Porcupine (or Hedgehog) ---*--- Hystrifors ---*--- Transfig 2
- Teapot to Gerbil ---*--- Jerbollam ---*--- Transfig 3
- Teapot to Rat ---*--- Ratollam ---*--- Transfig 3
Teapot to Ferrett ---*--- Migaleollam ---*--- Transfig 3
- Teapot to Tortoise ---*--- Terachelys ---*--- Transfig 3
- Teacup to Tortoise ---*--- Tazachelys ---*--- Transfig 3
- Tail-Growing Hex ---*--- Cauda Incrementum ---*--- Transfig 4
- Fish Transformation Spell ---*--- Piscifors ---*--- Transfig 5
- Fish to Flower ---*--- Piscimutatio---*--- Transfig 5
- Teddy Bear to Spider ---*--- Arachmutatio ---*--- Transfig 5
- Candle to Rabbit ---*--- Lucerna Lepus ---*--- Herbology 2
- Ears to Kumquats Spell ---*--- Aurisponica---*--- Herbology3
- Rose Growth Spell ---*--- Herbivicus Rosa ---*--- Herbology 4
- Hovering Charm ---*--- Sublevo Brevis ---*--- Astron 1
- Freezing Spell ---*--- Glacius ---*--- Astron 2
- Knee-Reversal Hex ---*--- Retro Genibus ---*--- Astron 3
- Rotation Charm ---*--- Circumrota ---*--- Astron 4
- Window Shattering Spell ---*--- Finestra ---*--- Astron 5
- Vinegar to Wine ---*--- Acetum Reverto ---*--- HoM 1
- Litterbox to Wildebeest Spell ---*--- Arcacas Invacca ---*--- HoM 2
- Water Repelling Charm ---*--- Impervius ---*--- HoM 3
- Leg-Growing Spell ---*--- Concala Crura ---*--- HoM 4
- Desk to Pig ---*--- Corpus Porcus ---*--- HoM 5
- Gripping Charm ---*--- Inhaersco ---*--- Flying 1
- Hurling Hex ---*--- Iacta ---*--- Flying 2
- Descension Spell ---*--- Descendo ---*--- Upon Graduation >>> CoMC 1
- Spider Conjuration Spell ---*--- Arachnos ---*--- CoMC 2
- Hair Thickening Charm ---*--- Crassus ---*--- CoMC 3
- Owl to Opera Glasses ---*--- Speculafors ---*--- CoMC 4
- Water-Heating Spell ---*--- Aqua Fervens ---*--- Div 1
- Cracker Jinix ---*--- Nec Divinos Crepitus ---*--- Div 2
- Ascension Spell ---*--- Alarte Ascendare ---*--- Upon Graduation >>> Div 2
- Cheering Charm ---*--- Serenate ---*--- Div 3
- Bravery Charm ---*--- Animosus ---*--- Div 4
- Sealant Charm ---*--- Consigno ---*--- Div 5
- Jelly-Brain Jinx ---*--- Wibbli Cogitatus ---*--- Runes 1
- Twitchy Ears Hex ---*--- Trementes Aures ---*--- Runes 3


4th Year

- Explosion Charm ---*--- Bombarda ---*--- Charms 3
- Leg Locking Curse ---*--- Locomotor Mortis ---*--- DADA 2
- Impediment Hex ---*--- Impedimenta ---*--- DADA 3
- Shield Charm ---*--- Protego ---*--- DADA 4
- Steel Talons ---*--- Steelclaw ---*--- Transfig
- Broom Jinx ---*--- Indomitus ---*--- Flying 2


5th Year

- Conjunctivitis Curse ---*--- Oculitumescere ---*--- DADA 1
- Beetle Buttons ---*--- Buttonfors ---*--- CoMC 1
- Homing Spell ---*--- Sequi Me ---*--- CoMC 1
- Antler Growth Hex ---*--- Anteoculatia ---*--- Runes 3
- Ascendio ---*--- Ascendio ---*---


6th Year

- Langlock ---*--- Langlock ---*--- Charms 1
- Flipendo Maxima ---*--- Flipendo Maxima ---*--- Charms 4
- Protego Maxima ---*--- Protego Maxima ---*--- DADA 2
- Emancipare ---*--- Emancipare ---*--- Transfig 3
- Jelly-Legs (Curse) Hex ---*--- Locomotor Wibbly ---*--- Transfig 4
- Orbis ---*--- Orbis ---*--- Herbology 5
- Jelly Finger Curse ---*--- Digiti Wibbli ---*--- Flying 2
- Sueprsensory Charm ---*---Meliores Sensi ---*--- Flying 3
- Babbling Curse ---*--- Confusio Linguarum ---*--- Runes 4

7th Year
- Stinging Jinx ---*--- Carnem Pungere ---*--- CoMC 5

Reducio

1st year

- Cure for Boils ---*- --Potions 1
- Herbicide Potion ---*-- -Potions 1
- Forgetfulness Potion --*-- Potions 1
- Antidote to Common Poisons ---*--- Potions 2
- Antidote to Uncommon Poisons --*---Potions 2
- Bruise Removal Paste ---*--- Potions 3
- Burn Healing Paste ---*--- Potions 3
- Babbling Beverage ---*--- Potions 4
- Confusing Concoction ---*--- Potions 4
- Dizziness Draught ---*--- Potions 4
- Muffling Draught ---*--- Potions 5
- Dogbreath Potion ---*--- Potions 5
- Pompion Potion ---*--- Herbology 2

2nd Year

Drowsiness Draught ---*--- Potions 1
Sleeping Draught ---*--- Potions 1
Murtlap Essence ---*--- Potions 2
Pepperup Potion ---*--- Potions 2
Anti-Paralysis-Potion ---*--- Potions 3
Black-Fire-Potion ---*--- Potions 3
Deflating Draught ---*--- Potions 4
Swelling Solution ---*--- Potions 4
Calming Draught ---*--- Potions 5
Gregory’s Unctuous Unction ---*--- Potions 5

