Calandra Holmstrom

Calandra has long, straight, ashy-brown hair that flows just passed her shoulders. Her eyes a darker chocolate color, and her face is oval-shaped. She has a narrow nose and big, plump lips, as well as a fine sprinkling of freckles across her cheeks and the bridge of her nose. She stands at five-foot-five-inches tall, and has a lithe, toned body shape. She enjoys wearing dresses and skirts, combined with tights or stockings, boots with a low and sensible heel, and a sweater if the outfit calls for it. She prefers monochrome colors over any others.

She's an ace flier.

## Personality

Calandra holds herself with a confident and haughty air, keeping to herself most of the time and ignoring those that she doesn't want to spend any time with. When she interacts with strangers, she can come across as testy, as she'll be short and to the point with her words and can give off a frosty vibe, and as such she can drive off any potential friends - or romantic interests - away before they really get to know her. A lot of her behavior can be interpreted as her being a spoiled brat or an abrasive bitch (the fact that she tends to assume she's just a little bit better than the rest of the world just because she's a witch really doesn't help), and as such she can rub a lot of people the wrong way. She doesn't really care about that all that much, though - why should she? She's a witch, and more than that, she has a personal image to maintain: she wants everyone around her to know that she's put together and that she doesn't cause unnecessary drama, regardless of where she comes from. She does her best to socialize with only other witches, and while she gives the impression that she looks down her nose at every other species, that's not true. She does, however, have a habit of viewing them as far more fragile then they actually are, and can end up treating them as such. What she definitely is, though, is proud to be a witch. She loves using her magic however she can, loves being surrounded by her sisters, and loves her hawk dæmon. She also has a deep love of her mother, Solfrid, but as for the rest of her family... it's best not to bring them up, if you don't want her whole personality to change on you. She has Opinions (TM) on one particular half-sister of hers and even more opinions on her father, and whenever her thoughts turn to that half of the family she doesn't know whether she wants to be yell and scream and break things or just cry. She can also be quite stubborn, and once her mind is made up on a course of action it's nigh impossible to change her mind - even when the odds are about as far from her favor as can be and even if everyone else around her is against her. Another think that she isn't all that much of is a romantic, though she is liable to fall for someone else fast and hard (though she is good at hiding such things, and quick to deny that's she's fallen for someone in the first place). Another problem she has is her appearance: self-esteem issues? In *this* house? It's more likely than you think! She thinks that her brown hair and eyes are too plain and her toned body is just average, and tends to think that she's just all-around average or worse at everything that she does, and sometimes even thinks of herself as a bit of a failure. She'd like to blame her father for it, but, well... She can occasionally find herself jealous of the prettier or more talented witches around her - and when she's not jealous, she finds herself enamored with them, admiring their curves and long hair and the way they move. She can also be a little bit of a daydreamer, and in her downtime her mind will start to wander off to think about anything and everything, and there are also days where she finds herself being pretty spacey and unable to retain any information that has been given to her - something which she finds very embarrassing, and also something that really grinds her gears.

Daddy issues. Her personality is daddy issues.

## Dæmon

Meili. Red-Shouldered Hawk. Male.

Meili is mostly covered in reddish-brown feathers. On his head, the feathers turn more brown, and his wing and tail feathers take on a black-and-white stripped pattern. The tip of his beak is black, matching his dark eyes, and he has long and sharp talons.

Meili isn't one to follow all the societal expectations of a dæmon if he doesn't particularly feel like it. He'll talk if he wants to, even if Calandra is around to speak for him. He's *very* willing to back up his or Calandra's words with a sharp nip if he feels like he has to - or even if he doesn't. It's just fun for him, really. He's also unafraid to break any rules that are put in front of him, especially if he thinks that the rules are pointless in the first place and there's really no point for them being there at all. He does, however, tend to think his actions through before he takes them (or recommends them to his human), and isn't inclined to any sort of impulsiveness unless he really doesn't have the time to think. When any humans are around, though, he tends to see himself as a bit of a guardian, and will often take some responsibility for their safety onto himself.

## History

Like all witches, Calandra has a witch mother and a human father. *Unlike* all witches, when it comes to her father's side of the family, things get complicated. Before Solfrid met him, he'd already started a family with a previous wife, and as such she has three older half-sisters and an older half-brother. Two of her half-siblings had left with their mother due to the toxic relationships in the home, and as such Calandra has never actually met them, only heard stories of them. Solfrid fell into a relationship with her father not too long after her father's wife left him, resulting in a pregnancy that gave life to herself and her twin brother, Latham. She was raised among the human side of her family, and she watched as her father showed blatant favoritism to his other kids: first and foremost being to his eldest daughter, Tilda, whom he doted over. Calandra, who only wanted even the *slightest bit*of his attention, grew to hate Tilda, and was frequently annoyed by the other half-sister in the house, Savea: a drama queen who had no concept of personal boundaries and leaned a little too far on the dumb side (Her and Latham bonded over over how ridiculous they found the rest of their family, and figured that the siblings who'd left were probably the most reasonable ones they had). But mostly Tilda. She'd been a daddy's girl when she was younger, and she couldn't understand why her father liked The Sister Who Shall Not Be Named so much when she was trying *so hard* to get his attention - was it something about how she acted? The way she looked? Did he just want to wait for her to get older, like Tilda was? Was it because she was a *witch*? Her frustration turned to anger as she grew, and as soon as Calandra was old enough she left them behind, leaving with Solfrid to learn more magic and fully immerse herself in their witch clan, though she did occasionally leave to visit her brother. As she grew older, however, her human family started dying off, and even though they frustrated and annoyed her while she was young they were still her *family*, and she couldn't help but to mourn for them and to feel angry that her father had trapped them in the environment that he did - because they *weren't* witches, and didn't have the life span that they did, so why would he ruin part of their short lives with that? Even though he's long dead now, she still tends to get angry whenever she thinks about him. Currently, she lives in Seraphim City in the Republic of Heaven, though she has little interest in keeping a job for long when so many of the human's she's surrounded with are aging so fast anyways, and tends to stick to the witch community in the city.