Elijah Zabini

##### Positives

> Elijah is very extroverted and loves to be around people as well as loves making people love him. He's a performer, and made for the big life of an up and coming celebrity. He is loud and proud and people will always know when he's entered a room. He can make friends with anyone. Elijah is also very brave, true to his Gryffindor roots. He loves trying new things and he doesn't care much for failure, either. He's a dreamer and very imaginative - taking up most of the lyric writing for the band. Optimism is thankfully very high up for him, too. He believes in his dreams and will not stop until they've been reached.
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##### Negatives

> When it comes to music, he is very obsessive. Elijah focuses solely on it, and will often be late to things because he's been side-tracked. His great memory slacks when it comes to him being around music. Elijah also struggles to care for consequences he receives when he's done something wrong. He doesn't always take full accountability simply because he likes to do what he likes to do. Elijah, as loving and outgoing as he is, is emotionally unavailable. He doesn't want to settle down and he doesn't want to be in a serious relationship, so he will purposefully not allow himself to get close to someone in that manner. He's afraid of being like his dad and grandmother, and also, he's afraid of getting too close to someone and having them die like he's faced with many of his stepmothers and real mom.
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#### History

##### Family History

###### The Zabini Family

> Blaise Zabini was the only son of a famously beautiful witch. Blaise never knew his real father, though there seemed to always be another man in the house that he would be expected to call father. At first, he enjoyed it, thinking that this time, he was going to have a real dad to look up to, though he was forced to endure funeral after funeral for each one, and it usually happened after he started to let his guard down, until the seventh one, where he had learned better.
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> He was a quiet kid with loyalty to himself first and foremost. Although he would consider himself to be friends with the likes of Draco Malfoy, Pansy Parkinson, and the others, he would hardly call them the best of friends. He looked down upon those around him, from mudbloods, to traitors, and from those set on an unhealthy obsession with ruining the lives of others to those that were happy to wipe the feet of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Blaise felt like he was better than most everyone he came in contact with. He played quidditch for a bit with Slytherin, and had even joined the Slug Club despite the other members that Horace Slughorn seemed to have interest in.
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> Blaise was not an easy friend to have, nor did he care. He held a high sense of self, and would be hard pressed to find someone that would knock him off of his high horse. Blaise didn’t bother with the wars that occurred, but after the Second Wizarding War, had gone off to America with his mother and her newest husband who perished along the journey.
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> He didn’t particularly care to fight alongside He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, nor did he particularly care to fight against him, either. His family was not aligned with death eaters, but they were most certainly not aligned with mudbloods, either.
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> In America, he met a young pureblooded witch who was as beautiful as could be, and he wouldn’t lie and say it wasn’t vanity that united them. They were an attractive pair, and she shared his ideals, so it was as close to love as he knew he was going to find.
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###### The Harris Family

> First and foremost, Kehlani Harris was a liar. She lied about many, many things in her life to get her as far as she could, which wasn't difficult for a woman that looked like her. She was beautiful from the day she was born, and her beauty was used in various magazines and papers before she was the age of 5. She was just as vain as her parents, who lovingly adored her simply because their banks were getting filled with the money that their only daughter was earning for them. Kehlani, thriving off of the attention that she received, had created marvelous stories to anyone that would listen, and often times, such stories would garner more attention.
> By the time she was getting shipped off to Ilvermorny, she didn't really know who she was outside of living for other people. She was, more or less, a chameleon who changed based on what people wanted to hear. She loved the attention that she received from anyone that would give it. She rarely did her own homework, often convincing others to accomplish it for her, and barely passed her classes, but upon celebrating her graduation, she met the sexy Blaise Zabini, and told him everything he wanted to hear just to keep his attention. So, despite being a halfblood herself, she became pureblood. Despite her many affairs with muggleborns, she hated them for him. Everything he wanted, she was for him.
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###### Parents' History

