Stella Cortez

### Boggart

Dragons (none in particular, but she thinks witches and wizards are mad for trying to tame them or whatever they do)

## OOC

### Biographical

#### Personality

##### Positives

> Stella is a very driven individual, perhaps coming from the fact that she has had to work for everything that she has. She is a go-getter, and very competitive for what she has. Stella is also very incorruptible. She does not follow the crowd, and has her own set of morals and beliefs that she will hold onto. She will do what she wants and cannot be convinced otherwise. Stella is curious in nature, mostly due to the fact that she had grown up muggleborn and was constantly switching homes as a foster kid. She likes to know how things work because she doesn't want to be behind when it comes to being a witch.
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##### Negatives

> Stella is very moody. Sometimes, she's good, and other times, she just wants to be at home with a tub of ice cream and sleep the day away. Sometimes, she can't stand people, and other times, she wants to be around them. She has a certain level for her social meter. Stella is also very argumentative, because she has a lot of opinions and they will be heard. She doesn't consider it arguing, though. Stella is naturally blunt, because she doesn't have time for anything else. Due to the way that she grew up, she is incredibly distrustful of people around her, but she's working on it. She might appear more trustful than she actually is, but she's already developed a plan of escape in every room.
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#### History

##### The Cortez Family

***TW: Drug Abuse, Assault***

> Camilla Cortez was born to just her mom as her father had passed away in a car accident months before her birth. Her mother spiraled into a heavy drug addiction, frequently abandoning Camilla to her own devices at such a young age. They were constantly in and out of homes as they would move in with one boyfriend and then the next. For this reason, Camilla had to mature quickly so that she could look after her mom while also going to school all at the same time.
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> Camilla would steal what she could just so that they would have something to eat during the day, and then, when the time came for it, she started working as soon as she could. She dropped out of school and started to work fulltime while she put her mother in rehab after her mother nearly died from overdosing. Work was all that Camilla knew in her life.
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> One night, when she went out with some of her coworkers and started to receive some attention from a handsome man, she made a split decision and went home with him that night. About two months later, she was taking a pregnancy test only to see it come back positive. She made a decision to not tell Luis since she barely knew him, and she wanted to raise their kid herself.
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> It would prove to be a mistake as she struggled more when her daughter was born, starting to take pills just to stay awake while she worked. Her pill popping habit continued to increase, even well after having to stay up all night with a hard-to-manage baby. Her depression started after Stella was born, and she found herself wishing for a time before Stella was born, a time where she could go out and enjoy herself, and a time when she didn't need drugs to get through the day. It led her to driving Stella to a hospital and never looking back.
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##### The Pardos Family

> Luis Pardos was the middle son in a very large family, so he often felt forgotten. He had more siblings than he could ever wish for, but felt as if he had no identity at all. It was why that, as soon as he could, he moved away from his family so that he could figure out who he was. He started living a very rebellious lifestyle, getting into whatever he was doing, and sleeping with too many people to count. He just wanted to be somebody, and he was. He worked his way as a businessman, though his old habits of partying didn't leave him so quickly.
> He finally felt as if he was being noticed again, especially when he knocked some girl up that he barely knew, only for them to quickly get married in a spur-of-the-moment decision.
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##### Early Years

> Stella had just turned three years old when her single mother dropped her off at a hospital because she decided that being a mother was no longer for her. Her father didn't even know he had a kid, nor did her mom know whose kid she was. Stella had cried day and night for her mother to return to her to no avail, until eventually, she stopped crying for her return. She was a troubled girl, constantly getting in trouble and breaking things. She was too old for most people to want to adopt, and the ones that were interested, saw how she was and would decide on someone else.
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> Stella was seven when she displayed her first instance of magic, though no one knew what it was at the time. She had been in an argument with her foster mom when her foster mom's daughter stole her things and the mother didn't believe Stella. Stella got so mad that the the lights in her room broke. The mother blamed that on her slamming the door and knocking the lights out, though Stella swore up and down that wasn't the case. It was the next day when she was getting shipped off to another home.
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> She was ten when she found a way to steal her file to find out what happened to her mother. When she saw that she had been abandoned when she was 3, she was very upset and ran away. She was found a few days later and was sent to another foster home, which seemed worse than the last as the parents were very mean and she hated them.
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> When she was 11, the Headmaster of a weird school came to her to introduce her to a new school for special kids like herself. She honestly didn't really know a lot of what she was talking about, but soon enough, she was switching foster homes for a final time with this one family that took her in before she went to school.
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##### School Years

