clara rosewood

name:: clara rosewood
gender:: female
age:: thirty-three
date of birth:: september fourth, nineteen eighty-two
place of birth:: new york

house:: horned serpent graduate
wand:: eleven inches, hawthorn with a unicorn mane core, sturdy
blood type:: halfblood
profession:: headmistress of ilvermorny

appearance:: clara naturally has light brown hair, though with a couple spells, she dyes it a light blonde, and prefers to keep it that way. she has pale skin which burns extremely easily, her friends jokingly calling her a vampire often. she has thin lips, and her eyes are a blue green color, looking slightly different depending on the amount of light reflecting on them. she typically keeps her hair cut slightly below her shoulders, usually curling it slightly or straightening it. she doesn't wear an excessive amount of makeup on a daily basis, usually just some lipstick, mascara, concealer if she needs it, and a bit of blush. she wears professional attire since that's practically a requirement of a headmistress, and she feels looking important is even more necessary since she's rather young and many probably wouldn't take her as serious as someone much older, as the headmasters and headmistresses usually are.

personality:: clara is intelligent, and values her mind really above all else, which was what ultimately made her decide to be in horned serpent instead of thunderbird and wampus, even though she values the soul and has the qualities of a warrior. she often uses her head to make decisions instead of her heart, which can lead to many thinking she's cold, which isn't a lie, though she can warm up to people if she gets the change to really be able to really know them. she's strict in a classroom, though fair. some dislike her for being strict, though feels like it's needed, especially when the deputy headmistress is the opposite. clara carries herself with a confident air, knowing anything but it wouldn't make for a proper leader of the school, anyway. she takes time to grow truly attached to a person, partially because she's afraid she'll loose them, and is even slower in romance than friendships.

history:: clara was born in a small home in the countryside of new york to a muggleborn witch and a pureblood father, their relationship being forbidden by her father's family, but he denied them and eloped with his true love. they both went to ilvermorny, her mother being a thunderbird and her father pukwudgie. their household wasn't large, though comfortably fit her parents, clara, and her younger sister. her childhood was magical both literally and figuratively, and they were the very image of the perfect family. until her mother was killed. it was an accident, she was just experimenting with spells, though they went horribly wrong, and resulted in her ultimate demise. she mourned for months, it only happening when she was ten, and even though she still had her loving father, it wasn't the same without her mother. luckily, a year later she went to ilvermorny to help distract her thoughts.

she instantly made her mark by not being chosen by one, or even two, but three houses. wampus, thunderbird, and horned serpent. clara chose horned serpent, the house for the scholars, and found herself loving it. she was at the top of her class from a young age, excelling greatly in all her classes, even if her social life was in slight delay. the years flew by, and she became a prefect in her fifth and sixth year, then the head girl in her seventh. she maintained top grades, broke some academic records, and overall was a model student, often to the extend that other students would just roll their eyes, and want to befriend her even less.

it wasn't surprising when clara was offered a teaching position when she was only twenty years old. the class she was in charge of wasn't large, but still, she got to be back at the school she loved, so she greatly enjoyed it. she kept teaching, and by the time she was twenty-five, she was the charms professor. she worked hard at being the best professor she could possibly be, and as a result of that, she was well known across the school for being a favorite professor, even if she was a bit strict at times. she also wanted the position of headmistress awfully bad, though it would be beyond ambitious to think she would get the position in her young thirties. however, she had someone with her, terry, who wanted to be the deputy headmistress. terry and clara were opposites, though they did make a good team. they begged for the positions for years, and finally, the headmaster and deputy headmistress retired, and the position was given to the two young women. it's only her second year as the headmistress, though she plans to make this one even better than the last.