> Blaise proposed to Kehlani three weeks after knowing her, and to his excitement, she said yes. They were engaged for over a year before getting married in a small ceremony as he continued to believe all of the lies she spun to him. They had their first child, a girl, soon followed by a son. They made the decision to move back to Blaise’s original home, a large mansion that his mother still owned. Blaise wanted them to be educated at Hogwarts, because despite everything he hated about the school, it was still the best of the best.
> It hadn’t been until they were in the process of moving and packing things up that he discovered her lies of her heritage, and from there, her web of lies continued to unravel. Blaise told her that he forgave her because he loved her, though he knew that he never truly could. A year after moving back to his home country, his beautiful wife was killed when one of her beauty potions had boiled her skin.
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##### Early Years

> Elijah was born in America, though moved to England when he was an infant. He holds no memories of his mother outside of small stories that he has heard from his father over the years, and from what he’s seen of her old modeling days, but holds no feelings towards the woman. All of the stories he had read on her (which was every story that he could get his hands on) were filled with fantastical and dramatic stories, none of which he really believed.
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> Elijah, however, knew many different mothers. The first of which was the mother that brought on his two half siblings, and it is her that he refers to as his real mom. His actual memories of her are severely limited, but she was always singing, and he was always singing with her. Blaise hated the connection that Elijah had built with his second-wife, Sula, though Elijah never understood why. He holds a memory of standing at her funeral just after his little brother was born, and how he bawled his eyes out. After that day, he remembered having a long discussion from his dad as his dad explained that boys don’t cry.
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> It seemed that nothing Elijah ever did was good enough in his father’s eyes as not once did he receive praise. Elijah discovered that he had a love for music, though his dad felt as if it were an impractical hobby that wouldn’t take him far. He wanted Elijah to be more like him, but Elijah found, as the years went on, that they were nothing alike. Where his dad was vain, Elijah was appropriately confident. Where his dad despised mudbloods, Elijah was friends with anyone he talked with. While his dad was quiet, Elijah was loud. Where his dad judged everyone he ever came in contact with, Elijah was a free loving man that thought everyone just ought to do what made them happy.
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> They couldn’t be anymore different, though his dislike for his father started to grow into hatred with each new “mother” that his father brought home. There was Blaire, who was sweet and innocent, and snuck Elijah cookies for breakfast when his father wasn’t looking. She was young and funny and bought him all of the instruments he ever wanted. She taught him guitar, his first love, and keyboard, and she convinced his dad to sign him up for drums, too. With all of the money that they had, she didn’t understand why the children couldn’t be involved in more. Then, on his 11th birthday, as he was celebrating his acceptance into Hogwarts, she was taking her last breath. It was after her death that he began to wonder what was happening to the wives of his dad, which brought him to read on the history of his dad’s mom and her many mysterious husband’s deaths.
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##### School Years