>    Stella didn't fully believe in magic until she was actually at Ilvermorny and being sorted into the house of Thunderbird. She struggled making friends at first because she was used to always having to fight for everything that she had and she didn't trust anyone that she was meeting. It took her a full year before she actually started to even trust the girls in her own room. The only thing that she found that she liked about the school at first was learning how to fly on a broom. That was the part that made magic the most real for her.
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> She found that she got along better with the boys as she got older as she would learn everything about quidditch and spend hours talking to whoever would listen about them, and then competing with each other in all of the free time that they had. Making friends had been cool, though it had still been really hard for her to develop strong bonds. The ones that she did trust, so she thought, betrayed her trust in her sixth year when they started rumors about her through the school when she had started to date someone that apparently one of her best friends had liked.
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> The rumors backfired and actually made her more popular, though her trust in people was hurt even worse. She focused on quidditch and leading the team, though she was still devastated that she had lost some good friends and that sucked. Stella wasn't one to give under pressure as she had been living under pressure most of her life, so she kept her head up and continued to work towards her dreams of playing quidditch professionally.
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##### Post-School Years

> From graduation, she had received a number of offers, but only one came oversees, and with her wanting a change of atmosphere and the ability to travel, she took it. Her first year, she was a reserve for the Holyhead Harpies. It was a team filled with girls and she was hesitant at first, but it showed her just the girl friends that she needed in her life and she knew it was exactly where she needed to be. For her luck, and not the luck of the other player, one of the chasers had gotten hurt halfway through the season and Stella was able to showcase her work before being offered the starting position.
> Through quidditch, she met Jean-Luc, who would soon become someone she felt a connection for on a deeper level and they started to date and arrive at events together, and she was happy. Then, in the current season of 2023, she was given the opportunity to go out for the captain position of the Harpies and got it, not wanting anyone new to come in and ruin what they had going for them.
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### Connections

#### **Family**

###### Luis Pardos

> Zero relationship with him.
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###### Camilla Cortez

> Zero relationship with her - Stella doesn't remember her at all, even though the first three years of her life, she had been raised by her mother.
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#### **Friends**

###### Nova Sanchez

> A friend from the team - Stella likes hanging out with her on occasion.
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###### Cadence Williamson

> Her old captain, and someone she's known for years - Stella feels close to Cade and more loyal to her than most others. She liked being on a team with her.
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###### Sophia Braithwaite

> It was a chance encounter that introduced the two girls, but Stella sees a lot of her in Sophia, and sees a lot of promise in the younger quidditch player. She keeps in contact with her when she can and really loves hearing from her. Now, Sophia has finally graduated and joined her on the Harpies.
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###### Ainsley Fawley

> Her roommate and a new friend that she is still getting to know a bit better than before.
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###### Nessa Connors

> A new acquaintance from the team. Stella is amused by her at the moment but finds her personality rather refreshing.
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###### Mia Clarke

> A good friend and Stella gets her lingerie and things from Mia. She really enjoys going out with Mia or seeing her out and about because she adores her.
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###### Keisha Davies

> Old friends from their years at Ilvermorny. They occasionally stay in contact, and have recently reconnected now that Keisha has moved overseas closer to where Stella is. She really likes Keisha and what she stands for when it comes to making a difference in this world.
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#### **Romance**

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

> None at the moment.
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