3rd Year

Madam's Glossy Silver Polish ---*--- CoMC 1
Pet Tonic ---*--- CoMC 5
Grand Pepperup Potion ---*--- Potions 1
Mandrake Restorative Draught ---*--- Potions 2
Revive Potion ---*--- Potions 2
Befuddlement Draught ---*--- Potions 3
Laugh Inducing Potion ---*--- Potions 3
Bulgeye Potion ---*--- Potions 4
Fire Breathing Potion ---*--- Potions 4
Memory Potion ---*--- Potions 5
Scintillation Solution ---*--- Potions 5
Replenishing Potion ---*--- Astronomy 3


4th Year

Invisibility Potion --*-- Reward for Win in 2024 Int’l Potions Championship

5th Year

--*--Chelidonium Miniscula--*--
--*--Essence of Dittany--*--
--*--Love Potion Antidote--*--
--*-- Oculus Potion--*--

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background. Reducio I am muggle-born, proudly so, through and through. My father, Iain Alexander McCubbin, was born in Dundee, Scotland, but my mother, Annene Gale McCubbin (nee Godshall), was born in the state of Texas in the U.S.A. They met as my father traveled the world for his job at DHL, giving motivational speeches to corporate heads. My mother was once a corporate head in one of his New York City audiences and things just progressed from there. They married, moved her to Scotland, and a year and a half after their blessed union, a wee, bonny bairn was born to them in Edinburgh. They named me AngelFyre because they hoped there would be a large measure of goodness in me, tempered with a balance of passionate heat to catalyze that goodness into action. It is my soul-deep wish to honor them, and the good name they bestowed upon me, always. Much to my father's chagrin though, I sound more like an American than I do a Scot. My mother took up photography as her vocation upon moving to Scotland, but she also desired to be a hands-on mom to me. She wanted me with her on location shoots but quickly learned she needed help. A lot of help. Soon thereafter her mother, my Grandma Ruth, came to live with us, mainly to take care of me while we tagged along with Mom as she worked. Because my father traveled a lot for his own work, it was natural that the two people I heard and spoke to most often had American accents and that I would naturally emulate their syntaxes and pronunciations. I have tried to mimic my father's lyrical brogue, but I honestly do not have the ear for it. We now live on a beautiful farm in Stenton village, about 45 minutes outside of Edinburgh. We have lived there since I turned five. My parents decided to make the move from Edinburgh because they wanted me to grow up with grass under my feet and the perceived safety and freedom to knockabout the countryside unmolested. My father, most especially, wanted me to be able to just run out our backdoor and into whatever adventures awaited me provided my chair at the table was always filled for family meals, my daily chores were always completed, and my marks at school always remained high. They never wanted me to be alone, and tried two other times (that I know of) to give me a brother or sister, but it was not in the cards. I am destined to be their only child and I am actually fine with that. They are loving and pragmatic, but not doting. They married somewhat late in their lives and have always treated me more as a short adult rather than as a normal child, so I have long been advanced in my temperament and studies compared to most of my peers. Their “seemingly” lackadaisical parenting style has afforded me more freedom than most others I know, but I, in turn, have always earned that trust. However, to their great dismay, it would seem I was also advanced in one other area – my biology. I had never considered my parents to be overprotective types, but as I had more and more begun to draw the attention of boys, I had been saddened and disappointed to feel the iron vice grip of their concerns constrict around me. Case in point: I was uprooted from my idyllic life on our farm and from my beloved Belhaven Hill School in Dunbar over a minor incident. I emphasize minor. As a result of said minor incident, I was accused, tried (sort of), and sentenced to attend St. George's School for Girls, a boarding school in Edinburgh. I would laugh if it had not been so personally heartbreaking and confusing to me. My crime was that my Belhaven instructor, Mr. Linden, caught me kissing Geoffrey Bates, a boy two years my senior, after a rugby match. To be fair, Geoffrey was the one who kissed me, catching me completely by surprise, but that salient fact could not dissuade my father from pursuing the course of action he thought wise. So I was boarding at St. George’s School for Girls the year prior to attending Hogwarts. I would be lying if I said I had loved it, but I would be telling the truth if I said I did not hate it either. It had been hard being away from home, family, friends, and my dog, but it had also strengthened my sense of independence which I did not believe possible. I did look forward to holidays and term breaks at home where I spent most of my free time tending to our animals, riding my bicycle, and building tree houses and forts with my two best human friends, Ainsley Grandin and Kendric McLeary. My mother was even able to coax me sometimes into posing as a model for her fantastical photo shoots. But whenever possible, I most loved romping and exploring the countryside with Ainsley, Kendric, and my beloved Irish wolfhound, Hillary. If I was not exploring the real world around me on foot or on bicycle, then I was most assuredly doing so with my nose in a book. ────────────.❦.──────────── first instance of magic. Reducio The first unintended instance of magic I can recall took place in the Belhaven schoolyard when I was almost nine years old. My friend Kendric is small for his age, and was then as well. He had been bullied for a while by a troglodytic specimen of maleness in our class by the name of Dougal Larabee, but heated words, as is often the case in such situations, inevitably escalated to blows. On the afternoon in question, things had ratcheted up so feverishly quick that Kendric had already taken a couple of hard gut punches and was collapsing to his knees by the time I was able to push my way into the fray. I was standing on the sidelines and nowhere close enough to touch either combatant, but I instinctively moved my right hand to block a blow about to land on Kendric's upturned face. To my utter shock, and to the bewilderment of the crazed student mob surrounding them, Dougal was simultaneously thrust back off his feet a good 3 meters. He landed on his ample derriere with a loud and most satisfying THUD. Understandably, Dougal was breathless and confused as to how Kendric managed to ward him off. I was as surprised as everyone, but unlike the others who had been too focused on encouraging the fight to see my hand gesture, I seemed to be the only one who suspected it was I who was responsible for Dougal's brief, but glorious free flight into confusion and humiliation. I would not be able to swear to it, but I am almost certain there was a warm, rapid-fire series of electrical contractions in my forearm when I lifted it in that moment. I do know my forearm tingled for hours afterward. The incident both thrilled and unnerved me, but I never tried to repeat it for fear of getting into trouble, nor did I ever mention it to anyone. Not to Kendric and especially not to my family. Still, I did lie awake some nights and wonder where that power came from, what it meant, and when, or even if, it would take me to places and people and adventures even farther from my home. ────────────.