Matilda Castillo

**Matilda Castillo**

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History
 Matilda was born on an abnormally cold day in May. To an absent father and a mother who died during Labour. With nothing else for it, Matty was put into care from the moment of her birth. She was lucky enough that, within days of her birth, a young couple by the name of Arthur and Maria Reed came to adopt a child. They fell in love with the newborn baby immediately and took her home.
For the first half of her life Matilda was as normal as everyone else. She had a mother and father, an older brother and a younger one. She had cousins and aunts and uncles. She played sports and learned to play instruments (It started with the recorder when she was three, the piano when she was six and the violin when she was eight. All of which she was very politely asked to attempt to play in the garage).

She was a perfectly normal kid that was, until she was nine and she disappeared for eight hours straight. Right off the street on her way to school, her mother had turned her back for only a moment to tie her younger brother Alex's shoelaces and when she turned back she was just gone. They ran to the school thinking she'd just carried on without them, she hadn't. After that the police were called and the entire town went out on search parties. She was eventually found not far from where she'd disappeared by one of the parties.

She was returned to her family spewing all sorts of stories about having tea with an English queen. It wasn't unusual, she'd been telling all sorts of stories like that for years. They'd laughed it off blaming it on her overly active imagination but after that disappearance she just wouldn't shut up about it. It landed her in a therapists office very quickly after that.

Her relationship with her parents changed drastically after that. Especially when she disappeared again only a few months later. It was happening more and more often over the course of the next few years. They began to think she was just running away from them, that she'd found out that she was adopted and was punishing them for it. So finally, shortly after her thirteenth birthday they sat her down and told her she was adopted. They told her about her mother dying in childbirth and her father not being in the picture. They told her they'd done some reasearch into her birth family and that, if she wanted to, they'd help her get in contact with them. She'd lept at the chance. And not because she was unhappy with her life with her family but because she really really hoped that these people might be able to tell her why she kept losing track of time and ending up in places she really had no business being.

They got in contact with her fathers family and within two months a meeting was arrangedwith her fathers parents having learnt that her birth father had died early on. The first one was completely supervised, obviously her parents hadn't felt comfortable with sending her to meet up with complete strangers, the next few were the same. It took six months before they felt comfortable enough to leave her alone with them and that she asked them the questions she'd been keeping to herself for so long.

Her birth grandparents had stared at her for a good long time listening to her story. She'd thought they were about to tell her she was crazy. Or call a psych team to come and get her but instead they did none of those things. They told her it was in fact a family gene that had skipped over both of them and their son. The time travel gene.

If she hadn't already seen the things she had she might have thought they were the ones that were insane. Instead they'd explained everything to her about her birth family, the Castillo's, and the past time travellers in her family. Then they'd told her about a special school for people like her. Olympus Academy. They'd arranged for a teacher from the school to come and talk to her very mortal parents to explain to them the best they could without giving away their existence.

It had taken a lot of convincing for them to finally let her attend the school. So much so that she was nearly fifteen by the time she moved in. She's found living in the Academy to be a bigger adjustment that she expected. She goes by Matilda Castillo instead of Reed to avoid confusion when she tells people she's a time traveller but classes still haven't come very easy to her. She still has no control over her abilities and feels more like a failure than ever. At least one good thing has come out of her attending the school, she's met a new friend! The problem being he's a 16th century Duke that she can only see when she time travels in her sleep.

Personality
 Matilda is a bit of a pessimist. After spending so long with no one believing her about where she'd been she's come to keep the visits to herself. She doesn't tell people much of anything really preferring to keep to herself. It's easier that way. At sixteen she's already gotten stuck in the past twice, she's watched as people she's come to know and love over the course of the years she was stuck there (which were only hours to her family back home) grew old and died. She's a lot older than she looks.
She's a bit reckless with her life these days. She's come to believe that she's lived more lives than she really should have. She still see's some of the brightside of her abilities, how many people can say they can go straight to the source for the answers to their history projects? But for the most part she is absolutely terrified of getting stuck again. It's the real reason she hasn't made much progress with getting control. She's too scared to.

Appearance
Blonde hair, blue eyes