Anastasia Natalis
Character Basics
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Appearance
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Personality
Cynical and pessimistic, Anastasia sees the worst in people. She is sarcastic and suffers from severe bouts of depression from time to time where she is positively morose. Even her hobbies border on the dark and grim. Anastasia has delved deeply in to both the wizarding and muggle realms of the occult and his dug up any book she can find that deals with Divination, hexes and curses. She does not have the control to use the information she has found, but one day she will. Most other students avoid her because of her family history which even she understands, but in hurts her all the same though she doesn’t often show it. While a half-blood Anastasia comes off as a stuck up purebred and rarely associates with muggleborns or muggle in general if she can avoid it. She has her own reasons for acting this way. Anastasia has surrounded herself with death and the afterlife. She has had a fascination with it since her parents died and their portraits remained silent. Ana has learned as much as she can about the state of death and of the theories and beliefs revolving around the soul and those that remain behind. Being close to death makes her feel close to her parents and gives her a comfort others just don’t understand. There aren’t a lot of goths at JWA, so Anastasia keeps to herself and likes it that way. Her one concession is the drama club. Not an actress herself she loves sewing and does all of her own make-up and enjoys creating costumes and doing make-ups for other students. She can even be caught humming occasionally as she works and on those rare occasions that she has created something truly special her painted mask fractures and falls away to reveal that girl she should have been, with soft eyes and pretty smile. |
A Little Deeper
When Anastasia was 6 years old and the Wizarding Wars were at their peak her grandfather Claudius Natalis came up with a plan. The Natalis family, long a paragon of pure breeding, had become infected with Muggle blood. Not much mind you, but the enough to thin their family and besmirch the name Natalis. Claudius, a Death Eater from way back, took it upon himself to purge the family of any trace of muggle blood and restore it to its rightful place among the pure. At first Anastasia’s parents thought the disappearances were like the rest. They knew the family history of course and Ana’s father knew that his father had been a Death Eater, but once the rumors of the Dark Lord’s return had begun to spread he had gained assurances from his father that his wife and their children would be spared. And it appeared that they had. The first family members to disappear had been distant cousins and long lost aunts or uncles, but as the war continued and the Death Eaters became emboldened, the nose began to close. Now it was close relatives who were missing, Ana’s cousin Dominic and her Aunt Lacy and Uncle Thomas. Still her grandfather assured his son that they were safe and Ana’s father blinded by family love and loyalty believed him until the moment his own father struck him down. November 2nd, 2002, Ana’s grandfather’s birthday, the day her family was murdered. It was to be a grand ball. No expense was spared and the family home was decked out for the occasion. Ana loved dressing up and her mother always bought her the most beautiful of dresses for family gatherings. She was too young to notice the tension in the air and too consumed with all of the pretty things at the party to sense that anything was wrong. She was seeing relatives she hadn’t seen in a year and was looking forward to playing with her remaining cousins in grandpa’s elaborate hedge maze in the gardens out back. The dinner was wonderful and the dessert spectacular, she couldn’t remember seeing a smile so broad on her grandfather’s face when he turned to her father and cast the killing curse. Her grandfather’s proof of devotion to the dark lord, the death to all of muggle blood and all those that would protect them in his family. Ana’s mother was next to fall and her older brother after. It was only the sacrifice of those few adults remaining that allowed her and her eldest brother Augustine to escape, but not before Augustine was bitten by Ulster Natalis. Even in human form Ulster was a savage and wild, but Anastasia and Augustine were lucky it was not a full moon and Ulster was unable to change his form. Had it been a full moon the siblings would surely have parished. Ana doesn’t have a complete recollection of that night. It comes in bits and fragments and nightmares to continue to torment her. She and her brother were taken in temporarily by friends of the family that went into hiding soon after the terrified children appeared on their doorstep. The act was so heinous that the name Natalis is forever linked with insanity and parricide in wizarding circles. Many of the Natalis were killed or captured by wars end. Claudius Natalis was killed shortly after the attack on Hogwarts as were the majority of those that sided with the Dark Lord in a stand-off with Aurors from the Ministry. When the dust and ash of what was left of House Natalis settled, it was Anastasia and Augustine that inherited the family lands and fortune, as tainted as it is. The Natalis family Manor lies vacant and hidden. Neither Anastasia nor Augustine have returned to it, choosing to stay in their home in London. The family fortune and priceless belongings are in a vault in Gringott’s to be used as needed until they both can graduate and it is divided between the two siblings. Secretly Anastasia is constantly watching over her shoulder. She firmly believes that the remaining purebloods of the vastly thinned Natalis line want her and her brother dead. They are the last remaining half-bloods of the Natalis family and the only thing keeping the family from their mad grandfather’s dream of a return to their pureblood status. For now Anastasia plays the part of a pureblood witch, something she thinks is keeping the family from taking actions against her. She is trying to survive until she can graduate to Hogwarts where she will have some protection against her remaining family. This above all else is why she avoids contact with muggleborns. In her mind they endanger her and she most certainly endangers them. |
Family
Name: Constantine Natalis Bloodstatus: Pureblood (Blood Traitor) Marital Status: Married Occupation: Deceased Anastasia’s Father Name: Augustus Natalis Bloodstatus: Half-blood Marital Status: Single Occupation: Freshman and Hogwarts College of Excelled Learning Students Anastasia’s older brother Name: Titus Natalis Bloodstatus: Half-blood Marital Status: Single Occupation: Deceased Anastasia’s eldest brother |
Name: Olympia Natalis (Meliflua) Bloodstatus: Half-Blood Marital Status: Married Occupation: Deceased Anastasia’s mother |