Ashlyn Beniko/Profile

## Ashlyn "Ash" Beniko

> **"How much courage does it take to walk out on your kid?"
>  ― Charles Beniko arguing with his brother, Harkun, over them dropping Ashlyn off for good and leaving the country.**
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## Appearance

Ashlyn is pale, with blonde, shoulder length hair and brilliant azure blue eyes, though due to her metamorphmagus nature, this is prone to change due to her emotions, much to her embarrassment. She looks beautiful, but lacks self confidence due to her powers. She usually tries to keep hidden and often avoids eye contact, slouching often. Lastly, She's 4 foot 11 inches tall. Clothes wise, when she's not in uniform she has a fondness for long, fancy dresses and for skirts, keeping a more traditional, if casual, outfit.

## Personality

Ashlyn is reserved and quiet, though less by choice and more due to her emotional state reflecting her powers. If given the freedom to not worry about her powers, she's forceful and independent, and surprisingly lively. She's quick-witted, mischievous and rather funny, though rarely shows this side of her when in public, being far more shy to avoid her emotions affecting her looks.

## Background

Ashlyn had the rather unfortunate (in her mind) luck to be born a metamorphmagus, discovered with great shock to her mother, Eloise Beniko, when her hair changed to a deep red when a baby as she started to cry and flail. Growing up was...hard. Her parents were your traditional pure-bloods, elitist and fond for the 'old ways', but unlike many had integrated themselves into local muggle life, never using magic, of course, but using their wealth for local fame. Unfortunately, Ashlyn's lack of control led to a few near misses of people seeing a change on her happen suddenly. Her parents, not willing to give up this style of life, gave her a 'conceal don't feel' life attitude, avoiding her emotions to control herself to little success.(edited)

Eventually, after her fifth birthday party with no improvements, her parents took her to her uncle Charles, a name she'd never heard before. She found out the reason on arrival. He was a squib, and largely disowned, contact with his brother consisting of the occasional birthday wishes and nothing else. Leaving her there, they left. Charles did his best to look after her, but had to give up his muggle job as a builder as he couldn't leave her unsupervised, and to not break the statue of secrecy, forbade her from having friends in the muggle town he lived in, though tried his best to give her a happy childhood. Working from home as a website designer, self taught, he was able to make her have a modest life, and would take her camping each summer, the one time of year she could be herself. Whilst he never disapproved of her powers, as a squib he was a little jealous, and uneducated on metamorphmagi, so couldn't provide the support she needed. On her 11th birthday she received the dreaded letter to Hogwarts, and despite her protests, Charles convinced her to go, saying she could make friends with similar powers to her, but that most couldn't change their looks like she could. As such, the summer of buying goods in Diagon Alley was a mix of excitement and fear. Would her classmates really show magic like she could? Would they really not hate her for her unnatural powers? At the sorting ceremony, she argued with the hat for a good while over houses, wanting to be in the unassuming house of Hufflepuff, whereas the hat could see what she could be if she didn't hide away, putting her in Gryffindor. Now at school, she tries to keep out of the way and alone, not wanting her classmates to find out about her powers and to think of her as a freak like her family had done, and a reminder of what others couldn't be for her uncle.