Jessika Bawden

## History

**Jessika Bawden** is a Pure-Blood witch. She is the adopted daughter of Squib couple Nero Bawden and Hannah Renshaw.
Jessika was adopted from Brazil when she was only a few months old, her adoptive parents Nero and Hannah had no idea that Jessika was born blind. Nero and Hannah were both raised in magical communities, they lived Muggle lifestyles out of force, not out of choice. When they did learn that their child did not have the use of her sight Nero and Hannah consulted everyone they knew, they took their daughter to every healer they could find to restore or improve Jessika's vision even in the slightest way.
Hannah discovered the Bate's Method of Visual Education through a close personal family friend. She and Nero practiced the various eye relaxation techniques with Jessika every single day without fail for at least few hours a week. They also practiced the techniques themselves.
Jessika's vision did not seem to improve or change for the first six years they practiced. When she was nine years old, she began to avoid objects in her path with much more ease than she use to. She began playing with toys when she use to be entertained with her own imagination. Sitting or lying on the floor, her bed, a chair, a tree, almost anywhere with her eyes closed silently giggling to herself.
When Jessika began to recognize shapes and figures Nero and Hannah were convinced the Bate's Method was working for her. They continued to practice with her, trying to increase the amount of hours spent doing the techniques. Jessika responded best to Palming. Hannah was insistent that Jessika not favor one technique, she **had** to do them all equally. Jessika often got bored, making it hard to get in the amount of time they wanted, and they thought she needed.
Some days Jessika was so bored she started to practiced the techniques on her own. When it was bright out she found herself Sunning, closing her eyes and allowing the light of the sun to move across her face. She would subsequently begin Palming after that. Covering her eyes with both hands allowing her palms to press lightly to her face and block out all light. She never liked the technique know as Swinging it felt too much to her like a silly dance that she did not understand. Her parents were often encouraged to practice with her as encouragement for their daughter. Jessika gets her stubbornness from her father, he didn't like Swinging either it rarely got practiced. Jessika did come to find an enjoyment of this more advanced technique, although she would never let anyone see her do it.
Her vision has improved, and steadily improves throughout the years. Jessika has days when she had perfect vision, albeit she is seeing with a haze of color-blindness and fuzziness along the edge of her peripheral vision. Jessika has days where she prefers to wear sunglasses or keep her eyes wrapped in a near constant form of the Palming technique. Her eyes can become very sensitive to light, she prefers the darkness because it is relaxing to her eyes. Despite her visual set back she does not choose to express to people that she cannot always see clearly and at time she cannot see at all.

### Personality

Jessika is very curious, she is she is instinctively brave. She willing to throw herself into the fire with no fear of not being able to see it because she can feel it. She is willing to step in-front of a moving train to save that one person and kill those four strangers, she will do it with no fear not being able to see it because she can hear and feel it coming.

Jessika's partial blindness is not something she discusses often with other people, she tries to keep her eye relaxation techniques under wraps to keep people from asking.