Full Name: Briana Elara Castle
Pronunciation: Bri-AH-na
Prefers: Bri
Species: Human
Blood Status: Muggle-born
Age: Eleven
Birthday: Nineteenth of December
Star Sign: Saggitarius; fire sign
School Year: First Year
School House: Gryffindor
Wand: 27.1 cm chestnut wood with unicorn hair core
Birthplace: Panay, Philippines
Home: Dublin, Ireland
Nationality: Filipino-Irish
Languages: English | Filipino

Strengths:

+ Strong-willed and tenacious
+ Curious
+ Adventurous and Spontaneous - she enjoys the rush of making split-second decisions
   and hates planning too much in advance
+ Intelligent
+ Kind and likes to help
+ Honest
+ Confident and charismatic
+ Good Leadership Skills
+ Protective of and loyal to those she cares about
+ Fit, flexible and sporty

Weaknesses:

- Inpatient and has a bit of a temper
- Stubborn
- Very petty
- Has a spiteful disregard for the rules
- A little arrogant, even if she doesn't mean to be - she's like that because she's
   insecure about herself, though it doesn't tend to seem that way
- Deems education on the less important side of things
- Holds grudges - once someone breaks her trust, it's very, very difficult to earn it back, 
   maybe even impossible.
- It's difficult to figure out her true feelings because she hides them, along with the
   parts of herself that she believes are 'uncool'

Likes:

~ Gossiping
~ Summer
~ Sports
~ Astronomy and horoscopes
~ Travelling
~ Favourite colour is somewhere between red and violet - rich and similar to the colour
   of a ripe plum
~ Denim shorts

Dislikes:

x People with no sense of humour
x Pity
x Liars
x Robes (muggle clothes are far more comfortable)
x Boredom

Hobbies:

✔ Hiking
✔︎ Swimming
✔︎ Playing sports
✔︎ Watching scary movies
✔︎ Gossiping

General Personality:

Briana is an honest person at heart. She hates people lying to her and isn't one to forgive too easily. A determined little soul, Briana likes adventure and getting things her way. Her determination makes her an excellent sportswoman - she's played a various array of sports to satisfy her adventurous soul since coming to Ireland - but allows her to hold a grudge like no one else.

Bri is guilty of thinking of herself a little bit before others, so she's not the best friend. But she's kind (aside from the occasional honesty slap) and social, which makes her a generally popular person. She's always happy to help, unless it's with schoolwork, and is loyal to her close friends. Bri's also very protective of them - even a little possessive and sometimes jealous when they spend a lot of time with other people. Bri is a little insecure about herself, so she hates feeling as though her friend might like someone else better than her.

Despite her occasional accidental insults, Briana is a kind person and enjoys helping people. Her curiosity and natural intelligence has allowed her to skate along as an average student throughout primary school, though if she put a little effort into her studies she might do much better. Unfortunately, Bri is a Grade A procrastinator, and she doesn't prioritise school very high.

Sex: Female
Eye Colour: Chocolate brown
Hair Colour: Ombre brown into blonde
Height: 4'2" (127cm)
Skin Tone: Medium tan
Physique: Petite but fit
Face Claim: Inka Williams

General Appearance:

Bri is a very pretty little (no really, she's 4'2") witch and she knows it. Her confidence shows in the very way she walks and can be seen in her slightly cheeky smile. Her hair falls to the small of her back in light waves of brown that melts into blonde at the tips. In the Summer, her hair often goes completely blonde from all the time she spends outdoors.

Briana loves jeans. More specifically, her faded blue jeans from Italy that's she's worn as much as she can although she really is beginning to grow out of them now.  Style and appearances are very important to Bri, but, though her jeans aren't exactly the height of fashion, she's rarely found out of them when she's not in school uniform. Her value of appearances means that her hair is always kept in good condition, and she often wears in a french braid that falls over her shoulder to keep it out of the way. But if she's going out she'll wear it down - it's rather pretty that way after all.

Father: Oliver Daniel Castle (muggle, Irish-Filipino)
Mother: Maria Amelia Childs (muggle, Filipino, deceased)
Siblings: Chelsea Sophia Castle (muggle, six years younger than Bri)
Other Notable Family:

✦ Atticus Theodore Castle (cousin, muggle-born, two years older than Bri, adopted by Maria and Oliver upon the death of his mother, Lara, when he was six)
✦ Lara Olivia Childs (aunt, muggle, deceased)
✦ Aaron Ellery Higgins ('uncle', muggle-born)

Family History:

Maria was born in the Philippines and spent most of her life there. She was an adventurer at heart, but she had a very ill mother, and so that kept her there. For many years, she went without hardly meeting anyone new. She was homeschooled by a nanny in the mornings and spent the afternoons with her mother. Maria often longed to go outside and play with the boys that would kick a soccer ball in the street outside her house, but she was only allowed to play in her own yard. And while Maria wanted to have adventures, she always obeyed the rules and wishes of her mother.

