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*Wilhelmina Bain* · April 7, 2024 – 12:32 AM

In-Character

Full Name: Wilhelmina Mabel Bain
Nicknames: Mina
Birthdate: April 19, 1872
Current Age: 21 Years
Gender: Female
Occupation: Debutante
Reputation: 10

The Bain family has yet to experience major scandal. Yet.

Residence: Hogsmeade, with a family country estate in Yorkshire
Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw
Wand: Apple, 10", unicorn tail hair
Blood Status: Pureblood
Social Class: Upper
Family:

Father: Marvin Bain (b. 1836)
Mother: Luella Bain (b. 1844)

Brother: Malcolm Bain (b. 1866)
Sister: Claudia _ née Bain (b. 1869)
Brother: Richmond Bain (b. 1874)
Brother: Lincoln Bain (b. 1877)

Appearance:

General | Mina is by no account a "fair English rose," but she is not unattractive by any stretch of the imagination, with expressive, deep brown (almost black) eyes, thick, dark brown springy coils of hair, warm tawny skin with earthy bronze undertones, and a fuller (but still quite feminine) figure than most debutantes boast. She stands at an average petite height of five feet, one inch tall, and is right-handed.

Expressions | A feature of upbringing rather than nature, Mina is quite guarded with her expressions, offering polite smiles and pouts where necessary, though publicly nothing more than that. She is a bit freer with family and close friends, though not quite as free as when she is alone.

Deportment | The epitome of a young upper class lady, destined for the life of the socialite, Mina carries herself with pride and dignity, putting forth the perception of perfection.

Fashion | A young woman of the upper class, Mina keeps herself tidy and perfect as best she can, favoring muggle fashion over wizarding robes, in tones that flatter her warm skin tone.

Accessories | There's no real singular accessory tying Mina's outfits together from one to the next, but she's always impeccably styled, with modest jewelry for the daytime and elegant parures for evening.

Scent | A perfume of fine French vanilla and French lavender.

Face Claim | Ruby Barker

History:

here's to the woman who don't ever seem to get a say in how their pages get portrayed

1872 A second daughter arrives to the Bain household, and is given the name Wilhelmina. She is a surprisingly difficult babe, refusing to be put down even to sleep.

1874 Another son arrives. Little Mina, not even two at the time, has little awareness of her baby brother.

1877 During the Year of Muggle Riots, Mina is still a small child who doesn't understand the goings-on of the wider world. Another child, Mina's third brother and the fifth and final of the Bain siblings, is born in the family's country estate, with the entire family under isolation.

1880 Three years after the muggle riots, Mina is finally made aware of the way the world works, when the family takes up a summer home in the young village of Hogsmeade after three years without going to London for the Season. Not that they needed to. Mina, after an argument with her mother about her place in the world as a future wife, mother, and socialite (she would, at this time, much rather be an adventurer of some sort), turns her mother's skin bright blue in her first act of magic.

1883
Summer Mina receives her Hogwarts acceptance letter. Ecstatic, Mina begs her mother to let her have an owl, which the woman does, after some insistence that Mina will write more frequently with an owl of her own.

here's to the woman who know everything the poets say and be a menace anyway

1883-85
First Years Upon arriving at the school, Mina is overwhelmed by the sheer vastness of the castle, as anyone might be. But the sorting goes well for her — after only thirty seconds, the Sorting Hat places her in Ravenclaw. Her first two years are relatively uneventful. She finds friends in both her own social class as well as beyond, learning more of how the world around her works and is genuinely unfair.

1885-88
OWL Years As she advances in schooling, she chooses to take Divination (arguably her worst decision) and Ghoul Studies (arguably a poor social choice, though wiser academically) as her electives. She finds herself requiring a tutor just to pass her first year of Divination. It is at this point that Mina begins to understand that there are those with privilege and those without it. As a young woman with some measure of privilege, she decides it is her solemn duty to change that. She quickly finds that it is a difficult task even for a woman of means, as a woman at all.

1888-90
NEWT Years Finally free to choose her own complete schedule, Mina selects only her four best classes — Charms, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Ghoul Studies, and Transfiguration. She occupies her free time with music, art, and book clubs. But, with an older sister already having debuted and yet to find a match, Mina is informed that she will be spending at least two years overseas in a Parisian finishing school, rather than debuting with her schoolmates.

the historians who looked away, the game was set before it played
we're breaking out behind the cage, 'cause that's some shit that we won't take

1890-92 True to her word, immediately after the summer ends, Mina's mother sends her younger daughter to Paris for finishing, solely to avoid having two debutantes at once. She is permitted by the school to return home only for actual holidays and her sister's eventual wedding, and remains boarding over the summer of 1891.

