Delilah Haas

**Delilah ~~Desmond~~ Haas** is the oldest child and only daughter of CEO and Chairman Donovan Desmond. She only recently discovered she was magix and is now a student at Ilemarthe Academy.

## Personality

Delilah is a bubbly, social person; she makes it a point to be nice to everyone until they give her a reason not to. As soon as that point is reached, she can be very snarky and, as self-described, 'bitchy'. She has a strict moral code regarding friendships. She believes in prioritising others' well-being, always caring for others no matter her view on them personally.

Although she can turn quickly on people, she avidly believes that people can grow and change only accepting it if there is time between the actions. Although, she believes that some actions are unforgivable after a certain point.

Delilah can be bright, mainly socially, but she is often ditzy as she has issues with her memory, often forgetting people's names. This issue with her memory he's lead her to give everyone nicknames as it's the only way she often remembers names.

## Magical Abilities

(Scaled from 1 - 10, anything above a 5 add +1 to magic throws, equal to or above a 9 add +2)

## Appearance

Delilah is a tall teenage girl with wavy, dark brown hair that is very shiny and healthy as she purposefully takes exceptional care of it. Her hair reaches her waist with some layers, and face-framing curtain bangs cut into it. She has dark green eyes and pale skin, and although she used to tan in her youth, she instead embraced how she naturally looks. She has a few dark moles, primarily on her face, scattered around her body.

Delilah has many piercings in her ears and enjoys making cohesive jewellery looks. However, she will always wear one pair of large earrings, normally gold hoops. She also wears a horse-shoe septum piercing and a belly button piercing.

When required, she wears her uniform, but she will be mainly seen in casual clothes if she can get away with it. When she wears her uniform, she wears it slightly unbuttoned, her house tie loose, and her school skirt short, as that is how she wore her uniform at her non-magix school, she refuses to wear her robe as it 'reminds her too much of private school'. Delilah wears thigh-high socks and leg warmers alongside Mary-janes or loafers. If she is cold, she will never wear a school vest and instead wears a black cardigan.

When not in uniform, she wears a mix of many styles depending on the mood she is in. No matter what style, though, she opts for skimpier clothing.

## Background

Delilah comes from the Desmond family, an affluent German family that migrated to the UK fourteen years ago, intending to start business ventures in England and increase opportunities for their son. Her father, Donovan Desmond, is the chairman of a family-founded business and has private ownership of a private school in the west of London. He was in an arranged marriage with Delilah's mother, Lina Haas, until she died during childbirth; this death didn't shake her father, who paid for people to care for Delilah as he didn’t care for her.

Although her father did not care for her, he did not want a ‘failure of a child’, so he focused on ways to make her talents so she would become and distinguished member of high society and not negate his success. It was quickly discovered that she is not intelligent, meaning academic ability wouldn’t be a success for her. Instead, she got placed in piano lessons, starting her specific love for music.

Despite getting rewarded at school for her astonishing musical ability, she was still deemed unimportant, especially after the birth of her younger brother Demetrius, who now gave Donovan a successor. As a result, Delilah started lashing out to attract attention. Sometimes, her anger manifested in her home surroundings, recognised strange occurrences when throwing fits. Occasionally things moved as she yelled in the direction, or doors slammed behind her without her even trying. She now knows this to be a manifestation of her magix. Still, if she ever acknowledged it as a child, she was dismissed, being told she was lying to get out of trouble.

Although most of her anger was released at home, she developed mischievous traits that showed at school, often lying or acting out in class for symbolic capital and a chance to grab her father's attention. Even at a young age, she understood the business and social consequences for her father, forcing him to acknowledge her. Her behaviour did not achieve what she wanted; instead, she got placed in therapy.

In her therapy sessions, she learnt better ways to cope and also expressed her hatred for only being known as 'Donovan Desmond's Daughter' as everyone in high society knew who she was. She and her therapist, Nessa Anea, concluded that being placed in a comprehensive school may be better for her.

Her father initially opposed it as having his child in a school that wasn't poorly reflected on him. Still, Nessa stood in Delilah's corner, and he eventually agreed. Since she was now in a comprehensive school, he started putting pressure on Delilah to perform well in extra-curricular activities, such as more musical training and sports like badminton.

Her behaviour at home was tamed when her little brother, Damian, was born. She maintained her internal disdain for her father but reached a point where she did not see a point in continuing to oppose him. Her suddenly passive behaviour meant she was then forced to participate in what she had rejected for the past twelve years; balls, events, and etiquette training.

Despite this, while conforming at home, she started identifying with her mother's maiden name everywhere she could. She also started partying a lot and developed two distinct personalities between who she was with her friends and who she was when participating in high society.

In state school, she was very popular among her peers, even adopted by the 'popular' group of students. She befriended many people in her year and even years above. This resulted in her meeting her first boyfriend, Thomas Warren, a boy two years older than her. Despite their controversial age gap, Delilah was smitten with him and thought it was the perfect relationship as the dynamic was all she knew in love.

He was demanding as a partner in many ways and did not treat Delilah correctly; this came to light in October 2019, when on her 14th Birthday, someone anonymously sent her many videos and screenshots on Snapchat proving his infidelity with some of her other friends since they started dating. This caused significant disruption in the friendship group and tore it apart, with many blaming Delilah for this discourse.

Due to this, Delilah identified many problems with people in the group and separated herself from them completely, realising the harm the 'popular group' had been causing. As a result, she temporarily returned to her shell, which was immediately undone when she made new friends at school. She became very social again, regaining her once-owned popularity. During this time, she further developed her overly caring nature. She started ensuring those socially excluded were okay and used her social standing to protect them from potential harm.

