Post by KENNA DE VALOIS on Sept 24, 2024 19:40:10 GMT
KENNA HELAINE DE VALOIS
VITAL STATS
FULL NAME: Kenna Helaine de Valois nee Stewart
ALIAS: Kenna, Kens
BIRTHDAY: August 19th
AGE: 31 years old
GENDER: Female
ORIENTATION: Bisexual
BLOOD STATUS: Pureblood
OCCUPATION: Potions Mistress
POWER: none in particular, though there might be some magic behind her empathy.
PLAYBY: Victoria Pedretti
ALIAS: Kenna, Kens
BIRTHDAY: August 19th
AGE: 31 years old
GENDER: Female
ORIENTATION: Bisexual
BLOOD STATUS: Pureblood
OCCUPATION: Potions Mistress
POWER: none in particular, though there might be some magic behind her empathy.
PLAYBY: Victoria Pedretti
THE CHARACTER
To understand the beginnings of Miss Kenna Helaine Stewart one first must understand the less than humble beginnings of the Stewart family that stands behind her. While there are a few questions in their heritage that they hasten to hide the Stewarts are a Pureblood family that can trace their lineage back to the time of Merlin, if not earlier than that. Since that time the Stewart family has honed certain talents. Most of those lying in the mystic arts of Divination or with some relation to the Mind Arts. The main branch of the Stewart family line was known to produce at least one Seer every generation. While that was the most often spoken of gift, that didn't mean there weren't others.
So, when the family called Kenna Helaine Stewart a quiet girl, they didn't say it with any prejudice or ill meaning. You see, children of the Stewart family tended to be quiet because they had more things to focus on; be it images, emotions, or any other gift that may pop up in the bloodline. All you had to do was wait them out and eventually the child might reveal something; accidentally or out of curiosity.
Whether some of these gifts of magic were exaggerations or simply a bit stretched was up to interpretation, an interpretation which few got as little left the family about them.
On the Nineteenth of August, one fine and warm summer's day in England Kenna Helaine Stewart was born. She was a quiet baby, barely squalled, and so her family marked her as special. She was raised at her mother's bosom, pampered and babied even as she started to learn of magic and other necessary things past the age of two years old. She remained quiet, focused, and studious. All traits that the family smiled on her for and encouraged.
There was also a kindness in Kenna, born of her innate higher empathy (whether due to magical ability or personality remains unknown). Anytime she saw her mother sad she simply had to see her happy again or her whole day was spoiled. It was in turn a great light and darkness in her, as that was quiet the burden for a child to bear.
Mastering herself took time, a time that hadn't come even as she grew older and eventually left for Hogwarts, where she was sorted into Ravenclaw.
Being away from everything she knew, while not completely unknown to her as the family did leave the estate home for vacations and other trips, was not the same as being at Hogwarts. She latched onto and formed a fast friendship with Katerina Renatus and others who formed her close circle and helped her find comfort in a growing familiarity in this unfamiliar space.
During her time at Hogwarts Kenna excelled at Potions and was a member of the Frog Choir, a tradition which she took great pride in. He grades remained steady and quite good though they weren't top tier excellent. She would spread herself too thin trying to aid others with their own homework at the same time as hers to achieve anything too high. Her family didn't mind, it was the case that she was at the time simply expected to marry well.
Her mind opened from that understanding a fair bit the first time her friend Katerina Renatus and her had shared a kiss in their fifth year. A whole new understanding lay before her and she was going to fight for it, subtly.
So, Kenna planted fanciful ideas of love and travel and potions that her family eventually became amenable to, after many warnings to be careful of herself.
Kenna travelled the continent selling potions to make her own way and experience various cultures before she finally came to settle in France.
That, was where she met Raphael de Valois.
He simply swept her off her feet, there was no other way to put it than that. At first she had thought it a suspicious attempt at a match from her family but given the surprise and happiness at the announcement that they were courting it was easy to see that it was just a happy chance encounter.
Raphael's temper was never a secret and not one to allow herself to be at its mercy Kenna grew herself a stronger backbone and her own tricks to soothe it.
They married when she was twenty-six.
Now, they're plotting the course of their lives together, talking about babies, and Kenna is making herself quite the accomplished Potions Mistress.
So, when the family called Kenna Helaine Stewart a quiet girl, they didn't say it with any prejudice or ill meaning. You see, children of the Stewart family tended to be quiet because they had more things to focus on; be it images, emotions, or any other gift that may pop up in the bloodline. All you had to do was wait them out and eventually the child might reveal something; accidentally or out of curiosity.
Whether some of these gifts of magic were exaggerations or simply a bit stretched was up to interpretation, an interpretation which few got as little left the family about them.
On the Nineteenth of August, one fine and warm summer's day in England Kenna Helaine Stewart was born. She was a quiet baby, barely squalled, and so her family marked her as special. She was raised at her mother's bosom, pampered and babied even as she started to learn of magic and other necessary things past the age of two years old. She remained quiet, focused, and studious. All traits that the family smiled on her for and encouraged.
There was also a kindness in Kenna, born of her innate higher empathy (whether due to magical ability or personality remains unknown). Anytime she saw her mother sad she simply had to see her happy again or her whole day was spoiled. It was in turn a great light and darkness in her, as that was quiet the burden for a child to bear.
Mastering herself took time, a time that hadn't come even as she grew older and eventually left for Hogwarts, where she was sorted into Ravenclaw.
Being away from everything she knew, while not completely unknown to her as the family did leave the estate home for vacations and other trips, was not the same as being at Hogwarts. She latched onto and formed a fast friendship with Katerina Renatus and others who formed her close circle and helped her find comfort in a growing familiarity in this unfamiliar space.
During her time at Hogwarts Kenna excelled at Potions and was a member of the Frog Choir, a tradition which she took great pride in. He grades remained steady and quite good though they weren't top tier excellent. She would spread herself too thin trying to aid others with their own homework at the same time as hers to achieve anything too high. Her family didn't mind, it was the case that she was at the time simply expected to marry well.
Her mind opened from that understanding a fair bit the first time her friend Katerina Renatus and her had shared a kiss in their fifth year. A whole new understanding lay before her and she was going to fight for it, subtly.
So, Kenna planted fanciful ideas of love and travel and potions that her family eventually became amenable to, after many warnings to be careful of herself.
Kenna travelled the continent selling potions to make her own way and experience various cultures before she finally came to settle in France.
That, was where she met Raphael de Valois.
He simply swept her off her feet, there was no other way to put it than that. At first she had thought it a suspicious attempt at a match from her family but given the surprise and happiness at the announcement that they were courting it was easy to see that it was just a happy chance encounter.
Raphael's temper was never a secret and not one to allow herself to be at its mercy Kenna grew herself a stronger backbone and her own tricks to soothe it.
They married when she was twenty-six.
Now, they're plotting the course of their lives together, talking about babies, and Kenna is making herself quite the accomplished Potions Mistress.
OUT OF CHARACTER
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