❦.──────────── seer. Reducio When the Hogwarts professor showed up at AngelFyre’s door with the letter on the occasion of her 11th birthday, she could say in all honesty that as a Muggle, she knew nothing of magic. Literally nothing, except what she had read in Muggle literature or seen in Muggle cinema, and those both offer poor comparisons to the real thing. It would be fair to say that based on the reactions of her family to the news of her acceptance to Hogwarts, they were as unaware of magic in their lives as she was. So many students here grew up with magic in some fashion and they take for granted that magic is part of who they are. AngelFyre has felt, justifiably so, behind the curve in simply fitting in here, let alone understanding much of what is spoken of or goes on around these hallowed halls. There is still not a day that goes by in which she does not question whether this is just a vivid dream she has fashioned and one from which she will soon awaken, back home in her own room. Because of these feelings and her newfound magical abilities, she and her family have wanted to know who they are, really are, and where her magic comes from. To that end, her mother and maternal grandmother have been doing a full court genealogical press on their family tree. They wanted to know if there were other instances of magic in their background, and they appear to have found some answers. On her father’s side, it has been discovered that in 1658, John Iain McCubbin, along with his wife, Maeve Lyall McCubbin, emigrated from Scotland to the shores of the colonies in the new world, later to become the United States. They eventually made their home in Salem, Massachusetts sometime around 1673. It appears that for many years, they lived without incident, raising a family of two daughters and one son on their meager homestead. A year or so before the Salem Witch Trials raged through the population in 1692, the McCubbins had packed up all of their belongings and had already started over again in Maryland. This timing is important because journal entries made by Maeve have been found in a family history museum in Australia. In the 2-3 years leading up to the witch hunts, there were passages in which she recounted conversations with her husband. She often implored him to have them sell what they could and move on as she had been “struck with visions” of friends and neighbors, accused of practicing witchcraft, hanged or drowned for their sins of witchcraft. Maeve’s visions had been taken seriously in her family for years, and noted by her neighbors, as they often had been able to avoid starvation on their cabbage farm as she would often “forecast” a plague or early frost while her neighbors were not so fortunate. On her maternal side, going back six generations, her great(x4)grandmother, Essie Wilhelms Godshall (nee Gantry), had some minor notoriety as a healer in and around the breadbasket area of the Midwest. She married Crawford Ingram Godshall, an infamous, but affable, gambler she met on a river boat trip on the Mississippi river. Crawford was lucky... very lucky. He was often accused of cheating, but no one could ever catch him doing so. Many times he escaped what would surely have been certain death at the hands of infuriated fellow gamblers, but he always managed to just dodge or duck flying bullets and knives. Her Grandma Ruth Godshall has recognized what she thought was just a decorative item but which she now believes to be an actual magical wand that belonged to Crawford Ingram Godshall. It has been passed down through the years to the men of the family. She has it now because it belonged to her husband, Ezra Simpson Godshall. What has not yet been revealed in the genealogical study is why the magic on both sides was quieted or disappeared. Maybe there will be answers to that and maybe there will not be, but it seems clear that the magic has reappeared with AngelFyre. Things that no one in the family thought much of prior to AngelFyre’s 11th birthday have now taken on a new color. Her ability to “see” is infrequent and subtle. As a young child, her mother recounts seeing AngelFyre walking by their barn with her best friend Ainsley. Ainsley was walking closest to the barn, and for no rhyme or reason, AngelFyre took her best friend’s arm and casually directed her to AngelFyre’s other side, while continuing to walk. Just a few seconds later, their horse, Goliath, kicked out that portion of the barn where Ainsley would have been standing and likely would have been severely injured. When asked about it, AngelFyre just shrugged her shoulders and said she “Did not want Ainsley to get hurt,” but could not elaborate further on how she knew Ainsley would have been hurt, but for her moving her out of the way. The Seer’s ability is a tricky one to pinpoint because so many people have gut feelings or intuition about things. One thing AngelFyre has long been aware of is how she does seem to have a strong sense sometimes about little things like what material will be on a quiz or exam, or knowing when someone will knock on their door when they are not expecting anyone, or even gathering candles for unexpected power outages. These things do not happen often, and it never would have occurred to her that it comes from a place of magic, but it now seems likely to her that it does. A Seer is completely human, so there is nothing to change right now as a first year in terms of AngelFyre’s physical appearance. The only physical manifestations that a Seer undergoes is that the eyes will cloud over, completely white, when visions occur, rendering the Seer temporarily immobile. This may begin some time around her third year at Hogwarts. Also, a Seer’s hair pre-maturely turns gray or white, usually in later teenage years. Because she is still so young, AngelFyre’s hair has not yet started to turn white or gray. That will likely begin to manifest in her 6th or 7th year.

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The Relationship

A Matter of the Heart
Simon Kincaid - Boyfriend as of 2 April 2022 - (30 June 2025 *) - present

Reducio

Benchmark Moments
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* When Love Must Bleed

My Hand Always To Your Heart — (AngelFyre Dies)

Game Master wrote: 30 Dec 2021, 10:57

TRUNK — (Before the Blood Thrall)

S t a t s

Stamina: 10 || Evasion: 16 || Strength: 2
Wisdom: 12 || Arcane Power: 6 || Accuracy: 12

Baseline Stats for 5th Year Seer = 50 in total; AF’s should = 58

(+3) from Dueling wins: 1 | 2 | 3
(+5) from Broom Racing wins: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

A b i l i t i e s

Reducio

All That Was Me is Gone (The Skye Boat Song reimagined)

Sing me a song of a lass that is gone,
Say, could that lass be I?
Merry of soul she sailed on a day
Over the sea to Skye.

