Template:Katarina's History

Grace Thompson is a woman that has a great love of travel, a weakness for accents, and a tendency to forget to pack contraception when going on trips. Although she was known to have kids living with their fathers in the most foreign of places, Eilidh was born closer to home, in Appleby-in-Westmorland, a place she'd be able to call home for the first eleven years of her life. Around ten moths before Eilidh's birth, Grace stopped by Appleby-in-Westmorland, to pay a relative a visit. It was there she met Lucas Johnson-- Grace's cousin's therapist (for reasons to remain undiscussed). It took quite the amount of flirting and eye-raping from both parties before they took it to a room, a month or so later. As obvious, Eilidh Thompson was the result. Knowing the dates added up, Grace found herself returning to AIW to drop off Eilidh with her father. While she loved her daughter dearly, and would love to be able to raise her, having that many children with her would slowly begin to drive her insane. Three kids with her 24/7 was way more than enough. And thus, Eilidh Grace Thompson moved in with a very surprised father & his skeptical fiancee of two months. Lucky to not have lost his fiancee after finding out of his cheating, Lucas swore off any other women that wasn't his family, now-wife, daughter, and any possible female descendants. But just because he didn't lose Poppy didn't mean she was happy about having a baby who wasn't even hers live with her and her husband. While she eventually warmed up to Eilidh, she was a cold hearted bitch at first, not wanting to be in the same room as the baby to the extent that Lucas had to employ a nanny to watch over her while he worked. He didn't like his wife's behavior, but being the love-sick puppy he was, he never made a move against it. He only prayed it was a phase, and that she'd get over it soon. To this day, he still thinks he's a God or something, because his prayers were answered, and Poppy slowly began to accept Eilidh as her own by the time the tot was two, though it was probably because they were told they wouldn't be able to have any kids. At that point, she knew she'd have to accept Eilidh, or else she just wouldn't have kids. As a young kid, Eilidh never stepped out of line, not even when she was in her supposed "terrible two's". It turns out nobody knows where she got her rule-following from, because according to Grace, she was quite the kid growing up, and Lucas' mother could confirm with ease he was a nightmare to raise, as good as he may have turned out. Although her kind, easy going nature was retained growing up, she slowly began to come out of her shell, to show she really was an exuberant and outgoing girl. While her personality began to manifest, so did her magic. At the mere age of seven, loud laughter elicited by her papa's tickle monster caused her to unknowingly send the water within their cup straight at his face. It wasn't that what momentarily drove him away from Eilidh to observe her for a few seconds, but rather Poppy's surprised shout. They were muggles, they would obviously have no idea of what their daughter was. They didn't mention what happened to Grace, on her next visit. Nor when she caused all the balloons in her best friend's birthday pop after getting so overwhelmingly happy. Her emotions ran haywire a lot, and it elicited more outbursts than what should have been. It got to a point where Lucas and Poppy believed their daughter was cursed, and confronted Grace about it. Realizing what was occurring with her biological daughter, Grace went off into an explanation about how she was a witch, how their daughter was a witch, and how there was no way to take away her magic (after seeing Lucas' wary face). She told them all about the legendary school of magic in the Highlands-- Hogwarts. While Lucas and Poppy were so overwhelmed with emotions about their daughter-- the little girl they raised-- being a witch, Grace found it in herself to explain to the young girl what she was. Eilidh couldn't be more ecstatic, because being magic meant she was special. Especially if she was the only little girl in town that was magic. She probably wasn't, but nobody burst her bubble. Eilidh never really encountered bullying in young years, even after telling everyone she was a witch, because nobody really believed her. They just ignored her. She eventually realized so, and kept that piece of information to herself from there on out, much to everyone's... well, relief. However, after finding out she was a witch, her outbursts reduced incredibly, for some reason. It lowered to the point her parents began to think she'd either never been a witch at all, or she'd somehow lost her powers. They secretly hoped it was the first one. They never mentioned it to Eilidh, though, not wanting to send her in a fit about how she wouldn't ever be special again, and how she wanted to be a witch. They'd simply have her be disappointed when she didn't get her letter of acceptance on her eleventh summer, like Grace had told her would happen. To their surprise, and Eilidh's happiness, she did receive a letter of acceptance to Hogwarts. Poppy and Lucas were admittedly close to not sending her, and prohibiting Grace from seeing her if she continued to keep up this witch thing. To that day, they still were skeptical about the concept of magic. It took Grace, and a Ministry official, for them to see magic was real and they had to let Eilidh attend Hogwarts for her own safety. And so, the two reluctant parent saw her off on Platform 9 and 3/4 that first of September. Upon arrival at Hogwarts, the Hat placed her on Hufflepuff, after debating between Hufflepuff and Gryffindor. Eilidh attended Hogwarts up until she took her OWLs. It was then she heard about Durmstrang, and begged and pushed her parents to send her off to that school, just because it sounded cool and was in a foreign place. It took a lot of pleading before they even considered the school, but ultimately shipped her off to the infamous school, unknowing about its dark nature. Upon arrival at the infamous school of magic, she was sorted into her house, where she met yearmate i/n.