Rhi'ana Perez
House: Slytherin
Blood: full-blood
Age: 14
Appearance: She wears her hair frequently in sleek pigtails that fall from the top of her head to sit against the back of her neck and shoulders. It is a pale, almost silvery blonde, and is straight and featherlight, haloing her face in a pale glow when the wind blows the fine strands about her. The only physical sign of the distant spanish heritage that her last name suggets, are her dark, almond shaped eyes, which are easily the most stunning part of her face. She is very lightly built, with a straight nose that is turned up just a little bit at the end- together with her slightly pouty, smiling lips give her a cute, perky look.
Although individually her features are nothing to complain about, and many are jealous of her physical attributes, something about the way they come together to form her appearance as a whole is almost a little too harsh and angular, and the contrast between this and her large softly slanted eyes seems to set her features at odds with each other. One might almost call her, an aqquired taste- unpleasantly overdone to those who don't care to appreciate her, yet the more you look at her the more the lines of her seem to blend together into an enviable, if somewhat sharp, whole. Between these sharp and angular features and her extremely light build- she stands at 4'11" and looks thin as a bird- what she looks more than anything is fragile.
History: Rhi'ana, or Riana Perez, was born at home on her family's large property. Her slight frame gave her a quiet swiftness which allowed her feet to carry her from room to room within the many passages of the long low house with greater frequency the older she got. Her parents found her unable to keep still for long periods of time, and purchased a large field at the edge of their vine plantations (they own a winery, and use magic to help them grow the finest quality grapes and create the best wines in the country) and bought her a horse, of a rich chestnut colour, who she named Belladonna, for both its translation and the poisonous qualities of the plant, which she considered darkly beautiful. At this stage she was 8 years old.
She grew quickly to be very accomplished, becoming adept at almost everything she turned her hand to, and of a quick yet somewhat cold intelligence. It may seem that her fragile frame is unsuited for any great amount of physical activity, yet in fact she is incredibly fit, and not weak for her age. She dances, and plays many other sports including hockey and equestrian, but her favourite sport is figure skating.
She received her Hogwarts letter with a cool kind of pride, for she had expected nothing less than a place at the finest Wizarding school in the country, and saw it as something of her due. Although she is not snobbish, or disdainful of half bloods and muggles as so many Slytherins seem to be, she does have a penchant for pain, and the sight of blood sends an exited flush to her cheeks, and shallows and quickens her breathing. She is usually perfectly amiable, and refined- a real lady, in breeding and class as if from a hundred years ago- she carries herself proudly and carefully as though to let those around her know that she was as fine and valuable as the highest quality china and should be treated as such. Nonetheless, she does have a somewhat unnerving levelness to her, not the apathetic coldness of many of her housemates, but almost as if she was looking at other than what was around her, gliding through life as one would imagine a mermaid or shark to slip easily through the currents of the deepest oceans. And occasionally there comes to be a cruel glint in her eye.
She studies well, and keeps to herself quite alot, seeming to prefer to socialise with students in the older year levels, than to those in her own, she has many friends in the upper end of the school, in so far as she would class them as 'friends'. She spends what spare time she has studying advanced spells, in her need to constantly keep herself busy.
Her small and incredibly light frame is also due to an unusual family trait, from her fathers side, of having hollow bones. Instead of one layer of solid bone around the marrow, the marrow is a thin tube bordered on either side by a tube of solid bone which reinforces it and makes it stronger. It is unknown how they have managed to survive like this, and because of it Rhi'ana has to be very careful to never visit a muggle doctor. It makes her very good at sports where she needs lift, like gymnastics, and helps her swimming, and also makes her a very swift flyer, although she seems to have little interest in Quidditch. The legend of the family Perez is that once they were bird people, winged, who lived on the coast and fished amongst the tempest tossed waves. This legend is unverified, but makes for a good story, and seems as good an explanation as any, other than that magic must have had something to do with it.
Items: School Robes, Red Dress robes with black trim, Wand [Beechnut wood and dragon heartstring. Swishy and thin. 10 inches. Good for curses], School Books, The Large Book of Curses and Hexes, The Book of Exotic Potions, Complex Spells book, School Ingredients, Iron Self Stirring Cauldron, 17 Galleons 8 Sickles
Pet: Malificent is a small black cat with green eyes. Rhi'ana has had her since she was 9, and as a kitten Malificent learnt to sit with perfect balance infront of Rhi'ana on the saddle when she went riding. Malificent and Belladonna have always got alone well, and the still kitten sized though now adult cat is often found asleep in the warm hay of the Perez's small stable. She is a very intelligent cat, and stands guard for Rhi'ana when she wants time alone.