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Vital Information
Brianna Richards is a Half-Blood witch of American ancestry. She is the daughter of Lisa and Henry Richards.

Life Before Salem
"Brianna is different from Amelia, Henry. You have to remember that."

- Lisa Richards

"They are the same. Thing is, they don't look it."

- Henry Richards

Lisa Matthews is a Witch, graduate of the Salem Witches' Institute. She was determined to be able to live in both worlds, the Muggle world and the Wizaring wold. Her choice, after much hard-work and aforementioned determination, soon lead to her being one year away from getting her Musical Education degree. Henry Richards is just a normal 'Joe'. He spent his days going to work, and school, and then home, every. Single. Day. He wanted change. His need for change soon left him in a café. It was cold, and she didn't have any other classes that day, so she went to the same local café to order a hot chocolate. Once she got her drink she turned around, and spilled the drink all over the person behind her! Him. She apologized over, and over as she hastily started to clean up her mess. She looked up, and her eyes met with his.

After the incident, they were known to spend time together, a few times before they eventually, and inevitably became an item. A year later they were engaged, and six months after that they were finally husband and wife. They became parents not too soon after. Lisa learned a secret about Henry that he hid so well, even HE didn't know it. Their multiple pregnancies were typically a trigger for his outbursts. He was verbally abusive. How did Lisa find out? Well, it goes like this: Whenever the kids would do something wrong, he would yell at them and say things that would bring their moral down. He would even do it to his wife.

The Richards family welcomed a second daughter who was born in the summer months, her mother wanted to give her the middle name Summer or Autumn in direct correlation to her birth month. Henry refused. He insisted they give this girl, the one who looked so much like him, a much more meaningful name. A name with substance, a name with character, and so she was called Brianna Alexis Richards. Despite the meaning of her name (Brianna meaning strong, and Alexis meaning to help or defend), Brianna has always seemed a little fragile, a bit timid. She will cower, and she may cry out in the face of fear, but one thing she will never do is turn her back and run away from what she is afraid of.

Brianna was often shielded from emotional and psychological harm by her elder sister Amelia, she idolizes her because of this. Brianna admires that Amelia is strong and silent even if everyone else does not immediately understand that about her. Before Brianna became a big sister herself, she was scared. She was afraid of everything, maybe even her own shadow. When she figured out Amelia had magic, and she was a witch she started to get nervous. Brianna had not shown any signs. She knew her mom was a witch, she worried she may not be like her mom, like Amelia. She began to fear she would live a nightmare, and grow up to be like their dad. An outsider, an outcast in the wizarding world.

In one of her overwhelming fits of emotion Brianna had finally performed magic for the first time. She was in her room pouting up a storm, the air was thick, and room felt cold, and looked very dark, and grey even with the sunlight streaming in through the window. Without her knowledge Brianna levitated the majority of the objects in her room. Her dresser lifted off it's legs. The nightstand wobbled in the air. The books, and the bookshelf rattled as the front end and the back dipped while it rose upwards. The desk and chair, even the shoes, toys, and throw rug floated while Brianna's face was buried into a pillow as she balled her eyes out. It was no until she sat up, each item hovered momentarily then dropped to the floor as she wiped her eyes and sniffled forlornly. Her bed, however, remained a good two meters off the ground. When Brianna went to throw her legs off the bed, and stomp around her room the frame fell from beneath her rebuilding itself on the way down. As she, and the mattress she was sat upon descended downward following the frame far enough for her tips of her toes to touch the floor the mattress set back in place. Brianna was proud of herself, and she kept her secret until her letter arrived approximately three weeks later. She spilled her guts to her mother and siblings with the same excitement as if she had just performed the feat only moments ago.

She spent a few weeks after learning they would leave for Hogwarts utterly depressed. A few days after receiving the first of many 'Goodbye' letters that year only added to the pain in her heart. Being separated from Amelia is always emotionally devastating for Brianna, Amelia possibly being sorted into some Hogwarts house they couldn't share left her in a state the family was unprepared to alleviate. It would only be one school year until the twins would join, Xavier, Harriett, Brianna and Amelia, if they were able to join Amelia, at Hogwarts. The Salem school year was nearly over, Brianna had returned for the Christmas break and the fog, the clouds that followed Brianna since she had gone seemed to dissipate, of course, once her father reminded her of what she was losing the sullen little girl returned.

Gryffindor
It was early in the school year barely a full day into September when the Richards siblings were sorted. Amelia had been sorted into Ravenclaw, she was a Princess in another tower, or so Brianna believed when she imagined how happy Amelia must have been away from their father, away from home. There was no way imaginable Brianna would to be able to join her in Ravenclaw. She never thought herself to be dim, but she never though herself to be rather bright either.

Brianna pouted furiously, and cried in a silent rage all the way to her room, the Gryffindor dorm.

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Personality
Brianna is a little bit of a baby, she is very emotive. She only had her sister Amelia until her younger sister, and her brothers were born. She is faithful, and she is very affectionate. She is also able to quickly adapt to the slightest change in any given situation. She is very responsive, always picking up on the little things most people miss. She is very clingy, and she literally lived in the shadow of her elder sister for the first seven years of her life. Brianna while being dedicated, observant, and noble is also a very slight narcissist. She is not confident in her abilities, she is not even arrogant in the way one would think. She is always, and quite possibly over concerned with how a situation may or may not interfere with her life.

Appearance
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Brianna has had long light brown hair, she sometimes used the color charm to make it appear blonde. After she loped the majority of her tresses off, she chose not add color as often as she once did. She has dark brown eyes that are very expressive, capable of showing the fear in her heart when she refuses to tremble, and able to obviously display the love she feels, but may not be able to voice. Brianna has only one striking similarity to her beloved elder sister that she knows of. Brianna shares with Amelia the same creamy, pale, alabaster skin. Brianna does however have a more triangular shaped face, with a strong set jaw, and a very subtle point to her chin.

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