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Vital Information
Josiah Westenberg is a Scottish-born Half-Blood wizard of Portuguese and English descent. He is the son of Eliana Mina, and Thaddeus Westenberg.

Life Before Hogwarts
"You were out of line to question me."

- Eliana Mina

"He was unconscious when I found him."

- Thaddeus Westenberg

Thaddeus responded quickly, his voice low and gruff. He spoke over his shoulder staring up at Eliana from the corner of his eye as she stormed through the doorway. She dropped to her knees at her father's side, her hands lightly touching his shoulders, she called to him softly, "Papai". The lids of his eyes slowly began to part, and Maicol reached for Eliana's face seeing the image of her mother engulf his spectrum of vision. He felt Thaddeus grasp him firmly, and pull him to his feet. He smelled his daughter Eliana's hair under his nose, and the pain surging through him when she hugged him tightly. Maicol's voice had never sounded so cold as he recounted the events that lead to Thaddeus and Eliana finding him unconscious on the floor. Someone had taken Eliana's mother Antia.

Maicol Mina would never be able to recall who it was that accosted him and abducted his wife. They were wearing her face. Maicol always believed Antia working in the Black Market was dangerous. There would always be someone who wanted one or more of the items she was selling, and there was the chance they would not be willing to pay her price for it. Eliana searched by touch for the handle to the door in the dark castle they called home. Her head spinning. She thought ill of the man or woman who would dare set foot into their home and take her mother. It was up to Eliana to figure out what could have happened to her mother, and why. The why was a simple deduction. Antia's mother (Graça de Assis) was a daughter of the House of Aviz. She was born into a royal bloodline of Portuguese nobility, and thus she and her children are descendants of the Portuguese House of Burgundy.

Eliana Mina is a Wizarding Duellist, and an Animagus. She was raised by Dragon Breeders in Portugal, and she worked in the Black Market selling Dragon parts (Portuguese Long-Snout blood, horn, liver, heart, claw, dung, meat, eggs) and Venomous Tentacula seeds. Thaddeus Westenberg is an Analytical Neuroscientist, and a Psychiatrist. He was a late bloomer, and he did not receive his magical inheritance until he was a thirty-three year old man. Thaddeus intimidates, and mentally abuses Josiah because he is jealous of his son. Josiah does not enjoy time with his father, or the presence of his father in his life at all. He wishes, and sometimes begs his mother to leave him. Eliana is not afraid of Thaddeaus, she loves him for his cruelty. It was his tendency for deliberately inflicting pain, suffering, and humiliation on others that attracted her the most.

Josiah is undeniably afraid of his father. Unlike his father Josiah was raised in Portugal among Eliana's family the renowned Sereníssima Casa de Bragança (Most Serene House of Braganza). He does his best to control the fear in his presence, and to cower when his father is not looking directly at him. Suppression has resulted in Josiah harboring a number of fears his family knows nothing about. His father's knowledge of said fears would only heighten to a level of insanity.

Josiah's magic flourished early from his childhood home in his family's feudal 12th century castle. It was discovered that he was a wizard by age eight. He had a normal temper tantrum gone awry. He had no idea what he had done, or that he had done anything beside storm about his room, and think ill thoughts. When the Ministry showed up to hear the boy had been unconscious for at least forty-five minutes prior to their arrival Thaddeus and Eliana were informed Josiah had conjured bursts of energy in a wave that partially, and temporarily paralyzed anyone in a forty foot radius. The paralysis did not last more than forty-five seconds, and it only seemed to effect his parents, his brothers, and sisters.

As per Maicol's last wishes the Westenbergs attended the same small wizarding school their grandmother Antia's ancestors attended. Of Thaddeus and Eliana's five children Bethany and Josiah are the only children to have transferred out. He started his first year at Hogwarts during the middle of his Fourth year. He was a late transfer, and it only added to his anxiousness about being in a new school. Josiah was not concerned with a language barrier. His first language may be Portuguese, but he is multilingual and speaks both English and Spanish in addition to Portuguese. Josiah was nervous about this decision he and his sister Bethany made to leave Alvarães, the school they were supposed to graduate from.

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Fearful - Determined, Imaginative, Temperamental, Cynical

Josiah would never do anything if it earned him negative reinforcement of any kind. He is dutiful, he always follows the rules. He is responsible and dependable, but he is by no means perfect. Josiah is disrespectful, he gets overcome with emotion and he can be insensitive to the hardships of others. Josiah does not appreciate his strangeness. He is fearful, and he tends not to be able to think as much of others when faced one of his fears. Which happens on a daily basis. He is prepared for worst case scenarios, he is overly cautious. He is a private person, and he rarely talks about his feelings.

Appearance
Vinicius Piccoli Josiah does not place much value in appearance. He is not oblivious to his own looks, and does in fact have a list of things about himself he wishes he could change ; His dry skin. His grandfather's nose. The fact that he looks like his father. Josiah has his mother's dark hair, which is what he likes the most about himself. He has a warm skin complexion, and an oval shaped face. He has his father's light blue eyes, and thick, structured eyebrows. He the same pointed nose, and big toothy smile as his grandfather.

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Birth order: Bethany (b. 2006), Josiah (and Joshua), Ethan (b. 2011), Renata (b. 2012)

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