Footprints of sand
Following those
Who walked and wondered and sighed
Step by step
I go where they lead
And hold my heart open wide

I hear them sing me a song of a lass that is gone
Say, could that lass be I?
Merry of soul, she sailed in a day
Over the sea to Skye

Just once I look back
A wave breaks the sand
And past and present collide
Who I thought I knew
Thought she knew me too
She was washed away with the tide

Sing me a song of a lass that is gone,
Say, could that lass be I?
Merry of soul she sailed on a day
Over the sea to Skye

Billow and breeze, islands and seas,
Mountains of rain and sun,
All that was good, all that was fair,
All that was me is gone.

Left in its place, a feeling, a freedom
A knowing that could not fail
If you ask who I am
I couldn't say
But I could tell you a tale...

I'd sing you a song of a lass that is gone
Say, could that lass be I?

Year 1 – Seer 1 (Intuition) || Year 2 – Fearless || Year 3 – Seer 2 (Prophecy)
Year 4 – Binding Mark || Year 5 – Seer 3 (Indiscriminate Knowledge)

Reducio

Year 1 – SEER 1 (Prophecy)
EFFECTS: Seer 1 (10% auto-dodge chance and 10% auto-hit chance)

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When the Hogwarts professor showed up at AngelFyre’s door with the letter on the occasion of her 11th birthday, she could say in all honesty that as a Muggle, she knew nothing of magic. Literally nothing, except what she had read in Muggle literature or seen in Muggle cinema, and those both offer poor comparisons to the real thing. It would be fair to say that based on the reactions of her family to the news of her acceptance to Hogwarts, they were as unaware of magic in their lives as she was. So many students here grew up with magic in some fashion and they take for granted that magic is part of who they are. AngelFyre has felt, justifiably so, behind the curve in simply fitting in here, let alone understanding much of what is spoken of or goes on around these hallowed halls. There is still not a day that goes by in which she does not question whether this is just a vivid dream she has fashioned and one from which she will soon awaken, back home in her own room.

Because of these feelings and her newfound magical abilities, she and her family have wanted to know who they are, really are, and where her magic comes from. To that end, her mother and maternal grandmother have been doing a full court genealogical press on their family tree. They wanted to know if there were other instances of magic in their background, and they appear to have found some answers.

On her father’s side, it has been discovered that in 1658, John Iain McCubbin, along with his wife, Maeve Lyall McCubbin, emigrated from Scotland to the shores of the colonies in the new world, later to become the United States. They eventually made their home in Salem, Massachusetts sometime around 1673. It appears that for many years, they lived without incident, raising a family of two daughters and one son on their meager homestead.

A year or so before the Salem Witch Trials raged through the population in 1692, the McCubbins had packed up all of their belongings and had already started over again in Maryland. This timing is important because journal entries made by Maeve have been found in a family history museum in Australia. In the 2-3 years leading up to the witch hunts, there were passages in which she recounted conversations with her husband. She often implored him to have them sell what they could and move on as she had been “struck with visions” of friends and neighbors, accused of practicing witchcraft, hanged or drowned for their sins of witchcraft. Maeve’s visions had been taken seriously in her family for years, and noted by her neighbors, as they often had been able to avoid starvation on their cabbage farm as she would often “forecast” a plague or early frost while her neighbors were not so fortunate.

On her maternal side, going back six generations, her great(x4)grandmother, Essie Wilhelms Godshall (née Gantry), had some minor notoriety as a healer in and around the breadbasket area of the Midwest. She married Crawford Ingram Godshall, an infamous, but affable, gambler she met on a river boat trip on the Mississippi river. Crawford was lucky... very lucky. He was often accused of cheating, but no one could ever catch him doing so. Many times he escaped what would surely have been certain death at the hands of infuriated fellow gamblers, but he always managed to just dodge or duck flying bullets and knives. AngelFyre’s Grandma Ruth Godshall has recognized what she thought was just a decorative item but which she now believes to be an actual magical wand that belonged to Crawford Ingram Godshall. It has been passed down through the years to the men of the family. She has it now because it belonged to her husband, Ezra Simpson Godshall.

What has not yet been revealed in the genealogical study is why the magic on both sides was quieted or disappeared. Maybe there will be answers to that and maybe there will not be, but it seems clear that the magic has reappeared with AngelFyre. Things that no one in the family thought much of prior to AngelFyre’s 11th birthday have now taken on a new color. Her ability to “see” is infrequent and subtle. As a young child, her mother recounts seeing AngelFyre walking by their barn with her best friend Ainsley. Ainsley was walking closest to the barn, and for no rhyme or reason, AngelFyre took her best friend’s arm and casually directed her to AngelFyre’s other side, while continuing to walk. Just a few seconds later, their horse, Goliath, kicked out that portion of the barn where Ainsley would have been standing and likely would have been severely injured. When asked about it, AngelFyre just shrugged her shoulders and said she “Did not want Ainsley to get hurt,” but could not elaborate further on how she knew Ainsley would have been hurt but for her moving her out of the way.

The Seer’s ability is a tricky one to pinpoint because so many people have gut feelings or intuition about things. One thing AngelFyre has long been aware of is how she does seem to have a strong sense sometimes about little things like what material will be on a quiz or exam, or knowing when someone will knock on their door when they are not expecting anyone, or even gathering candles for unexpected power outages. These things do not happen often, and it never would have occurred to her that it comes from a place of magic, but it now seems likely to her that it does.

A Seer is completely human, so there is nothing to change right now as a first year in terms of AngelFyre’s physical appearance. The only physical manifestations that a Seer undergoes is that the eyes will cloud over, completely white, when visions occur, rendering the Seer temporarily immobile. This may begin some time around her third year at Hogwarts. Also, a Seer’s hair pre-maturely turns gray or white, usually in later teenage years. Because she is still so young, AngelFyre’s hair has not yet started to turn white or gray. That will likely begin to manifest in her 6th or 7th year.

