Yseult Arand ❀ Ravenclaw, First Year
Quick Details
Full name: Yseult Arand
Age: 11 years
Gender: Witch
House: Ravenclaw
Year: First Year
Residence: Robin's Hood Bay, England
Blood status: Wizard-born
Wand: Pear Wood, Unicorn Hair core, approximately 10 and one quarter inches
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Background History
Yseult comes from a blended family of muggles and wizards alike, though none of her recent ancestors have been muggles. Her father, Nester Arand, is an only child and grew up in Boston, Lincolnshire. His family are British; his father’s side, the Arands hailing from the East Midlands, and his mother’s side, the Lohmanns, from the East of England.
Yseult’s mother, Esther Arand (née Whippoorwill) has one younger brother and two older brothers. She grew up in Boston, Massachusetts; yes, the humor of the fact that Nester and Esther rhyme was not lost on either of them; neither was the fact that they both grew up in places called Boston. Rather, the latter fact was part of their initial pull to one another. Esther’s family are American; her father’s side, the Whippoorwills hail from Floyd, Virginia, and her mother’s side, the Pleasants, hail from Peabody, Massachusetts.
Yseult herself grew up as an only child in a cottage overlooking the water in the village of Robin’s Hood Bay, a fishing village visited often by muggle tourists. Every year, Yseult spends much of her summer travelling with her mother to visit her grandparents, her uncles, and her many cousins in America. The boisterousness of these visits is both exhilarating and overwhelming to Yseult. Normally the visits consisted of her older cousins excitedly telling her about Ilvermorny and all of their friends there, of her Pappy telling the story again and again of how his mother grew up in a shanty boat which would float down rivers and then sprout legs to walk through valleys, of her Uncle Dennis rounding up all the children to play flag football with him before ultimately stopping the game early and complaining of his bad knee while his wife, Sarah (a muggle) would roll her eyes. This year, however, had been different as her mother made an announcement; Yseult had thought it would be the exciting news that she had received her Hogwarts letter, but it was, in fact, that Yseult would soon become a big sister.
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First Instance of Magic
Yseult's first instance of magic was when she was 4 years old. Her Uncle Lee (short for Leland) was visiting. As her mother tells it, her uncle had brought a stuffed niffler with a bunch of chocolate coins in its pouch for Yseult. Her father and mother both decided she should not have such an amount of chocolate before dinner, so they set it up high on top of the hutch in the kitchen and got to chatting. Yseult cried and cried and cried for the toy, but was sent off into the den. 40 minutes later, Yseult's parents found her in the den playing with the Niffler, all of the chocolate coins set aside uneaten. Yseult herself remembers being on the rug in the den, rather upset about the niffler toy being kept from her. However, when she went over to her bookshelf to look through a picture book... there the niffler sat, propped up against some books.
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Personality
Yseult is rather reserved, as an only child and having few other children around the village to play with during the majority of the year. She has over the years experienced fast growing and quickly fleeting friendships with the children of visiting tourists, with promises to write and stay in touch which are sadly never fulfilled for long by the other party. She is typically strikingly observant, noticing small changes in demeanors or her environment; however, when she becomes focused on something hardly anything can break that focus and she becomes nearly oblivious to anything else (much like her father).
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Appearance
Yseult has light blond hair with a bit of wave to it. She normally has it tied or clipped halfway back, so the wind keeps it out of her eyes and mouth. She doesn't like having it pulled up all the way, though, as it hurts her scalp. She has dark blue eyes, and a beauty mark just below her left eye on her cheekbone. She is fairly tall for her age at 4'11 and a bit gangly, having recently gone through a bit of a growth spurt. Consequently, none of her clothes seem to fit her quite right currently. Her tops a bit short on her arms and her trousers falling a too high above her ankles.
