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Dwayne Prichett was a Gryffindor 3rd year when he began dating Babylonia Warrington, a 2nd year Ravenclaw. During the turbulent times they found a strength
in one another to see them through. It was inevitable that after they graduated and began etching out careers for themselves, that they would promise to
spend the rest of their lives together. After Babylonia began working as full time at St. Mungos and Dwayne got a promotion at the bank to office clerk,
dealing with some of the more awkward customer accounts, he finally proposed to her. They were married not long after and the following year, Babylonia gave
birth to their fraternal twins Silas and Gaia. Silas being the eldest by all of 1 minute.
Their lives were hectic but simple. Weekends usually saw Dwayne take the children off on short camping trips while Babylonia worked. During the week, her
mother Portia Warrington looked after her grandchildren and taught them their reading, writing and arithmetic. Silas hated this time and looked forward to the
camping weekends while Gaia by the age of seven was discovering her love for knickknacks and clothing.
During the summer vacations, the whole family would go camping together. Quiet treks through the Yorkshire moors or in the Scottish highlands or the Welsh valleys.
It was a time that they look back on now and hold dear. On their last camping trip as a family, Dwayne dove in to a lake to help a drowning muggle. The muggle
however in a violent state of panic latched on to Dwayne and pulled him under, both drowning. They stopped taking camping trips for quite some time, until
Silas at the age of twelve found the equipment buried away in their attic and decided he wanted to use it again.
Camping was never Gaia's thing, she hated being bitten by flies and having ants crawling everywhere. The tent was comfortable enough but she was a city girl
and preferred being surrounded by shops and clothes. When she first discovered by chance that she could make accessories out of old clothes, jewellery and house
hold furnishings, she was in her element. Her grandmother passed it off as a crafting phase until she saw Gaia trying to draw the female form with variations
of clothing. By the time she was twelve, she was already making her own clothes thanks largely to manual stitching and knitting, even though her grandmother did
show her how to do a sewing and knitting spell, she would have little use for them until she got her own wand.
Passing a store one day just before her fourteenth birthday, Gaia fell in love! The mannequins in the window had pink hair, orange hair and white hair. Their eyes
were all varying shades as well, the make up and nail varnish was outrageously fantastic .. though the clothing was in her own opinion mediocre. The store was
the Second Hands Robes on Diagon Alley and when she entered, it was to discover a bored middle aged muggleborn woman who spent much of her time dying the wigs of
her mannequins, retouching their makeup or doing their nails. Gaia thought the woman was slightly dotty but was obsessed from there on in with dying her hair and
experimenting with makeup.
During the summer of 2012, bored out of her tree as Silas was working much of those months in the hospital and her friends had their own lives to live; Gaia went
job hunting. The price for yards of material and other knick knacks she needed for her real love was just too much and so she asked around and it was this woman,
Dianna Mimbletree at the Second Hand Robes store who gave her a part-time job.
She is delighted that at long last it's her senior year at the JWA and just another few months away she will get her letter for Hogwarts. Hitting the books isn't
a big deal to her, she has her mothers aptitude for studying, so she doesn't think she will do too badly in her exams even so, she won't be like her twin and leave
it all to the last second.
She is known about the school for her quirky style of dress, her uniform is never as it should be. She is also known to end up in detention a lot though she tries to be a model student. When she discovered her love of drawing, she also soon made another discovery that she could make almost exact replicas of drawings. With practice she was soon turning her hand to replicating other peoples signatures, their style of writing, to paintings. Though her forging skills are pretty neat, it is not something she abuses, no matter that she has often written a sick note or written out someone elses homework for a price.
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