Year 2 – FEARLESS
EFFECTS: Fearless -- Dhampir's Aura, the ability Terrible Presence, a Lycanothrope's Intimidation OR certain charms, potions and jinxes that would normally cause a fear effect do not work on you as you are immune to them.

In Dueling
• In a duel with a Year 3+ Dhampir (with activated aura), or a player with Terrible Presence, a Fearless player won't suffer from their debuffs (10% auto-fail, 10% auto-miss, +1 Critical Failure range, –10% spell damage).

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AngelFyre, if asked, would be hard-pressed to tell anyone what scared her because she just did not scare easily. Like anyone with a heart and the capacity to love, what most scared her was not fear for her own physical safety, but rather, fear of the loss of loved ones, whether that be her boyfriend, family, friends, or her animal pals. Raised in a muggle home that appreciated muggle horror movies, she surprised her parents at a very young age when they caught her up long past her bedtime watching ‘The Creature from the Black Lagoon’ alone, in the dark, and laughing. The idea that such silly things as monsters existing amused her 6 year old self. As she grew older and the scales began to fall from her eyes, she could look at the world and find that, indeed, monsters did exist; they just looked a lot more like her than Frankenstein’s monster or the Mummy.

Well, that was what she believed anyway, at least until she found her way to Hogwarts. Even still, she found that the half breeds who roamed these hallowed halls alongside her were not something to automatically run from, screaming like a whipped puppy and hiding and trembling in some dark corner, hoping to not be discovered. Was she glad to know they existed? Yes. Information is always power. Better to know than walk amongst them and be completely unprepared on the off chance… the very off chance… that something bad might happen. But truth be told, most of the nastiness and vile behaviors she witnessed this past year came from the human race, provoking the others, whether that be physically or in written articles to rile up a student population quite needlessly.

Part of being fearless had less to do with bravery, so to speak, and much more to do with preparedness and confidence in herself and in the guardrails that were naturally imposed on society in any number of ways to minimize the idea of risk. Everything was all a numbers game, figured out in some actuarial table somewhere by some bean counter. Was there risk in everything? Of course! One could conceivably drown drinking a glass of pumpkin juice, but that did not mean she would allow herself to be afraid to drink it. AngelFyre was not at all interested in the ‘What If” game. Everyday was filled with risk, but one had to turn over a certain amount of faith in other people to do their jobs, and to do them competently, to keep her, as well as themselves, safe. Because it was a numbers game, the odds generally heavily favored her. She can, and will choose to sky dive when she turns 16 because, while the jump might be intimidating and just a little nerve racking at first, it will also be a huge thrill. At heart, AngelFyre is an adventurer. It seems unlikely that one could be both and adventurer and scared of one’s own shadow. She has never been scared of shadows.

She was not, and is not, a reckless girl, usually. Everyone has their stupid moments. She was no exception. She knew risk was something to deal with and manage. And that was the crux of how she approached the idea of fear in everything she did. She simply tried to prepare herself to the best of her ability as her first line of defense. AngelFyre wants to experience life; not sit back and simply read about it or watch others living it. She wants to suck the marrow out of every moment allotted to her in the blink of an eye that she will reside on terra firma. That means getting out and meeting the world head on, come what may. In the past when the world bit back upon such head on meetings, it was wisely chalked up to a lesson learned, and one hopefully not to be repeated. In the future it will be much the same. She has seen no reason to change her way of thinking or feeling about it now.

Fear?

She will continue to meet it head on and likely come out on the other side breathing, and most probably even laughing.

Year 3 – SEER 2 (Prophecy)
EFFECTS: Prophecy -- In moderated situations, the moderator has a 50% chance of offering you some tidbit of information or some sort of vision that is semi-relevant to the situation. It might be very important or it could be something very useless (think That's So Raven). Can only use this skill once per thread.


Year 4 – BINDING MARK
EFFECTS: Binding Mark -- They can communicate telepathically with those who are branded. (This can be blocked as an Occlumens. An Occlumens can choose to not hear the communication.)

- Those branded will know the location of the wizard that branded them at all times. (This can be blocked as an Occlumens. An Occlumens can elect to have their location not detected and they would know when someone has attempted to locate them.)

- The wizard that branded their followers with this mark will always know where their followers are at a given time. (This can be blocked as an Occlumens. An Occlumens can elect to have their location not detected and they would know when someone has attempted to locate them.)

- Those branded will not know the location of the others that were branded but can recognize the brand on others if they see it as the brand is unique. This is achieved because they know what the image looks like and they can communicate with and have been in communication with the others that are marked. While a metamorphmagi can make a passable image of the mark if they are aware of the mark, the mark would not be functional.)

Binding Marks cannot be given by any form of NPC.

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The “gift” of being a Seer had more than its fair share of challenges. The primary challenge that AngelFyre faced with it was her frustration over the inability to turn it on or off when she, or someone she loved, could most benefit by knowing some details about future events. She would never think to use it for anything so trite and self-serving as finding out what the questions would be on exams, or what the numbers might be in the next billion dollar Lotto, but she did find that the things that she foresaw were often of a trivial nature.

Just a few weeks earlier, she had a vision of herself standing in front of a mirror in the Prefects’ Bathroom, squeezing a bead of toothpaste onto her toothbrush. All of a sudden the tube suffered some sort of rupture, and gobs of toothpaste burst forth from its side and all over her hand. A few weeks later, that very thing actually happened. She laughed as her hand, no matter how often she washed it, had a refreshingly minty scent for most of the morning. Still, there had not been enough details in the vision to help her avoid it. She was in the Prefects’ bathroom. Check. She was in her standard, school robe (which covered up her street clothes). Check. She was wearing her hair down, as she did 90% of the time. Check. The hard fact of the matter was that sometimes she could know something, but still be in the dark about it. That trivial little incident was just such a moment.

