Sylvie Appletree

> “Unconditional love, agape love, will not be swayed by time or circumstances.” —Stephen Kendrick
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## Biography

Sylvie is the only child of Selene and Oswald Underwood. Her parents married when they were very young and had her almost immediately. Unfortunately, due to her young age, Selene was lost in childbirth (so they thought), leaving Oswald and Sylvie motherless. Sylvie, as a result, was always shy and reserved, with little to no friends who she only ever allowed into her life if she knew that they could absolutely be trusted. Earning Sylvie's trust is not something that most people do, especially when she was younger.

When Sylvie was five, a miracle happened. While he was away for business in Italy, Oswald saw familiar, blonde hair. Upon further inspection, he realized it was in fact Christine. She had no memory of him or Sylvie, all curtesy of the very Healer who delivered their daughter. While she didn't remember him, she chose Oswald over the man she believed she was married to. Young Sylvie was excited to see her mother, but remained reserved, untrusting of strangers.

Sylvie arrived at Hogwarts and continued to keep to herself. She played for the Quidditch team when she started her second year and didn't make friends with anyone on the Quidditch team. She treated them as colleagues, not friends. She took her job as Prefect and Head Girl very seriously. Her only two friends were her dormmates, Aldwyn and Ava.

Sylvie moved out soon after graduating, feeling like a burden on her father. She landed a job as a secretary at the ministry, being assigned to one Kieran Appletree. After a couple of years of working with him, the two realized that they had fallen in love — the problem was that Kieran was married under a very strict contract. The only way for him to get out of the contract was for him to have a child with another woman, or for his wife to go to jail. Still longing to be together, Sylvie and Kieran began an affair.

After a few years of their affair with no child, Sylvie made a doctor visit to see if there was anything wrong with her; the doctor told her it would be hard, but not impossible, for her to conceive. Devasted, she told Kieran the news and while they hated loving each other in secret, they find no other way for them to be together. Through a photo poem that Sylvie gave Kieran, and a large chunk of sum missing from Kieran's secret bank account, Yvette found out about Sylvie, and hired a hitman. While waiting for Kieran to visit her after Noirin's "funeral", the man broke into Sylvie's flat and nearly succeeded in killing her, leaving her for dead (curtesy of his own parents, trying to scare him into returning to Yvette). Kieran arrived at her flat less than three minutes later and was able to get her to Saint Mungo's with plenty of time for the Healers to save her. After this, Sylvie finally became pregnant with their daughters, Augusta.

Sylvie and Kieran married almost as soon as they could, as they had already been together for years at that point. The two were happy to be together without the pressure of needing a baby to do so. Ironically, two months after their reading, Sylvie told Kieran she was pregnant through a Christmas surprise. In July, their daughter, Brighid, was born. A year later, they welcome Cecily into their home.

Sylvie and Kieran would remain without another child for years, until Sylvie was attacked by Colm Murphy, conceiving his child. At first, Kieran was hesitant how Sylvie would handle the information, both during and after the baby was born. Still, he respected her decision to keep the child and stayed with her throughout the pregnancy and birth. When he held the tiny baby in his arms, he felt guilty for even thinking that the tiny girl would be a burden on Sylvie. The two live happily with their daughters, in a loving home.