The only times she left the house was to fetch groceries and to visit her doctor. The poor girl comforted herself with books. By the time she reached the age of twenty, she had hundreds of them.

Oliver's mother left the family when he and his brother were very young. The boys grew up in Ireland and Oliver attended all three stages of education, graduating as a GP doctor. His brother, unfortunately, was killed in a train crash at the age of fifteen. As soon as Oliver had his qualifications, he moved to the Philippines, where his mother supposedly was living. He set up a business there as a home-to-home doctor, which is how he met Maria.

Perhaps it was the fact that he was practically the first male Maria had ever held a proper conversation with that endeared him to her. Or maybe it was his charming smile. It could have even been the fact that for a while he seemed to make her mother better. She never understood what the older handsome man saw in her, but she didn't realise that as a man of learning, he valued the fact that she owned hundreds of books and that she seemed eager to learn more about the illness that plagued her mother. She didn't realise that she was every bit as pretty as the princesses in her childhood storybooks. It was all very romantic, and the pair fell in love very quickly. In fact, within four months of their meeting, Maria discovered she was pregnant.

Rather than running away, as Maria feared, Oliver was overjoyed at the news. He had always been good with children and longed for a child of his own. They were married three weeks later, right in front of Maria's mother's bed with her and the housemaid as witnesses.

Three months after the marriage, Maria's mother could hold on no longer and passed away with a fever in the night. This event snapped Oliver briefly out of his lovesick trance, and he remembered quite suddenly the reason he had come to the islands in the first place. He left Maria with the promise to return so that he could look for his mother - who he had not found on this particular island. He never found her, for he returned three days before Briana's due date, and once she was born, he couldn't bear to leave again. Besides, he decided, if he left to find his mother who left him, he would only be doing to his child what she had done to him.

The happy couple stayed happy and in love right up until the day Maria died.

First Instance of Magic:

When Briana first moved permanantly to Ireland, she was playing a game with her sister - a game of Chasey, because Atticus wouldn't play with her. Unfortunately, the game - which poor little Chelsea didn't quite understand the rules of, and really just wanted to be picked up by her big sister, rather than all that tiring toddling around - lead them into one of Uncle Aaron's collectibles' rooms, and Bri ran straight into a shelf, knocking a precarious china vase from the top shelf. She watched, horrified, as it toppled right towards her little sister's head, and dove forwards frantically, only to find the vase had stopped short about two inches from Chelsea's head. Wide-eyed and definitely panicking, Bri pulled the vase away from her sister as quick as she could and set it down carefully, then rushed Chelsea out of the room. Even though she knows it's because of her magic now, she's never really trusted that room since, and has a habit of calling it 'the cursed room'.

Wand:

Wood: Chestnut
Core: Unicorn Hair
Length: 10 ²/₃ " (27.1cm)
Flexibility: Relatively bendy

Amortentia:

Though little Bri has never had the opportunity to smell the sweet allure of the powerful love potion, it is likely it would smell of salty ocean water, woodsmoke, and the old, comforting smell of her Uncle Aaron's house.

Mirror of Erised:

Bri would see her mother standing beside her father and Aaron, the three of them raising her, Atticus and Chelsea together. She wants nothing more than having her mother back, in her heart of hearts, though she knows that it's impossible. Funnily enough, she doesn't wish for her aunt's life quite as much - she rather likes having Atticus in their lives, selfish as it may be.

Patronus Memory:

Bri's happiest memory comes from her time spent travelling with both her parents as a child. Travelling through Cambodia, the family stayed in an exceptionally crappy hotel. Briana was a petulant little four year old about it at first, complaining bitterly about cold showers and hard beds. But then her mother and father had sat and told her stories of all the worst places they had stayed around the world, and Briana cannot recall a happier time than listening to her parents laughing, telling her stories and occasionally tickling her to add emphasis to said stories.

Patronus Form:

Not Learned/Non-corporeal

Boggart:

Bri's worst fear is of the deaths of her family. Aaron, Oliver, Atticus, Chelsea. The four people she loves most in the world, and deep down, she's terrified they'll disappear like her mother did - and even her aunt. She's a little irrationally worried that early death runs in the family.

Affiliatilon:

Bri is loyal to her family only really. She'd do anything at all for them - a fact Atticus often unintentionally abuses. 

Aspirations:

Bri has always wanted to become a travel writer - being paid to stay in amazing places sounds like the best job available.