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Full name: Yseult Arand
Age: 11 years
Gender: Witch
House: Ravenclaw
Year: First Year
Residence: Robin's Hood Bay, England
Blood status: Wizard-born
Wand: Pear Wood, Unicorn Hair core, approximately 10 and one quarter inches
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Background History
Yseult comes from a blended family of muggles and wizards alike, though none of her recent ancestors have been muggles. Her father, Nester Arand, is an only child and grew up in Boston, Lincolnshire. His family are British; his father’s side, the Arands hailing from the East Midlands, and his mother’s side, the Lohmanns, from the East of England.
Yseult’s mother, Esther Arand (née Whippoorwill) has one younger brother and two older brothers. She grew up in Boston, Massachusetts; yes, the humor of the fact that Nester and Esther rhyme was not lost on either of them; neither was the fact that they both grew up in places called Boston. Rather, the latter fact was part of their initial pull to one another. Esther’s family are American; her father’s side, the Whippoorwills hail from Floyd, Virginia, and her mother’s side, the Pleasants, hail from Peabody, Massachusetts.
Yseult herself grew up as an only child in a cottage overlooking the water in the village of Robin’s Hood Bay, a fishing village visited often by muggle tourists. Every year, Yseult spends much of her summer travelling with her mother to visit her grandparents, her uncles, and her many cousins in America. The boisterousness of these visits is both exhilarating and overwhelming to Yseult. Normally the visits consisted of her older cousins excitedly telling her about Ilvermorny and all of their friends there, of her Pappy telling the story again and again of how his mother grew up in a shanty boat which would float down rivers and then sprout legs to walk through valleys, of her Uncle Dennis rounding up all the children to play flag football with him before ultimately stopping the game early and complaining of his bad knee while his wife, Sarah (a muggle) would roll her eyes. This year, however, had been different as her mother made an announcement; Yseult had thought it would be the exciting news that she had received her Hogwarts letter, but it was, in fact, that Yseult would soon become a big sister.
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First Instance of Magic
Yseult's first instance of magic was when she was 4 years old. Her Uncle Lee (short for Leland) was visiting. As her mother tells it, her uncle had brought a stuffed niffler with a bunch of chocolate coins in its pouch for Yseult. Her father and mother both decided she should not have such an amount of chocolate before dinner, so they set it up high on top of the hutch in the kitchen and got to chatting. Yseult cried and cried and cried for the toy, but was sent off into the den. 40 minutes later, Yseult's parents found her in the den playing with the Niffler, all of the chocolate coins set aside uneaten. Yseult herself remembers being on the rug in the den, rather upset about the niffler toy being kept from her. However, when she went over to her bookshelf to look through a picture book... there the niffler sat, propped up against some books.
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Personality
Yseult is rather reserved, as an only child and having few other children around the village to play with during the majority of the year. She has over the years experienced fast growing and quickly fleeting friendships with the children of visiting tourists, with promises to write and stay in touch which are sadly never fulfilled for long by the other party. She is typically strikingly observant, noticing small changes in demeanors or her environment; however, when she becomes focused on something hardly anything can break that focus and she becomes nearly oblivious to anything else (much like her father).
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Appearance
Yseult has light blond hair with a bit of wave to it. She normally has it tied or clipped halfway back, so the wind keeps it out of her eyes and mouth. She doesn't like having it pulled up all the way, though, as it hurts her scalp. She has dark blue eyes, and a beauty mark just below her left eye on her cheekbone. She is fairly tall for her age at 4'11 and a bit gangly, having recently gone through a bit of a growth spurt. Consequently, none of her clothes seem to fit her quite right currently. Her tops a bit short on her arms and her trousers falling a too high above her ankles.
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Yseult Arand ❀ Ravenclaw, First Year
Trunk
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STATS
Stamina: 7
Evasion: 4
Strength: 3
Wisdom: 6
ArcPower: 6
Accuracy: 4
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ABILITIES
None
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STATS
Stamina: 7
Evasion: 4
Strength: 3
Wisdom: 6
ArcPower: 6
Accuracy: 4
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ABILITIES
None
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