Anaya Reyes

Anaya Reyes is Head girl at Illemarthe Academy

## Personality

Anaya is a model student. She is intelligent, social and brave. These characteristics all allowing her to become head girl at Ilemarthe.

When first starting at the academy, she was anxious, not being used to the new environment, but after becoming best friends with Viola Amin she started to open up socially and let more people in her circle. Despite her being extremely social she only has very few people she trusts dur to her actually introverted nature. She really values being alone or silent co-existence with her friends rather than high energy conversing although this often isn't something she gets to experience.

Anaya is seen as a uncompromising rule-follower although she doesn't deeply care about most of these rules, and rather believes that if no one is getting harmed, people should be able to do what they want. This, unfortunately, does not coincide with the school values so she adapted the way she acted, in dream of getting a position as head girl at the school due to the advantageous affect it would have on her future career. Despite this, she will try not to punish people if necessary.

In contrast to her bravery, she suffers deeply from anxiety. She had Atelophobia from a young age, she has since worked on it but still struggles sometimes.

## Magical Abilities

(Scaled from 1 - 10, anything above a 5 add +1 to magic throws, equal to or above a 9 add +2)

## Appearance

Anaya is a short girl with dark blond hair collarbone length hair and grown out bangs that now resemble a Hime cut. She has fair skin and three large scars across her face from a siren attack. She has blue eyes but as a result of the previously mentioned attack, one of them is clouded over and she has virtually no vision out of that eye.

Anaya is mainly seen in her school uniform due to her very busy schedule. She wears her uniform exactly to policy and it is always neat and clean. her uniform consists of the school robes, jumper an long pleated skirt and clean cut shirt. Since she is quite small, she often pairs her uniform with some platformed heel that are mostly formal.

When not in her uniform she is seen wearing, light-academia styled clothing, and is pretty modest with her clothing choices.

## Background

Anaya was born to an average farming family in the countryside of \_\_\_\_. Her academic potential was recognised at a very young age. In her parents hopeful wishes of what this could mean for their daughters future, they started aspiring of what she could be, in hopes that she would reach for the stars. This lead Anaya to adopt a lot of the wishful thinking as expectations placed for her, believing to be 'enough' for her family she must become a intelligent and powerful wizard and settle down with a successful man. Truly, her parents do not care what she does as long as she is intent but these internalised ideals have stuck with Anaya.

When she joined Illemarthe Academy, she was very timid and often reclusive. She did not even communicate with her dorm mates at this time and was facing sever homesickness. She only made her first friend when Viola Amin became her project partner in Herbology. Viola identified Anaya's anxiety and decided to befriend her and introduce Anaya to her friendship group. This event was a catalyst in Anaya's now outwardly social nature, now never really being seen alone unless in her room.

During Second year, Anaya was attending the parties held at the beginning of term at Illemarthe Lake. One night during this when she was hanging out with Viola alone and somewhat inebriated, they ended up kissing. Although this lead to Anaya feeling very happy, she regretted her decision as soon as it was over at it wasn't in her life plan to be with a non-man. After moments of panicked discussion, they both agreed never to mention it again although they both have been in love with each other since.

The next day, once the partying resumed, Anaya became overwhelmed with her feelings about the events of the day before. In attempts to escape her feelings she decided to take a stroll away from the main party.

During her walk she heard a sudden scream. She ran over to try and help, thinking someone tripped on a fallen branch and gotten hurt. Upon arrival at the scene she saw a student being dragged by a siren in the shallow of the lake. She immediatly jumped into action, using the little magic she knew (and some physical combat) to fend off the siren.

Ultimately, she bested the siren and saved both herself and her peer, although not without facing many injuries, namely a nasty gash from the sirens claws from the centre of her forehead across the right side of her face. In the moment, adrenaline filled her and she didn't recognise the pain, or the lack of vision in her right eye. Only realising something was wrong when the adrenaline wore off after stumbling back to where the rest of the students where.

This event left Anaya with a few scars across her body but the only one still noticeable is the one across her face. this also lead to permanent blindness in her right eye, it being able to be magically fixed but only cosmetically.

The situation with Viola lead to some awkwardness in their friendship at first although they managed to repress their feelings. As a result of stuffing her feelings down so deeply and in attempt to prove to herself she was straight, she made out with Icarus during a party in the Paravor common room. This lead to more dilemmas as she did not enjoy it as much as she did with her kiss with Viola, remaining repressed and in conflict for many more years.

During fourth year, she made the commitment to becoming head girl in order to get better career prospects after school, this change in her behaviour did not affect her in most social standings although she did end up getting black listed from parties.

## Trivia

* Her familiar is a British Barn Owl, it is unnamed.
	+ Her familiar is only ever out when she's in her bedroom.