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Blythe inherited many dominant features. Her face is cute, but it can be slightly overwhelming, with its mix of youthful roundness and masculine characteristics; the same nose and brows and grin that make her cousin a stunning creature make her look a bit brooding at times (not unlike another good-looking cousin), or else somewhat mousy and gamine.

Her face is broad with wideset green eyes— the same shape as her cousin’s blue ones, the color perhaps the biggest difference between them, besides the obvious— and a wide nose. She has thick, straight, very dark brown hair trimmed in simple long layers that skim just past her shoulders; in the summers, she will sometimes cut it a bit shorter, into a long bob, just long enough for a ponytail (which is an easy favorite). It is usually parted down the middle, loose and unfussy despite its thickness, low-maintenance.

If her hair is the “unfussy” kind of thickness, her brows are a different story. Full, black, and with a mind of their own, they form nearly straight lines, and are the kind of brows that need to be plucked in the middle and around the perimeters frequently and from an early age. They are boy’s brows, her muggle grandmother says, and one glance at certain cousins is enough to make most people believe it. But they fit her well, give her a sort of non-standard prettiness. Her mother finds her lovely, anyway. One of Blythe’s favorite childhood pastimes was imitating Sander’s facial expressions and this feature certainly helps achieve that. She has come shockingly close to his brand of broodiness, and can serve up quite the stares in any number of situations.

Her mouth is just full enough to soften the lines of her brows, with vibrant pink lips and cute, charmingly imperfect teeth that pair well with her low, broad cheeks and make her look a bit younger when she grins. She has a beauty mark in the heart of one cheek. Her skin is light, but olive-toned, the kind that tans easily enough and isn’t particularly sensitive to weather.

Her dress sense is casual, a little boyish, mostly no-nonsense like her hair. She wears a lot of neutrals, black, white, and gray, jeans, solid-colored shirts, comfortable sweaters, and flat boots or oxfords. She dresses down her school skirts and blouses with these staples. She doesn’t wear much makeup. Dark colors on her already dark features can make her look a bit haunting. It takes a bit of tugging from more fashion-conscious peers to get her to dress up, usually. Blythe is pretty narrow-framed, and definitely a late bloomer, physically. She stands at 5’7”.

PERSONALITY DESCRIPTION[/center]

Blythe is quick-witted and resourceful. Her instinctive nature could certainly have been a match for Gryffindor, had she not agreed with the Hat that she belonged in Ravenclaw. It wasn’t a hard decision to make: she suits the tower of thinkers and problem solvers.

She doesn’t belong to any particular clique and doesn’t mind spending time on her own, but she is neither shy nor unapproachable. She is plenty social with people she likes, and is decently (seemingly) confident, more of a clever tomboy than a bookish wallflower. She does not possess her older brother Ifan’s louder, showier, leap-before-thinking demeanor, though. She has more of an outward mellowness or nonchalance upon first appraisal. Even so, in conversation, she is not timid with her opinions. She usually knows how to read situations and make decisions without having to toss and turn over them (but that doesn’t mean she won’t take her time if she wants to). She is not the obsessive compulsive, perfectionist type of Ravenclaw.

Blythe has a sarcastic sense of humor, sometimes biting, which comes out full force in the company of Bran, with whom she is very close. She loves him dearly and trusts him with most of her secrets, but they can also be mouthy and judge-y with each other in the hallmark way of family. While she is unafraid to speak her mind to her cousin, his loving judgements (often style-related) are sometimes met with Sander-worthy expressions, hard stares, eye rolls— and occasionally a show of self-consciousness. When she doesn’t have an easy grasp or read on a situation, she can get a bit frustrated, less mature than she’d like to think she is.

Blythe is fine with being a teenager, fine with becoming an adult, but not overly comfortable with the flashier, high-maintenance side of young adulthood. She is still gangly in appearance, a bit boyish around the edges. She’s comfortable being low-key and casual. Teenage drama makes her roll her eyes (though she will offer up advice to more sincere questions) and personal hormonal situations can make her defensive, awkward. She can get stormy when her younger brother teases her, defend herself with dark knitted brows (which just makes Charlie worse), or act like she doesn’t care about those sorts of things, but she is fairly self-conscious about certain things like many sixteen-year-old girls.

She’s great in Charms and Transfiguration and enjoys broadening her magical horizons. She is also a pretty good History of Magic student, skilled in absorbing information, seeing beyond dates, recognizing patterns, and explaining the impact of things. While the hands on subjects aren’t her most natural, she likes them for their change of pace and environment. She enjoys Care of Magical Creatures for these reasons, and has continued to take it into the NEWT level. Overall, she is pretty on top of her schoolwork, even if she isn’t the most classically bookish Ravenclaw.

That said, Blythe is not a model student or the most eligible candidate for roles like Prefect. A teacher can trust her to get things done, but she has still racked up a detention or two in her time at Hogwarts. She’ll help someone with homework, but she isn’t the sort of girl who will sign up to tutor people on a regular basis or join fifty clubs. Personal interests are generally more important to her than looking like an overachiever on paper or being at the top of the social or academic ladder. She likes to have breathing room and free time, interests outside of academia. Blythe is confident in her work and its quality and is quick with certain assignments, leaving herself enough time to study other things at a more leisurely, passive pace. Unlike some of her housemates, she won’t freak out about breaking a rule or being out past curfew and will share the occasional cigarette with her cousin.

