Elizabeth Rannings
Gender: Female
Birthday: May 2
Hair color: Impartial black-brown (somewhat of a Grey color but closer to black)
Skin color: Pale (More info into that further in the bio)
Eye color: Hazel
Favorite Color: Lavender
Hometown: London
Likes: Reading, voices, Crumpets, and Tea
Dislikes: EXTREMELY sweet things and fat laden foods. She does not like celery as well as asparagus as well, and will only eat onions and garlic if the two were boiled. She also dislikes snow.
Fears: 1. Freezing to Death
2. Winter nights
3. "Unprotected" physical contact with other people
4. 'Muggle' schools
5. Penguins (Adult ones specifically, she's fine with the baby ones)
Notable Traits: Her appearance when not under heavy makeup gives the impression that she has some serious aliment, her skin giving off an erie pale color. This is due to poor circulation of blood in her body. Her limbs in that sense as well are also more vulnerable to the cold and she has taken precautions in her everyday wear to prevent that.
Background information:
Was born in London. Her mother lives at home, her father is a teacher who specializes in different languages. It did not take long for everyone to notice that something was wrong with Elizabeth's body, as fatigue and muscular dystrophy plagued her arms and legs. Her aliment was found to be remedied almost completely by prescription blood thinners and avoiding prolonged aerobic exercise. Elizabeth was able to walk normally on two feet fourteen days before her 5th birthday.
She had a normal friendly childhood until the the third grade when she had to relocate to another school due to her father getting a better paying teaching position. She suffered ridicule from her peers from her unusual appearance. The popular tease that around at the time was that she was a 'blood sucker'. She however managed to make one friend though, her name was Madeline. She was one of the few reasons why Elizabeth was able to put up with the beatings.
The bullying eventually got worse and soon escalated towards physical violence. It reached its peak when she fought back against her attackers. Fruitless to say, she wasn't able to do much in her brief spell of insanity to attack a horde, but it agitated the group of boys and girls managed to corner her in the school courtyard one December night. The group used Madeline as bait, who succumbed to the pressure of her peers. The group beat her down and tied her to one of the support beams of the swing set and pretty much left her alone in the cold. Madeline got her and Elizabeth parent's involved though, but by the time they got there more than twenty minutes later- she had already lost consciousness.
She spent two days in intensive care. Extraordinarily, she did not suffer any permanent damage from the frostbite. The doctors saw it as unprecedented for someone like herself to recover so quickly from the case she had- given her condition and all. She was relocated back to her home on the sixth day. Though the ones involved were punished severely for the incident, her parents withdrew Elizabeth from the school system to be home tutored by them after she refused to set foot in the place again. She has also since then developed a habit to always wear stockings or pantyhose as well as gloves when she's out and about.
At age 9 she was very affluent in general academics for her age. With her father urging her on, she also became somewhat fluent in Latin, though morose per say in translating texts than actually speaking. She was able to translate the epic Aeneid as well as translate into Latin the Divine Comedy trilogy into Latin from its English variant. The stories as well as television had a profound effect on her personality.
At age 10 studies began to bore her and the lure of the television and books about dragons, knights, damsels, and villains overshadowed much of everything else in her mind. She became more and more unfocused as the weeks drew on without much change. She had also taken an interest in dramas as well, and enjoyed imitating the behaviorism of people with other people.
At age 11 Elizabeth, received a letter that involved a school of magic. Her father knew nothing of it, since her mother was hiding the fact that she was a Squib, and was attempting to live a normal life. Her mother however believed that it might be better for Elizabeth to try heading to Hogwarts seeing that her enthusiasm was directed more favorably more on the possibility of extraordinary things and productive habits rather than being an introvert shut in. All her father knows is that Elizabeth agreed to go to a boarding school.