Crystal Walker | Second Year Ravenclaw

FULL NAME: Crystal Nancy Walker
BIRTHDATE: April 5, 2011
AGE: 12
GENDER/PRONOUNS: Female; she/her
SEXUALITY: Questioning

SPECIES: Human
HAIR COLOR: Light Brown
EYE COLOR: Green, with Gold Flecks
SKIN TONE: Tan, with dark brown freckles
ACCESSORIES: Glasses
HEIGHT: 4 feet, 8 inches (144 cm)

PERSONALITY:

Crystal is a very kind girl, though in all honesty, she possesses a supreme lack of motivation that often prevents her from taking the actions that her heart tells her to take. Though, on the other hand, she often gets magnificent spurts of motivation, which lead to her reorganizing her room all in one afternoon, or deciding to cook dinner for herself and her moms.

Aside from the lack of motivation, Crystal is a very smart and usually hard-working girl. Even if she doesn't have the motivation to finish a task, she still feels the need to see it completed. She will sit at her desk for hours finishing a project that she started that morning, even long after she has tired of the activity. The negative side of that is that she often doesn't get up to do the things she needs to do, like eat or help her moms with household chores, which frustrates her moms quite a bit.

Crystal has a hard time processing and understand the emotions of others, though possessing very strong ones herself. She will often trigger a person's anger without realizing it, get confused when they respond badly, and lash out at them in response to their lashing out.

Crystal also has bad social anxiety, which leads to a false aura of shyness that cause many to perceive her as something she is not. In reality, Crystal is quite loud and has no filter, but is too scared of the way strangers might see her, so she gets all shy and mumbly around people she doesn't know very well.

BACKSTORY:

Crystal is half-blood by birth, but was raised by a sapphic couple, both of whom were magical. The donor her mother used was a muggle, so Crystal was not raised in a half-blood household, yet is legally considered one. Because of her moms, Crystal was raised with an open mind towards everything and encouraged, though not pressured, to explore and experiment with her identity and her beliefs.

Like many wizard children, Crystal was not educated at muggle schools, and was instead homeschooled by her mother. One of her mothers, the one that she calls "mom," works at the Ministry of Magic, so her other mother, the one she calls "mama," would stay home and teach Crystal. Though she was home with her mama every day, Crystal would often get lonely, because she was an only child. Crystal was her mothers' first child, and they didn't really wish for another one.

As Crystal grew up, her mothers started taking her out into the muggle world a bit more, especially to the places that her mama, a muggleborn, loved to visit as a child. For Crystal, who had grown up as part of the wizarding community, these adventures were more of a fun excursion than a real learning experience, as she had no interest in leaving the wizarding world and living as a muggle.

When Crystal's Hogwarts letter arrived, her moms were overjoyed, even though they already knew that Crystal was a witch, because she had displayed magic before.

FIRST INSTANCE OF MAGIC:

Crystal was 8 when her first magic showed. On one of the family's day trips to muggle places, her mama decided to take the family to a pride parade, her first since marrying, and Crystal's mom's first ever. While at the parade, as there often are, there were many protestors with signs reading "Homosexuality is a Sin!" and other hurtful messages. Crystal had always been raised to support and love everybody, she was disgusted that others could be so mean to people like her mothers who were just trying to live their lives normally. Because the emotions of young children are often much stronger than those of adults, Crystal got angry at the protesters and her powerful, uncontrollable "child magic" unleashed itself for the first time. Crystal's anger accidentally summoned a large gust of wind, causing the protesters' signs to blow out of their hands, but leaving the signs being held by those in the parade untouched.

BLOOD STATUS: Half-Blood
HOUSE: Ravenclaw
WAND: 20 cm, Cherry Wood, Snallygaster Heartstring
PATRONUS: N/A
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OOC/IRL

NAME: You can call me artemis or crystal!
GENDER/PRONOUNS: Genderfluid; any pronouns!
PERSONALITY: INTP; socially anxious, creative, sensitive, low empathy; neurodivergent
AGE: Older teen (16-19)
HOBBIES & INTERESTS: reading, painting, baking, digital art, watching movies
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first year

unspecified date

exploring - great lake - sarah bathos

september 1, 2022

the adventure begins... - hogwarts express - alora shendrow, isla ainsley
first year entrance - great lake - interacting with alora shendrow, marcela clark
settling in - ravenclaw dorms - solo

october, 2022

autumn leaves - grounds - suni ibarez sorní, karrie myers, rebecca loops

second year

september 1, 2023

first day jitters - hogwarts express - cassiopeia alarie

october, 2023

what is this feeling? - grounds - open