HISTORY[/center]

Blythe was born in the spring of 1993 to Cadogan Blackwell, a Ministry of Magic employee, and his muggle wife Catrin. Cadogan is the oldest son in his family, more serious than his brother Evan, and overprotective of his family. That didn’t stop Blythe from having all sorts of fun with the sprawling Blackwell family from a very young age. It helped that she came out looking like a carbon-copy of Bran, and the pair were thought to be twins by nearly every stranger who encountered them before they went off to Hogwarts. Until Blythe was two or three, many of those strangers believed they were both boys— it was an easy enough mistake, with Bran looking like an angel and Blythe having inherited quite the set of eyebrows. Their combined adorableness inspired much leeway with adults.

Blythe first showed signs of magic when her muggle grandmother attempted to force her into a stuffy pink onesie that made her look like a sweet little pastry. The arms and legs of the insufferable, too-small garment (no doubt a way to let strangers know that she was, in fact, a girl) grew and grew, snaking around the living room, attracting grandma’s cats as Blythe crawled around (until she crawled straight out of the onesie and toward the garden, nothing but naked chubby limbs and a diaper). Her grandmother was in awe at the sheer amount of material— enough for a hundred onesies— and knew she hadn’t sewed so much (she’d have been sewing well past the girl’s third birthday, to make that). She called up her daughter in a frenzy, and it was Cadogan who dropped by to collect the baby and soothe his mother-in-law. Blythe’s older brother, Ifan, then on holiday after his first year at Hogwarts, had been full of glee when his father returned home with the now-confirmed witch toddler. Her mother was exasperated, but in the smile-y mum way, giving the child extra attention (and being quite mindful of her clothes for the next few months). Luckily, they had expected it to happen, and even Blythe couldn’t quite match Ifan’s level of exasperating.

Blythe’s younger brother Charlie soon followed and also possessed the magic gene. Blythe was an independent child from the start, and was often left to her own devices while her mother juggled Charlie and served as a diplomat between the older ones. With Ifan entering his teenage years and in full possession of a wand, and her older sister Gwendolyn proving to be a prissy drama queen by the time she entered kindergarten, one never knew what might happen around the house. Of course, Ifan at least had the Trace— and his dad’s promise to bring aurors home if he used underaged magic. The other three were less predictable in their magical episodes (which, given Ifan’s general nature, was a marvel). For a really eventful time, they had only to have a family get-together with Evan’s branch of the family.

Shortly after turning five, she was sent to muggle primary school. Again, strangers were confused, were sure that she and Bran were twins, though by now she looked slightly more like a girl. Still, she could probably easily have gotten away with imitating him on the first day with a new teacher (and Blythe certainly tried it). Her penchant for imitating the expressions of everyone in her family, particularly her father, her brother, and her cousin Sander, made it all the easier for a young tomboy to confuse people who glanced over her too quickly. If Bran was a partner in crime of sorts, though, Sander, was nice, quiet but sweet, someone Blythe looked up to (they had an eyebrow connection, after all), until later, when he became more distant. Lester, however, ignored her. While this might have annoyed her as a child, Blythe now makes a habit of ignoring him, as he is decidedly her strangest (not-always-in-a-good-way) cousin.

Blythe proved herself to be a fairly good student, despite her penchant for adventures. Her mother had taught her to read before she entered school— even Ifan would sit down for twenty minutes and share a book with her— and she showed a knack for learning from a young age that extended into the classroom. While not an extreme bookworm, she completed the majority of her assignments on time and took an interest in new subjects. She could usually be counted on to add her thoughts to a class discussion or summarize the impact of whatever they were studying in history.

Blythe arrived at Hogwarts with the stories of her brother, a Gryffindor alum who graduated a few years before Sander. As much as a handful as he was for her parents, Ifan was always (and still is) a good brother, watched the backs of his family, offered advice. So Blythe a fairly good idea of what to expect compared to some people, but that didn’t mean it wasn’t a big change. It was her first time living away from her bustling, close-knit family. And her sister, Gwen, a Slytherin two years ahead of her, was much less helpful. Blythe had long since learned to pick and choose what to believe when it came to the things Gwen said, though. She was sorted into Ravenclaw, which pleased her, but Bran was in another part of the castle entirely (though no one could doubt that he belonged in Slytherin).

Blythe quickly took to lessons that involved a lot of wand work. Charms and Transfiguration became her easiest and favorite subjects. While the hands-on subjects like Potions and Creatures aren’t her first love, she enjoys them well enough and is not adverse to getting messy. Those situations can offer puzzles, which Blythe likes. In her third year, she signed up for multiple and diverse extra courses and has continued them into the NEWT level. Her “good student” status carried over from muggle primary school into a magical environment. Despite this, Blythe is not a teacher’s pet or the most ideal candidate for leadership positions. She has had her share of sneaking around the castle, evading Head students. The summers are far more of an adventure, though, especially with Bran.


Blythe is quick-witted and a good problem solver. She is adept at reading situations and coming to sound decisions. She enjoys learning, though she is not a bookworm. While she also possesses some Gryffindor qualities, the sharp wits and individual natures of Ravenclaw house are a good match.


Blythe is a clever tomboy from a sprawling, halfblood family. A Ravenclaw student with a penchant for Charms, she enjoys broadening her horizons while still attempting to navigate her teenage years without too much awkwardness.