Zamira Dennings

##### Positives

> + Intelligent: If they classed geniuses in the magical world, she likely would be one. She is highly intelligent and has a knack for alchemy, charms, and general spell-work. She loves knowing how things work, and is constantly reading and studying that up.
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> + Practical: She prefers logic to emotion, though she has plenty of emotion, too, especially since her accident. She likes things to make sense, and she likes science, which is what developed her interest in alchemy.
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> + Ambivert: She’s completely comfortable in extroverted situations and being around others, and equally as comfortable being alone and having her solitude. However, too much of one way starts to have a negative effect on her.
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> + Helpful: She LOVES helping other people, especially when it comes to helping them improve themselves or achieve their goals. She’s incredibly supportive of the people around her and is constantly pushing others to follow their dreams and will help with whatever she can. She believes everyone owes it to themselves to be their best selves.
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##### Negatives

> + Overachiever: She always has to have a completely filled schedule of things to do because she doesn't really like idle hands. It doesn't have to be anything major - she could set aside the afternoon to read a very boring book and she will be completely happy, but she tends to always go above and beyond for everything she does because she wants to be the best.
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> + Indecisive: For all of the certainty that she knows, and all of the confidence that she has, and all of the determination to do and be better, she is quite indecisive over smaller things. Does she know what she wants to eat? No. Does she know what she wants to wear on a date? Also no. Does she know how she wants to setup her rooms in her home? Definitely not. She generally has what is called decision fatigue, and while she can be making so many important decisions for her future, the smaller decisions have her stressing.
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> + Forgetful: She’s quite a bit more forgetful than she used to be, which is partially why it took her so many years before she started back studying under an alchemist. She has to write things down a lot or she will forget, and people close to her know this. It kind of stresses her out a lot if she forgets something so she frequently has something to write with or jot notes down on.
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> + Distrustful: She doesn’t trust just anyone anymore, though she never really did before, either. However, it’s even more evident, because she doesn’t trust anyone except her family with her daughter, and takes a while to warm up to others that come into her life, whether they are there to help with her daughter or not. She has a fear that maybe her daughter’s father would come back in the picture and take her from her, and she’s a little bit fearful that something bad will happen to her again to threaten her being there for her daughter.
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#### History

##### Family History

###### Adopted Family History

> Divya and Jacob met completely by chance, twice. The first time they had met, Divya had just graduated from Uagadou, and Jacob was getting ready to continue his education at Oxford. Both were visit Turkey for a summer holiday before they had to return to the real work. They met at a bar and started talking – though Divya let Jacob do most of the speaking, scared that she would divulge what she was. It was obvious that he was of non-magic blood. The pair went their separate ways with no intention of seeing or speaking to each other again, but fate had other plans. Five years later Divya moved to England and took up a healer’s position with St. Mungo’s. Two days into moving into her new flat there was a knock at her door, and Divya found Jacob standing there holding some mail. It turned out, Jacob lived in the flat across the hall from Divya. They two picked up a quick friendship, and a year later decided to start dating. Six months into their relationship Jacob asked Divya why he was never allowed in her apartment, so she took the risk and told him the truth, that she was a witch.
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> Jacob was surprised, and his curiosity took over. Divya invited him over to her place that night and answered every question he had; surprised later that night when he suggested they move in together. The two dated for another six months before Jacob popped the question. Once married, Divya and Jacob spent all their free time traveling. Divya loved to see new places and meet new people and Jacob would go anywhere that had a rich history. They never rushed to have a family; it wasn’t even something they started to discuss until they had been married almost five years.
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> Divya and Jacob were on holiday in Switzerland when Divya found out she was pregnant, so the couple limited their traveling a little and looked for a cottage to house the three of them.
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> Divya did not like being pregnant. Her daughter drained the life from her the first three months. She had even been admitted to Mungos for a while to be monitored since she was constantly sick. Divya couldn't even keep water down. As the months progressed Divya got better and returned to work by the middle of her second trimester. Divya worked up until her water broke, in the middle of a shift. Seventy- Two hours later Kiara Joy was born.
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###### Biological Family History

