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Stella Dhan · July 26, 2025 – 5:55 PM

In-Character

Full Name: Stella Ye-rin Dhan
Nicknames: Father almost exclusively calls her Ye-rin, especially in the home. She has no other nicknames.
Birthdate: October 17, 1878
Current Age: 16 years
Gender: Female
Occupation: Student
Reputation: 9

Though Dhan Jae-hyun had the financial backing of his family and his new wife's dowry, he didn't take the chance offered to make upper class connections in English society; as such, while the family is financially upper class, the are, socially, middle class.

Residence: London
Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff
Wand: Eleven and a half inches of rowan wood, with a core of unicorn tail hair.
Blood Status: Pureblood
Social Class: Middle
Family:

Father: Dhan Jae-hyun (b. 1832)
Mother: Natalia Dhan née Cowen (1848-1891)

Brother: Gregory Ye-jun Dhan (b. 1870)

Sister: Melissa Ye-eun Dhan (b. 1874)

Appearance:

General | Standing at an elegant, if petite, five feet and two inches in height, Stella wishes she was just a couple inches taller. With dark eyes, a light, clear complexion, and silky, deep brown hair, she is not unfavorable to look at. She is right-handed with wand and quill.

Expressions | Stella tries to be a very happy person, and desperately tries to let that show. Unfortunately, her expressions are always just a bit tense, regardless of her emotional state.

Deportment | Raised to walk with her head held high and her shoulders back, unfortunately, Stella has developed a slight slouching posture, almost as if she's trying to make herself smaller.

Fashion | Stella wears an even mix of wizarding robes and muggle fashions, with designs both of English origin and of her father's homeland. She has no real favorite color, but feels cooler tones flatter her best.

Accessories | Where her sister is frivolous, Stella is reserved, favoring simple accessories that won't make her stand out too much.

Scent | Stella exclusviely smells of rose water, as she is reluctant to use anything else in her routine.

Face Claim | Arden Cho

History:

Before Dhan Jae-hyun, a cursebreaker, immigrated to Russia in 1866, where he met his future wife, Natalia, in 1867, while she was visiting her maternal family. At her insistence, after they married in 1869, Jae-hyun became a healer and immigrated again, this time to London, England, to raise a family with his half-Russian, half-English wife. Their first child, a son, arrives in the summer of 1870, and their second, a daughter, is born in December 1874.

i know it's hard to be soft
i know it hurts to be kind

1878 A third child is born, another daughter, and is swiftly named Stella by her mother. Her father, as with his prior children, gives her a traditional Korean middle name, Ye-rin, and, as with her elder siblings, exclusively calls her that in the home.

1881 Stella's older brother goes off to Hogwarts. Stella, only two years old at the time, only realizes that her brother is nowhere to be found. This hits especially hard on her third birthday, just over a month after his departure, and results in Stella's first act of magic, which results in all the furniture in the nursery adhering itself upside-down to the ceiling.

1886 Stella's sister goes off to Hogwarts. Stella, now old enough to understand what school is, especially now that she has regular lessons with the governess, does not panic quite so hard as to have a bout of accidental magic, though she does have a brief bout of worry over her own impending sojourn into the hallowed halls that, over summers now passed, her brother would not stop talking about.

1890 The time has come. Stella's acceptance letter arrives, and with its arrival comes the journey to purchase schooling supplies such as books and robes. She quickly finds that she rather likes the way wizarding robes fit so loosely, though Mother and the governess insist she continue to wear the restrictive undergarments designed by muggles. It's not much of a problem, except she's also placed in training stays, which she knows she'll have to keep up with.

i know that when love is lost
it's only fear in disguise

1890-92
First Years Stella is sorted into Hufflepuff upon arrival at Hogwarts, and quickly proves an anxious bean. She is not awful in her classes, but she's not spectacular, either. Well. In anything except Astronomy. Before her first year ends, the cruise Mother and Father were taking wrecks. Father is recovered, alive, having made it to a lifeboat that was found on April 11th, but Mother's body is not recovered. Father still holds out hope that perhaps she made it to a safe haven, but this hope is ruined when he is confronted with the facts, and the family is officially in mourning when Stella arrives home from school. Her second year is uneventful.

