Merida Cameron

[Merida Cameron]

In Character

Full Name: Merida Beitris Cameron
Nicknames: --
Birthdate: June 5th, 1860
Current Age: 24
Occupation: Weather Witch for The Daily Prophet
Reputation:5
Residence: Station Road, Hogsmeade.
Hogwarts House: Gryffindor Alumna; completed four years.
Wand:

Inherited from her grandfather, Merida’s wand is older even than her father is. Ceder and twelve inches precisely, its handle is worn from decades of use. It boasts a dragon heartstring core, and is best described as firm.

Blood Status: Halfblood
Social Class: Lower Class
Family:

Douglas Cameron, Father [1832]
Luisa Cameron née Flores, Mother [1837-1875]
Valencia Cameron, Sister [1865]
Stuart Cameron, Brother [1868]

Allen Cameron, Paternal Grandfather [1795-1863]
Beitris Cameron née Cameron, Paternal Grandmother [1800-1883]
Graeme Cameron, Uncle [1830], and family
Caitriona Taggart née Cameron, Aunt [1836], and family

Appearance:

Merida’s looks have always favoured her Spanish roots far more than her Scottish ones. A long face boasts a darker complexion, and she’s inherited her mother’s dark hair and eyes. Still, she quite decidedly has her father’s nose, which came as quite the reassurance to her grandmother (who took some time to warm up to Luisa). At five feet, three inches, her figure has enough roundness to it to confirm that she’s decidedly womanly, without being quite so appealing as those of her mother. Merida dresses simply and favors muggle garb purely because even a loose corset supports her bosom better than wearing nothing beneath wizarding robes. She is right-handed.

History:

PRE-BIRTH | While working at his father’s small used book shop in Diagon Alley, the Scottish Douglas Cameron saw what was perhaps the most attractive woman he would ever lay eyes on—save that time he was fortunate enough to fawn over a veela in the park, but he never did tell his wife about that. A lady’s maid for a Spaniard who had just married a local, Luisa Flores was kind, clever, and quite in love with him quite quickly. The pair eloped a month later, and while Luisa would never cease to gripe about English weather, neither would ever regret their decision.

1860 | Merida is the first child born to the loving Camerons, named first for her mother’s homeland, and second for her paternal grandmother, to honour both sides of her lineage. It is a decidedly easy labour, for which all involved parties are quite glad.

1863 | Allen Cameron passes, leaving his shop to his eldest son. Merida has only one memory of her grandfather, and that is of him reading a story to her when she was very young indeed.

1864 | Merida has her first certainty—decidedly convinced, without ever having seen evidence, that one of the shop’s employees would set it ablaze after a firing. Three months later he was fired, and less than two days following, her grandmother Beitris—who, with some touches of the Sight, had thought it best to trust young Merida—caught him lighting a match ‘round the back.

1865 | A second daughter is born to the family, called Valencia.

1866 | When one of the ~street waifs dares to throw a rock through the shop window, Merida’s first act of magic is to drop it on his head. A mediwizard is called, but the lad is (unfortunately) none the worse for wear. Once he regains consciousness, at least.

1868 | The Camerons add a third and final child to their number, a lad called Stuart.

1871 | Merida leaves for Hogwarts! With hand-me-down robes and her grandfather’s wand, mind, but it’s still Hogwarts, and she is terribly excited! She quickly finds herself sorted into Gryffindor.

1873 | Now a third year, she’s very excited to add arithmancy (which she is appallingly bad at) and Divination (which she finds an easy affinity with) to her roster.

1874 | Having always struggled with the weather, it seems the climate finally catches up to Luisa, who takes ill in mid-November and passes not long after. The entire family is devastated.

1875 | At the conclusion of her fourth year, Merida is very certain that her father, while excellent at running a business, is useless at running a household. She remains home in the fall to care for her younger siblings, reading tea leaves for a bit of extra income.

1876 | Valencia goes to Hogwarts. She is sorted into Hufflepuff.

1877 | Gran moves to Hogsmeade, pleased for the excuse to return to Scotland.

1879 | Insisting that he’s just going to run the book shop later anyways, Stuart is very reluctant to go to school. In the end, he completes one year, but is never at all comfortable being so far from home.

1881 | Valencia concludes her schooling after seeing modest success on her OWLs. She returns home to help at the books shop. After Gran takes ill, Merida goes to Hogsmeade to care for the aging weather witch, and chooses to remain once her grandmother recovers. She finds work as a welcome witch at Hogsmeade Hospital.

1883 | Having secured her younger granddaughter the role of secretary at the paper, Gran abruptly—but with great satisfaction—dies, leaving a letter for Merida threatening to haunt her if she doesn’t take over the newly-vacated weather witch position. Though a part of her knows this is not possible, Merida is quite sure that if anyone could make it possible, it’s her grandmother, and so she follows through quite readily. She and Valencia take over residence of their grandmother’s cottage.

1885 | When Kwikspell launches, Valencia and Merida agree to pool their money to help their brother afford a course or two.

Personality:

SPUNKY — CLEVER — PRAGMATIC — LOYAL

Detailed later.

SKILLS & GIFTS

— The Sight: The Sight runs through the paternal side of her family, though is greatly diluted—in four generations (if you count Merida), they’ve only had one full-blown prophecy between them! Still, the Cameron women have a knack for reading tea leaves, seeing patterns, and predicting the weather; a Cameron woman has worked for the Daily Prophet for the past three centuries!
— Literate: With a family in the book industry (sort of), it would have been impossible for Merida not to have gained written and mathematical literacy.
— Chess Whiz: Again, with the pattern-seeing; Merida has always been very good at chess.

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[Ellory Pendergast]

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