Character History:

Briana's childhood was spent moving from country to country. Born in the Philippines on a small island named Panay, she spent the first five years of her life there. When her aunt Lara died rockclimbing in Laos, she was pulled from school to go and have a small funeral there. Lara's son, Atticus, had been with her, and so part of the trip was having to take him into the care of the family. He was older than Bri, though not by much, and little Bri adored him, even if he tended to ignore her.

The family spent three weeks in Laos, and then, when it was time to go home, her parents decided they didn't want to do so. There's no doubt that her parents gave Briana their thirst for adventure. They stayed another week in Laos, before moving to Cambodia for two weeks and then up through Myanmar to reach Nepal.

It was in Nepal, halfway up the mountain that Maria began to grow ill. She was sick and could hardly hold anything down. By the time they reached the top of the mountain, she knew what was happening. Maria was pregnant. She hadn't been quite so sick with Briana, but she insisted it was only morning sickness and that she wanted to go on. After their trip through the Nepalese mountains, the family travelled down through India.

Deciding that it was time for the adventure to end, Oliver flew the family home after India. Maria was nearly four months pregnant or so now and they had been relying on only the local doctors. Within a month of landing back in their home, however, Maria grew pale and drained of energy (much to her excitable five-year-old's dismay) and was hospitalised for her weak condition. Vomiting returned, and the hospital was a rather miserable place for the next three months.

Chelsea was born prematurely at just under eight months but was never a particularly sickly baby. Despite her premature birth, there was hardly a doubt that she would live after the first few days. Maria, however, did not improve. Whatever sickness she had that seemed to have come with the pregnancy was not leaving with the pregnancy. For a while, she didn't get any worse either. And though she was always exhausted, she watched her new baby grow bigger with all she could. Unfortunately, the good hardly ever lasts, and her condition declined severely after a year and a half. The doctors were never sure exactly what was ailing her, but they gave her two years to live. Maria barely lasted six months.

Oliver, now alone with a ten-year-old, an eight-year-old and a two-year-old, couldn't bear to stay in the place where his wife had died. So he did what they had done best - he went on an adventure. Once again Briana was pulled from her school, and, travel schooling in arms, the family was off, with barely a chance to mourn or say goodbye.

They flew to Russia first and spent almost five months there before heading South again. They had done Asia before, and now they would do Europe. In the next year, they visited Romania, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Poland, Germany, France and Italy. It worked its purpose. They forgot about the pain of Maria's death and learned about the wonders of the earth instead.

They went to Ireland next and stayed with a cousin of Oliver's. Much to Briana's dismay, 'Uncle' Aaron, as they called him, managed to talk some sense into Oliver, and convinced him that the children needed to be in school. As Oliver didn't want to go back to the Philippines, they ended up staying with Aaron - who seemed particularly keen for them to stay with him. What they didn't know was that Aaron had seen the falling vase stop two inches from Chelsea's head, staying stationary just long enough for a panicked Briana to grab it and pull it away from her sister. He had seen her hurriedly place the piece of pottery back on the mantle and stare at herself in the vanity mirror in confusion before picking up Chelsea and practically running out of the room.

Aaron's prestigious boarding school as a child, which, according to the rest of the family, was for extremely bright minds, was, in fact, Hogwarts, and he recognised Briana's magic for what it was. Wanting her to attend Hogwarts as he had, he tried, and succeeded, to convince the family to stay.

And he was right of course, though he had missed an important detail - Atticus was also of magical blood. When Atticus turned eleven, a letter came that promised him all sorts of wonder. Aaron confirmed it with stories of his own, while Oliver sat dumbfounded on the couch, Bri looked on with open-mouthed wonder and Chelsea played with letter blocks. If they still didn't believe it, after all the wonderful stories that Aaron told, a woman visited their home a few days after the letter to confirm it all.

Two full years later, Briana's much-awaited letter finally arrived - Aaron hadn't actually told her that she would get one, but Atticus' letter explained a lot of the strange things she'd been able to do. She was certain one would come for her, and she was not disappointed.

Stamina: 5
Agility: 6
Strength: 6
Control: 5
ArcPower: 5
Accuracy: 3

Oliver Daniel Castle

Father | 46, muggle, Web Designer

Maria Amelia Castle née Childs

Mother | deceased, muggle

Chelsea Sophia Castle

Sister | 6, muggle, year one

Atticus Theodore Castle

Cousin | 13, halfblood, Hogwarts - Slytherin, third year

Lara Olivia Childs

Aunt | deceased, muggle

TBA

Aaron Ellery Higgins

'Uncle' | 46, muggleborn, Hogwarts - Ravenclaw, reporter for The Daily Prophet | Oliver's childhood neighbour and best friend, Bri adores him and considers him to be family

No romantic relationships as of yet - unless you count that one time she went out with David Linn for a week in year five.

None as of yet

WIP