Description
me: ok I'm not going to have Izel in two groups at once that would be silly
friends: have Izel in two groups at once
me: well heck you give me no choice
most of this is reused from his AM app don't mind me
█ g e n e r a l
Name: Izel Valliea
Age: 17
Gender: M
Birthday: Feb. 27th
Height: 5'11"
Nationality: British + Danish
EXTRA
Blood status: Pureblood (Half Veela)
█ s c h o o l
House: Stonehedge
Year: 11 (held back once)
Extra: ?
CLASSES
Core: Charms || Flying | Defence against the Dark Arts | Herbology | History of Magic | Potions | Transfiguration
Electives: Arithmancy | Divination | Muggle Studies | Study of Ancient Runes
Extracurriculars: Music
WAND
- Length: 9 1/2"
- Wood: Hawthorn
- Core: Unicorn Hair
FAMILY
Father- Reuel Valliea, Pureblood
Mother- Christelle Als, Veela
█ p e r s o n a l i t y
COWARDLY || LITERAL || NERVOUS || OVERLY APOLOGETIC || HONEST
Izel and his emotions aren't anything like an oiled well-working machine. In fact, despite being book-smart and having a lot of intelligent ideas crammed into that head of his, it seldom seems like it. His emotions are almost always in turmoil, and he's quick to jump to outrageous conclusions based off of them. He often misinterprets things people say unintentionally, regularly taking things far too literally even in the case of a joke.
Due to negative events in his childhood and upbringing, Izel has an aversion to females in general. He regularly mischaracterizes them, and thinks that kindness displayed by girls is some part of a manipulative scheme. He is quick to obey threats or requests from girls out of a deep terror of being harmed if he doesn't.
If you get past that (somehow) and befriend him, you'll find this man in fact does know the meaning of "calm" and can maintain conversation without crying and/or apologizing approximately every second. While he still has a plethora of self-esteem issues, really he just wants someone to actually talk to and feel like they're listening. His fears are numerous as are his anxieties, so if you make him feel safe and make him feel like he's not a burden to your existence then he'll never want to leave your side.
Likes
+Classical and calming music
+Cleaning
+Baths
+Warm clothing
+Bitter food/drink
Dislikes
-Spiders and Spider webs
-Scary things and people
-Being cold
-Filth
-His appearance (no matter how much he tries to alter it to his liking)
-Casting spells (particularly ones taught in Defense Against the Dark Arts, as they have a tendency to backfire on him)
- Being touched (geez Arthur)
█ h i s t o r yTales of good Veelas exist in the world, surely, but as far as Izel is concerned, his mother is one of the wretched heartless seductresses that makes up the species.
And he hates that he resembles her, and hates that half of her kind's blood runs through his veins.
Reuel Valliea fell in love with a very beautiful women, and that was his first mistake.
He met her by chance while she was sight-seeing in Britian, and no one had ever captivated and entranced him as much as she did. His love was spontaneous, but devoted, and the woman, Christelle, found him endearing and amusing for his efforts to woo her, and fresh in all his naivete. As time went on, through letters and frequent corresponding, she too found herself fond of the man.
And that was the second and more fatal mistake of Reuel Valliea, making her fall in love with him.
Eventually, she moved from Denmark to Britain for Reuel, and then after that with time came marriage and a son.
But the novelty of Reuel's love was gradually wearing off for Christelle, and despite his constant devotion she came to despise how her life was becoming so normal and uninteresting. What's more she came to hate how the man who would previously bend backwards for her and die had someone he now adored even more than her: their son. It shouldn't have been possible. She went on for several years growing more unhappy and gradually coming to despise her husband for not becoming unhappy with life as she had. Eventually, she decided the only thing to do was to leave him. But if she had suffered through years of unhappiness, she only thought it fair for him to have to go through the same.
Divorce may make him unhappy, yes, but she knew the only way to make him truly miserable was if he somehow lost not only his wife, but his son as well.
She was right.
Gaining custody was simple enough, as soon as a male judge was assigned to the hearing, the trial was already lost for Reuel.
At 6 years old Izel was uprooted from his life in Britain and moved to Denmark with his mother. Christelle was finally free and Izel grew up trapped in mental and emotional mind games with his mother, who convinced him of all the awful things that would happen to his father if he spent time with him. Now older, Izel realizes the manipulative falsehoods for what they are, but as a child he was terrified, and he had no one but his mother to look to for support and protection.
Izel grew up to be nervous and uneasy from a young age due to his mother's constant unstable temperament. He craved love and affection, but he also feared it greatly after seeing the way his mother would seduce men and then throw them away like it was nothing. From his personality to his looks to the very magic running through his veins, he came to despise and reject every similarity between him and his mother.
So when he ended up attending a school for magic, he was met with difficulties. He had stifled his magical ability until his first year at Tillandsie, and as a result had extremely poor results when it came to casting spells. Unlike most of the students, he was not eager to embrace his natural magical ability, and despite scoring excellently on tests and written exams, it was ultimately decided it would be in his best interests to be held back a year.
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After many years without contact with his father, he finally managed to talk to him and negotiate a way back to Britain, leaving behind Denmark and his mother all together. Like so many other former Tillandsie students, he is now more than glad to study at Brimrose.
█ e x t r a-Patronus is an artic fox
-Cannot eat with chopsticks for the life of him
-Had to repeat grade 1 due to struggles with rejecting magic.
-Quite blind but doesn't think he looks good in glasses so doesn't wear any
-Section of his left wrist/hand is quite scarred and he's ashamed of it.
- PTSD issues from childhood abuse.
RELATIONSHIPS:
Eric Traum:: Best friend and mild crush (oops)
Lucas Keaton:: Best friend and mutual disaster
Arthur Bermseth:: Best friend and... ??? who knows??