etymology
Kea is one of the seventeen names of Lilith.Keacan also be seen as a form ofKaya(pronounced kee-ah), a short form of the Hopi name Kakahoya, meaning my elder little sister. The name implies someone who is wise beyond her years.
history
Kea Zebunonovna Willow was born in Железнодорожный, Russia, as the 7th child and 3rd daughter of the English Zebunon Willow and his wife, the Russian Anzhelika Mikhailovna Zhigunova. She has sixteen siblings, Izorpo, Satrina, Abito, Amizo, Mstislav, Ita, Kali, Valentina, Sergey, Taras, Adam, Yevgeniya, Emmanuil, Lyubov, Lilith and Ruslan. The... unique names belonging to almost half of them were from an idea of Anzhelika's - to have seventeen kids and name them all after different aliases of the first demon, Lilith. She only did this for eight of them, Izorpo, Satrina, Abito, Amizo, Ita, Kali, Kea and Lilith, though Lilith got off easily in Kea's eyes. Her childhood was normal-ish for a pure-blooded witch, and her family was a rich one, despite living in the run-down Zheleznodorozhny, as her parents wanted to teach their children humilty. Her brother Izorpo was sorted into Slytherin, and in his fifth year met a Durmstrang transfer who called himself Lucian Willow. Before that, she had had no idea that she could have cousins, even if the youngest, Lirael, was significantly years older than her, not even knowing that her father had had a brother. Aged 11, she got her Hogwarts letter, as well as others from the Slavic School of Magic, Koldovstvorets and Durmstrang, which her older sister Ita had not received the year before. This brought on a tantrum from her sister and broke their friendship apart, as Ita believed that Kea had taken her spot at Hogwarts. This, of course, is stupid, and Kea realises that now, but she still feels a pang of guilt whenever her parents mention magic or Hogwarts in front of Ita. After the Christmas holidays in her sixth year, she spent a while attending Koldovstvorets near Moscow with her brother Mstislav, as their father was running for Minister of Magic and their parents wanted their two eldest schoolgoing children close enough to show off. Their father ultimately lost, and Kea was allowed to return to Hogwarts for her final year of schooling. Upon graduation, Kea chose to pursue a career as an auror, as she had wanted since before she began her first year.
personality
Kea is bookish, but flamboyant, confident and loud, which gets her scolded often by her parents and two older sisters, not so much by her four older brothers, as it is basically their behaviour 'in a nutshell'. She isn't selfish, having had to share with 16 siblings her entire life. Kea has learnt not to take any mean comments seriously, being 7 years younger than her oldest sibling, Izorpo, and having had to endure his teasing ever since she could walk. She is the sort of person who counts pretty much everyone as friends. She has a dry sense of humour and is often sarcastic. Kea is used to playing the big sister so often that it's a second nature to defend her siblings in arguments - sometimes against other siblings. Her Myers-Briggs result is ENFJ - Extroverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Judging - and she's an 'Introverted Extrovert'.
appearance
Kea has long dark hair, and is of an average height. She's unusually pretty, and she knows it, though she doesn't seem to care.
relationships
Zebunon Willow father
Kimi November
Evangeline Aleksandrov
trivia
"a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Model: Phoebe Tonkin
credit to kibeth for page & brocky and red for inspiration/code