Merwyn Déonté/Family

## Nora Déonté

**Character originally written by: Jay Sea**

Merwyn's Ma

## Nora Déonté

### Appearance

Nora is above average height and wears her blonde hair down at or just below shoulder height. She wears glasses at times, which distracts from her green eyes.

### Personality

Nora classifies herself as an outgoing introvert (because it leaves her enough wiggle room to do basically whatever she wants). Sometimes she likes to be alone in a corner with a nice hot drink and a good book, and others she likes to be the one blowing up the dance floor at the most popular bar in town. As a general rule, she doesn't lie except in extreme cases, but she doesn't always tell the whole truth, either. She is always loyal to her friends- but only if they deserve it. Backstabbers get nothing. She is expressive most of the time, but she knows how and when to use her poker face. Sometimes she might seem cruel, but often that 'cruelty' is just tough love.

### History

Nora grew up in Ireland with her grandparents (because her parents were both drunk, promiscuous buttfaces). She went to a muggle school near her home and was very successful. She enjoyed the things muggles were taught and even went on to study them in her own time while at Hogwarts. Nora was sorted into Slytherin house at Hogwarts, which, at first, was a bit of a surprise. She always considered herself one of the booky Ravenclaw types, but she gradually came to understand why she'd gotten Slytherin.

Nora was a bit of a goof in school, but she made good grades nonetheless. She enjoyed all her classes, barring potions, in which she generally ended up setting things on fire. She liked to experiment with things when she should have been following the directions. She always liked finding out-of-the-box uses for spells, even if they didn't always work out in the projected manner. Originally she wanted to work in Magical Law Enforcement, but her first Wizarding Law class, combined with her love for legal dramas, inspired her to be a lawyer.

After Hogwarts, she traveled to America and went to muggle law school, and studied wizard law on her own time. She graduated top of her class and got a great job at a high-paying firm full of other wizard lawyers. She worked there for six years, defending both wizards and muggles in wizard and muggle courts until she took a position as a prosecutor for San Francisco. At twenty-eight, two years before leaving the firm, she fell in love with a kind muggle man named Jason Marxa, married him at twenty-nine, and had her daughter Katherine nine months later. But she was divorced at thirty-three by that same man, who cheated on her with seven other women innumerable times and then divorced her for cheating on him once when she was drunk. Somehow (she maintains the judge was bribed) her husband got sole custody of their daughter. Nora was only allowed visits on her daughter's birthday and Christmas, which she hated because it forced her to miss most of her daughter growing up. She always wanted to teach her child to read and write and about the natural world and see her go off to her first day of school and take her to get her license and help her with her homework and... on and on and on.

And so, because of her limited visits, she decided to move to Britain and start over as much as she could. When Nora first moved into her London flat, a rather elderly collection of rooms situated above an equally elderly cafe, she decided to snoop through the furnishings already present. Most of the flat was fairly modern-looking, as the previous owners renovated it, but the spare room and study still contained what looked like the original... everything.

Upon opening the drapes and closet and drawers, etc in the spare room, just to air everything out, Nora was greeted by a veritable swarm of small, blue creatures: pixies. Minus the less-than-appetizing details of the process, Nora was able to get rid of all the pixies, or so she thought. When she resumed her snooping/dusting/airing, she heard a tiny, shrill little shriek sort of noise emanating periodically from the back of the closet. Upon inspection, she found a baby pixie, bright blue, small as a baby carrot, and shrill as... Well, the way Nora would have described it isn't exactly appropriate.

Despite her general distaste for pests, she found herself unable to rid herself of the creature. She thought it was actually kind of cute if you could get past the fact he was blue and a pixie. She considered taking him to someone who specialized in magical creatures, their rescue, and their care but decided against it. She figured no one she could take the thing to would actually take care of it, so she decided to keep it. She named the pixie Loki, and semi-domesticated him, for he was a he, so far as she was concerned, and he is quite well-mannered unless he is agitated. Sometimes he hid things and drew on the wall, but Nora found it more endearing than annoying, like a small child just being a small child.

During the Christmas holidays of 2008, she lost her left leg in a car wreck while her ex-husband was driving. Unfortunately, she was taken directly to a muggle hospital where they had to amputate her leg just above her knee. She worked with St. Mungo's on a prosthetic as well as physical therapy.

## Alexander Petukhov

WIP

Merwyn's Dad

## Relationships

### Family Members:

Maria Petukhova (wife)
Merwyn Petukhova-Déonté(daughter)

### Appearance

Alexander was a decently handsome man, hovering at a height of 6'. His hair was a dark brown that naturally lightened during the summer.

### Personality

Alexander was a very socially awkward man, understanding numbers more than people. As such, he was only close to very few people in his life, primarily his family.