Honey Camacho

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honey bianca mercado camachosixth year duckweed
when the sun shine we shine together

**Appearance**

 **Faceclaim** |  | maris racal

honey is 5'7"! until you make her take off her fila disruptor wedges. her height is one of her greatest frustrations and she wishes she were taller, so she is always in platform shoes or heels given the opportunity. it can come as a bit of a shock when she is barefoot. other than that, she is not very insecure about her appearance. her hair is her greatest vanity and she has had the same hairstyle since she was ten - it works for her, so why change it? growing up, she wished she was more fair-skinned but has since learned to love her complexion. she has dark brown eyes and long black hair, typical features for the average filipina. her clothes are "vintage" mostly because they are all hand-me-downs or things she thrifted with her own money then repaired herself. she should probably cover up a bit more considering how cold it is in the uk, but she refuses to compromise her style and aesthetic. it's a bit ridiculous and stubborn considering she'll just wind up catching a cold or something.

**History**

honey's parents, stephen and ysabel, both came from conservative opus dei families and thus went to conservative opus dei gatherings often. they were eventually pushed together by elders in their church who fancied themselves matchmakers, and it did end up being a match made in heaven. they did not have a particularly romantic marriage, but they were very well-suited for each other in the sense that stephen was very career-oriented and ysabel was endlessly supportive and more family-oriented. over the course of sixteen years, they eventually had eight children. the older ones are all working already, some even with families of their own. they are all very accomplished in their own fields, and their professions range from medicine to politics to finance to cursebreaking and many others.

honey and her twin, danilo, are the youngest of the bunch. honey's first sign of magic would happen at the age of six on a family trip, when, upon feeling neglected by her parents, her left arm disappeared in an attempt to get them to pay her attention after they used a portkey to get to greece. her mother nearly had a heart attack, but it turned out that she had just made the limb invisible and this was very easy to fix.

all camacho siblings attended the philippine institute for magical arts (pima). it's a rather small and conservative school where everyone knows everyone because of how tiny it is. honey was always known as "so-and-so's sister" and it was hard to break out of that label considering how stellar her siblings are. even her twin, nilo, is popular among her peers despite being a squib.

on the topic of her family, her father stephen is a diplomat. her father is the filipino representative in the international confederation of wizards, and he aspires to hopefully one day become the supreme mugwump. honey hopes to one day become a diplomat like her father so that she can continue the kind of lifestyle that she grew up with: constant traveling. out of his eight children, she is the only one who took any real interest in his work and he is delighted to have a child that wants to follow in his footsteps. he is rather hopeful that she haves what it takes to actually pursue this dream of hers because she is very articulate when it comes to serious discussions, enjoys debates, and likes to learn about political and economic issues. however, she lacks the discipline to attain the qualifications she would need for such a career, though stephen hopes he can fix this by being on her case about her academics and possibly learning more languages.

sometime after honey turned fifteen, her father was promoted to a permanent representative in the icw and now holds a high position in the economic and and social council, which is primarily based in the icw's london office. her mother saw this as the perfect opportunity to have her younger children graduate from schools abroad. the older ones already have their own things going, so the three youngest (lorenzo, nilo, and honey) would end up being the only ones to make the move. honey was enrolled in adeothorne, whereas nilo would attend a muggle sixth form and lorenzo a higher education program for wizarding law. they moved as early as june to get settled, but this is mostly because ysabel wants to play tourist and use this opportunity to "vacation" with her youngest children before any of them have to leave for school. honey, much to her displeasure, spent the first few weeks of summer sulking over having to move away from her boyfriend (who she inevitably broke up with anyway after realizing that they cannot handle long-distance). she and her mother already always bicker anyway, so what's new?

upon starting at adeothorne, honey asked the sorting hat to place in her in duckweed because she found the house system absurd. it did not and still does not make sense to her, and it just seems like a shitty thing to do to classify your students according to personality traits like courage and intelligence, then have an entire house just for "the rest". she was a hatstall between begonia and caulerpa, but very, *very* stubbornly insisted that she will not accept any house but duckweed. the hat eventually acquiesced.

**Personality**

(+): passionate, confident, inclusive(–): stubborn, easily blinded by loyalty, embarrassinghoney grew up very shy and self-loathing. she was always the one who strayed away from the circle during group discussions or the kid whose voice would progressively get softer and softer as she began to realize no one was paying attention to what she was saying. until now, she cannot really talk to people unless they are making eye contact with her and she feels that they are truly interested. she turned this shyness into faux-confidence and jokes heavily revolving around self-deprecating humor, and eventually *that* evolved to genuine confidence. or at the very least, faking it until she genuinely felt it. it worked!honey once read a post on snitcher that said "be the person you needed when you were younger". as a result, she became very passionate about inclusivity and now *she* is the friend who pulls people back into the circle. she is also a very steadfast defender of anyone or anything she feels might need it. honey grew up taking every opportunity she could to be brave on behalf of others. she is always the one asking questions when her friends are too shy or afraid to ask, or speaking up when she feels that others are being treated unfairly.despite a very conservative upbringing, honey sort of cracked at some point and began taking very liberal stances. this is mostly to do with her desire for inclusivity and acceptance of all. she is a very firm believer, also, that people subscribe to certain problematic beliefs either because they are not educated enough or because they are not seeing things from a certain, more empathetic perspective. because of this, she often challenges the adults in her life about these views (even if she has been repeatedly told to stop because it's pointless trying to teach an old dog new tricks) but she feels very strongly that people should be made to defend their beliefs so that they realize the holes in their standpoints and hopefully reevaluate them. she takes every opportunity to learn more about certain social issues because she wants to be able to defend everything she believes in. she does not easily take offense when her views are *reasonably* attacked and appreciates the opportunity to reevaluate what she believes in and adjust accordingly.that being said, honey is still very much so terribly stubborn when it comes to pettier things especially if the alternative means swallowing her pride, and *especially* more so if the person she is bickering with is her *mother*. it is one of her biggest pet peeves when people rub it in that they were right and she was wrong. she has no problem with *admitting* she is wrong, but it is a different situation altogether when her opponent makes a big deal out of it. her beliefs and actions could also be called into question when she is being blinded by her loyalty. considering how hard she rides for other people, it is *extremely* disappointing when they let her down or prove to be problematic so sometimes she just refuses to see it and comes up with excuses for their actions.she is actually very articulate when she is consciously trying to be. her best subject is history of magic and she can write a very compelling essay. she struggles a bit more with public speaking (especially if she is expected to do it in straight english!) because there is less time to think of the right words to say. her talent for this and her love for travel has led her to believe that she wants to be a diplomat just like her father, but it is very hard to get into the icw and she is too lazy to pursue the further studies she would need to attain even just an entry level position. however, she does not really look ahead at the future and is very much a "we'll cross the bridge when we get there" kind of person. she'll figure it out. she always does!

honey bianca mercado camachosixth year duckweed
when the sun shine we shine together