Yolanda Youngblood

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> + Driven: One of the things that has gotten her in trouble on more than one occasion, she is driven to succeed. Currently, it's because she wants to prove to her mom that witches aren't evil and that she's a good person and can use magic for good things.
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> + Quick Thinker: Her mind is always turning, it would seem, and she tries to think steps ahead into anything without even realizing she's doing it. Sometimes, she zones out of conversations because of it, but she's working on it.
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> + Loyal: She is so loyal that the hat considered putting her in Hufflepuff, but decided on Slytherin instead. She gets attached to people when she does let her guard down, and once she's let her guard down, she will always have their back, even if she doesn't agree or think they have a smart idea. Even if she's betrayed, she's still loyal to a person. This loyalty is hard-won, however.
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##### Negatives

> + Shy: It's very hard for her to make new friends because she's not the type to approach anyone first, and during the first few conversations, she tends to give short replies as she's trying to assess what kind of person they are.
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> + Emotional: She tries really hard not to be, but she has feelings, and a lot of them. She doesn't come from a great background, but to people who don't know that, they might see her as being overemotional, but she's definitely on the sensitive side and doesn't really like when people don't like her because it makes her feel like she's doing something wrong.
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> + Sneaky: A bit of a surprise to people who don't know her, but she's rather sneaky and knows how to go about things without getting caught. She's snuck out of her own home many times to a secret hideaway and has broken a lot of the rules that her father has given her, but she makes sure she isn't caught each and every time.
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#### History

##### Family History

> Wolfgang "Wally" Youngblood and Cosette Cresswell met in a squib support group that they had joined in when they were 17 and 18 and seemed to instantly connect. It had been their similar stories that seemed to unite them together, both realizing that their families had turned their backs on them at their lack of magic. As much as they didn't realize how bad they were for each other, they couldn't stay away from each other, addicted to having someone in their lives that truly understood them while they were trying to navigate the muggle world after having grown up in a magical one. It had been a tough transition, but they seemed to make it work, and they were equally as determined to make it work with each other, despite the abuse that they geared towards each other.
> They made each other miserable and wish that they had never met the other, and yet, they couldn't seem to find their way to part ways because no one would ever truly understand them quite like the other had. Years of their own neglect and not fully dealing with it had caused them to turn their repressed anger and hurt onto each other, not realizing the dangerous web that they were living in. It had been years since either of them had talked with their families, but when an unexpected letter came to Wally about his father on his deathbed and the regrets that he had for casting Wally out, Cosette destroyed the letter before he found it. Months later, Wally's brother reached out to Wally to inform him of their father's death, and upon finding out Wally had no idea, Wally was later informed of the letter his father had written. Wally realized then that he would have wanted to go see him and potentially make amends with the man that he had spent so many years hating, but now, that opportunity had been stripped from him. It caused even deeper issues between him and Cosette, but it had been right around the time that he had discovered she was pregnant with their child, and out of love for the both of them, he stayed.
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##### Early Years

> From the second that Yolanda had been born, she had seemed to bring immediate joy to both of her parents' lives and the relationship that they once had seemed to have healed overnight. They wouldn't know just how temporary the good feelings would last, but they enjoyed it as they dotted over Yolanda's every "first", from first eye-opening, to first crawl, the first tooth to the first bite of solid food. However, as Yolanda got older, and started getting into things and not being a well-behaved infant at all times, the stress of their relationship started to begin again and the arguments were worse than before.
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> It all came to a head when Yolanda was 4 years old and her first signs of magic displayed themselves. While Wally was ecstatic for it, Cosette had the complete opposite reaction and was firm against their child having anything to do with magic. She went as far as attempting to find an exorcist to rid their child of anything magical when Yolanda was 6, but before anything could happen, Wally found out and immediately put an end to it and told Cosette that he was moving to Lower Chittlingham to raise their child, and she could join if she wanted. Cosette did not want, and that was one of the last times that she would see her child.
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> Wally took his daughter to Chittlingham, close near to where he had grown up, and hoped that the change would be good for her. At first, it had been difficult for Yolanda, as she didn't understand why her mother didn't come with them during the move, but eventually, she stopped asking where her mother was because she knew what the answer was going to be. Yolanda became closed-off to most people around her, immensely shy to making new friends, though there were some that she was able to befriend. It just was not something that came easily to her as she didn't entirely know what a good friend looked like, and she was often jealous of their mothers being around while hers wasn't.
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> When she had turned 11, she received two letters - one of which came strangely by an owl. The first of which, she had found in her backyard by her slide, tucked carefully to where only she would find it. She had been shocked to find when she opened it, it said that witches went to hell. She had immediately shown it to her father who flew into a rage, angered that someone would possibly write such a thing, though he recognized the handwriting immediately to be that of her mother. It had shaken her, and by the time she opened the second one informing her that she was accepted into Hogwarts, she wasn't entirely sure how to feel about it.
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> Her dad's girlfriend at the time, someone he had just started dating a few months prior, spent all week telling Yolanda all about Hogwarts, and how much fun it was. Although she was still uncertain about her dad dating someone new who would replace her own mother, Yolanda did start to feel better about going because it did sound like it was going to be fun. Emma, her dad's girlfriend, even took her on special trips to magical villages to do some shopping for school, and soon enough, Yolanda was starting to feel a bit more excited than she thought possible.
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> It was during this time that his dad realized how good Emma was with Yolanda, and how much he wanted to take things to the next level, and just before Yolanda would go off to Hogwarts, he proposed, and Yolanda gave a hesitant blessing. She still wasn't too sure about her two soon-to-be siblings, but if her dad was happy, and Emma was really nice, then she supposed it was going to be okay.
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##### School Years

> The day arrived for Yolanda to go to Hogwarts, and she hesitantly followed after Madeline and Maverick to the train that would take her to the scariest place she had ever been. At least, she was certain it would be. She really tried to read the book on Hogwarts before she went but she kept falling asleep during the first few pages, so she knew she could only go based off what she heard from Emma, Maverick, and Madeline - all of whom provided three separate descriptions of the castle she was going to have to call home.
> All she knew was that as soon as she laid down in her new bed for the first time, she felt the loneliest that she had ever felt as she cried herself to sleep.
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### Connections

#### **Family**

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#### **Romance**

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#### **Enemies**

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