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Personality
Braelyn is friendly and loves to have fun with her friends, but at the same time is a bit of an introvert and tends to not try to have everyone's attention on her. She has a real affinity for animals, and spends whatever time she can around them. She is very close to her adoptive family and often writes to her younger sister back in Phoenix. Although she hates confrontation, she is fiercely loyal as a friend and will do just about anything to help or protect them.

History
Braelyn was adopted into a muggle military family when she was only a few months old. She had been informed early on that she was adopted, and had accepted the fact easily because she had been taken in by probably the most wonderful and loving parents she could imagine, who were unable to have children on their own. However, she did often wish she could find out more about her birth parents. Alas, it had been a closed adoption and she was able to get little more than family medical history.

She realized fairly early on how different she really was from her adopted family, which now included an adopted younger sister, when her magical abilities began to make themselves known. She kept it a secret from her parents for a while, unsure of how they would react and if they would still want her, but finally told them when her little sister happened to see a plate of veggies float to the trash can and throw itself away. Needless to say, her family was taken aback, but they were supportive and attempted to help her learn more about her abilities, which they assumed must have come from her birth parents.

She enjoyed the military lifestyle of picking up and moving to a new place every few years, and got to travel to a lot of places she wouldn't have been able to otherwise. Her family was stationed at Eglin Air Force Base on the gulf coast of Florida when she got her acceptance letter to the Gaol Academy of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Although she was hesitant to be so far away from the family that had been the only constant thing in her life, she was excited to learn more about what she could do and meet others like herself. Her parents believed it would be good for her to learn how to control the magic and encouraged her to attend, although they said they would be right there to pick her up and bring her back as soon as she said the words.

The summer after her third year at Gaol, when her family was stationed at Luke Air Force Base near Phoenix, AZ, her father decided to retire from his 20-year military career and live in Phoenix for good. It was there that she found an injured baby elf owl, who she took care of and decided to keep as her pet at Gaol.

During her years at the school, Braelyn has made several good friends and a few exceptionally great friends, as well as a few she'd rather not see, or talk to, or be in the same vicinity of at all. She has learned the flying is definitely NOT one of her strong points, what with her paralyzing fear of heights, and that Care of Magical Creatures was probably the best class in the world, considering that as a kid she had always loved animals and wanted to be a veterinarian and now she was learning about all the fantastical creatures she had never dreamed actually existed. The rest of her classes, she did fairly well in, didn't necessarily like nor dislike, although she was exceptionally good at charms.

Likes

• Animals
• Care of Magical Creatures
• Coffee
• New experiences
• Music

Dislikes

• Confrontation
• Heights
• Flying
• Waking up early
• Seafood

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