> Sienna had just graduated from Hogwarts with deep dreams ahead of her of what she wanted her life to look like with her boyfriend, Leighton. She was going to start at St. Mungo’s, and she was going to work her way through the careers to get to the one that she wanted, the one where she had felt she could make the greatest difference for her. Young and ambitious, it was hard for her to have something mess up her plans, and finding out the day after she graduated that was pregnant with her boyfriend’s child was definitely not in her plan. She was petrified for what Leighton would want to do, though she knew that she had to tell him if she ever wanted any kind of future with him.
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> Most frustrating for her was when he responded that he was going to be on her side no matter what she decided, because she didn’t know *what* she wanted to decide and needed someone to make that decision for her. She knew that was unlike her, because she was someone that always knew what she wanted, but for once, she had been at a complete loss for what she was supposed to do. After many, many, many, *many* conversations, she and Leighton came to the decision that she would have the baby, and because they both had plans they wanted before they even thought about having kids, they would give the child up for adoption. She hadn’t realized how much she would come to regret that decision years after the fact, and they never realized how much guilt they would feel when they finally did decide to have a child of their own.
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> Sweet Mackenzie had been born a decade and a half later, and Leighton and Sienna had wanted to do everything right, and maybe, a bit too much. Trying to make up for the daughter that they had given away, they knew they were spoiling Mackenzie. Sienna had even stepped away from becoming a mediwitch for five years, just so that she could be by Mackenzie’s side through all of her major development years and not miss a single thing. They were overjoyed when Mackenzie showed her first signs of magic, knowing that she would attend Hogwarts like they themselves once had, though they never knew they wouldn’t make it to see her go.
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> When Mackenzie was 8, Sienna and Leighton wanted to introduce their daughter to some of the patients that they had grown to know, feeling like it would be good for their healing process, and good for Mackenzie to see. Had they known that a particularly dangerous individual had been brought to the ward, they would have reconsidered until it was a little bit safer, but with some miscommunication, the information had never been passed on to them. It proved to be a lethal mistake and before the day’s end, Sienna and Leighton lost their lives in order to protect their daughter from harm, but leaving their second daughter at the mercy of the Children’s Home.
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##### Early Years

> When Sienna gave birth to her firstborn, she hadn’t started work at St. Mungo’s yet, still too embarrassed by the fact that she had been pregnant in the first place. Sure, she knew other people her age would love it, but it was absolutely not for her, and she didn’t want anyone looking at her funny. Instead, when her daughter was born, she gave birth and worked it out with the healers to put the baby up for adoption. She was thankful when the healer told her that they had found someone at the hospital that had been willing to take in her daughter, who had been named Zamira, until they were able to find a more permanent solution.
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> Zamira instantly seemed to connect with Divya’s daughter, Kiara, always soothing quickly whenever Kiara was around. Eventually, Zamira had been set up in one home after the next, but continued to see Kiara nearly every day to the point where it was obvious who Zamira’s favorite person had been, even during her infant stages. Around the time that Zamira was 5, and still with no permanent place to call her home, the Dennings decided to adopt her into their own family, and Zamira officially became Zamira Mae Dennings.
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> For the next few years, Kiara and Zamira traveled all over the world with their parents. They visited beaches in Turkey, saw the pyramids in Egypt, and did some scuba diving in New Zealand. When they weren’t traveling, the girls attended a muggle school at Jacob’s request. He liked the idea of his daughters being able to navigate both worlds.
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> When Kiara turned eleven, she went off to Hogwarts, much to Zamira’s disappointment. She had been lonely without her sister around, but she was promised that soon, she would join her. Zamira cried as she watched Kiara board the train and hid behind Jacob so the older kids wouldn’t see her. At least, she had been hoping so, anyway. The year seemed to last forever, but just as her parents had informed her, she was receiving her own special letter.
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##### School Years

> Zamira had been dreaming about attending Hogwarts for practically two years, ever since Kiara had received her own letter. She couldn’t help but read everything she could find at the library, and later on, the bookstores, about Hogwarts and what to do to prepare. She had even started writing her packing list before she even received her letter, so by the time she was headed off to Hogwarts, Zamira had packed practically everything she owned, but she was ready. At first, she thought that she might cling to her sister, but she made her first friend on the train, and suddenly, a wave of excitement had filled her.
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> The hat had little time to think before it was shouting out Ravenclaw, though it had been the only house that little Zamira had wanted. It was practically made for her, and after studying up on all of the houses, she knew it was where she best belonged. Her first year had classed her as a nerdy type, but she didn’t much care. If the professor asked a question, why *shouldn’t* she answer? She was hardly offended by being called a nerd because she took it as a compliment, knowing that she was smart. It was why she was in Ravenclaw, wasn’t it? At least, that was how she felt. She knew some others hated being stereotyped but for Zamira, it was never something she minded, because she knew who she wanted to be – and that was someone smart.
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> Her second year had shown that she was a natural for quidditch – more specifically, as a keeper. She hadn’t exactly meant to try out, but had gone to support a friend who wanted to try out, though that friendship hadn’t lasted when Zamira was invited to join the team, and her friend was not. Her being a part of the quidditch team finally showed people that she was more than just brains, and they could poke fun of her being a smart-aleck, or smart-arse (whichever they preferred), but she wasn’t going to change who she was.
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> Zamira worked hard to not be in Kiara’s shadow, though she adored her sister. As much as she idolized Kiara, Zamira realized that they had different aspirations and goals, and she would always support her sister just as she knew Kiara would always support her. Zamira might have been bullied at times, but truthfully, she couldn’t pinpoint it as it was something she hardly paid any attention to. Instead, she was focused on trying to be a good person, to learn everything she could about the world around her, and to try to find her niche.
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> Following in her sister’s footsteps, Zamira had taken on the responsibility of becoming a prefect, and for that same year, the captain of the quidditch team. Zamira found that having the balance of studying and having a social life was what had worked best for her, and somehow quidditch provided her that social life. She started to grow into her looks, and people started to turn her way more often, but she always turned them down as she was too busy. She didn’t have time for a serious relationship, as much as it occasionally looked like something she would want.
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##### Post-School Years