>    Elijah didn’t trust his dad, but now, he was away at Hogwarts, back with his sister Tamara, and away from the watchful eyes of his father. He quickly made friends, especially with those who shared his love of music. He held a dream to be a famous musician, and despite what his father wanted, he was going to make it happen. Much to his father’s dismay (and Elijah’s delight), he was sorted into Gryffindor, where he met some of his best mates.
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> While everyone else was obsessing over quidditch (which was fun and all to watch, but he had no interest in playing because he was absolutely not willing to commit to that time schedule, and also, his father wanted him to play quidditch so that’s a hell no in his book), he was obsessing over music, often getting in trouble for playing it too loudly, and mostly at inappropriate times. He couldn’t help himself, though, because he strummed the guitar when muse hit, and it wasn’t his fault that muse would hit at 3 AM or during mandatory meals, or cause him to miss classes because he just *had* to write the last of the lyrics out. He even missed detentions that he received for music because he got distracted writing songs or figuring out something new that he could do.
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> He joined choir his third year because he loved to sing, and found that he hated it. He forced himself to stay, because he wanted to study the lyrics that were being made, and to try to change some things up when he could. It was the only club he ended up joining and forcing himself to stay in. He became the Student Leader for the group for part of the year during his sixth year, before he was kicked out because he missed too many practices. He was way more concerned with his practices with his friends, because that was his future.
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> Elijah remained detached to the ‘other mothers’, as he called them, because he had a sneaking, and accurate, suspicion as to them not lasting long. He even tried to warn Ramsey once, but that didn’t go over well with his father and he surely regretted it. He never listened to the women, and often made their lives harder in an attempt for them to divorce his dad or whatever, but it never worked. He hated his father even more, because even though all of the deaths were explained away, and his father claimed something about a family curse, Elijah didn’t believe him for a second.
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> Elijah knew he was a disappointment to his father, and he loved that the most about their relationship. They argued every time they were in the same room, and Elijah would frequently have to hide his instruments in various locations because whenever his father found them, they would get destroyed. He learned that the hard way, unfortunately.
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>    His relationships in Hogwarts were many as he frequently made friends with everyone he talked to – at least, the ones that didn’t hate him because of his father. Although his father hadn’t been a death eater, he was certainly not known to be a pleasant man, so those that knew the Zabini name, didn’t like him. Elijah refused to ever date (because a part of him wondered if there really was a family curse, or if his dad and grandmother were really bad people), keeping his relationships sex-only. It was also easiest for him because he certainly didn’t have time to be a good boyfriend, so it was better for everyone.
> Finishing his final year of Hogwarts, he is more certain than ever that he and his group of bandmates are going to create their own path one day. Sure, he’s living off some family money that he has to his name, but his passion is music, and no one is going to get in his way of success. It's taking longer than he hoped trying to get his band out there, but with enough dedication, he's hopeful that they are going to pull through. Thankfully, he's almost certain his bandmates are on the same page.
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### Connections

#### **Family**

###### Blaise Zabini (father)

> Not a great relationship - Elijah and Blaise cannot seem to get along at any point that they are in the same room. It was why Elijah moved out so quickly after he graduated. The only reason he sees his father now is because he still wants a relationship with his siblings.
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###### Zuri Zabini

> Elijah sees her only as his full sister, not half. He has cared for her, despite how different they can be at times, but he wants the best for her always.
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#### **Friends**

###### James Potter

> His best mate, though their relationship is questionable at times on whether or not it is just a friendship. James is practically Elijah's soulmate, if ever he thought in such a thing. They spend entirely too much time together, but that's alright, seeing as they never seem to get sick of each other.
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###### Tirone Duke

> His bandmate and good friend, Elijah likes spending a lot of time with him, even when they aren't making music together.
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###### Felicity Beaumont-Jones

> Practically his other half when it comes to being on the stage as he's frequently seen singing to her (or perhaps, serenading her) on stage. Their voices match so well together, so how could he not? He loves her dearly, though like James, it's questionable on if it's just a friendship that they have.
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###### Aristides C. Gilchrist

> You always have to love the drummer - Ari's personality is so contagious and Eli loves being around him because of it. He's almost always in a good mood when he's around because he knows they're about to have some fun.
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###### Alice Bailey

> A bit of an unlikely friendship, but he finds that he enjoys the way their conversation goes, no matter how silly and wild it is. He doesn't ever really plan on hanging out with her, but he'd consider them to be friends.
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###### Zoey Fox

> His roommate and former housemate, Eli feels like she grounds him a bit with the way her personality is, so he's looking forward to them being roommates and building a stronger friendship. She is probably one of his favorite people.
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###### Sorina Weasley

> Another friend of his, though mostly through Zoey as she's Zoey's best friend. Still, he enjoys her company thus far.
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###### Zephyr Fox

> Former roommates, and as such, automatic friends
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###### Igantius Prewett

> Former roommates, and as such, automatic friends
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###### Matthew Boult

> Former roommates, and as such, automatic friends, though not as close as he is with the others.
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#### **Romance**

###### Ophelia Prewett

> They dated once as first years and never really broke up - he constantly makes jokes referring to that, even if they've both moved on in their lives. He cherishes her completely though and considers her to be one of his closest and dearest friends (and obviously, they're married forever).
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#### **Enemies**

> No enemies as of yet save for his father.
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