1892-95
OWL Years For her OWL electives, Stella selects Ancient Studies and, at Father's suggestion, Divination, thinking it might reduce her anxiety. Unfortunately, though she shows aptitude in the discipline, it does in fact make her anxiety worse. She sits for her OWLs and, for the first time, attends the Hogwarts Coming Out Ball as a guest (as she was still too young to attend, even to support her elder sister), to prepare herself for what is to come when she graduates.

and i guess i've known it all along
the truth is you have to be soft to be strong

Personality:

LOYAL | STUBBORN
NEEDY | WARM
AMIABLE | ANXIOUS

Other:

Fluent in English and Korean; conversational in French.

Pets: Lily, female barn owl, Aspen, male Irish setter

Has yet to encounter Amortentia

Has yet to cast a corporeal Patronus; may not ever.

Class OWL NEWT

Ancient Studies — —

Astronomy — —

Charms — —

Defense Against the Dark Arts — —

Divination — —

Herbology — —

History of Magic — —

Potions — —

Transfiguration — —

Out-of-Character

Name: Elaine
Age: 31

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Before	Dhan Jae-hyun, a cursebreaker, immigrated to Russia in 1866, where he met his future wife, Natalia, in 1867, while she was visiting her maternal family. At her insistence, after they married in 1869, Jae-hyun became a healer and immigrated again, this time to London, England, to raise a family with his half-Russian, half-English wife. Their first child, a son, arrives in the summer of 1870, and their second, a daughter, is born in December 1874.
i know it's hard to be soft i know it hurts to be kind
1878	A third child is born, another daughter, and is swiftly named Stella by her mother. Her father, as with his prior children, gives her a traditional Korean middle name, Ye-rin, and, as with her elder siblings, exclusively calls her that in the home.
1881	Stella's older brother goes off to Hogwarts. Stella, only two years old at the time, only realizes that her brother is nowhere to be found. This hits especially hard on her third birthday, just over a month after his departure, and results in Stella's first act of magic, which results in all the furniture in the nursery adhering itself upside-down to the ceiling.
1886	Stella's sister goes off to Hogwarts. Stella, now old enough to understand what school is, especially now that she has regular lessons with the governess, does not panic quite so hard as to have a bout of accidental magic, though she does have a brief bout of worry over her own impending sojourn into the hallowed halls that, over summers now passed, her brother would not stop talking about.
1890	The time has come. Stella's acceptance letter arrives, and with its arrival comes the journey to purchase schooling supplies such as books and robes. She quickly finds that she rather likes the way wizarding robes fit so loosely, though Mother and the governess insist she continue to wear the restrictive undergarments designed by muggles. It's not much of a problem, except she's also placed in training stays, which she knows she'll have to keep up with.
i know that when love is lost it's only fear in disguise
1890-92 First Years	Stella is sorted into Hufflepuff upon arrival at Hogwarts, and quickly proves an anxious bean. She is not awful in her classes, but she's not spectacular, either. Well. In anything except Astronomy. Before her first year ends, the cruise Mother and Father were taking wrecks. Father is recovered, alive, having made it to a lifeboat that was found on April 11th, but Mother's body is not recovered. Father still holds out hope that perhaps she made it to a safe haven, but this hope is ruined when he is confronted with the facts, and the family is officially in mourning when Stella arrives home from school. Her second year is uneventful.
1892-95 OWL Years	For her OWL electives, Stella selects Ancient Studies and, at Father's suggestion, Divination, thinking it might reduce her anxiety. Unfortunately, though she shows aptitude in the discipline, it does in fact make her anxiety worse. She sits for her OWLs and, for the first time, attends the Hogwarts Coming Out Ball as a guest (as she was still too young to attend, even to support her elder sister), to prepare herself for what is to come when she graduates.
and i guess i've known it all along the truth is you have to be soft to be strong

Class	OWL	NEWT
Ancient Studies	—	—
Astronomy	—	—
Charms	—	—
Defense Against the Dark Arts	—	—
Divination	—	—
Herbology	—	—
History of Magic	—	—
Potions	—	—
Transfiguration	—	—