husband: wilfred avery [b. 1851]

daughter: catherine avery [b. 1883]
daughter: jeanette avery [b. 1885]
son: cyrus avery [b. 1888]
son: elwood avery [b. 1890]
daughter: jeanette avery [b. 1893]

father: dylan crabbe [b. 1823]
mother: laura crabbe [b. 1840]

sister: SISTER _ née crabbe [b. 18XX] and family
sister: sibylla rowle née crabbe [b. 1859] and family

father-in-law: cyrus avery [18XX-1885]
mother-in-law: felicity avery née _ [b. 18XX]

as well as a handful of brothers and sisters in law, and their families

face claim: lauren lyle
ethnicity: white
height: five feet one and a quarter inches
build: surprisingly athletic
eyes: blue
hair color: golden blonde
hair style: styled well in elegant, modern updos; when unbound, her hair falls pin-straight to her mid-thigh.

scent: a gentle, feminine perfume of daisy, rose, and lilac.

demeanor: with the general public, helena shows a gracious face — the epitome of grace and elegance. yet with family, she relaxes significantly, though she never quite loses her natural air of haughtiness.

fashion: finery at every level, from the underpinnings to the robes. she does not wear muggle fashion, even wizard-made designs, though she embraces some fashion movements. The eighteen eighties were a good decade for muggle fashion — she rather likes bustles, and will still wear them on occasion for events. she wears just about any color, though she gravitates more towards cool shades.

came a time when every star fall brought you to tears again
1863 - 1875
1863: at the twilight of the year, the third and final of the daughters of dylan and laura crabbe is born. the birth is much more difficult than her older sisters’, but laura survives with the intervention of the healers, while helena was at no risk, born perfectly healthy despite the difficulties.

1869: for her first act of magic, helena lives up to her name, setting her own hair glowing like the stars in a fit of fury over the governess’s brutality with the hair-brush.

june 1875: finally! after having to wait an extra year, due to her december birthday, helena’s acceptance letter to hogwarts arrives!


we are the very hurt you sold
1875 - 1882
1875 — 1877: without much surprise or preamble, helena rose emmeline crabbe is sorted into hufflepuff. the sorting hat was on her head for a grand total of five seconds before announcing her for the house of loyalty. unlike most of her peers, helena is very selective with her friendships, only offering true loyalty to those who prove to deserve it in her eyes — that is, primarily upper class half- and pure-blooded individuals. granted, she does reach beyond the boundaries of house to expand her horizons, but she develops a small knot of friends in hufflepuff nonetheless. she’s not much for house pride, finding yellow not to be her color.

1877 — 1880: in a rare fit of rebellion, after her mother insists she sign up for divination and only divination for her owl electives, helena does the exact opposite, not signing up for divination and instead assigning herself care of magical creatures and ghoul studies. she doesn’t have much interest in the latter, taking it primarily because the idea of it disgusts her mother, but she doesn’t do too poorly in either class.

1880 — 1882: helena’s newt years are spent primarily focused on her future as a debutante, especially her seventh year, though she continues her standard education as she ought to, taking care of magical creatures, charms, defense against the dark arts, herbology, and transfiguration. charms and transfiguration prove a touch harder than before, as her wand refuses to allow her to cast nonverbally. during a class lesson on casting a patronus, helena is shocked to discover her patronus takes the form of the bengal tiger. in her time not spent studying for her exams, she spends her time focusing on advanced etiquette, modern dance, and practicing piano.


and what's the worst you take from every heart you break?
1882 - present
may 1882: helena follows in the footsteps of her mother and sisters, and numerous other girls before her, leaving hogwarts for finishing school, where she spends the following two years.

july 1884: shortly after helena’s return from finishing school, dylan crabbe arranges a courtship between his youngest daughter and wilfred avery, a firstborn son set to inherit upon his father’s death. the pair are not unfriendly towards one another, though they aren’t the warmest either. helena spends her spare time studying deeper into the mysteries of transfiguration, especially animagus transformation.

november 1884: wilfred avery proposes marriage, just four months after the arrangement was made. he claims the urgency is at his father’s behest — after all, the patriarch of the avery family seems to have not much longer to life. though ecstatic, helena spends more time devoted to her animagus studies, resolving to manage the transformation soon into her marriage.

march 1885: another four months later, and helena rose emmeline crabbe becomes mrs. wilfred avery. five days later, while helena and wilfred are on honeymoon in the south of france, word reaches them that wilfred’s father, mr. cyrus avery, has died, cutting the honeymoon short.

1887: helena gives birth to a son, who is named cyrus for wilfred’s late father. she hopes to have more than just a few children, though she worries she may be like her mother, and nearly lose herself to childbirth.

1888: early in the year, helena experiences an early miscarriage. her first unsuccessful pregnancy. it sets her into a depression that lasts much of the year, during which she withdraws almost entirely from society, only attending events held by her sisters for several months before clawing her way back from the shadows.

1890: helena has produced an heir, and now, a spare — another son is born, named elwood, simply because his parents like the name.

1892: helena's first miscarriage strikes, in the middle of the pregnancy. helena is plunged into a depressive state that lasts most of the year, though she attends more events than just her sisters’, to maintain face. it isn’t until the holidays that she begins to make her way back out of the darkness.

1893: a third child arrives, a daughter she names jeanette.

strengths: idealistic, loyal, charming, resourceful, meticulous, creative, perceptive

weaknesses: impatient, blunt, catty, spoilted, haughty, materialistic

likes: studying and practicing magic, hosting parties, socializing with her elder sisters, spreading gossip

dislikes: being the subject of gossip, failing, failure in others, other people’s lack of initiative in study

fears: losing her family, tarnishing her reputation, having no purpose

goals: building and protecting a legacy

habits: nervously rubs at her neck, bites her lip when extremely nervous. she also dog-ears books on magic on pages containing things of interest to her.

hobbies: typical feminine hobbies such as needlepoint, piano, and dancing, as well as studying the mysteries of magic.

— skills —

01. helena knows how to apparate and is studying to become an animagus, to spite her mother.
02. in spite of herself, helena loves playing the piano. she once thought she would despise it, with how much she was forced to practice, but she loves it now as much as she did when she first set fingers to the keys.
03. no matter how much education she got, helena has never had a mind for languages. she is only fluent in english, with a tourist’s knowledge of french, and enough latin to understand what spells are meant for what.
04. though it is considered improper, helena has long been considering anonymously selling her needlepoint. her skill with embroidery is quite prodigious.

— trivia —
amortentia: gin, cinnamon, and spun sugar
school clubs: music, transfiguration
adult clubs: the lady morgana
electives: care of magical creatures, ghoul studies
patronus: bengal tiger
religion: agnostic
romantic orientation: heteroromantic (by education)
sexual orientation: pansexual
zodiac sign: sagittarius