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For Circe

 * "when his wand's oak and hers is holly, then to marry would be folly."
 * "rowan gossips, chestnut drones, ash is stubborn, hazel moans."
 * "wand of elder, never prosper"
 * "you will never fool the cedar carrier"
 * "if you seek integrity, search first among the poplars"

Models

 * aiysha hart
 * merve bolugur 
 * frida gustavsson
 * ben barnes
 * sophie skelton
 * alicia vikander
 * renee mittelstaedt
 * freida pinto
 * irina sharipova
 * ciara baxendale
 * odeya rush
 * alex wolff
 * nicola peltz
 * julia garner
 * teo halm -> timothee chalamet
 * charlie rowe

Character Planning
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 * half-vampire
 * his mother, a full vampire, decided she wanted a kid.
 * so she got a sperm donor & had one, as you do
 * the donor was javaad matthews, aka tessa's dad
 * his mother didn't think it through & was not in any way ready for a kid
 * he ended up basically raising himself
 * in short he doesn't trust vampires really
 * mother died in the creature attacks a year or so ago.
 * so lost like. he wants to be human but he'll always be half vampire
 * he knows that bc he's half vampire he'll always fail at being human
 * and that bc he's half human he'll always fail at being a vampire
 * he really loves his violin like touch it and die
 * really hates feeling like he owes people anything
 * does not want anyone's pity or charity
 * like he can do everything on his own. he already does lmao
 * he's desperate for validation but he's not gonna give in to that ever
 * healthy relationship? sorry dont know her


 * slightly odd girl whose entire family is made up of seers except she isn't one & she's bitter af
 * boy who's super nice + proper + comes from a politician family. pretentious by nature but that doesn't matter bc he just wants to solve all problems
 * angry gay kid. wants to fight everyone. dad died when he was like 12 so he's really rich. likes street racing. lowkey wants to be a farmer
 * ghost boy except nobody seems to have actually noticed yet. "ive been dead for seven years" "cool". was a hufflepuff & he's not really sure how he died tbh but like w/e. sweet af
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EVGENIA

 * ICW rep for russia
 * nicknamed baba yaga by the general populace back home

PERSEUS

 * slytherin graduate
 * very blood supremacist
 * half breed task force
 * perseus

VASSA

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 * masquerade
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For as long as they had lived, Estrella Vazquéz Valero, Monika Engel and Mathilde Lécuyer had been inseparable. Their mothers, from Spain, Germany and France respectively, had all met muggle men some years prior. Exiled from their pure-blood families, each had found their way to Serbia, where they met in the same maternity ward in Kraljevo. They hit it off immediately, of course, and that was the start of a friendship which would span three generations.

Estrella, Monika and Mathilde grew up in very different homes in the same city, Kraljevo. They learned each other's languages, attended the same schools, dated boys from the same sports teams. Their lives were picture perfect, but they wanted adventure. And adventure came along in the form of three gang members: Isaija Dragutinović, who Estrella actually married, and his two friends who don't really matter overmuch. What does matter is that each of the friends had a child with their gang member, and a year later each of them was left alone (and well off) as their men were arrested.

Carmencita Dragutinović grew up back in her grandmother's home country, Spain, alongside her twin brother Adrián. Of course, she had regular visits from her two best friends, German Eugenie Engel and French Bénédicte Lécuyer. They began schooling at the Eastern European School of Magic together, and the three girls soon formed the "mean girls" clique at the school. Really, they were horrible.

In fourth year, Carmen met Vasil Chilikov, a Bulgarian two years her senior who was part of the sporty clique. They got off to a rough start, to put things simply: Vas started a fight at Nie's party, shoving a cupcake in the face of a boy from the troublemakers' clique (the Aces) because he was dating his friend Lera, also in the sporty clique. Things got out of hand, and the party had to be stopped. Needless to say, the trio of mean girls never forgot that.

Everything changed, however, when the dark witch Brenda Amory took over the school. There was a standoff in the assembly hall, during which Amory used the cruciatus on multiple students. Eventually, a student called Aaron Leppälä killed Amory, but he couldn't stop a fire started in the fight which burned down the school and killed a large number of the students. Needless to say, EESM never reopened after that - Carmen and Vas both found themselves at Durmstrang, and found comfort in each other as they tried to deal with their PTSD.

Carmen dropped out when Vas left, after her fifth year, and the two lived together for a few years before they had a little accident: a pregnancy. Neither were in a fit state to take care of a baby, but 19-year-old Carmen was determined to at least carry the child to term. She couldn't handle any more death.

When the little girl was born, she was given the name Vasilisa Chilikova. The couple had decided to take her to a magical orphanage, so they did. Took her to Lil Bundles in Scotland and left her there to grow up. And grow up she did, alongside two other children, Romeo Parker and Tessa Matthews, until she was seven and two people came for her.

Those two people turned out to be Nadezhda Kozlovskaya and Johan Kristensen, a pair of assassins who had been present at (and perhaps involved in, nobody knows for certain) the downfall of EESM. Regardless of their involvement, since the school's fall they'd made a name for themselves as heads of a sprawling crime syndicate that spanned the majority of Eastern Europe.

Nadezhda and Johan had decided to adopt two children: Vassa was the first, but she was soon joined by ____, and the two settled into a life of training in pretty much every type of crime - fighting, eavesdropping, stealing. Everything was allowed in their house. What was against the rules, I hear you ask? Getting caught. All in all, not the most conventional upbringing, but it worked.

The children had a multitude of accidental magic incidences growing up - the first, and most memorable, being a 9-year-old Vassa causing an earthquake (confined to the weapons room) when ____ beat her in a spar. It's fitting, really, that it was something so dramatic: Vassa inherited her adoptive mother's temper, as well as her penchant for a bit of drama. Of course, they'd already known Vassa was a witch - she's a born legilimens, you see, and when she was young she was notorious for very loudly telling her adoptive parents what their employees were thinking.

The two children attended Durmstrang when they turned eleven. They'd been given the option to attend Koldovstoretz, but it was decided that Durmstrang, with its focus on the dark arts, was a better option. The whirlwind that was their seven years there was mostly uneventful: they did well in their studies, amassed a large group of "friends" (minions) and continued to train together regularly. It was upon graduation that the real fun started.

Immediately after school ended, Vassa and ____ were fairly high in the hierarchy of the syndicate. After all, their parents lead it. Years passed, and they took on job after job - kill this politician, infiltrate that enemy organisation, steal this ancient artwork from its gallery. The two of them together are a force to be reckoned with.

Recently, however, Vassa has been looking into her past more. Specifically, trying to find her two best friends from the orphanage: Romeo and Tessa. Romeo seems to be doing well enough, but Vassa was always closer to Tessa as a child, and it's also Tessa who has the interesting life - she's part of the Black Parade. And now that Vassa's parents have let her free from under their syndicate's thumb - she needs perspective, after all, and they're not going to deny her the adventures they had when they were young - she's free to go check up on her friends. Hopefully the Parade won't try to kill her.