## Relationships

#### Fleur Babin

Delilah and Fleur met when they were attending primary school; despite being in the same class their whole childhood, they barely interacted until meeting at a social event held by the Babin’s when they were both twelve. It was Delilah’s first time being at a ball, and she met Fleur when their families exchanged pleasantries. She recognised Delilah from their primary school careers and, once their parents left, asked Delilah what ast happened to her as she suddenly stopped attending classes at the Acadamy one day. Delilah synopsised her experiences, feeling a moment of trust between the two. Fleur offered some similar qualms she had with high society, beginning a long-lasting, close friendship between the two.

#### Donovan Desmond

Although she is his first child, she has had little interaction with her father outside of performing at social events. He still pays her little mind, though, despite this. In contrast to Delilah's once aggressive nature with her father, she is very polite and timid around him, no longer wanting to drain herself with trying to rebel. Despite this, she will still argue with her father if he hurts her brothers, as they are both younger and still heavily affected by his actions.

#### Melinda Desmond

Melinda was lovely to Delilah and genuinely cared about her in her youth. Delilah supported her when she first started planning to leave her father. After Damian's birth, the two barely interact, as Melinda is rarely around. If she is, her attention is more focused on Damian.

They are still on good terms, although Delilah sometimes gets concerned over her behaviour towards Damian.

#### Demetrius Desmond

They once had a heavily conflicted relationship due to their different standings with their father; they didn't get along much when they were younger; Delilah rebelled, and Demetrius was too busy trying to impress them. Once Delilah’s attitude subsided, she started trying to make an effort to fix her relationship with him. Although it took a lot of time, they are now on good terms with each other, despite Demetrius’s unpleasant personality.

Delilah tries to imbue him with good values, making him less self-centred. She also tries to put Demetrius and Damian on good terms, although he does not like Damian as much.

#### Damian Desmond

Damian is Delilah's favourite in her family. She recognises much of her childhood in him and wants to protect him from ending up like her. Delilah goes out of her way to provide for Damian and tries to make him place less value on their father's attention. However, she never pushes it as she understands the situation.

Her care for Damian leads her to try and include him in many aspects of her life, spending a lot of her free time playing with him and teaching him to help his development. She also prioritises talking to him like an average person as she recognises the environment they grow up in is not beneficial for a child's mental development.

#### Melusina Vigil

Melusina and Delilah are best friends; Delilah really loves Mel and everything they do. Melusina is often her first point of contact and thoroughly enjoys telling them everything, which means she gets to spend more time with her. They are the first person Delilah views as a true best friend, wanting to be there to support Mel all she can. They also share a mutually beneficial relationship, Melusina teaching Delilah about all the magical ongoings at the school, providing her with context she missed growing up in non-magix society, while Delilah’s unadulterated confidence of not knowing what to fear provides Melusina with information to fuel their detective nature.

Melusina and Delilah met after she got sorted into Vyxenen when Melusina intervened with Aelias hitting on her. Delilah thought she was really pretty and had ‘cool vibes’, so she decided to befriend her; she was also the first student to help her and formed an immediate attachment. Luckily, Mel started enjoying Delilah’s presence, and they became close friends.

#### Icarus Athanasiou

Delilah and Icarus are close friends (and partners); Delilah views Icarus as one of the most important people in her life and enjoys and values his company.

Delilah met Icarus on her first day at Illemarthe Academy when he bumped into her in the hallway. At the time, she saw someone she found attractive and was somewhat arrogant, based on his reaction to bumping into her and the words of Melusina, and thought it would be a fun, yet inevitably easy, pursuit. He fit into the idea of ‘fucking around’ at her new school, and he was, apparently, partial to a non-committal relationship.

Delilah originally wedged her way into his life by practically dragging him out to the fountain and forcing him into a conversation. Considering his popularity at the school, she found his awkward yet nonchalant nature amusing; their conversations led to Delilah having feelings towards him, although she didn’t realise until after their first date.

Despite her feelings for him, Delilah found Icarus an amazing friend before considering him a crush, feeling a sense of familiarity since they are both children of high society, despite their different experiences. She enjoyed their relationship and dynamic of (minorly) bullying each other.

After telling Icarus about her past relationship, she accidentally overreacted to a minor conflict later, creating a wedge between them temporarily. Icarus apologised for his reaction, making Delilah feel worse about causing it and making her awkward to the point of being unable to interact with him entirely. This caused them to not talk for a week, the division becoming worse after Delilah missed their weekly Sunday date, believing it wasn’t happening due to the current state of their relationship.

Once Delilah discovered that Icarus was waiting for her at their usual meeting spot, she felt incredibly guilty. She planned to formally apologise to him, expecting that to be the end of their romantic relationship and hoping they could at least stay friends. The apology was received a lot better than she expected, and they decided to move past the conflict and try continuing their relationship, which was successful. They are officially in a relationship after Icarus asked her to be his girlfriend.

#### Anaya Reyes

Anaya and Delilah didn't get along at first. Still, the dispute was quickly resolved when Delilah helped Anaya through a panic attack. Since Melusina forgave Anaya for the incident of the first day they met, Delilah doesn't hold it against Anaya. She has really valued their help at various points in their friendship.

#### Blaze Adeyemi

Blaze and Delilah quickly bonded over their non-magix interests, specifically anime. They spent hours together upon their first official meeting and instantaneously regarded each other as friends.

They share a close friendship, often taking the piss out of each other.

## Trivia

* Her familiar is a fat ragdoll cat, called Misa.
* She works out daily but is physically weak.
* She never picked up her GCSE results.