Somewhere towards the middle of the second term of her third year, AngelFyre had come to fully accept that she was a Seer. There had been small hints and flashes of it throughout her life, but it was not until she had taken her Divination class that what she was finally solidified itself within her psyche. She and Simon had both suspected as much in her first year, had gotten some circumstantial confirmation of it in her second year, and then there was just no denying it in the third year. The comfort she took in it was twofold: she knew now why she had the flashes and visions she did (it once crossed her mind to worry that maybe she had a brain tumor!), and it gave some credence to her first real visions as a Seer. In those she had foreseen danger to Simon coming at him from his vampiric “father”, Adrian Hawthorne. Those visions had hung over her like a dark cloud since knowing Simon and loving him, and there was no denying that supporting him in his pursuit to know more about his father brought about great strain and worry for her.

The two rarely argued, about anything, but the topic of daddy Hawthorne was the one, glaring exception. Realizing that his need to know his father was not entirely unreasonable, AngelFyre had had to learn to live with the fear and uncertainty of the situation, and was left with no choice but to trust Simon when he told her he would be more on guard around his father, knowing what he now knew about him precisely because of her visions. Small comfort, that, but she would take everything she could get. Part of that “everything she could get” was made harder on her by the fact that, like Hogwarts, Simon was always in a communications desert when at Hawthorne Manor, technologically speaking. It was weak, but the uneasy peace treaty she had brokered between her fear and her trust in him to be on guard had been enough to keep her sane during his more frequently radio silent and extended visits with his father and his father’s coven.

Until.

Until the winter break incident shattered her peace treaty in no time flat.

A shot had been fired over the bow, and that was bad. Very bad. Worse was not knowing where it had come from or what had actually happened to Simon since he could not remember himself. He had been calendared to spend the two weeks with his father, but that was cut short and he was ultimately admitted to St. Mungos. All it took was one message from his Aunt Maggie in the wee hours of New Year’s Day, and AngelFyre and her folks were off to London. Simon was ultimately fine, of course, suffering only a couple of broken ribs, but when he awoke shortly after her arrival, her fear dwarfed her senses. He shared he had no memory of what had actually happened to him, insofar as the cause of his injury, and he had hidden from his father how badly he was hurt. He had simply requested that his father accompany him back home to London and to Aunt Maggie. Adrian obliged and then left almost immediately upon delivering his son back back to his Aunt, after which, Simon asked his aunt to get him to St. Mungos.

Simon had determined quite some time ago that his father was not to learn that his son was of magic, and there was good precedent for keeping that a secret; primarily, AngelFyre’s visions. This incident only proved that no matter how careful he might be, things could go awry, and that was just unacceptable. So in order to feel less powerless in the situation, AngelFyre did what she always did when it came to her fellow… she got to work.

Their inability to communicate in a timely fashion was the main obstacle here, from her point of view, so hours and hours were spent in the Library poring over every tome and scroll she could lay hands on concerning magic communication. Of all the things magic could do, surely there had to be something more efficient than owls to communicate with one another. Owls were okay, but slower than she would like in this modern day and age, especially in an emergency.

It took next to no time to land on the subject of Legilimency, but after devoting probably too much time to learning about it, AngelFyre determined it would not really meet the requirements for communicating with Simon she was looking for while he was away from her. More than that though, it seemed too much like a violation of his privacy. Simon would have little to no say over her whims to actually traipse through his layered thoughts, unless he decided to become an Occlumens. Fascinating as it all was, it only took her down a rabbit hole that was simply not a helpful solution to her dilemma.

Other research she saw in passing mentioned Witches Marks, sometimes called Devil’s marks, but nothing much was found regarding them other than they were often used as excuses for identifying a person as a witch during the mid 17th century in Europe and the Americas. A witch’s mark did not seem proof of any significant value to her problem until she discovered over spring break, quite by accident, that one of Simon’s Scottish ancestors was an infamous “Witch Pricker”. In a little museum in Kirkintilloch, Scotland, they both learned that a witch’s mark was believed to identify someone as a witch as the mark gave no sensation of pain when pricked. Because it was such a macabre, fascinating part of her boyfriend’s history, AngelFyre redirected a little more of her attention to learning about “marks” in general when she needed a break from her studies or from her obsession to find an answer to their ‘failure to communicate’ problem.

It was during one of those “breaks” that she came upon her answer near the beginning of her fourth year... the Binding Mark. This particular mark would allow immediate, two-way communication between her and Simon, and best of all, it would be telepathic communication. His father would never know about it at all. The bonus she had not even been looking for, but would get with it anyway, was that it allowed the both of them to track each other. Neither of them would ever again be in the dark as to exactly where the other one was, and that was just miraculous to AngelFyre.

She tackled the rigors of learning the magic for creating the mark with her normal badger ferocity and then some. Every spare second, outside of class and Prefect duties, was spent on reciting it and nailing down the intricate wand movements. In addition to perfecting the magic itself, there were other considerations as to what the mark itself would look like, where it should be showcased on his body, and what their activation word should be. It had the possibility for being a highly intrusive bit of magic, but more than that, it would irrevocably bind them together for the whole of their lives, or at least until one of them was no longer living.

AngelFyre knew she was sure of their longevity as a couple, but she had the benefit of having “seen” as much for herself. Simon would only have her word for such, and he may be a little less anxious to give anyone… even her… the ability to insert their voice in his head whenever they chose to do so for the next month let alone the next 70 years or more. She recognized it would be a huge leap of faith on his part to accept her mark, so the more she understood about the Binding Mark itself, and the better prepared she was to answer his questions, the more likely he was to go along with it. And she needed him to go along with it. (Word Count: 1,609/400)

Year 5 – SEER 3 (Indiscriminate Knowledge)
EFFECTS: Spells cast by Seers cannot critically fail and their spells
have a +1 chance of critically succeeding.

