Raina Summers
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16 [October 27]
Female
6th year Hufflepuff
Pureblood
Uncorporeal
Blue Spruce/Unicorn Hair/12"/Unyeilding
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5'6"
Grey-Blue
Black and waist length
Pale and easily sun burnt
Raina is generally an expressive person with a really bad poker face. Her expressions are usually some degree of angry, annoyed/irritated/peeved, challenging, stunned, and/or fed up. Smiling, not smirking, is a rarity for her.
Personality
If there's anything one can say about Raina, it's that she's very outspoken and snaps at people with little provocation. She can be bossy and demanding, especially pertaining to duel club, and guilty of being prideful. She's an aggressive, assertive type of person who knows how to take up space in a room despite her stature. Not to mention very competitive.
Few will get to know just how loyal she can be, and how much she values it. She can be dependable and trustworthy to a select few who somehow manage to get close to her, and offer insight to things that may shock people. It may come as a surprise that she can actually be level headed and thoughtful when the situation calls for it.
Honestly though, most will remember her for being
very loud.
History
Raina's problems didn't start when she was a kid. They didn't even start when she was born. They started when her mother saw a man she thought was cute and just had to have him, even going so far as to have her mother use what influence she had in pureblooded social circles to arrange a marriage. Whether or not the marriage was healthy, happy, or even loving was debatable, but what came from it was not: five pureblood children to be proud of.
Raina Summers wasn't the first child, nor the second, not even the third. She was, in fact, the fourth child of the five. The first born of them was actually Celeste, who, like her grandmother, had some strong opinions about blood purity and having bloodlines stay pure. Their father, however, was not of the same opinion. This often caused strife within the family, particularly between their father and their grandmother (in Celeste's words, "our mother is too much of an air head to have an opinion on anything that isn't glitter or gold.)
If it was Celeste taking their grandmother's side, then it was Selene who took their father's side; just as if it was Celeste who held the family's hopes and ambitions as the first born, then it was Selene who was the rebound as the the second born. The rivalry between these two was often described by their peers at Hogwarts as bitter and intense. If their rivalry wasn't about their political views, it was about their academia, or how they generally treated people.
Stuck between all this discord were the last three children, which included Raina's older brother Declan, and her younger brother, Kyler. For whatever reason, out of the three "extra children", Celeste took an interest in Raina. It wasn't something she really thought much into, only that she had questions, Celeste often answered them. She made her feel so grown up and mature! She spent most of her pre-Hogwarts years following her around and mimicking her actions.
One of the reasons Declan was often overlooked by Celeste, his grandmother, and even his mother, was his lack of speaking. It wasn't that he couldn't speak - they've all heard him talk at some point - but he just seemed to refuse to. This made communicating with him harder than with their older siblings and for the longest time Raina was convinced he hated her! As his eleventh birthday drew near, their father's concern for Declan's social development at Hogwarts grew despite Selene's numerous assurances she'd be there to look after him for his first couple years (over Celeste's sneering, "stop babying him. He can talk, just make him use his fucking words.")
Their problems seemed to be solved, however, when their father learned from a muggleborn co-worker about sign language and wanted to teach Declan it. Both Raina and Kyler thought it was fun, but it had their mother running to their grandmother about it. The night before Declan was to to sent off for his first year of Hogwarts, an explosive fight broke out between their grandmother and their father that had Selene coralling the three younger children into her room to try and engage them with games.
Their father punctuating his leave with the sound of a slammed door made them all jump.
Their father looked worn and haggard when he showed up to see Declan off with the rest of the family, but he still smiled warmly, even as Raina felt tears welling up in her eyes ("I'm not crying, you're crying! Shut up!").
While the older kids were at Hogwarts, Kyler and Raina were stuck at home with their parents arguements increasing in both frequency and volume, only this time Selene wasn't there to distract them with boardgames. One night a break-in happened and something terrifying happened that Raina and Kyler refuse to talk about. A week later, they were burying their father.
When the rest of the Summers children came home there was another fight between the rest of them, and Selene. Well, until Celeste called their mother an imbecile and got thrown out. It was either that or
what are you going to do? Have me killed like our so-called father? Those words have stuck with her to this day.
Present Day
Raina's first couple of years at hogwarts were tremulous at best, with the child varying wildly between quiet and gloomy to loud and angry. Her abrasive temperament has made it hard to get along with most people and make friends, something to she claims to be more than happy with.
Fun Facts
• Can probably be bribed with chocolate, it's her favorite thing in the world.
• She perfers cold weather over hot, and can be seen wearing jackets in weather that has everyone bundling up.
• When she gets particularly annoyed or irritated, her eyebrow twitches.
• Don't asker her about her stance on bloodlines and shit, she might bite your head off.
• Her favorite color is purple.
• She will flip you off.
• She is terrible at cooking and even worse at brewing potions.
• A decent flyer and joined the quiddich team partially to spite August, partially to give it a try.
• She's always been a fan of high up places and doesn't seem to fear falling.
• When she's upset or trying to self isolate, she usually tries to hide in a very high up and hard to get to nook or cranny.
• She specializes in more aggressive magic and counter spells, and prefers wide open areas to duel in rather than on a glorified, long table.
• She prefer birds over cats and dogs. She's not mean to any animal she dislikes, but she will make faces at a cat trying to settle on her lap (while doing nothing about it).
• Wants to one day ride a hippogriff.
• Around the time of the anniversary of her father's death she gets particularly bitchy and closed off.
• Her and her siblings try to get together and celebrate his birthday.
• Neither Raina or Kyler will talk about the night of the break in that resulted in their father's death, and their mother is too dismissive to even consider bringing it up to.
• Her mother keeps talking about marrying her and Declan off to "worthy suitors" and fantasizing about weddings and grandchildren.
• Both Declan and Raina started their seventh and sixth year hung over from a night of drinking.