> To everyone’s surprise, and even her own, instead of pursuing a career in something that used a bit more intellect for someone as intelligent as she was, she found herself accepting a position at Pride of Portree as a keeper reserve, and later on, a keeper. In truth, as much as she had been so sure of herself when she was in school, the big world as an adult had her second-guessing what she wanted. There were so many areas of study to get involved with, so many that she wanted to pursue, but that meant she was a little bit afraid to make the wrong decision and have to start over. Quidditch was simply easiest, and it gave her some nice money while she decided.
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> In her free time, she studied under an alchemist, deeply interested in the composition and magical properties of magic. There was something about it that had her memorized, though she found it difficult to talk to other witches and wizards about as it was not entirely popular. She was interested in alchemy because she felt it was the path to study if people truly wanted to make for a better world, especially in the health field. However, she knew that in this day and age, it was not exactly going to be easy to make a living off of it.
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> Zamira continued on as a keeper with Pride, studying alchemy, and attempting to have a dating life. She had dated her girlfriend for a while, only to realize that her girlfriend was using her for the publicity of Zamira being a quidditch star. Her next serious relationship had been with someone that she married exactly 2 years after dating, because he was romantic and sweet, and swept her off her feet. It all came crashing down when she was hit with a dangerous move, the Dopplebeater Defence, with bludgers that were illegally charmed to have a harder hit, and down she went.
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> It had been the most excruciating time in her life as she healed, being told from the healers that they were unsure if she would ever heal well enough to do things on her own, and on top of that, if she would ever be able to play quidditch again. Then came more dreaded news – she had been pregnant at the time, and they were unsure if the baby would survive the stress of it. Overcome with a strong maternal desire, Zamira was determined to do whatever it took to get back on her own two feet, and to be thankful for what she had. She hadn’t realized that her husband hadn’t felt the same, and that seeing her at St. Mungo’s, with no certainty of the future, had him serving her with divorce papers.
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> He left her and the baby, assuming that their baby wouldn’t make it. Instead, Zamira did everything she was supposed to do and more, exceeding all of the expectations that the healers had for her, and 8 months later, her daughter was born, and she was able to take her daughter home with her so long as she had a live-in healer for some more months to continue on with her recovery. It had been the happiest day of her life, and Camilla was her little angel of joy as she gave her the same middle name of her beloved sister. It had been a long road for her, but for her daughter, it was entirely worth it, even if she never did tell her ex-husband that their daughter had survived because as far as she was concerned, he didn’t deserve to be a part of her life.
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> Returning to quidditch had been out of the question for her, because all of the healing in the world could not bring her back from that. Instead, she took up a position at the popular health club, hoping that maybe she could make a difference there while teaching people how to take care of themselves, just as she had to relearn it for herself. She continued raising her daughter as a single mom (and with so much help from her family), and continued on with promotions at work until she was recently promoted to the Assistant Manager. She hadn’t realized that meant she would be doing all of her work as well as the work of the manager, but she loved working at the health club and helping people reach their own health goals. It was only recently that she picked up studying under the same alchemist as she had previously been studying under, more determined than ever that the magical world was always going to need more improvements to it if she wanted her daughter to live in the best version of the world that there could be.
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### Connections

#### **Family**

###### Kiara Dennings

> Her sister and best friend, Zamira absolutely adores this woman to the moon and back, and maybe through galaxies.
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###### Mackenzie Grace

> A sister that she does not yet know about
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#### **Friends**

###### Caterina Garcia

> Mom friend for the win. She adores Kitty.
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###### Leela Dobrev

> Another mom friend for the win, and also a dear friend that she's known for decades!
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#### **Romance**

> None at the moment
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#### **Enemies**

> None at the moment
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