Julia Messiaen

> “Little deer, I've stuffed all the world's diseases inside you. Your veins are thorns, and the good cells are lost in the deep dark woods of your organs.”
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> ― Pascale Petit, What the Water Gave Me
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**Julia Viola Messiaen** *née* **Salazar** is the oldest daughter and child between Nicholas Salazar and Viola Čelar, she is the older sister to Walter, Camellia and Nicholas.

Through her marriage to Laertes Messiaen, she is the mother of Athena, Atreus and Amarantha. She does have an illegitimate child, a son named Julian Salazar through her ex-lover Richard Delacroix.

## Personality

Julia is a "woman of steel". She rarely shares her emotions, seeing them as her greatest weakness due to the intense lost and suffering she had dealt with only becoming upset for example with Dia tells her "*I'm glad Amarantha died so young, a little girl being turned into nothing more than a pawn for her parent's selfishness and greed*" almost becoming physical only being stopped due to Julian holding her back.

Julia does love her children but due to overbearing and often borderline psychological abusive nature. She believes her children have great future's ahead of them and didn't want their parents to lower themselves. Hence, why she offered $50, 000 and slightly blackmailed Julian into annulling his teenage marriage to Medea Vardi. She does feel extreme remorse for the death of the twins and did try to make amends with Medea but her grandmother and aunts threated her life several times causing Julia to develop a deep feel of

Julia is an unpredictable, complex, and fascinating woman: no one would know for sure what to expect from her, and though her actions could be interpreted as cold and cruel, no one could question or doubt her love and devotion to her children. She no longer cares for her husband's attentions and ignores his other women.

## Abilities and Skills

* **Mystiokinesis** - Julia is a pureblooded hereditary witch. Julie is a talented witch in her own right being gifted in spells and was remembered as an exceptional duelist.
	+ **Spell Casting** - Julia is a talented spell caster and from her time in school, Julia was remembered as a gifted student and advanced for her age something she carried onto in adulthood.
		- **Spell Creation** - She is capable of creating brand-new spells and using them, sometimes on the fly. Julia can combine two or more spells together to create a new spell that is similar.
		- **Spell Destabilization** - Julia can make a spell unstable in order to alter its properties. When used on their own spells, they can increase its destructiveness in exchange for accuracy, duration, or range to be reduced. When used on others' spells, users can cause them to fail or backfire.

### Possessions

* **Unnamed** - Julia's wand is unnamed and is of an unknown length. It is made of acacia wood and possesses a core of hippogriff heartstring.

## Etymology

* Julia is the feminine form of the Roman family name Julius is from a Roman family name that was possibly derived from Greek *ἴουλος (ioulos)* meaning "downy-bearded". Alternatively, it could be related to the name of the Roman god Jupiter.
	+ Among the notable women from this family were Julia Augusta (also known as Livia Drusilla), the wife of Emperor Augustus, and Julia the Elder, the daughter of Augustus and the wife of Tiberius. A person by this name has a brief mention in the New Testament. It was also borne by a few early saints and martyrs, including the patron saint of Corsica. Additionally, Shakespeare used it in his comedy *The Two Gentlemen of Verona* (1594).
* Viola means "violet" in Latin. This was the name of the heroine in Shakespeare's play *Twelfth Night* (1602).
* Messiaen is derived from *Messiaen*, the (archaic) Dutch form of the latinate first name *Messianus*, which itself is ultimately derived from the Roman praenomen *Messus*. The meaning of *Messus* is not wholly certain; it may be derived from the Latin verb *meto* "to reap, to harvest, to cut, to sever", or from the latinized form of Greek *mesos* or *messos* "(the) middle, (the) middle one". It could even be a variant form of the Roman praenomen *Maesus*.
* Salazar is from Spanish *sala* meaning "hall" and Basque *zahar* meaning "old". It can also refer to the town of Salazar in Burgos, Spain, which is of the same origin.

## Trivia

* She is associated with the Five of Pentacles.
* Julia is of Basque Spanish and Croatian descent.
* She speaks English, Spanish and Croatian.
* She plays the piano.
* Her favorite meal is spicy rolled chicken schnitzel with grilled vegetables and sage cauliflower mash.
	+ Julia's second favorite meal is creamy chicken, onions and leeks pot pie with baked squash.
* One of her hobbies is water coloring.
* She like's classical music.
* As cruel as she seems she would do anything for her children, and she is fiercely loyal to those she loves.