1892 Mina returns home full time and debuts the first Saturday in June, to very little fanfare. It is not at all like she'd dreamed it would be. She's all too intellectual, and spends far too much of her spare time reading and talking about feminism and beings' rights.

1894 After two unsurprisingly unsuccessful seasons, Mina is ready for it all to be over. She's prepared for her parents to finally arrange something for her, however unsavory it might end up being. She barely has any hope of change, either in her own life or life at large.

Personality:

DETERMINED | CONFIDENT
ENTHUSIASTIC | IMPATIENT
SHORT-TEMPERED | IMPULSIVE

Other:

Class OWL NEWT

Astronomy A —

Charms O O

Defense Against the Dark Arts O E

Divination P —

Ghoul Studies O O

Herbology A —

History of Magic A —

Potions E —

Transfiguration O O

In addition to her native tongue, Mina is fluent in French and Italian.

Her patronus, discovered in seventh year, currently takes the form of an American black bear.

Mina is a skilled harpist.

The finest visual art skill Mina possesses is her floral arranging.

She is an Aries

Out-of-Character

Name: Elaine
Age: 30

beauty by MJ

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here's to the woman who don't ever seem to get a say in how their pages get portrayed
1872	A second daughter arrives to the Bain household, and is given the name Wilhelmina. She is a surprisingly difficult babe, refusing to be put down even to sleep.
1874	Another son arrives. Little Mina, not even two at the time, has little awareness of her baby brother.
1877	During the Year of Muggle Riots, Mina is still a small child who doesn't understand the goings-on of the wider world. Another child, Mina's third brother and the fifth and final of the Bain siblings, is born in the family's country estate, with the entire family under isolation.
1880	Three years after the muggle riots, Mina is finally made aware of the way the world works, when the family takes up a summer home in the young village of Hogsmeade after three years without going to London for the Season. Not that they needed to. Mina, after an argument with her mother about her place in the world as a future wife, mother, and socialite (she would, at this time, much rather be an adventurer of some sort), turns her mother's skin bright blue in her first act of magic.
1883 Summer	Mina receives her Hogwarts acceptance letter. Ecstatic, Mina begs her mother to let her have an owl, which the woman does, after some insistence that Mina will write more frequently with an owl of her own.
here's to the woman who know everything the poets say and be a menace anyway
1883-85 First Years	Upon arriving at the school, Mina is overwhelmed by the sheer vastness of the castle, as anyone might be. But the sorting goes well for her — after only thirty seconds, the Sorting Hat places her in Ravenclaw. Her first two years are relatively uneventful. She finds friends in both her own social class as well as beyond, learning more of how the world around her works and is genuinely unfair.
1885-88 OWL Years	As she advances in schooling, she chooses to take Divination (arguably her worst decision) and Ghoul Studies (arguably a poor social choice, though wiser academically) as her electives. She finds herself requiring a tutor just to pass her first year of Divination. It is at this point that Mina begins to understand that there are those with privilege and those without it. As a young woman with some measure of privilege, she decides it is her solemn duty to change that. She quickly finds that it is a difficult task even for a woman of means, as a woman at all.
1888-90 NEWT Years	Finally free to choose her own complete schedule, Mina selects only her four best classes — Charms, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Ghoul Studies, and Transfiguration. She occupies her free time with music, art, and book clubs. But, with an older sister already having debuted and yet to find a match, Mina is informed that she will be spending at least two years overseas in a Parisian finishing school, rather than debuting with her schoolmates.
the historians who looked away, the game was set before it played we're breaking out behind the cage, 'cause that's some shit that we won't take
1890-92	True to her word, immediately after the summer ends, Mina's mother sends her younger daughter to Paris for finishing, solely to avoid having two debutantes at once. She is permitted by the school to return home only for actual holidays and her sister's eventual wedding, and remains boarding over the summer of 1891.
1892	Mina returns home full time and debuts the first Saturday in June, to very little fanfare. It is not at all like she'd dreamed it would be. She's all too intellectual, and spends far too much of her spare time reading and talking about feminism and beings' rights.
1894	After two unsurprisingly unsuccessful seasons, Mina is ready for it all to be over. She's prepared for her parents to finally arrange something for her, however unsavory it might end up being. She barely has any hope of change, either in her own life or life at large.

Class	OWL	NEWT
Astronomy	A	—
Charms	O	O
Defense Against the Dark Arts	O	E
Divination	P	—
Ghoul Studies	O	O
Herbology	A	—
History of Magic	A	—
Potions	E	—
Transfiguration	O	O

Wilhelmina Bain