You just know better than to cast a spell that is about to backfire. You might almost cast something and then think twice about it and choose a different spell (this is for flavor, this does not mean you tell us two spells and get to choose the effect of the better one). You may never know it but you just saved yourself a backfire.

The Time Before Magic

Hogwarts -- Year 1

T h r e a d s

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• I Am Here! -- [Solo. Backdated Letters in Progress; Ongoing]
• Upon Where I Sit in Disbelief -- (Solo)
• Within the Common Room -- (Completed with Simon Kincaid)
• Hit the Right Note -- (Completed with Simon Kincaid)
• A Boy is Sleeping in Badger Bungalow!?! -- (Stalled)
• Itinerary Check -- (Solo -- ClOSED)
• Cookie Decorating -- Errand
• Bauble Crafting -- Errand
• Hufflepuff Yule Celebration -- Errand
• Speculations -- [with Phoenix Adair - Completed]
• Give It All You've Got -- [Group thread with Simon Kincaid Completed ]
• Twelfth Night -- Errand -- [Solo CLOSED]
• Green Is For Healing -- [w Lucia Fox, (sort of); CLOSED]
• Sweets for Your Sweet --[ Letter and Cupcakes for Simon] -- [Completed]
• Gryffindor vs Slytherin Dueling Match Spectator Thread --[Closed]
• Hufflepuff Slumber Party -- [with Simon Kincaid Completed]
• Revelations -- [Completed with Simon Kincaid]
• Happy Birthday Simon! --[CLOSED]
• Not a case of Dueling Banjos -- [PV David Howard] -- Completed
• Dad, There is Something You Need To Know -- [SOLO]
• On the Hogwarts Express --[STALLED with Annabeth Taylor]
• There, Out in the Darkness -- [PV with Simon Kincaid, Completed]
• Table 3 | Sweethearts Tea Party EVENT -- [PV with Simon Kincaid, Haley Rose, David Howard, Della Barfield, Scarlett Noel -- Completed]
• Tears on Her Face -- [PV with David Howard] Completed
• Another Night in the Rehearsal Room -- [PV with Simon Kincaid] -- Completed
• Our Way Back -- [PV with Simon Kincaid] -- Completed
• A Feathered Friend & An Other -- [PV with James Owens] -- Completed, Continued in Fine Unfeathered Friends
• Right Where We Are -- [PV with Simon Kincaid] -- Completed
• Fine Unfeathered Friends -- [PV with James Owens]-- Completed
• Midspring Celebration & Festival [EVENT] -- [with Simon Kincaid] -- Completed-- Simon's last post was the most beautiful thing I have ever read on this site, but I am incredibly biased!
• Raising Support for Broom Racing --[ERRAND] --[SOLO] -- Completed
• Spring Races -- [Spectator Thread for Simon's Broom Race with Bailey Glade and James Owens] -- In Progress
• Gryffindor vs. Hufflepuff Match 3, Stage 3 -- [AngelFyre's 1st Dueling Match] -- Completed
• Two Badgers Down --[PV with Simon Kincaid and David Howard] -- In Progress
• A Wizard Meets the Parents -- [PV with Simon Kincaid] -- In Progress
• What If? -- [with Sarah Night]-- Completed
• Guardian Angel -- [PV with Lucia Fox] -- AngelFyre left thread
• Happy Birthday to You-- [PV with Simon Kincaid] -- Completed
• Portraits Speak 1000s of Words -- [PV with Shiawase Mamori] -- Completed
• Meeting "Aida From the Sparkles" -- [PV with Aida Mòrsgor-Ama Ellwood] -- Completed
• Clankety-Clank, (Don't Step Back) -- [PV Colin McCoire Taylor Lawrence] -- Completed
• Cooperative Constructive Positive (CCP) -[ERRAND] -- OPEN --Completed
• Check This Out -- [PV with Sarah Night] -- In Progress
• Green Eyes and Blue Eyes -- OPEN with Colin McCoire -- Completed
• Frustration --[PV with Simon Kincaid] -- Completed
• Surprise! -- [PV Group at Bailey Glade's birthday party] -- On Hold
• Capsulizing History -- [ERRAND -- OPEN to ALL] -- Completed
• Add A Little Bit Of... Spice -- [ERRAND -- Open to All] -- - Completed
• From the Badger's Den 2022 -- [ Hufflepuff Yearbook --Simon Kincaid and Open]
• Love is in the Air -- [PV with Simon Kincaid ] --Completed
• Springtime Showers & Summer Flowers -- [ERRAND] -- Open to All] -- Completed
• Dear God -- [PV with Colin McCoire] -- In Progress
• See You Soon, Hogwarts -- [PV with Simon Kincaid -- Completed
  
  
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  Summer 2022 Threads Between 1st and 2nd Year

• Drivin' Me Crazy --[PV with Colin McCoire, Sophia Nelson, Pax Zhang] -- In Progress
• Summer Love -- [PV with Simon Kincaid ] -- In Progress
• Introspective Reflections -- [ERRAND] -- Completed
  
  
  
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  My iNPC Threads -- Stephen Nobler Schwartz

• Three Ships -- Posts: 1 || 2 -- Durmstrang, Ilvermorny, and Mahoutokoro Arrive for Blossom Ball and Goblet of Fire -- [Interacting with Selena Arden as Hailey Farin ] -- Abandoned
• Free Flight [OPEN with Emma Wynn as Luca Dufort] -- In Progress
  

