Her skin is a warm chocolate shade, she's got high cheekbones, her favourite colour is shocking pink, she wears countless little braids (her hair is styled in countless braids) and rarely takes off her round shades, beyond which a pair of golden eyes are cataracted. With her rapier wit and outsider past, she is the Tyrion Lannister of the AU.
Ava is wise, witty and honest—total bestie material. She’s the girl who’s not afraid to say what’s on her mind—oh and did we mention she can see the future?
For Ava, blind since childhood...
Ling, a shy village girl, is an omnivoxa (able to speak any language of any species), though she gets better along with animals and plants than with humans. She is rather straightforward when she talks. She is also a vegan and a firm believer in pacifism. She is obviously skilled in Creature Care and Herbology, though terrible at DaDA, for she'd rather befriend "dreaded beasts" than confront them. With a gentle but powerful nature and a keen intellect she’s not afraid to show, with almond-shaped eyes, high cheekbones, and a sword in a scabbard slung over her back. She is ethnically Asian, with long raven hair that she keeps in two odangos. Her family is rather large, and her father went missing a couple of years ago... Her grandmother Wen, the shaman of her clan, encouraged her to go to Hogwarts and cultivate her powers. When she was a child, they mocked her because she could talk to flowers and hear them speak. She does not need to study all of those languages... she simply needs to hear them spoken.
Ling is soft, peaceful and smart. She uses her brains and gentle nature to communicate with plants and animals. And she can also speak any human language.
Becca: Fierce and quick, quick-thinking... with curly red hair, blue eyes, and a smattering of freckles. She also wears glasses and is left-handed. Rebecca Quickfin thinks quickly and soon she finds out that she can control fire. A gift or a curse? Maybe a token that she is, as she thinks, illegitimate? She fights in the Gryffindor Quidditch team as its captain, is rivals with Astrid for as long as they have known each other... Under pressure, the shying bookworm becomes a violent and moody tomboy who will never leave a friend on his or her own. She has curly red hair kissed by fire, blue eyes, a nice smattering of freckles... She wears golden spectacles as well, and she is left-handed. Some say she is brave, others say that she is foolhardy. Nevertheless, she can be organized and efficient: like any born leader. And she is always honest. Her parents are deceased, and she is muggle-born. She also has a part-time job in the workshop of Honeydukes (I am serious!). She wants to attend university and then run her own business, to make many other people happy. Yet she lacks self-confidence and hasn't got much of a spine, being very quiet and often overlooked, as most bookworms are in fiction. However, she is also colourful and laughing, unusually lively.
She nearly always wears her trusty time turner around her neck.
Becca is definitely somebody you want to have on your team. She’s fierce and thinks fast on her feet . Her ability to innovate makes her a key player.
Becca is a powerful songcaster who can control fire. Sort of. She can’t seem to turn it up or down without burning her dress and singeing her hair.
Astrid: Headstrong, bold, and possessed of a deep well of magical power, Astrid Kolfinnsdóttir—with cascades and braids of white-blonde hair, icy blue eyes... has always been a loner and a military brat. Astrid has long, white-blonde hair, in two ornate braids running along the sides of her head with the rest of it loose, and icy blue eyes. Like her father Kolfinn, she has always turned away from group work. You can see by the way she acts that she is an officer's daughter. She keeps her platinum blond hair in a pair of thin French braids at the sides, the rest of it flowing free. As impulsive as her rival Becca (whom she despises due to the redhead's muggle descent vs. her own pure blood), she is a brilliant yet insufferable student who got kicked out of the Slytherin Quidditch team due to her impressive ego and a duel gone wrong: she will never say no to a duel, whether if she is the challenger or the challenged. And she can be ironic and show some sense of humour when it needs to. This ice-eyed one can sure wield a sword... but are her healing powers for real? And will she regain her role as captain of Slytherin? Well, she never backs from a fight, and will break ere she bends.
Astrid is nearly always sarcastic and negative, employs military metaphors, and fears that she may actually be a squib, for her powers have not awakened yet, leaving her to use a sword instead of a wand, being exceedingly skilled in the use of cold steel.
Not many of her relatives are known, except her father Kolfinn and aunt Sigurlin (Kolfinn's sister). She is later on revealed to be a squib (what ashames her the most), to have a brother called Ragnar, and that her mother is still alive.
Astrid is the oddball of the bunch. She’s bold and headstrong, but deep-rooted issues keep her from trusting the girls at first.
Then there’s angry, aggressive Astrid. That girl has a lot to learn—mainly that her biggest weakness can become her biggest strength.
One possessed of a prophet’s sight.
One who does not yet believe,
Thus has no choice but to deceive.
One with spirit sure and strong,
One who sings all creatures songs.
I actually had it a little hard to assign houses to Ava and Ling, but I think now I have made the best assignations. Besides, Astrid Kolfinnsdottir has previously appeared in my Game of Wands AU as a Beauxbatons student whose father is both a military man and headmaster of Durmstrang (she represented Beauxbatons in the Tournament). But this is another continuity.
My fave is Ava, Becca, or Astrid, I can't decide. Let's start with my fellow Ravenclaw. She's had to be strong because of her ethnic descent and disability. When the glasses come off, she is shocked. They have always called her either "blindie" or "chocolate girl". That's a heck of stress. That's why Ava is conversing with Becca in a way reminiscent of Jon and Tyrion at the start of Game of Thrones Arc I: "If they call you names, make them your names". Ava is the Tyrion character, the one who survives through all discrimination. That's what I like about Tyrion, about Ava, about the extremely Ava-like Toph Beifong, et cetera.
To see Astrid develop her rivalry with Becca into frenmity has also been satisfying. They're both hot-headed, though Astrid appears cooler. Also, Slyth vs. Gryff, ice vs. fire, brawn vs. brains, righty vs. lefty, squib vs. muggleborn prodigy... Completely foils to one anothers.
Besides, Sera and Neela appear as Beauxbatons exchange students. Just a cameo. And Sera's mother is the headmistress of Beauxbatons, making Sera a "lieutenante de diréctrice", Neela's aunt being the vice headmistress, which gives Neels the same status.
To see how Astrid, who bullied Ava at the very start, develops... No matter what they say, Astrid Kolfinnsdottir is now one of my personal gods. I ship her with Luna Lovegood, Enjolras (first-named René in my works), Jaime Lannister, Ava, and of course Becca (Lunastrid, Enjolstrid, Jaistrid, Avastrid, Beccstrid). Even more ships, even threesomes, may be launched (Oberstrid, Renlorstrid, Charlestrid [with Charles XII!], Whitlockstrid, Ty Leestrid, Finnistrid...) It appears that Astrid has dethroned Jaime as my Launcher of 1000 Ships.
Though Jaimienne is my straight OTP, I have nothing against JaimexCersei, JaimexLoras, JaimexOberyn, JaimexSansa, JaimexLuna, or JaimexAstrid.
There will also, pretty soon, be a shipping crossover fusion fic with Othello characters starring Oberyn and Astrid, with Jaime in a supporting role, as either Iago or Cassio... Luna Lovegood and Ginny Weasley will also appear...
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