  Summer 2022 Threads Between 1st and 2nd Year

• Green Sea Tent -- Conspira-sea -- [PV with Miles Thatcher (@Simon Kincaid); Louca DuFort (@Emma Wynn); Jamie Ziegler (@Gemima Sable); @EmmaLee LeDames; @Lilliam Ward; @Bubba McGarry; @Emma Bennett; Astrid Olsen (@Anastasia Varney); and @Ramzy Rossi] -- In Progress
• Annual BBQ-- [OPEN TO EVERYONE]
• Prank Wars II - Team 7 vs Team 8 -- [Conspira-sea tent members] -- In Progress
• Triathlon [1] [2]
• Truth or Dare -- [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] -- Bubba McGarry, Kim Sato, Kamila Yavlinsky (Marina Oriel's iNPC), Serena Bowen, Reena Delgado -- In Progress
• Broom Race, Ilvermorny vs Beauxbottoms & Koldovstoretz -- In Progress
• Capture the Jolly Roger
• Twirl the Flagon [1] [2] [3]]--[Ayako Yamamura (Sophia Nelson's iNPC), Coraline Harvey (Reena Delgado's iNPC), Monica Evans]

Hogwarts -- Year 2

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• Summer 2022

• Summer Love -- [PV with (PV with Simon Kincaid) - Completed
  

  School Year 2022-2023

• A Single Red Rose -- (PV with Simon Kincaid) -- Completed
• The Hufflepuff Table 2022-2023 - OPEN TO EVERYONE
• Wire We Waiting? -- (PV with Simon Kincaid) -- Completed
• Nothing Fancy -- (SOLO) -- Completed
• Small Frogs in A Big Hall -- ERRAND -- Completed
• Sacred Space -- PV with Colin McCoire -- In Progress
• Dark Faerie Tale Fall Ball 2022 -- Mostly PV with Simon Kincaid, but also with David Howard, Colin McCoire -- In Progress
• Foggy 'Spectations - Spectator Thread for Simon's Broom Race Against Slytherin - [Open to Anyone, with David Howard] --In Progress
• Quidditch Spectator Thread: Hufflepuff vs Gryffindor -- [Open to Everyone, with Simon Kincaid and David Howard -- In Progress
• Thrills & Chills Bash -- [Kim Aoki's Halloween party -- with Simon Kincaid and lots of others] --In Progress
• Ronnie + Haley vs Simon + AF -- [ PV with Simon Kincaid and Cassandra Ironwoods, Haley Rose -- In Progress
• 2022 Stage 1, Slytherin vs Hufflepuff Duel -- [PV with @Emma Wynn @Pea Elena Fowl and @Fang Hui Mingl -- In Progress
• Hexwizard Spectator Thread -- [Open to Everyone with Simon Kincaid] --In Progress
• So Matcha in Love -- [PV with Simon Kincaid ] -- In Progress
• The Scadventger Calendar -- [PV with Simon Kincaid ] -- In Progress
• No One Should Hear You Scream -- In Progress
• The True Meaning of Christmas --[ERRAND - Solo] -- Completed

Hogwarts -- Year 3

T h r e a d s

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⮞ A Lever + A Fulcrum = Love -- [Solo]

• AngelFyre adopts Archimedes, one of Hogwarts' school owls

Hogwarts -- Year 4

T h r e a d s

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⮞ Welcome to Hufflepuff - Tour de Force -- [OPEN to 1st Year Hufflepuffs]

• Simon and AngelFyre guide 1st years on a short tour as they lead the way to the Hufflepuff Common Room

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Hogwarts -- Year 5

Hogwarts -- Year 6

Hogwarts -- Year 7

Adulthood

Art Gallery

Created by AngelFyre

Made by AngelFyre

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Featured in My Hand Always To Your Heart

Featured in The Quiet That Lives Between Us

Featured in Presents, Popcorn, Pajamas, and Prognostications

Both featured in The Drowned Palace

Featured in Bravehearts

Featured in When Love Must Die

and its outro companion piece

Featured in The Call

Featured in International Potions Brewing Championship 2024, Pts 1 & 2 & 3

Featured in Pumpkin Destruction [Errand]

Featured in Group Ten: Tricks, Treats and Tales [Errand]

Featured in Noir Murder Mystery - Fall Ball 2024

Featured in Once Upon A Mystery

Featured in Summer Missives

Featured in Just Be With Me

Featured in Magical Masquerade Spring Ball - 2024

Featured in Magical Masquerade Spring Ball - 2024

Featured in Thrills & Chills Bash

Featured in Thrills & Chills Bash

Featured in A New Approach

Featured in Here's to Right Now

Featured in You Better Mend Your Ways

Featured in A Surprise, Skates, and Super Soakers!

Featured in 2, 4, 6, Great!

Featured in A Lever + A Fulcrum = Love

Featured in HUFFLEPUFF vs. SLYTHERIN - WINTER 2024

Created by AngelFyre

Featured in Snitches and Stitches

Featured in A Prefect Pair on Patrol

Featured in Lanterns and Boat Rides

Featured in In the Hufflebuff

Featured in The Family Trees

Featured in Revelations and also in There, Out in the Darkness

Created by AngelFyre

Created by AngelFyre

Featured in A 1,000 Nothings = A Million Everythings
Created by Thorn Cullen (mostly) & AngelFyre

Featured in LUMOS! Camera Club

Featured in Let Us Go to the High Place

Featured in Eyed's of Martch [2023]

Featured in Their Own Royal Gathering [2023]

Created by AngelFyre

Created by AngelFyre

Made for AngelFyre

Reducio

Made by my Handsome Hunk of a Hufflepuff

Created by my lovely friend, Meyra Lancaster

Created by the talented and sweet Lyanna Oak and featured in The Advent Tree

Made by Amaris Knight (aka Archer Duncan, a fabulously talented soul)

Created by the lovely and talented Lyanna Oak

Made for us by Linda Ramirez in 2023

Created by the very sweet Huffle, Denise Garcia

Created by the very sweet and generous Scout Fu-Hai

Created by the lovely Emily Shephard

Created by the lovely Emily Shephard

Featured in Clankety-Clank, Don't Step Back [2022]
Created by Liana Kerr

Featured in Midspring Celebration [2022]
Created by Liana Kerr

Featured in Midspring Celebration [2022]
Created by Liana Kerr

Created by Kim Sato

Featured in Midspring Celebration [2022]
Created by Liana Kerr

Created by Lizzy Solace

Created by Lizzy Solace